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VIOLINIST BEN SAYEVICH &

PIANIST LOLITA LISOVSKAYA-SAYEVICH Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A major, Op. 12

................................................ Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Allegro vivace Andante, più tosto allegretto Allegro piacevole

Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, L148

.............................................................. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Allegro Vivo Intermède: Fantastique et léger Finale: Très animé

Intermission Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major

.......................................................................... César Franck (1822-90) Allegretto ben moderato Allegro Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia Allegretto poco mosso

ABOUT THIS EVENING’S ARTISTS Ben Sayevich

Park ICM Professor of Violin Lithuanian-Israeli violinist Ben Sayevich has established himself as one of the most distinguished violinists and teachers of his generation. He has performed in concert extensively throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, and he has appeared on radio and television as a soloist and chamber musician.

He is featured as the soloist in a recording of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. At the New England Conservatory of Music, he was chosen to play the Violin Concerto by Alban Berg for the celebration of the composer’s centenary. Sayevich’s interpretation carries the tradition that comes down directly from the composer, through his work on the piece with the late Louis Krasner, the commissioner, dedicatee and the violinist at the work’s premiere.

His extensive activities with orchestras have included concertmaster posts at the Kansas City Camerata and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, with both making numerous concerto appearances, including violin concertos by Vieuxtemps, Glazunov, Mozart and Beethoven. He was also concertmaster of the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra during a five-week world tour of Japan, Singapore and Canada. Sayevich also maintains a vigorous schedule as chamber musician.

He is a founding member of the Park Piano Trio, established at Park University in 2006, and is violinist of the London-based Rosamunde Piano Trio. With the Rosamunde Trio, he has performed widely in Europe, including appearances on BBC Radio London, Irish Public Radio in Cork and the Abbado Festival Bologna. He is also a founding member of Quartet Accorda, which began in the 1990s and was officially incorporated in 2002.

Sayevich has taught at the University of Kansas, the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway, the New England Conservatory of Music, the Hartt School of Music and the Yellow Barn Music Festival in Vermont.

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, he studied violin in Vilnius from the age of 6 at the Churlonis School for the Performing Arts. At 12, he immigrated to Israel with his family and studied with Felix Andrievsky. At age 21, after serving in the Israeli army, he went to the U.S. to study with Dorothy DeLay, later moving to the New England Conservatory of Music to continue studies with her and Eric Rosenblith. He is a recipient of the prestigious artist diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he was Rosenblith’s teaching assistant.

Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich Park ICM Director of Collaborative Piano

Born into a Tashkent (Uzbekistan) mu-

sical family, Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich

began studying piano at the age of 4. In 1985, she entered the Uspensky Central

Music School in Tashkent. In 1993, she started attending a

private school for young musicians in Moscow, and that same year received the first prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Göttingen, Germany. She entered the

Tchaikovsky Special Music School in 1995, and two years later

was accepted to the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage of Vera Gornostaeva, with whom she continued

postgraduate study from 2002 to 2004. Lisovskaya-Sayevich also studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University.

In 1996, Lisovskaya-Sayevich received the first prize from the

Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition, and in 2007 the first prize at the Iowa International Piano Competition. She was awarded scholarships from the Rostropovich Foundation, the Spivakov Foundation and the Nikolai Petrov Foundation.

She has also earned the laureate designation from the

international program “New Names,” and the festival “Virtuoso 2000” in St. Petersburg, Russia. Lisovskaya-Sayevich has

recorded at the Hessen Radio Station in Frankfurt, Germany, and at Orfei Radio in Moscow.

Lisovskaya-Sayevich has presented numerous solo recitals and

has played as a soloist with orchestras in Austria, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Russia. She has participated

in many music festivals, including the Bashmet Festival in Tours, France, “Wave 2000” in Japan, International Musical Arts

Institute in Maine (USA), Killington Music Festival in Vermont

(USA), “Ars Longa” and “Primavera Classica” in Moscow. She collaborated with such renowned musicians as Daniel

Muller-Shott, Shmuel Ashkenazy, members of the Boston

Symphony Orchestra and many others. She now performs extensively in chamber music ensembles.

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A major, Op. 12, No. 2 Antonio Salieri’s reputation will probably never recover from the theatrical conceit of the 20th-century play Amadeus, or the peerlessly silly film adaptation, both of which pit Mozart’s genius against his Italian-born contemporary’s “mediocrity.”

Anyone who has actually listened to Salieri’s music knows that much of it is quite lovely. But in case you don’t have time to explore his music right now, why not trust the judgment of Beethoven, who during his early years in Vienna eagerly studied composition with Salieri and evidently held him in high esteem throughout his life?

In 1797 and 1798 Beethoven paid tribute to his teacher with two works: The Variations on “La stessa, la stessissima” for piano, which used an aria from Salieri’s opera Falstaff, and the three Sonatas for Piano and Violin (as Beethoven called them), Op. 12, which he dedicated to Salieri. To be sure, pupil and teacher seemed to have had a turbulent relationship over the years, but records indicate that Beethoven was still on friendly terms with the beloved Kapellmeister until well into the 19th century.

Beethoven himself was not yet ready to compose an opera (Salieri’s reaction to the younger composer’s opera a few years later would cause a rift), or even a symphony for that matter. In fact, all but two of his first 20 published works are piano sonatas or chamber works. Before introducing his Symphony No. 1

(Op. 21) in 1799, Beethoven used smaller-scale genres to gain an uncanny formal and technical sophistication: the Piano Trios of Opp. 1 and 11; the Cello Sonatas, Op. 5; the String Trios, Opp. 3, 8 and 9; and the six String Quartets, Op. 18.

Each of the three sonatas of Op. 12 possesses its own special character. The first is a resolute and confident statement on the validity of traditional forms (especially sonata-allegro form), while the third takes on an epic, even dramatic quality that looks forward to the Op. 31 piano sonatas.

The A-major Sonata bears some traits of the opera buffa style of which Salieri was a master. This is not to say that Beethoven was thinking specifically of the Italian master, but one is cognizant here of the wit and spirit of Italian comic opera. The mirthful opening movement (Allegro vivace) lends a rare glimpse of a fun-loving young Beethoven: a vibrant 28-year-old whose brow had barely begun to furrow.

The Andante, più tosto Allegretto opens with a plangent, deftly contoured melody that could almost be an opera seria aria, though the major-mode central section unfussily reminds us that this is not to be taken too seriously.

The finale (Allegro piacevole) contains something of the spirit of Haydn (with whom Beethoven had also studied, in 1792) — in particular, the impetuous excursions into minor, which add emotional complexity to its rondo structure.

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Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, L 148 Great composers tend to respond in one of two ways when learning of their own impending death. Some continue blithely as if nothing has changed, writing music that seems cut from the same cloth as anything else they have written.

Others confront the prospect directly, with music of either tragic finality or of spiritual resignation.

And many do, in fact, produce music that is as remarkable as anything they have ever composed. Bach set about preparing a sort of lifelong compendium of his contrapuntal skills in the magnificent The Art of Fugue. Schubert spent his last year — a time of terrible physical suffering — spinning out some of the sunniest, most profoundly sublime music of all time. And quite a lot of it!

Mozart, in contrast, composed a Requiem of terrifying finality: Its first movement has been characterized (by Jan Swafford) as “music from a man staring into his own grave.” Tchaikovsky poured all of his wanton hysteria into the “Pathétique” Symphony, while Schoenberg railed against fate with the String Trio, one of the brainiest, most fiercely expressive chamber works ever penned.

At the peak of his career, in the wake of masterworks such as Prélude à l’aprèsmidi d’un faune, Pelléas et Mélisande, and La Mer, in 1909 Debussy was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. This began a period of increasingly severe symptoms for the composer, culminating in a colostomy in 1915. From that point until his death in March 1918 at the age of 55, the composer experienced almost unremitting pain, exacerbated by the upheavals of the final months of World War I (including German bombardment of the city) and the war’s grisly aftermath.

In his last three years Debussy took up chamber music again, a genre he had largely neglected since his String Quartet of 1893. He proposed to his publisher, Jacques Durand, that he create a set of Six Sonatas for Various Instruments that would summarize the variety of coloristic combinations available in the chamber-music realm. He was able to complete only the first three (for cello and piano; harp or piano, viola, and flute; and violin and piano) and they are among the finest chamber works of the period. (The fourth and fifth sonatas were to include more winds and brass, culminating in a sixth sonata for all 13 instruments.)

The first of these, the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915) has become a stand-out in the repertoire, as has the Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp completed in late 1915. By 1917 the composer had grown so ill that he very nearly didn’t complete the Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano. “I only wrote this sonata to be rid of the thing,” he wrote to a friend that summer, “spurred on by my dear publisher.”

Durand was not just a publisher but also a fellow composer and a lifelong friend of Debussy and other French musicians: and a powerful champion for French

music in the first quarter of the 20th century. “This sonata will be interesting from a documentary point of view,” Debussy continued, “as an example of what may be produced by a sick man in time of war.”

He not only completed the sonata, he also joined violinist Gaston Poulet in the work’s premiere in May 1917, at a benefit concert for French soldiers — Debussy’s last public performance. Far from betraying any pain that he might have been suffering, the sonata harkens back to the composer’s own comment in 1904 that “the primary aim of French music should be to bring pleasure.” It is a work of dazzling beauty. The opening Allegro vivo, a sort of loose-limbed sonata form, presents a world of subtly expressive hues and dreamy nostalgia.

The Intermède: Fantastique et léger is a romp of will-o’-the-wisp playfulness, a testament to Debussy’s ability to bring deep joy even to the most feather-light of textures. The upbeat mood continues into the Finale: Très animé, with a light-andshadow energy that alternates between finality and an optimistic shift into major mode.

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César Franck (1822-1890): Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major Franck was known through much of his life chiefly as a church organist, a touring virtuoso pianist, and (eventually) as a professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory.

He had begun as a bit of an outsider, a highly gifted musician of Belgian and German heritage who was initially refused entry into the Paris Conservatory because he was not “French enough.” Yet throughout his life he produced a steady stream of strong compositions, culminating in a blaze of masterworks written late in life: the Piano Quintet, the D-minor Symphony, and symphonic poems such as Psyché. By the end of his life, moreover, he could count among his protégées Ernest Chausson, Vincent d’Indy and Henri Duparc.

One of Franck’s strongest supporters was the violin wizard Eugène Ysaÿe, whose own works for violin would become standard repertoire and whose advocacy for new French music helped spur the careers of Franck, Debussy, and Chausson.

Franck had admired Ysaÿe for many years, and upon the occasion of the violinist’s wedding to Louise Bourdeau in 1886, the composer presented him with the most extraordinary of wedding gifts: a new violin sonata.

Ysaÿe was so moved by the gesture that he reportedly gave an impromptu performance of the sonata for his wedding guests, joined by the pianist Léontine Bordes-Pène. He continued to champion the piece, which he greatly admired, on his international tours.

“Nothing in the world could have done me greater honor or given me more pleasure than this gift,” Ysaÿe said of the sonata. “But it is not for me alone, it is for the whole world. … In interpreting it, I shall do my very best as an artist and admirer of César Franck, whose genius has not been adequately recognized up to now.”

The perfumed opening movement (Allegretto ben moderato) is a miracle of poise and calm that harkens, perhaps, to the restless modulatory style of Wagner. This opening also establishes the primary thematic material used throughout the sonata, in a cyclical manner that looks to Berlioz and Liszt. The second movement (Allegro) is a stormy, Schumannesque toccata, which is mitigated with moments of tender respite.

Some have likened the opening of the third movement (Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia) to the opening of Tristan und Isolde, though it quickly gives way to an impassioned vocalise in the violin and an unfolding of lyricism leading back to the first movement’s principal material. The ingenuous innocence of the finale (Allegretto poco mosso) belies a serious-minded purpose explored in the development section. A satisfying coda exudes the joy and optimism of the event that the sonata was written to celebrate.

Later in 1886 at the Museum of Modern Art in Brussels Ysaÿe presented the sonatas first public performance. The composer Vincent d’Indy, who was present for the event, described it with no little humor in his tone: “It was already growing dark as the sonata began. After the first Allegretto, the players could hardly read their music. Unfortunately, museum regulations forbade any artificial light whatever in rooms containing paintings; the mere striking of a match would have been an offense. The audience was about to be asked to

leave, but, brimful with enthusiasm, they refused to budge. At this point, Ysaÿe struck his music stand with his bow, demanding, ‘Let’s go on!’

“Then, wonder of wonders, amid darkness that now rendered them virtually invisible, the two artists played the last three movements from memory with a fire and passion the more astonishing in that there was a total lack of the usual visible externals that enhance a concert performance. Music, wondrous and alone, held sovereign sway in the blackness of night. The miracle will never be forgotten by those present.”

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