Saturday,
May 7, 2022, 8 pm
at
New England
Conservatory's Jordan Hall
Presenting
Cho-Liang Lin
林昭亮,
violin
Clive Greensmith,
cello
Juho Pohjonen,
piano
~ Program ~
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Sonata
No. 6 in G major, BWV 1019
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro (17’50”)
Robert Schuman
(1810-1856)
Intermezzo from the
'F-A-E' Sonata
(2’30”)
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)
Scherzo from the 'F-A-E' Sonata
(5’30”)
Cho-Liang Lin,
violin
Juho Pohjonen,
piano
Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)
Sonata for violin & cello
Allegro
Très vif
Lent
Vif, avec entrain
(21’)
Cho-Liang Lin,
violin
Clive Greensmith,
cello
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)
Piano Trio in C major, Opus 87
Allegro moderato
Andante con moto
Scherzo: Presto
Finale: Allegro giocoso
(30’)
Cho-Liang Lin,
violin
Clive Greensmith,
cello
Juho Pohjonen,
piano
Program subject to change to comply with COVID
mandates and rules of Jordan Hall.
Foundation for
Chinese Performing Arts
"Veteran
violinist Cho-Liang Lin collaborated with the
experienced chamber music cellist Clive Greensmith and
the young Finish pianist Juho Pohjonen in an attractive
mixed program for the Foundation of Chinese Performing
Arts at Jordan Hall on Saturday night. Lin’s
collaboration with Greensmith in the devilishly
difficult and cognoscenti-pleasing four-movement Sonata
for Violin and Cello by Ravel found both artists in
excellent form, both individually and collaboratively."
-Lee Eiseman,
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
photos: Chi-Wei Lo, Xiao-pei Xu, Chung Cheng, Chutze Chou, Albert Yang
Cho-Liang Lin
林昭亮,
violinist
Cho-Liang
Lin was born in Taiwan. A neighbor’s violin studies convinced
this 5-year old boy to do the same. At the age twelve, he moved
to Sydney to further his studies with Robert Pikler, a student
of Jenő Hubay. After playing for Itzhak Perlman in a master
class, the 13-year old boy decided that he must study with Mr.
Perlman’s teacher, Dorothy DeLay. At the age fifteen, Lin
traveled alone to New York and auditioned for the Juilliard
School and spent the next six years working with Ms DeLay.
A concert career was launched in 1980 with Lin’s debut playing
the Mendelssohn Concerto with the New York Philharmonic and
Zubin Mehta . He has since performed as soloist with virtually
every major orchestra in the world. His busy schedule on stage
around the world continues to this day. However, his wide
ranging interests have led him to diverse endeavors. At the age
of 31, his alma mater, Juilliard School, invited Lin to become
faculty. In 2006, he was appointed professor at Rice University.
He is currently music director of La Jolla SummerFest and the
Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. Ever so keen
about education, he was music director of the Taiwan National
Symphony music camp and youth orchestra for four years.
In his various professional capacities, Cho-Liang Lin has
championed composers of our time. His efforts to commission new
works have led a diverse field of composers to write for him.
The list includes John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Tan Dun,
John Williams, Steven Stucky, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bright Sheng,
Paul Schoenfield, Lalo Schifrin, Joan Tower and many more.
Recently, he was soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Detroit
Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Cincinnati
Symphony, Nashville Symphony and Royal Philharmonic.
Lin performs on the 1715 Stradivari named “Titian” or a 2000
Samuel Zygmuntowicz. His many concerto, recital and chamber
music recordings on Sony Classical, Decca, BIS, Delos and Ondine
can be heard on Spotify or Naxos.com. His albums have won
Gramophone Record Of The Year, Grammy nominations and Penguin
Guide Rosettes.
From
1999 until its final season in 2013, Clive Greensmith was a
member of the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet, giving over
one hundred performances each year in the most prestigious
international venues, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Sydney
Opera House, London’s South Bank, Paris Chatelet, Berlin
Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He
has collaborated with international artists such as Andras
Schiff, Pinchas Zukerman, Leon Fleisher, Lynn Harrell, Dmitry
Sitkovetsky, Alicia de Larrocha, and Emanuel Ax.
Mr. Greensmith has given guest performances at prominent
festivals worldwide. In North America, he has performed at the
Aspen Music Festival, Marlboro Music Festival, Music@Menlo, La
Jolla SummerFest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Cleveland
Chamber Fest, and the Ravinia Festival. He is a regular guest of
the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and will undertake a
national tour with Paul Huang, Wu Han, and Matthew Lipman in
2020. Internationally he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival
in Austria, Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, Pacific Music
Festival in Japan and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. As a soloist,
Clive Greensmith has performed with the London Symphony
Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, and
the RAI Orchestra of Rome among others.
During a career spanning over twenty-five years, Mr. Greensmith
has built up a catalog of landmark recordings, most notably The
Complete Beethoven String Quartets for Harmonia Mundi with the
Tokyo String Quartet, Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets with the
Tokyo String Quartet, Brahms Cello Sonatas with Boris Berman for
Biddulph Recordings, and Clarinet Trios of Beethoven and Brahms
with Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse for Harmonia Mundi. In June
2018 he performed the newly reconstructed Pál Hermann cello
concerto (1925) with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra under
conductor, Theodor Kuchar. Toccata Classics released a live
recording of his world premiere performance of the Concerto with
Theodore Kuchar and the Lviv International Symphony Orchestra in
the spring of 2019.
Deeply committed to the mentoring and development of young
musicians, Clive has enjoyed a long and distinguished teaching
career. In addition to his fifteen-year residency with the Tokyo
String Quartet at Yale University, Mr. Greensmith has served as
a faculty member at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal Northern
College of Music in England, the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music and the Manhattan School of Music. In 2013, following the
final concerts of the Tokyo String Quartet, Mr. Greensmith
joined the faculty at the Colburn School where he is currently a
professor of cello and coaches chamber music for the
Conservatory of Music and the Music Academy. Students of Mr.
Greensmith have gone on to secure major positions in orchestras
throughout the world and have won a number of prestigious
awards.
In July 2019, he succeeded Günther Pichler as director of string
chamber music at the Accademia Chigiana International Festival
and Summer Academy in Siena, Italy. Also in 2019, Greensmith
became the Artistic Director of the Nevada Chamber Music
Festival.
Mr. Greensmith is a founding member of the Montrose Trio with
pianist Jon Kimura Parker, and violinist Martin Beaver.
Juho Pohjonen,
piano
Juho
Pohjonen is regarded as one of today’s most exciting and unique
instrumentalists. The Finnish pianist performs widely in Europe,
Asia, and North America, collaborating with symphony orchestras
and playing in recital and chamber settings. An ardent exponent
of Scandinavian music, Pohjonen’s growing discography offers a
showcase of music by Finnish compatriots such as Esa-Pekka
Salonen, Kaija Saariaho and Jean Sibelius.
In 2021-2022 Pohjonen performs Daniel Bjarnason’s concerto for
piano Processions with the Helsinki Philharmonic with the
composer at the podium. Additional orchestral highlights include
performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Rune
Bergmann and the Colorado Symphony as well as performances of
Mendelssohn’s concerto for violin, piano and strings, beside
Erin Keefe, Maestro Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Continuing his long-standing relationship with Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, Pohjonen performs at Alice Tully Hall
on two separate occasions this season in programs featuring
works by Stravinksy, Debussy, Shostokovich and Mendelssohn.
Additional chamber projects include a performance at Parlance
Chamber Concerts with Danbi Um and Paul Huang and Cliburn
Concerts with Danbi and Karim Sulayman. Juho will perform
recitals in Helsinki and at Vancouver Recital Society.
Last season, Juho performed with the Tampere Philharmonic
following his debut with the orchestra in 2017-2018 and also
performed Daniel Bjarnason’s Processions with Finland’s Tapiola
Sinfonietta.
Following the September 2019 performance of Grieg’s Piano
Concerto with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota, Pohjonen returned
to the orchestra in January 2020 to repeat the program at
Indiana University in Bloomington. Additional highlights
included two orchestra debuts: with the New Jersey Symphony
performing Grieg, conducted by Markus Stenz; and with the
Rochester Philharmonic performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.
1 with Fabien Gabel. Pohjonen made his Philadelphia recital
debut at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and returned to
Howland Chamber Music Circle in Beacon, NY with a recital. An
alumnus of The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two), Pohjonen
enjoys an ongoing association with the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center, with whom he played two performances in New
York’s Alice Tully Hall and Chicago’s Harris Theater.
Pohjonen launched MyPianist in 2019, an AI-based iOS app that
provides interactive piano accompaniment to musicians
everywhere. Designed and programmed by Mr. Pohjonen himself and
infused with his keen musical sensibility, MyPianist acts as a
“virtual pianist” for musicians looking to hone their skills or
learn new material. MyPianist carefully "listens" to the
musician’s playing and recreates the piano part in real time,
matching the timing and nuances of the live performance. More
information at https://mypianist.app.
Pohjonen’s illustrious resume of concerto performances reveals a
musician in demand internationally. He has appeared as a soloist
with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, San
Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, National Arts Centre
Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Symphony,
Finnish Radio Symphony & Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras,
Philharmonia Orchestra of London, with the Mostly Mozart
Festival in New York City, and a large number of additional
North American orchestras. This includes the Atlanta Symphony
where Pohjonen has performed three times. Pohjonen has
collaborated with today’s foremost conductors, including Marin
Alsop, Lionel Bringuier, Marek Janowski, Fabien Gabel, Kirill
Karabits, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Markus Stenz, and Pinchas Zukerman.
The pianist has previously appeared in recital at New York’s
Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, DC, and in San Francisco, La Jolla, Detroit,
Savannah, and Vancouver. He made his London debut at Wigmore
Hall, and has performed recitals throughout Europe including in
Antwerp, Hamburg, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, and Warsaw. Festival
appearances include Lucerne; Savonlinna Finland; Bergen, Norway;
and Mecklenberg-Vorpommern in Germany, as well as the Gilmore
Keyboard Festival. With CMS he has performed significant chamber
music repertoire with Escher and Calidore String Quartets in New
York, Chicago, and at Wolf Trap, among many other programs.
Other highlights of recent seasons include a recital debut at
the 92nd Street Y in New York, in which Pohjonen performed a
program that featured Scriabin’s Sonata No. 8 and Dichotomie by
Salonen. In a review comparing Pohjonen’s performance of the
same piece in 2019 to his 2009 performance, the New York Times
commented that the Salonen “no longer seemed nearly impossible.
You might say he played it like a master.”
Pohjonen’s most recent recording with cellist Inbal Segev
features cello sonatas by Chopin and Grieg, and Schumann’s
’Fantasiestücke, hallmarks of the Romantic repertoire. Plateaux,
his debut recording on Dacapo Records, featured works by late
Scandinavian composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, including the
solo piano suite For Piano, and piano concerto Plateaux pour
Piano et Orchestre, with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
and conductor Ed Spanjaard. His recital at the Music@Menlo 2010
festival was recorded as part of the Music@Menlo Live series.
Entitled Maps and Legends, the disc includes Mozart’s Sonata in
A major, K. 331, Grieg’s Ballade (Op. 24), and Handel’s Suite in
B-flat Major. Pohjonen joins violinist Petteri Iivonen and
cellist Samuli Peltonen to form the Sibelius Trio, who released
a recording on Yarlung Records in honor of Finland’s 1917
centennial of independence. The album, described by Stereophile
as “a gorgeous debut,” included works by Sibelius and Kaija
Saariaho.
Pohjonen began his piano studies in 1989 at the Junior Academy
of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and subsequently earned a
Master’s Degree from Meri Louhos and Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna
at the Sibelius Academy in 2008. Pohjonen was selected by Sir
Andras Schiff as the winner of the 2009 Klavier Festival Ruhr
Scholarship, and has won prizes at international and Finnish
competitions.
***
“Pearly touch, singing tone and sensitivity.... [Pohjonen]
demonstrated his elegant musicianship throughout the program.” – The New York Times
“The programme included Grieg’s Piano Concerto, with a
fast-rising Finnish star, Juho Pohjonen, as the delightfully
unassuming but bewitching soloist.”
– The Guardian
“Pohjonen's account of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1 was
positively electrifying, the ideal blend of poise and
passion...the pianist brought virtuosity in spades, flitting
through the music with a touch that was steely and bright.”
– The Plain Dealer
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Sonata
No. 6 in G major, BWV 1019
(17’50”)
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach is often remembered among musicologists
for having developed existing methods of composition to the
highest level possible—rather than having invented new
techniques. However, in his six sonatas for violin and
harpsichord, Bach took a tremendous step towards reinventing
what this genre meant: he emancipated the keyboard instrument
from its role as a mere “accompanying” instrument, raising it to
the level of an equal partner and more. In fact, the harpsichord
takes on the role of two instruments, making the piece more akin
to a trio sonata. The harpsichordist’s right hand takes part in
a duet with the violin, while the left hand plays the continuo,
or bass line. Among these works, Bach’s innovations are most
evident in the Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019, which paved
the way for piano sonatas and trios by Haydn, Mozart, and
Beethoven.
The earliest surviving manuscript of the work dates from 1725;
it was handwritten by Bach’s nephew and pupil Johann Heinrich
Bach, making it difficult to determine the exact date of
composition. However, according to a 1774 letter by Carl Philipp
Emanuel Bach, the sonatas were at the time already more than
half a century old, and thus it is safe to say that Bach had a
working copy of the set before 1724. He would continue revising
them as late as 1748 and 1749 (one year before his death in
1750), as witnessed by his fifth son, Johann Christoph
Friedrich.
The first five sonatas of this set are written in the
traditional manner of a Corellian sonata da chiesa
(church sonata), with four movements (slow-fast-slow-fast), but
the final sonata, in G major (BWV 1019), breaks away from this
form. Earlier versions of this piece demonstrate that Bach may
have originally conceived of a synthesis between a sonata da
chiesa and a sonata da camera (chamber sonata, or a
collection of dances), resulting in a suite with six movements.
At one point, the work contained a harpsichord solo and a violin
solo, and the first movement was to be repeated at the end.
The final, five-movement version of this work begins with a
rousing concertante, hearkening back to the Third Brandenburg
Concerto, also in G major. Set in the relative minor, the second
movement features a plaintive duet between the violin and the
right hand of the keyboardist. The sonata’s middle movement
gives the violin a short respite; it is presented as a solo for
the harpsichord—perhaps to further define the equal and
indispensable role of the harpsichordist, even the role of the
instrument itself. As such, the impetus for this particular
movement may have been a special harpsichord commissioned in
Berlin in 1719 by the renowned instrument builder Michael Mietke,
in consultation with Bach. It would not be surprising, given
that this particular instrument inspired the virtuoso keyboard
cadenza in the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto. The sonata’s
penultimate movement, in B minor, is a lyrical and melancholic
meditation between the three voices, while the last movement,
once again in G major, brings the work to a close with an
exuberant gigue.
'F-A-E' Sonata
Robert Schuman :
Intermezzo
(2’30”)
Johannes Brahms
:
Scherzo
(5’30”)
The F-A-E Violin Sonata, a work written collaboratively by three
different composers, stands as one of the most unusually
conceived pieces in history. As the brainchild of Robert
Schumann in 1853, its inception came a day after the
twenty-two-year-old violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim paid him a
surprise visit. Joachim, one of Brahms’s closest friends at the
time, and the one who introduced Brahms to Schumann earlier that
month, was the inspiration behind this project’s creation. When
Schumann heard Brahms play his compositions, he was utterly
impressed by the young composer’s genius. Along with Schumann’s
student Albert Dietrich, they presented the work to Joachim at a
private gathering. Present at this gathering was Giselle von
Arnim, from whom Joachim had recently separated, becoming “free
but alone,” a motto that would become an intrinsic part of the
sonata. Schumann wrote on the front page: “In anticipation of
the arrival of our honored and beloved friend, Joseph Joachim,
this sonata was written by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms,
[and] Albert Dietrich.”
Schumann long enjoyed composing with musical cryptograms (such
as his Abegg Variations, Op. 1) and incorporated the
first letters of Joachim’s personal motto, frei aber einsam
(free but alone), F-A-E, as an underlying and recurring motive
throughout the movements. Schumann would later assimilate his
two movements into his Violin Sonata in A Minor. Joachim kept
the original manuscript of the F-A-E Sonata and allowed only
Brahms’s Scherzo to be published in 1906, almost ten years after
Brahms’s death. It is not known whether Dietrich incorporated
his part into any other pieces. The sonata as a whole was first
published in 1935.
In his bittersweet Intermezzo, Schumann begins with F-A-E, first
in the bass of the piano, followed immediately by the violin
with F-A-E as the first three notes. Thereafter, he transposes
the motive in multiple ways. With only forty-five measures, it
seems to express so eloquently Joachim’s sentiment of freedom,
touched with a tinge of wistfulness.
Brahms’s Scherzo from this sonata is the most often-performed
movement, usually presented as a standalone piece. As other
musicologists have noted, its most striking figure is not its
use of the F-A-E motive but its explicit reference to
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with its “fate” motive and movement
from C minor to C major. As for the F-A-E motive, Brahms refers
to musical material used by Dietrich in the first movement,
which in turn references the motive. The frei aber einsam
motto was to remain highly symbolic for Brahms throughout his
life, playing perhaps the most prominent musical role in the
finale of his F-Minor Piano Sonata. The Scherzo is characterized
by its driving rhythm, panache, and soaring melodies, most
notably in its central Trio section.
Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)
Sonata for violin & cello(21’)
Allegro
Très vif
Lent
Vif, avec entrain
Maurice Ravel composed his Sonata for Violin and Cello between
1920 and 1922, a time when he was recovering from the many
traumas of the past decade. During the German invasion of France
in World War I, Ravel’s eager desire to enlist was refused. He
ultimately served as a lorry driver, and the work proved to be
not only exceedingly dangerous but also detrimental to his
health. While he was convalescing from multiple illnesses
brought on by these experiences, his mother, whom he adored,
died in 1917.
Meanwhile, his colleague and compatriot Claude Debussy had died
in 1918. One can imagine the bleak scene of Debussy’s funeral
procession making its way through a devastated and deserted
Paris, while the German bombing and shelling set the tone. It
would take two years for Debussy to receive a proper
celebration, in the form of a tribute concert in January 1921.
The music was drawn from a special edition that the famous
Parisian periodical La Revue musicale published in
December 1920, commissioning ten composers—including Satie,
Stravinsky, de Falla, Dukas, Bartok, and of course Ravel—to
write homages to Debussy.
Ravel’s contribution in honor of Debussy became the first
movement of a four-movement Sonata for Violin and Cello two
years later, in 1922. Violinist Hélène Jourdan-Morhange and
cellist Maurice Maréchal premiered the work, and while it was
generally received negatively by critics—who pointed out that
some dissonances sounded as if there were wrong notes—one friend
asked him cheekily when he would make a simplified arrangement
of it for large orchestra. Ravel wrote, “I think this sonata
marks a turning point in my career. The music is stripped to the
bone. The allure of harmony is rejected and more and more there
is a return of the emphasis on melody.”
One is immediately struck by the stark atmosphere created by the
two single melodic lines that open the first movement. The
violin oscillates between major and minor, while the cello
enters the same register and is at times even higher than the
violin. It creates a kaleidoscopic effect of an eight-stringed
instrument. The sonata is cyclic, and two themes that are
introduced in the opening continue to return, transformed in
each of the following movements. The second movement, a tour de
force in its sonic ingenuity and energy, was difficult to
compose, and at one point Ravel completely rewrote it. His
prominent use of pizzicato is not unlike the second movements of
other string quartets by both Debussy and himself. This movement
does not shy away from bitonality, and the music has the two
instruments simultaneously playing in different key signatures.
As if remembering all the death that he faced during the
preceding years, Ravel builds the music towards two climaxes,
the second one more intense and filled with harsh, dissonant
sevenths—an interval that holds an important place throughout
the work. The form hearkens back to the slow movement in his
Piano Trio. The final movement finishes this work with verve,
bite, and a thrilling drive.
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897) Piano Trio in C major, Opus 87
(30’)
Allegro moderato
Andante con moto
Scherzo: Presto
Finale: Allegro giocoso
In 1880, the musical world observed Brahms at the summit of his
creative powers, receiving accolades from abroad and being
hailed as one of the greatest living composers. That same year,
he began work on his Piano Trio in C Major (along with a
later-discarded trio in E-flat major) while vacationing in Bad
Ischl, Austria. It was a terrible vacation—he came down with an
ear infection, and he entertained fantasies of losing his
hearing like Beethoven. When he recovered, he paused his work on
the trio in order to finish his monumental Second Piano
Concerto, his Third Symphony, and his F-Major String Quintet,
among other large-scale works. Typically hypercritical of his
own works, Brahms was pleased with this trio by the time he
finished it in 1882, writing to his publisher, Simrock: “You
have not yet had such a beautiful trio from me and very likely
have not published its equal in the last ten years.”
Jan Swafford describes the piece as “a mingling of light and
dark.” Indeed, the paradoxes that abound in this work are seen
both in its character and construction. The work begins with a
startlingly powerful unison theme in the strings. The rhythmic
play that the piano highlights soon builds the movement to lush,
almost symphonic writing. Brahms’s astute sense of architecture
tempers what feels like an abundance of themes in this movement.
The following movement, comprising a theme and five variations,
is imbued with passionate Hungarian pathos, further enlivened by
its characteristic rhythm, often oxymoronically identified as a
Scottish snap. The theme is played lustily by the strings, once
again in a powerful unison, while the piano marks the offbeats.
The mysterious Scherzo flies by with Mendelssohnian
light-footedness. The first four notes in the piano allude to
the beginning of the Hungarian—or gypsy—minor scale, and with an
augmented fourth the motive prepares the ear for the finale. A
contrasting middle section presents a soaring melody.
The finale, marked Allegro giocoso, is playful, as its name
implies. The opening melody, with its augmented fourths—now
derived from the Hungarian major scale—once again hearkens to
the spirit of the second movement. Despite Brahms being in one
of his most cheerful and humorous moods, he quotes material from
Schubert’s “Die Stadt,” like an eerie subtext that resurfaces
now and again.
多年來小提琴家林昭亮和大提琴家馬友友及指揮小澤征爾(Seiji
Ozawa)被並列稱為國際樂壇上之最活躍最有名望的三位亞裔音樂家。林昭亮是第一位華人演奏家獲得英國「留聲機年度唱片獎」(Gramophone’s
Record of the year)。他的錄音曾獲二次葛萊美(Grammy)獎的提名。「音樂美國」Musical
America雜誌曾將林昭亮選為2000年年度器樂演奏家(Instrumentalist
of the year),並被列入"企鵝指南得獎名人錄
Penguin Guide Rosettes"。
林昭亮在台灣出生,12歲時遠赴澳洲雪梨,後至美國追隨大師Dorothy
Delay學習。19歲時在林肯中心「莫札特主題音樂節」(Mostly
Mozart Festival)首演,20歲時與紐約愛樂(New
York Philharmonic Orchestra)及指揮Zubin
Mehta演出後備受樂壇重視並肯定。他已與全球最主要的樂團及名指揮合作演出過無數次,享譽全球。
大提琴家Clive
Greensmith是著名的東京四重奏(Tokyo
String Quartet) (1999-2013)由最開始到最後一季14年來的成員。每年演出百餘場,足跡遍布全球各地,在最著名的音樂廳演出,獲得全世界的尊敬及讚賞。除了和東京四重奏巡迴之外,他每年都在各地的音樂節演出及教學。也與倫敦交響樂團等大樂團合作擔任獨奏。也與林肯中心室內樂團(Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center)一齊在各地演出。在他輝煌燦爛的簡歷上,與他合作演出及錄音的,都是當今樂壇上最頂尖大師級的人物。他現任加州Colburn音樂學院的大提琴及室內樂教授。他的學生中已有多人考上著名樂團,並在國際大賽中獲獎。
芬蘭鋼琴家Juho
Pohjonen曾獲無數芬蘭及國際鋼琴大賽大獎。被公認是當今樂壇中最傑出的鋼琴家之一。紐約時報
(The New York Times)
稱讚他「珍珠般的觸感,如詩歌般的聲音和敏感度,Pohjonen在整個節目中展示了他的音樂才華。」除了他個人的獨奏會及與著名樂團合作,還有製作錄音專輯外,他也與林肯中心室內樂團經常合作,在全球各地巡迴演出,佳評如潮湧。
中華表演藝術基金會上週六5月7日邀請三位享譽國際樂壇多年的大師聯合在紐英崙音樂學院喬頓廳
(Jordan Hall)
演出。音樂會盛大成功,佳評如潮。小提琴家林昭亮曾被「音樂美國」Musical
America雜誌選為2000年年度器樂演奏家(Instrumentalist
of the year)。大提琴家Clive
Greensmith是著名的東京四重奏Tokyo
String Quartet的成員,現任教於加州Colburn音樂學院。芬蘭鋼琴家Juho
Pohjonen曾獲多項國際大賽首獎,被紐約時報
(The New York Times)
稱為「珍珠般的觸感,詩歌般的聲音。」三位用二重奏和三重奏的格式演出巴赫、舒曼,及布拉姆斯的小提琴與鋼琴奏鳴曲、間奏曲,及詼諧曲;
拉威爾的小提琴與大提琴奏鳴曲;
及布拉姆斯著名的C大調第87號鋼琴三重奏。三位大師彼此有多年雙重奏的合作,但三人一齊的三重奏,當晚還是首次嘗試。大師間的默契和諧,心靈的交流,用音樂的對話真誠地表達出來,不但呈現出他們彼此間的深厚友情,也感動了在場的每一個人。300多位觀眾在最後一個音符結束後全場歡呼雷動。全體起立報以熱烈的掌聲,歷久不斷。
波士頓音樂情報
(The Boston Musical Intelligencer)
發行人資深樂評Lee
Eiseman親自出席並撰文。他特別稱讚演出頻繁的小提琴家林昭亮及富有室內樂經驗的大提琴家Clive
Greensmith。他們選的這首拉威爾二重奏,技巧極其困難,學術性極高。樂評稱讚他們應對這個挑戰:「個人的琴藝超出水平,重奏也合協無間,到達很高的境界。」樂評對小提琴及鋼琴的二重奏,則覺得鋼琴過於亮麗,掩蓋了小提琴的聲音。樂評認為三位頂尖的演奏家,雖然有二人分別地合奏的經驗,但三人一齊的三重奏,的確有感人之處,但仍有提升的空間。
音樂會門票分為$50 (貴賓保留區、可預先指定座位)及$30(不對號自由入座)兩種 , 學生票$15 (不對號自由座區) 。六歲以下兒
童請勿入場 。網站購票:
http://www.ChinesePerformingArts.net
無手續費 。 $50: VIP
Reserved Seats
$30: open seating at non-VIP section
$15: student open seating at non-VIP section
Children under 6 not admitted. 提供100張免費學生票 (14歲以上 , 每人一張) 請上 贈票網頁 索票 。 100 free
student tickets available at www.ChinesePerformingArts.net only
(1 per request for age 14 and up)