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PROGRAM All Mozart Program Overture Marriage of Figaro Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 I.
Allegro
II. Adagio III. Rondeau. Allegro — INTERMISSION —
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 I.
Molto allegro
II. Andante III Menuetto IV. Allegro assai
SOFIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Christo Pavlov, Principal Conductor Founded in 1892 as Guards Symphony Orchestra, in 1938 after fusion with the Academic Symphony Orchestra transformed into Royal Military Symphony Orchestra, after 1945 the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra became the national orchestra of Bulgaria and has long established itself as one of the leading cultural institutions, representative of the overall contemporary musical culture of the country. The orchestra’s high artistic achievement is associated with the names of prominent figures such as Sasha Popov, Konstantin Iliev, Dobrin Petkov, Vassil Stefanov, Vladi Simeonov, Vassil Kazandjiev, Dimitar Manolov, Emil Tabakov, Julian Kovatchev, Nayden Todorov. Unforgettable in the chronicle of the Philharmonic are the
instances of co-operation with personalities such as conductors Bruno Walter, Hermann Abendroth, Kurt Masur, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Simonov, Yuri Temirkanov, Igor Markevitch, Carlo Zecchi, Karl Österreichher, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Neville Marriner, Charles Dutoit, Marin Alsop, Frédéric Chaslin, Gianluigi Gelmetti and others. Soloists who have performed with the orchestra were David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Alexis Weissenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Ruggiero Ricci, Ghena Dimitrova, Jose Carreras, Julian Rachlin, Placido Domingo, Sarah Chang, Thomas Hampson, Yuri Bashmet, Tabea Zimmermann, Elena Bashkirova, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Sonya Yoncheva, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Maxim Vengerov, Svetlin Rоussev, Angela Gheorghiu, Vadim Repin, Paul Badura-Skoda, Joshua Bell, Dmitri Ratser, Elīna Garanča, Sharon Kam, Ivo Pogorelić, Martha Argerich, Viktoria Mullova, Mischa Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, Gidon Kremer and many more worldrenowned artists. The repertoire of the Sofia Philharmonic comprises works from the entire historically available range of music – from classical to contemporary opuses, including premiere performances of numerous works by Bulgarian composers. The orchestra has garnered substantial recognition all over the world. It has guest-performed with great success in the major musical centres across Europe (Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, France, Croatia, Switzerland), Asia (China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan), and North America, and has received frenetic acclaim even from the most demanding of audiences. The Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra was awarded many prestigious accolades including: “Musician of the Year”, “Golden Lyre”, “Golden Stave”, “Golden Quill”, “Crystal Lyre”, the Honorary Sign of Sofia, the Honorary Sign of the President of Bulgaria. From 2017, general director of the Sofia Philharmonic is maestro Nayden Todorov.
CHRISTO PAVLOV Since 2017, Maestro Pavlov is Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Sofia Metropolitan Orchestra and Choir (also known as Philharmonia Orchestra of Bulgaria). He was also Principal Guest Conductor of the Sofia Sinfonietta. Christo Pavlov has been guest conductor of many of the world’s leading orchestras including: The Czech Philharmonic, Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also enjoyed the rare opportunity of being invited to conduct at Austria’s legendary Golden Hall, The home of the Vienna Philharmonic.
He has been conductor or producer for several hundred productions for CD, film or game for many companies: BMG, HBO, National Geographic, Centaur Records, SPH, Stageone, Albany records, Fontec, Wildflower recordings, Summit records, Da Vinci, ERM Media, Sud Ovest Records are just the names of few. Many of the recordings won international prizes (including EMI’s illustrious golden award, in addition to ten Grammy nominations), For these various productions, he worked with many great musicians: Katia Ricciarelli, Jose Carreras, Fabio Armiliato, legendary film composer Lalo Schifrin, to name but a few. Christo Pavlov has also managed the production of hundreds of concerts and recording projects of the Bulgarian national opera, and has supervised and directed various concerts in the following countries: Bulgaria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Malta, Israel, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Mexico, Brasil, Argentina, Korea, China, Lebanon, Malaysia etc. As conductor or player, he participated in world or national premieres of hundreds of pieces by different composers from all continents. Christo Pavlov takes part in many international music festivals throughout the world including Germany, Greece, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Bulgaria. Some of the great halls where he has conducted are Auditorio Nacional de Musica (Madrid), Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), Konzertsaal Philharmonie (Munich), Palau de la Musica (Valencia), and the legendary Dresden Kulturpalast.
LIYA PETROVA Liya Petrova is a First Prize Winner at the International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition 2016 in Denmark. She is praised for her “Effortless virtuosity” (The Strad), “Exceptional tonal variety” (Gramophone), and “Gorgeous sound – ripe and silvery; Phrasing with majestic breadth” (The Times). Liya won numerous prizes at international competitions such as the Concours International de Violon Tibor Varga, the International Louis Spohr Competition and the Vaclav Huml Competition among others, and at the German Music Competition which granted her admission to the list of Soloists of the DMR (Deutscher Musikrat). As a soloist, Liya has performed with many renowned Orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg, the Filharmonie Antwerp,
the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre National de Belgique ,the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre National Montpellier, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the KlassikPhilharmonie Hamburg, the Norddeutschen Philharmonie Rostock, the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She has worked with conductors such as Philippe Herrewege, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yan Tortelier, Nikolaj Szeps- Znaider, Christopher Warren-Green, Jesús López Cobos and Michel Tabachnik. She is also regularly touring in Japan which brings her to perform this season in over 20 cities in Japan. Her first solo album with the Odense Symphony Orchestra under Kristiina Poska, including Nielsen and Prokofiev first Violin concerto for Orchid Classic Label (2018) brought her international critical acclaim. In 2016 she received her second invitation to the concert series “Martha Argerich and Friends” with Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet and Mischa Maisky. Furthermore, she has collaborated with Ivry Gitlis, Renaud Capucon Augustin Dumay, James Ehnes, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Yuja Wang, Gerad Caussé, Autoine Tamestit, Gary Hoffman and Gautier Capucon in numerous chamber music projects. Amongst others, Liya has given guest performances at the Festspielen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspielen, the Festival de Radio France Montpellier, the Festival of Menton and the Festival de Pâques of Aix-en-Provence. Liya Petrova was born in Bulgaria surrounded by a family of musicians. At the age of 11 she began her studies in Germany as a Young Student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock. After studying with Petru Munteanu there, Liya continued her studies further with Augustin Dumay at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Belgium, Renaud Capucon at the HEMU in Lausanne, and Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik “Hans Eisler” in Berlin. Liya plays an outstanding instrument made by Carlo Bergonzi in 1737 in Cremona, on a generous loan from Xavier and Josephine Moreno.
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Monday, February 12, 2024, 7:30 pm
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Christo Pavlov, Principal Conductor PROGRAM NOTES ALL MOZART PROGRAM:
Overture, Le Nozze di Figaro (“Marriage of Figaro”), K. 492 . . . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg; died December 5, 1791, in Vienna) When Mozart conducted The Marriage of Figaro’s premiere May 1, 1786 in Vienna, the opera received an astounding reception. Its libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte was derived from Beaumarchais’ comedy of manners Le Mariage de Figaro, ou la Folle journée (“The Marriage of Figaro or the Follies of a Day”), a play that had excited the French aristocracy and generated sensational acclaim, but had been banned in Vienna as subversive because it was believed to reveal the licentious excesses of the aristocracy. Nevertheless, da Ponte received permission from the Emperor to use the play, although his libretto was heavily censored to eliminate references to the monarchy. The overture instantly sets the emotional tone for its whirlwind humor. Beginning quietly, the slight beginning motif quickly becomes a full-blown theme that the whole orchestra, with the brilliant force of trumpets and drums, articulates. Presumably Mozart originally composed a slow middle section with a solo oboe carrying the theme. Thinking better of his idea of breaking the overture into a tripartite structure, he cut the slow part out, creating a condensed sonata form. After the climax, the orchestra reprises the brilliant, bubbling opening theme. Significantly, the themes of the overture do not appear in the opera proper, although they definitely express the spirit of the work.
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3, in G Major, K. 216. . . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart At the height of his career, during his mature years in Vienna, Mozart was admired at least as much for his brilliant piano playing as for his compositions, (which were then thought to be only incidental to a virtuoso’s work as a performer). In his youth Mozart had played the violin in public, too, and was the concertmaster of the Archbishop’s court orchestra in Salzburg, but the young musician always preferred the piano. Leopold Mozart, his father, was a violinist of some distinction whose important instruction book, first published in 1756, was translated into other languages and widely used for at least fifty years. He thought that his son could become the finest violinist in Europe and always regretted his son’s abandonment of his own preferred instrument. The younger Mozart, however, wrote much music in which he featured the violin, and not only for concerti. He gave it a prominent part in chamber music as well as in some of his orchestral serenades and divertimentos, which have long concertolike solo movements for violin in them. Mozart probably composed his five violin concerti for one of his colleagues, but we really know no more of this concerto’s history than that it, like the two which were to follow it, was written in Salzburg by 1775. As the young concertmaster of the orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, Mozart probably composed these concerti for himself or for one of his colleagues to play at the archepiscopal court concerts. When they were to be played by Antonio Brunetti, who was the Archbishop’s favorite and not a very skilled violinist, Mozart replaced entire movements to suit Brunetti’s taste and skill. Mozart’s violin concerti offer charms and delights of all kinds, but they do not include the grave and the dramatic, which appear in his later piano concerti. This early work shows the influence of the many trips the boy Mozart took with his father where he was exposed to and learned from the musical styles from across the continent. The violin concerti bear traces of all of the Austrian, German, Italian, and French courts he visited as a child. The Allegro first movement borrows melodic material, and perhaps something of its mood, from the opera Mozart had composed earlier that same year, Il rè pastore (“The Shepherd King”). The main theme launches forth with a regal, satisfied air. The movement is set in the traditional sonata form with orchestral ritornellos alternating with the exposition, development, and recapitulation of the violin’s themes. Before the recapitulation, the soloist has a recitative-like figure. An extended solo cadenza precedes the coda.
The slow cantabile melody of the second movement, Adagio, has a profundity that the young composer had never attained before, and it has only the very slightest of accompaniments. Like the first movement, the Adagio includes a solo cadenza at the end of the movement. Then comes a remarkable Rondo, Allegro, with some unusual contrasting episodes, one a mock courtly dance, another a simple folk-like tune perhaps of Hungarian origin. These are thought to be musical references to some special interest or specific event in Salzburg around the time when Mozart wrote the music. Instead of the conventional recapitulation, Mozart simply breaks off in mid-phrase, after not giving the last word to the solo violin, nor even to the strings, but instead to the winds, who, until that point sturdily filled in harmonies and did not have a prominent role. The score calls for two flutes (in the second movement), two oboes (in the first and third movements), two horns and strings.
Symphony No. 40, in G minor, K. 550 . . . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart An anonymous critic of this symphony once wrote, “There are few things in art that are perfect. The G minor Symphony is one of them.” In two months of the summer of 1788, at a time of terrible misfortune and disappointments, Mozart wrote this and two other symphonies, which were the three last symphonies he composed. It was a particularly hard time for him because his wife was ill and his always troubled finances had never been worse. He made every effort he could to ward off great despair; he even wrote his friend Puchberg for a loan explaining that he was in a period “prey to gloomy thoughts which I must repel with all my might.” Instead of reflections of the composer’s unhappy condition, the three symphonies contain powerful emotional assertions. Perhaps Mozart’s troubles had caused him to turn inward and to discover within himself, consciously or unconsciously, music of an emotional depth that no one had ever before imagined possible. Mozart presumably had none of the usual reasons for writing the symphonies he had had in the past because there were no commissions and no promises of concert dates, and no publisher waiting to receive them. At that time, composers rarely wrote solely from inspiration; some historians believe these three symphonies were conceived purely from an inner, emotional, expressive impulse. No record exists of the initial performances of Mozart’s last three symphonies; the only evidence that the Symphony in G minor may possibly have been played during his lifetime is the fact that he
re-orchestrated it, adding two clarinets to the orchestra and revising the two oboe parts to fit the enlarged wind section. The occasion for the revision may have been the pair of concerts, given at the Imperial and Royal Court Theater for the benefit of the widows and orphans of musicians, performed on April 16 and 17, 1791, less than eight months before Mozart’s own death. Among the prominent performers were Mozart’s sister-in-law and Vienna’s leading clarinetists, the Stadler brothers. The unidentified symphony that opened the program may have been this one, in its clarinet version. The musical director of the event was Antonio Salieri. As Mozart also changed the orchestration of two passages of the second movement, his recent biographer, Robert Gutman, believes that such modifications could have only followed from the results of specific performances such as this one. Gutman thus concludes that the popular idea that Mozart never heard his last three symphonies is a myth. In describing this work, Pitts Sanborn noted: “There is no doubt that this symphony is touched with the ineffable sadness that sometimes crosses like a summer cloud the radiance of Mozart’s sun-god temperament. And along with this there are moments of a celestial tenderness. Yet, at the same time, this Symphony has its capricious and sprite-like quality, which comes out in the ascending and descending pairs of thirty- second notes in the Andante, echoed distantly in the whimsicality and waywardness of certain measures of the Finale.” This symphony’s first movement, Molto allegro, full of melancholy passion, begins with its first theme in octaves in the violins. There is a strong and forceful subsidiary theme before the second wistful theme enters. The poise, the elegance and the beautiful proportions of the second movement, Andante, begins with an elegiac first theme in the violins, which emerges from the rhythmic figure of the opening measures. Unlike most slow movements of symphonies, this movement is in sonata form. Mozart called the third movement a Minuet and marked it Allegretto, but the movement is not a graceful ballroom minuet. Instead, the Minuet is vigorous and animated, full of syncopated rhythms and clashing dissonance, with a contrasting central Trio that is relaxed and direct. The final Allegro assai is the most spirited of the symphony’s four movements. Also in sonata form, it opens with a theme whose first eight notes are identical to the first eight notes of the initial theme of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, but the rhythm is so different that the ear does not easily sense the similarity. The strings and then the woodwinds introduce the lyrical second theme.
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