JOHANN VON HERBECK - nca - new classical adventure

IRE´NE´E PEYROT, organ
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Irénée November Peyrot 1877 was conducted born in 1972 by Hans in Lyon Richter and began – a few a weeks double after course Herbeck’s of studies death. in
the main subjects of organ and viola at the State conservatories of Lyon and St-
Etienne; Due to external both courses circumstances, were completed the sombre, with a earnest Premier work Prix. was He also not a completed success with his
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the Viennese audience and soon faded into obscurity – the symphony’s unusual
26 organ training at the conservatory in Lübeck with distinction (Prof. Martin
Haselböck). structure was Parallel certainly to his partly church responsible music studies for the (A-Kirchenmusikstudium) work’s fate. The formal structure he
was is classicistic organist at in its the four-movement St. James’ Church design in Lübeck and the and specification his busy concert of keys schedule – outer
took movements him to most in the of principal the European key of countries D minor, the and andante overseas. in the mild relative key of
F major, the scherzo in the dominant key of A major – are most traditional.
For However, several only years the Irénée second Peyrot to fourth has movements been setting correspond a special interpretational to classic proportions accent
in the terms field of of tempo: Max Reger’s the first organ movement works, is especially not one of regarding the fast large-scale Reger’s transcriptions opening
of movements Bach’s piano to be works expected for organ. of a symphony Diverse CD written and radio in 1877 recordings but over – large including sections,
recordings a canonically of works treated by prelude Max Reger, whose transcriptions, austere harmony also and with calm orchestras choral-like and
instrumental progress leaves duo behind partners a severe, – bear archaic witness impression. to the young The musician’s movement universal is almost like
musical the orchestration talent. Irénée of one Peyrot of Bach’s was organist chorale and arrangements. Kantor at St. Although John’s Church andante inand
Ahrensburg scherzo are between in a three-part 2002 ternary and the form end (A-B-A) of 2004 the and scherzo accepted makes the appointment do without a
to trio become in the traditional Kantor and sense. organist of the Marktkirche in Halle (Saale) in 2005.
The finale eventually begins with an eight-bar fortissimo theme from the organ
and wind instruments, which the strings oppose with an energetic counterpoint in
unisono. A large, resolutely worked-through fugue develops, interrupted three
times by short chordal intermezzos in which the strings and wind instruments,
HAMBURGER SYMPHONIKER
supported by the organ, are compared in a dialogue. The entire symphony makes
(HAMBURG do without the SYMPHONY sonata form ORCHESTRA) – the form which, with its contrasting themes and
The processing Hamburger development, Symphoniker had (Hamburg made the triumphant Symphony advance Orchestra) of was the symphony formed in
1957. from the The middle first principal of the eighteenth conductor century was Robert well into Heger; the Andrey twentieth Boreyko century has possible been
the in the orchestra’s first place! new Instead, principal with conductor his choice since of prelude 2004. and The fugue orchestra for the is based outer in the
Musikhalle movements in of Hamburg. his organ Since symphony, its formation the Bach the admirer orchestra Herbeck has worked falls back with on many
famous forms which conductors practically - including belonged Charles to the Mackerras, archetypes Leif of the Segerstam, world of Baroque Horst Stein, forms
Ralf – and Weikert which and were Placido used first Domingo and foremost – and has in Johann performed Sebastian with many Bach’s international major
soloists, organ works. such as Maurice André, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Christoph
Eschenbach, David Geringas, Christian Tetzlaff and Frank-Peter Zimmermann.
These are faced time and again with passages reminiscent of the work of the late
The romanticist orchestra’s so encouraged sphere of activity by Herbeck not only – Anton covers Bruckner symphony – especially and chamber of his music early
concerts symphonies. but also Such opera passages galas, are operas the bulky, at the final Staatsoper intensification Hamburg of the prelude, and ballet with
performances the kettledrum given elaborating by John on Neumeier’s the rhythmic company accents – in the a martial open-air manner city hall – or the
concerts gradations are running also extremely in wavelike popular. movements Tours have and the taken structured the orchestra expanses to Italy, of sound
Spain, created Denmark, by the accompanying Turkey and other figures European of the violins countries in the and andante’s the Hamburger middle
Symphoniker section. The instrumentation have recorded highly-acclaimed however is often reminiscent CDs featuring of works the arch-romanticists
by Rosetti,
Woyrsch, Schumann Turina, and Mendelssohn Franz Schmidt, and Beethoven especially and the A. extensive Schnittke. scherzo sets
Mendelssohn-like sounds – it presents its lively, rhythmic lightly-instrumented
themes in a bright A major.
The movement first works itself up to an energetic fortissimo in the coda but then
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