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Each player in the RSNO is a star in their own right – and when you get them on their own, they’ve got some great stories to tell! For Principal Cello Aleksei Kiseliov, that means teaming up with acclaimed Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson in the ebullient Cello Sonata by the youthful Richard Strauss, plus Beethoven at his most exuberant and some sheer magic from the Czech forests – a concert that’s small in scale but huge in personality.
BEETHOVEN Variations in F Major on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ for Cello and Piano Op66 [10’] BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No5 in D Major Op102 No2 [19’] R STRAUSS Cello Sonata in F Major Op6 [25’] DVOŘÁK Silent Woods for Cello and Piano Op68 No5 [5’] Aleksei Kiseliov Cello Alasdair Beatson Piano RECORDED AT THE RSNO CENTRE, GLASGOW Broadcast Fri 7 May 2021, 7.30pm This performance has been recorded for the RSNO Archive. Supported by the Iain and Pamela Sinclair Legacy.
Jack Hunter Director Diego Almazán Camera Supervisor Nelisa Alcalde Camera Operator Wilfred Magnussen Video Editor Audio feed courtesy of BBC Radio 3 Hedd Morfett-Jones Post-production Sound Supervisor
This performance was recorded by BBC Radio 3
Next Digital Season Concert
DVOŘÁK SYMPHONY No7 Recorded at the RSNO Centre, Glasgow Broadcast date: Fri 14 May 2021, 7.30pm
Lutosławski Mala suita Dvořák Symphony No7 Marta Gardolińska Conductor
POLSKA SCOTLAND Financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport of the Republic of Poland as part of the Multi-annual Programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022
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Welcome Dear friends Welcome to the RSNO’s fourth concert in this Spring/Summer Digital Season. The concert features the RSNO’s fabulous Principal Cello Aleksei Kiseliov with acclaimed Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson. It is often said that great orchestral playing requires a chamber music mindset, with a musician’s ears and eyes alert to every nuance and the conductor only required to guide the musical shapes. I think the converse is also true. Great chamber music playing requires a grasp of symphonic scale and drama that must transcend the small number of musicians required. This concert is certainly symphonic in scale! With music by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Dvořák, and performances full of energy and drive from Aleksei and Alasdair, the only thing small scale is the number of musicians on stage. The concert includes some of the most joyous music imaginable, and throughout the performances the sheer pleasure of musicmaking is clearly written on the faces of the performers. We all miss live music, but the cameras do give us a chance to focus in on the players and see close-ups of some of the interactions that are so fundamental to great chamber music playing. As we edge ever closer to the return of audiences, I’d like to thank you again for your support of the RSNO throughout this Digital Season.
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Variations in F Major on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ for Cello and Piano Op66 When the 21-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven travelled to Vienna in 1792, his patron, Count Waldstein, expressed the hope that he would ‘receive the spirit of Mozart from the hands of Haydn’. High hopes existed that the young lion from Bonn might become Mozart’s successor. Five years earlier, still a teenager, Beethoven had auditioned for Mozart and was apparently accepted. Fate intervened. Beethoven was obliged to go straight home upon receiving news that his mother was on her deathbed. By the time he was able to return to Vienna, Mozart too had died.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
FIRST PERFORMED Vienna, 1798 DURATION 10 minutes
Beethoven composed several sets of variations on operatic arias by Mozart, including two from The Magic Flute for cello and piano: first ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ (probably 1798), and later ‘Bei Männern’ (1801). In ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’, Papageno, feathery sidekick to the opera’s loftier hero Tamino, is daydreaming about his ideal girlfriend. A lively, hummable song with simple harmonies, it lends itself ideally to Beethoven’s bent for transformative variations, a form the composer espoused in myriad guises throughout his career. Each of the 12 variations casts new light on the original, punctuated by startling modulations and including two minor-key numbers that darken the tone considerably on the way to the joyous finale. © Jessica Duchen
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Cello Sonata No5 in D Major Op102 No2 In 1815 Beethoven was suffering physically, mentally and materially. Worsening deafness was only the beginning. Some of his patrons, ruined by the Napoleonic wars and runaway inflation, had reneged on providing his annual stipend; he therefore had to resort largely to composing commercial dross to order. The Cello Sonatas Op102 – the last of his five works in this genre – provided a welcome alternative.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
FIRST PERFORMED Jedlersee, Vienna, 1815 DURATION 19 minutes Allegro con brio Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto–Attacca Allegro–Allegro fugato
The Sonatas’ dedicatee was Countess Anna Maria von Erdödy, periodically a close friend of Beethoven’s. He had lodged briefly in her house in 1808-9, an episode which ended with a fallout; their friendship was re-established early in 1815. It was at her country estate at Jedlersee that Joseph Linke, cellist of the Schuppanzigh Quartet, premiered the D Major Sonata, the countess herself playing the piano. The opening movement’s terse, energetic theme is punctuated with declamatory cello statements; a more introspective second subject follows. The concentration of Beethoven’s writing, the development’s startling twists and turns, all point towards his late style of the 1820s. The Adagio carries the most emotional weight, exploiting the cello’s depth, breadth and dark eloquence. Finally, after a mysterious transition, Beethoven unleashes a full-blown fugue, prefiguring his mighty contrapuntal creations in the later Hammerklavier Piano Sonata Op106 and the Grosse Fuge for string quartet Op133. © Jessica Duchen
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Cello Sonata in F Major Op6 Richard Strauss is more known for orchestral tone poems and operas than for chamber music; and when it comes to soloists rising out of his sumptuous orchestral textures, it’s his own instrument, the violin, that you’ll hear most often. However, one of his first musical successes, in 1883 aged 19, was his Cello Sonata, composed for his friend Hanuš Wihan, the Czech cellist of the Munich Court Orchestra who 12 years later would also become the dedicatee of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
FIRST PERFORMED Nuremberg, 6 December 1883 DURATION 25 minutes Allegro con brio Andante ma non troppo Finale: Allegro vivo
Inevitably for a teenage work, this isn’t quite the Strauss of those aforementioned mature works with their rich textures and advanced harmonic language. Instead, it feels more linked to the composers he would have recently studied, such as Beethoven and Schumann, albeit already with his own brand of drama and passion. Take the opening Allegro con brio, featuring both big-boned heroism and romance, and a crisply rendered central fugue. The central slow movement is more introspective, flitting between wistful brooding with occasional shades of funeral march, and more ardent, long-lined lyricism. The Allegro vivo finale opens feather-light, with puckish flutterings containing a distinct whisper of Mendelssohn. Then, as with the previous two movements, it progresses through a succession of moods and styles before, after dropping down to pianissimo, it concludes with a fortissimo flourish. © Charlotte Gardner
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Silent Woods for Cello and Piano Op68 No5 It’s a strange thing that while Dvořák’s Cello Concerto of 1894 is one of the greatest cello concertos in the repertoire, Dvořák’s own relationship with the instrument was a real slow-burn affair. In fact, his initial view of the instrument was that ‘high up it sounds nasal, and low down it growls’. So while the direct impetus for composing his eventual masterpiece was a Brooklyn concert where he heard Victor Herbert’s own newly penned Cello Concerto – having arrived in the USA two years previously to take up the directorship of the new National Conservatory of Music of America – the initial seeds had in fact been sown back in his native Bohemia, thanks to his friendship with the Concerto’s eventual dedicatee, Hanuš Wihan.
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
FIRST PERFORMED Rakovnik, Bohemia, 1892 DURATION 5 minutes
Of those various seeds, Silent Woods was an especially important one. Also written for Wihan, it’s an arrangement of the fifth piece from Dvořák’s 1884 four-hand piano cycle, From the Bohemian Forest, and they premiered it together during Dvořák’s farewell tour before leaving for that aforementioned New York position. It was such an immediate hit that in 1893 Dvořák transcribed it for orchestra, bringing him one step closer to concerto territory. Just five minutes long, Silent Woods opens and closes in slow and dreamy major-tonality lyricism, the tempo increasing slightly for a contrasting minor-keyed central section. © Charlotte Gardner
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Aleksei Kiseliov CELLO France and England. His appearances at the Franco-Byelorussian Musical Spring were a huge success. In 1998 his performances in the Cortot Hall and Trianon Theatre in Paris were equally well received. In 2000 Aleksei began studying with Tilman Wick in Hanover and three years later moved to London to study with Jerome Pernoo at the Royal College of Music. From 2007 he studied with Raphael Wallfisch while pursuing the Artist Diploma course at the RCM. Later he had a year of lessons with Natalie Clein at Trinity Laban.
Aleksei has been the Principal Cello of the RSNO since 2011. Born in Belarus, he began his musical studies when he was five at the Republican Music College. He was eight when he gave his first public recital, and a year later toured to Holland as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Republican Music College. He developed his work as a soloist, performing with the State Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Belarus. It was at this time that he won the international competition Music of Hope and later in 1997, at the age of 12, he was a prizewinner at the Tchaikovsky International Youth Competition in St Petersburg. He became Belarus Pupil of the Year and a scholar of the President’s Fund of Belarus, and received a special prize from the Vladimir Spivakov Fund. Still young, Aleksei began performing as a soloist with the Belarus Philharmonic Society and the Opera and Ballet. Further engagements followed in Germany, Holland,
In 2008 and 2009 Aleksei directed his own international music festival, Melodrama, in London and Minsk. His solo and concert work has developed in Europe, the UK and USA, as well as in Belarus. He now combines his solo career with his Principal role with the RSNO, and also teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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Alasdair Beatson PIANO Two new recordings are released this spring: three Beethoven sonatas for violin and fortepiano with Viktoria Mullova on Onyx, and a solo piano recital, Aus Wien, on Pentatone. These join Alasdair’s acclaimed discography of solo and chamber recordings, on modern and period pianos, on the BIS, Claves, Champs Hill, Evil Penguin, Pentatone and SOMM labels.
Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson works prolifically as a soloist and chamber musician. Despite the shadow of Covid, he has kept busy during 2020/21, playing several times at Wigmore Hall, recording concerts for BBC Radio 3 alongside Alina Ibragimova, Aleksei Kiseliov and the Nash Ensemble, and joining Royal Northern Sinfonia as concerto soloist. Alongside a particular affinity with the classical repertoire and the music of Schumann and Fauré, Alasdair often explores the more exotic: Catoire, Pierné, Thuille; Debussy’s Jeux (in the composer’s arrangement for solo piano); Ligeti’s Horn Trio; Harrison Birtwistle’s Harrison’s Clocks; and Thomas Adès’ Piano Quintet. His concerto repertoire includes works by Hans Abrahamsen, Bach, Bartók, Sally Beamish, Fauré, Hindemith, Mozart, Stravinsky and Messiaen. In recent years he has appeared with the Britten Sinfonia, Moscow Virtuosi, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Sønderjyllands Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta and RSNO.
A regular participant at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, Alasdair took part in their tours of 2007 and 2011, and collected the 2008 RPS Award for Chamber Music on their behalf. He has worked closely with composers George Benjamin, Birtwistle, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Heinz Holliger. Future plans include the first performances of a new piano concerto written for him by Helena Winkelman. Alasdair was a student of John Blakely at the Royal College of Music, London, and Menahem Pressler at Indiana University. He teaches solo piano at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and regularly mentors for the London-based Chamber Studio. From 2012 to 2018 he was founder and artistic director of Musique à Marsac, and since 2019 is co-artistic director of the Swiss chamber music festival at Ernen.
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Supporting the RSNO I am honoured and extremely proud to be Music Director of the RSNO. It is through the continued generosity of you, our friends, donors and supporters, that we can continue to achieve and realise the most ambitious goals of the Orchestra. The absence of live performance and the separation of musicians from the stage make these difficult times for all. It has reinforced for us all how vital music is in helping us overcome hardship, fear and loneliness. The creativity and dedication shown by RSNO musicians in recent months has been incredible. This is despite the pattern of our working lives being dramatically
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RSNO Conductors’ Circle The RSNO Conductors’ Circle is an inspirational group of individual supporters at the heart of the RSNO’s Individual Giving programme. Our members’ annual philanthropic gifts enable us to realise the Orchestra’s most ambitious goals. Conductors’ Circle members support inspirational concert performances for our audiences alongside transformational education programmes in communities across Scotland, via our ground-breaking initiative Music for Life. The relationship between the RSNO and Conductors’ Circle members involves exceptional levels of access to all aspects of Orchestra life. We design bespoke private events tailored to individual interests and passions, providing insight into the artistic process and bringing our supporters further into the RSNO family. Members of the Conductors’ Circle benefit from an intimate and long-lasting connection with the RSNO Artistic Team and particularly with RSNO Music Director Thomas Søndergård, Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan and the many
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