20210418 Chamber Music Brahms : Trio No. 114 and Sonata No. 120 (2021) [hi-res]
miguel da silva, xavier phillips, françois-frédéric guy - brahms trio, op. 114 & sonatas, op. 120 (2021) [hi-res]
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Album Release:
2021
HRA Publishes:
26.03.2021
Label: alpha
Genre: Classical
Sub-genre: Chamber music
Artists: Miguel da Silva, Xavier Phillips, Frank Os Frerick Guy
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Brahms's trio op.114 was originally conceived for the clarinet (like the two sonatas op.120) and is now presented in viola form: "Like all Brahms works, this trio is a sound, melodic work.
The violent miguel da Silva says the viola is perhaps the instrument of the string quartet closest to the human voice.
Xavier Phillips continues: "This version with viola has forced me as a cellist to listen to different words: our two stringed instruments must "breathe" together and match their pronunciation. ”
Pianist François-Frédéricguy said that all three of Brahms's works later in Brahms's career attest to his modernity: "Brahms is often considered a classical composer, a non-permeable to modernity, a guardian of a certain tradition. ”
On the contrary, highly innovative: "Of the three, we have a good example that embodies the extraordinary modernity of his combination of rhythm and timbre: he is a well-round innovator. ”
Miguel da Silva
French-Swiss musician Miguel da Silva was born in Reims in 1961.
He began studying at his native Conservatory and then moved to Paris, where he studied with Serge Collot at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Conservatoires. He won the first prize for chamber music and viola (unanimously voted by the jury).
In 1985, he won the first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition (Sonata) in Paris. His passion for string quartets led him to found the ysaÿe quartet with three of his friends. The Ysaÿe Quartet was later studied with the Amadeus String Quartet. After winning the first prize in the Evian String Quartet Competition, the members of the Ysaÿe Quartet soon began an international career, bringing them around the world from Japan to the United States. After a series of major concerts with a special focus on Beethoven's music, their 30-year brilliant partnership ended in January 2014.
Over the past few years, both as a soloist and with his quartet, miguel has brought to the wigmore concert hall in London, as well as most of the greatest concert halls in Europe (Munich/Herculesal, Venice/teatro della fenice, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Amsterdam/concert hall, Hanover, Basel, Baden-Baden, Salzburg/Festival, Leipzig).
In addition to this, he has toured Belgium, the United States, Japan and Italy. Miguel has performed as a soloist with the Paris Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Orchestra, the Auvergne Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Orchestra in Budapest, the Bretagne Orchestra and the Chesterler Orchestra. Music player, miguel's partners include michel portal, jean-claude pennetier, paul meyer, leonidas kavakos, pierre amoyal, augustin dumay, nikita boriso-glebksy, antonio meneses, jean-françoisheisser, Truls mork, henri demarquette, gary hoffmann, emmanuel pahud and christophe coin. While recording with the Ysaÿe Quartet, Miguel recorded with record labels such as Arcard, Valois-Auvidis, Philips and Hamonia Mundi. He also founded his own record label. The YSAye Records (NASCOR) trademark offers young musicians the opportunity to make their first recordings.
In 1994, Miguel initiated a string quartet, which premiered in France, and has since been teaching a new generation of French and European quartets and chamber music groups at the Musique Nationale de Conservatoire in Paris. In 2008 he took over as a professor at walter levine at the Musikhochschule in Germany and as a mentor at the European Conservatory of Chamber Music and the Summer Academy of the Vienna University of Music. In 2009, he joined the École Deux Musices des Beaux-Arts as a teacher of viola and chamber music and as Artistic Director of the French Conservatory. Since 2014, Miguel has finally been appointed Master of Residence at the Queen Elizabeth Musical Church in Belgium.
Xavier Phillips
Xavier Phillips was born in Paris in 1971 and began studying the cello at the age of six. At the age of 15, he entered philippe muller's studio at the Conservatoire de Paris and graduated with honors in 1989.
Xavier Philips has won several competitions. He won the second prize and the special prize for young actors at the International Competition in Belgrade, the special prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the third prize and the special prize at the mstislav rostropovich competition in Paris, and the first prize at the first International Cello Competition in 2002. Helsinki (proposed after unanimous vote). The young musician's appearance at the mstislav rostropovich competition impressed the maestro. After that meeting, Xavier Phillips began to refine his skills under the guidance of the famous masters.
Phillips was soon invited to work with the French Orchestra, the French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Rudfink Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, in concert venues such as Riccardo Muti, Kurt Masur, Christopher Eschenbach, Malik Conlon, and others. Marek Janowski, Serge Baudo, Vladimir Fessauev (ion marin), Kazushi ono, Jessus López Cobos (g. Herbig, Eliahu inbal and Vladimir Spivakov.
Phillips made his debut in Paris orchester in September 2001. Mstislav Rostropovich has since invited him to perform in prokofiev's "Symphony Orchestra" concert with the Washington National Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Less than a year later, xavier Phillips sang the chicago symphony orchestra's debut in Tchaikovsky's Rococo Theme Song. His illustrious mentor once again took the side of the conductor. Following this series of successful performances, cellists were invited to the United States to give several concerts with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Vasily Sinaisky. Phillips was unveiled with the Paris orchester de paris at the opening of the refurbished salle pleyel in September 2006. Critics praised his interpretation of Dottier's cello concerto tout un monde lointain. The composer himself attended the performance, later saying: "Xavier Phillips fully owns the work, evoking the essence of the title of the work – 'A Distant World'".
Performances for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons included the cello concerto of endouard lalo under the batalism of Paaljärvi in Paris, as well as the orchestra's tour of China, which included bloch for cello and orchestra schelomo and fabien Gabel) led the French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 with the Museo de musik de musik de Uxpeques de Paris, Datilux and Schumann with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Elga's Cello Concerto with the Lorraine State Conservatory, with the Bavarian Symphony orchestra of rune music in the Concert Hall in Berlin, with pianist Igor Checheyev and violinist Fanny Berger. Karama Giland (Beethoven's triple concerto with the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra) appeared at the Colmar International Festival and the Bogotá Festival, and with the Orchestra led by Ludovic Morlot and Stefan Sanderling in Florida.
Xavier Phillips, together with Albanian violinist tedi papavrami and French pianist françois-frédéricguy, planned to play and record complete chamber works of Beethoven piano and string instruments. The musician also plans to record dutilleux's cello concerto tout un monde waist piece at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ludovic Morlot. Xavier Phillips focused on chamber music. He has collaborated with musicians such as shlomo mintz, jean-marcphillips-varjabédian, régispasquier, david grimal, emmanuel strosser, vahan mardirossian, igor tchetuev, vanessa wagnr and romain guyot.
The musician has a wide range of records, and his records have won many awards. Phillips' Kodály records (with his brother Jean-Marcphillips-varjabédian; harmonia mundi/lontano), for cello and orchestra (emi classics), and schnittke, Shostakovich and prokofiev sonatas (with pianist Hüseyinsermet; harmonia mundi) won the Choc Prize from the magazine World Music.
The cellist also won the Disco Award for recording chamber music by albéricmagnard (auvidis valois). Armenian records were dedicated to Armenian music along with jean-marcphillips-varjabédian and vahan mardirossian (Warner classics) and won the choc de l'année award in 2007.
Xavier Phillips spends most of his time teaching. For several years, he was a teaching assistant.
François Frederick Guy
Widely regarded as an expert on German Romanticism, especially Beethoven's premier expert. In 2008, he embarked on a major Beethoven project that included recording and performing all of Beethoven's sonatas and five piano concertos. He is also a chamber musician, often playing Beethoven's chamber music with violinist tedi papavrami and cellist xavier phillips, used for strings and piano. As part of the Beethoven project, he has performed a complete cycle of 32 piano sonatas in places such as Washington, Paris, Monte Carlo and Metz, as well as most recently at the Berlioz Festival in San André in Lacoute.
In October 2013, a boxed live recording of the complete sonata was released in a French record label zig-zag territoires, which has released the critically acclaimed Liszt album françois-frédéricguy, which contains harmony and religion. Further recordings have been published with the naïve classique. Chandos released a duet album with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in June 2015.
François-frédéricguy, in addition to his admiration for Beethoven (the alpha and omega of music), bore special similarities with the music of bartók, brahms, liszt and prokofiev, and had a strong commitment to contemporary music ivan fedele, marc monnet, Composers such as Gérardpesson, Bruno Mantovani and Hugues Dufourt all dedicated his masterpiece of piano solo erlkönig (2006). He also performed with Monica Podonigo Porto, Capitoledo Orchester of Toulouse and the BBC Symphony Orchestra on Monet's album (2007) and Mantovani's Concerto for Two (2012). In October 2013, he performed tristan murail's world premiere ledésenchantementdu monde with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
François-frédéricguy is a frequent guest of prestigious orchestras such as the Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Paris Orchester, the French Philharmonic Orchestra of Paris, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle-orchester Zurich. He has collaborated with world-renowned conductors including eesa-pekka salonen, bernard haitink, kazushi ono, marc albrecht, philippe jordan, daniel harding, neemejärvi, paavo berglund, lionel bringuier, michael tilson thomas and kent nagano。 In recital concerts, he has performed in major concert halls in cities such as London, Milan, Berlin, Munich, Moscow, Paris, Vienna and Washington (dc), and at festivals such as the Piano Festival in La Roque di'anlong, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw, etc. , Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Monte Carlo Museum of Art and Cheltenham Festival.
Since François-frédéricguy first debuted in the dual roles of soloist and conductor, François-frédéricguy has often conducted the piano to play the full Beethoven Concerto. Most recently, he performed the entire time with sinfonia varsovia at the France de Radio et montpellier languedoc-roussillon, with whom he will tour the same project in the 2015/16 season. In addition, he will lead the orchester de chambre de paris in Paris this fall. In addition, he will perform this season with the Moscow City Symphony Orchestra, the Opera dell'Opera roma, the Loire State Orchestra and the Kassel State Theatre Symphony Orchestra. The recitals will take him to the Wigmore Concert Hall, the Vladge Concert Hall in Brussels, the muziekgebouw in Amsterdam and the salle gaveau in Lyon. Following the success of his Piano Sonatas for Beethoven in Rio de Janeiro last year, he was invited to perform Beethoven's complete violin and cello sonatas and piano trio with tedi papavrami and xavier philipps in April 2016.