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LISA BATIASHVILI PLAYS SIBELIUS' VIOLIN CONCERTO ①
- SCHEDULE
- Fri. 24 March 2023, 20:00
- PLACE
- LOTTE Concert Hall
- CONDUCTOR
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Osmo Vänskä
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SOLOIST
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Lisa Batiashvili, Violin
- PROGRAM
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Sibelius, Karelia Suite, Op. 11
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Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
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- R 120,000 S 90,000 A 60,000 B 30,000 C 10,000
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※ Please make sure that your mobile phone is switched off.
※ Please do not applaud between the movements.
Total duration approximately 90mins(incl. intermission)
※ Please do not applaud between the movements.
LISA BATIASHVILI PLAYS SIBELIUS' VIOLIN CONCERTO ①
Friday 24th March, 2023 8PM LOTTE Concert Hall
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
PROGRAM
Sibelius, Karelia Suite, Op. 11
Intermezzo. Moderato - Più moderato
Ballade. Tempo di menuetto - Un poco più lento
Alla marcia. Moderato - Poco largamente
Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 *1905 version
Allegro moderato
Adagio di molto
Allegro, ma non tanto
--------------- Intermission 15 mins ---------------
Sibelius, Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104
Allegro molto moderato - Poco tranquillo
Allegretto moderato - Poco con moto - Poco a poco meno piano - Tempo I
Poco vivace
Allegro molto - Allegro assai - Doppio più lento
Total duration approximately 90mins(incl. intermission)
Jean Sibelius(1865-1957), Karelia Suite, Op. 11(1893)
In 1892 Jean Sibelius got married to Aino Järnefelt, from a distinguished family, and they went to the region of Karelia for their honeymoon. Karelia, a province ranging over the present-day northwestern Russia and the southeastern Finland, is a historically important sacred place and a cradle for Finnish national culture where the Finnish ancestors originally settled. Based in Karelia, they cultivated their indigenous lifestyle and culture. Karelia is also a birthplace for Kalevala, the national and heroic epic of Finland.
Sibelius, travelling through Karelia, learned about its cultural legacy and arts, thereby grasping a chance to reinforce his own national awareness. Coincidentally, the following year, an association of students from Viipuri, a central region of Karelia, commissioned him a new work. The association was planning a play about the history of Karelia against the Russian Pan-Slavism policy that intended to obliterate Karelia’s own identity, and the commission was to write a piece of incidental music for the play.
Sibelius gladly welcomed the commission, and wrote an overture and a series of inserted music. The premiere on 13 November 1893 at the University of Helsinki was conducted by the composer himself.
And ten days later, he presented a three-movement-suite made by editing the inserted music along with the overture at a public concert, and the pieces performed then were published side by side as “Overture, Op. 10” and “Suite, Op. 11”.
In his Karelia Suite, Sibelius sought simple and pure folksy colors, sincerity, and elevation of nationalistic emotions rather than technical dexterity or sophistication. The Suite starts with a “Intermezzo”
movement that is like a cheerful march, continues with a “Ballade” movement derived from a scene in which a Medieval bard sings, and ends with a vivid and thrilling “Alla Marcia” (like a march) movement.
Instrumentation
3[1.2.pic] 3[1.2.opt Eh] 2 2 — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+3 — str
perc: tambn, bd, cym, tri
Jean Sibelius(1865-1957), Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47(composed in 1903~04, revised in 1905) *1905 version
Jean Sibelius began learning the violin earnestly at the age of fifteen, and aimed to become a professional violinist at one time. Thus, violin remained one of the most familiar instruments for him.
Particularly noteworthy in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor is the exquisite acoustics from the efficient use of a mute and harmonics in the two enclosing movements and the persistent emotion
in the middle movement that is brought into relief by the violin’s melodic line. Also characteristic is a symphonic scale and structure, and the first movement is especially worthy of close attention: the whole movement stands on the basis of sonata form but at the same time the development section is almost entirely comprised of the cadenza by solo violin. It is also noteworthy that one can sense the Nordic color in the whole atmosphere of the concerto and in its characteristic melody and rhythm.
The concerto was finished in the autumn of 1903, but the premiere was a fiasco. Sibelius drastically mended the score in the summer of 1905, and the revised score with much tidier construction and
fortified symphonic color was first performed in Berlin in October 1905 with a tremendous success.
Instrumentation
violin solo
2 2 2 2 — 4 2 3 0 — tmp — str
Jean Sibelius(1865-1957), Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104(1923)
Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony took concrete shape in 1918 when his homeland, Finland, was finally freed from Russian oppression and founded as an independent republic. This symphony became the most delicate, gentle, and intimate of his seven symphonies. By and large, string-oriented transparent chamber-music-like texture stands out, and while Sibelius’s unique “motif writing” predominates, the melodic beauty as if singing a simple song is richly felt. In terms of musical scale, “church mode” (Dorian mode) is used to evoke a religious color and meditative atmosphere. However, in the latter movements, a dynamic and militant atmosphere also appears, which culminates in the middle of the last movement, at the part of the stormy “struggle between the spirit of the pine tree and the wind.”
Instrumentation
2 2 3[1.2.bcl] 2 — 4 3 3 0 — tmp — hp — str
Text by Bryan Hwang / Translation SukHo Lee