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NO.17 __PER IL LUIGI
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Dmitry Smirnov, violin
Albrecht Selge, writer
Nikos Economopoulos, photographer
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies No.13, No.16 and No.36
Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Violin and Strings No.1 C Major "Per il Luigi"
‘Per il Luigi’, the seventeenth project of Haydn2032, is devoted to a group of early symphonies in which Joseph Haydn strove to showcase the outstanding, sometimes genuinely virtuoso skills of those musicians who were admitted to the ranks of Prince Esterházy’s court orchestra at around the same time as himself, with several of whom he cultivated a special friendly relationship. Foremost among these were the Italian violinist Luigi Tomasini, the Bavarian cellist Joseph Weigl and the flautist Franz Sigl.
The soloist in the Violin Concerto in C major, also written for Tomasini, is this year's Artiste Étoile, Dmitry Smirnov, a former member of the Basel Chamber Orchestra’s academy, who has also won prizes in numerous international competitions, including First Prize in the Oistrakh Violin Competition, Moscow, 2006; First Prize Tibor in the Varga Violin Competition, Sion, 2015; and Second Prize in the ARD Competition, Munich, 2021.
The highlight and culmination of the programme is the Symphony no.13 of 1763, which is scored for four horns and features a finale that anticipates the famous theme from the last movement of Mozart's ‘Jupiter’ Symphony by no less than twenty-five years.
Program
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony No.36 E Flat Major Hob. I:36 (1761/62)
Vivace / Adagio* / Menuet – Trio / Finale. Allegro molto
* with violin solo and violoncello solo
SYMPHONY NO.36 E FLAT MAJOR HOB. I:36 (1761/62)
Year of composition: till 1769 [1761/1762]
Vivace / Adagio* / Menuet – Trio / Finale. Allegro molto
* with violin and violoncello solo
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to the projektJoseph Haydn (1732–1809): Concerto for Violin and Strings No.1 C Major «Per il Luigi» Hob. VIIa:1 (1761–1765)
Allegro moderato / Adagio (molto) / Finale. Presto
JOSEPH HAYDN: CONCERTO VOR VIOLIN AND STRINGS NO.1 "PER IL LUIGI" HOB. VIIa (1761–1765)
Allegro moderato / Adagio (molto) / Finale. Presto
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Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony No.16 B Flat Major Hob. I:16 (1763)
Allegro / Andante* / Finale. Presto
* with violoncello solo
SYMPHONY NO.16 B FLAT MAJOR HOB. I:16 (1763)
Period of composition: till 1766 [spring 1763]
Allegro / Andante* / Finale. Presto
* with violoncello solo
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to the projektJoseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony No.13 D Major Hob. I:13 (1763)
Allegro molto / Adagio cantabile* / Menuet – Trio / Finale. Allegro molto
* with violoncello solo
SYMPHONY NO.13 D MAJOR HOB. I:13 (1763)
Period of composition: [Aug.-Dec.?] 1763
Allegro molto / Adagio cantabile* / Menuet – Trio / Finale. Allegro molto
* with violoncello solo
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to the projektLine-up
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Dimitry Smirnov, violin
- Line-up Basel Chamber Orchestra
1rst violin Baptiste Lopez, Valentina Giusti, Mirjam Steymans-Brenner, Eva Miribung
2nd violin Elisa Citterio, Anna Morozkina, Regula Keller, Tamás Vásárhelyi
Viola Katya Polin, Mariana Doughty
Violoncello Christoph Dangel, Georg Dettweiler
Double bass Stefan Preyer, Giancarlo De Frenza
Flute Marco Brolli
Oboe Thomas Meraner, Maike Buhrow
Bassoon Carles Cristobal Ferran
Horn Konstantin Timokhine, Mark Gebhart, Mats Janett, Kateryna Antoniuk
Past concerts
Vienna
Thursday, 6.10.2022, 19.30 pm
Musikverein Vienna, Brahms-Saal
Concert introduction: 18.30 pm, Steinerner Saal, Horst Haschek Auditorium
Paris
Friday, 14.10.2022, 20.00 pm
Louvre, Auditorium Michel Laclotte, Paris
Basel
Saturday, 15.10.2022, 19.30 pm
Don Bosco Basel, Paul Sacher Saal
Haydn Lounge and Reading: 18.15 pm, Lounge with Giovanni Antonini / Andrea Scartazzini (Moderation) and Reading with Albrecht Selge, doors open at 18.00 pm
Concert: 19.30 pm, doors open at 19.00 pm
Haydn soup during interval
- Livestream
The concert will be available on YouTube until 31th of october 2022.
Biographies
Orchestra
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra
The Basel Chamber Orchestra is deeply rooted in the city of Basel - with its two subscription series in the Stadtcasino Basel as well as its own rehearsal and performance venue, Don Bosco Basel. With world tours and more than 60 concerts per season, the Basel Chamber Orchestra is a popular guest at international festivals and in Europe’s most important concert halls.
As the first orchestra to be awarded the Swiss Music Prize in 2019, the Basel Chamber Orchestra stands out for its excellence and diversity as well as for its depth and consistency. Its interpretations are deeply immersed into the relevant thematic and compositional worlds: in the past with the "Basel Beethoven" or with Heinz Holliger and our "Schubert Cycle". Or as with the long-term project Haydn2032, the study and performance of all Joseph Haydn's symphonies up to the year 2032 under the direction of principal guest conductor Giovanni Antonini and together with the Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. From the current season onwards, the Basel Chamber Orchestra has decided to devote itself to all the symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn under the direction of the early music specialist Philippe Herreweghe.
The Basel Chamber Orchestra frequently collaborates with selected soloists such as Maria João Pires, Jan Lisiecki, Isabelle Faust and Christian Gerhaher. The Basel Chamber Orchestra presents its broad repertoire under the artistic direction of the first violins and the baton of selected conductors such as Heinz Holliger, René Jacobs and Pierre Bleuse.
The concert programmes are as diverse as the 47 musicians and range from early music on historical instruments to contemporary music and historically informed interpretations.
An important element of the work is the future-oriented education programs in large-scale participatory projects involving creative exchange with children and young people.
The creative work of the Basel Chamber Orchestra is documented by an extensive and award-winning discography.
The Clariant Foundation has been the presenting sponsor of the Basel Chamber Orchestra since 2019.
Conductor
Giovanni Antonini
Conductor
Born in Milan, Giovanni studied at the Civica Scuola di Musica and at the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He is a founder member of the Baroque ensemble “Il Giardino Armonico”, which he has led since 1989. With this ensemble, he has appeared as conductor and soloist on the recorder and Baroque transverse flute in Europe, United States, Canada, South America, Australia, Japan and Malaysia. He is Artistic Director of Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Poland and Principal Guest Conductor of Mozarteum Orchester and Kammerorchester Basel.
He has performed with many prestigious artists including Cecilia Bartoli, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Giuliano Carmignola, Isabelle Faust, Sol Gabetta, Sumi Jo, Viktoria Mullova, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Emmanuel Pahud and Giovanni Sollima. Renowned for his refined and innovative interpretation of the classical and baroque repertoire, Antonini is also a regular guest with Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle Orchester, Mozarteum Orchester, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
His opera productions have included Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Bellini’s Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at Salzburg Festival. In 2018 he conducted Orlando at Theater an der Wien and returned to Opernhaus Zurich for Idomeneo. In the 21/22 season he will guest conduct the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Stavanger Symphony, Anima Eterna Bruges and the Symphonieorchester de Bayerischer Rundfunks. He will also direct Cavalieri’s opera Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo for Theatre an der Wien and a ballet production of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten for Wiener Staatsballett with the Wiener Philharmoniker.
With Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni has recorded numerous CDs of instrumental works by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach (Brandenburg Concertos), Biber and Locke for Teldec. With Naïve he recorded Vivaldi’s opera Ottone in Villa, and, with Il Giardino Armonico for Decca, has recorded Alleluia with Julia Lezhneva and La morte della Ragione, collections of sixteenth and seventeenth century instrumental music. With Kammerorchester Basel he has recorded the complete Beethoven Symphonies for Sony Classical and a disc of flute concertos with Emmanuel Pahud entitled Revolution for Warner Classics. In 2013 he conducted a recording of Bellini’s Norma for Decca in collaboration with Orchestra La Scintilla.
Antonini is artistic director of the Haydn 2032 project, created to realise a vision to record and perform with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel, the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn by the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The first 12 volumes have been released on the Alpha Classics label with two further volumes planned for release every year.
Violin
Dmitry Smirnov
Violin
In recent years Dmitry Smirnov has performed solo works by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Nielsen, Bartók, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bernstein, Lloyd Webber and others with the Philharmonic State Orchestras of Moscow (Vladimir Fedoseyev) and of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg; the ‘Questa Musica’ chamber orchestra and Baroque orchestra of Moscow; the Minsk Chamber Orchestra; the Festival Strings Lucerne; and the Sinfonieorchester Basel.
He was among the ‘Jeunes Étoiles’ at the 2019 Menuhin Festival Gstaad. In 2021 he made his debuts at the Lucerne Festival and LuganoMusica. Also in 2021, his first CD, featuring works by Bach and Bartók, was released by FHR London.
Dmitry was born into a family of musicians in St Petersburg in 1994 and received his first music lessons from his parents. From 2001 onwards he studied at the special school of the St Petersburg State Conservatory, then at the conservatories of Lausanne (with Pavel Vernikov) and Basel (with Rainer Schmidt). He has taken part in masterclasses with Irvine Arditti, Vadim Gluzman and Gábor Takács-Nagy, among others.
Dmitry Smirnov has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Oistrakh Violin Competition (First Prize, Moscow 2006), Menuhin Violin Competition (Second Prize, Cardiff 2008), Tibor Varga Violin Competition (First Prize, Sion 2015), Concours International d’Interprétation Musicale (First Prize, Lausanne 2017), Rotary Excellence Prize (Lugano 2017), Concours International Long-Thibaud-Crespin (Third Prize, Critics’ Prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music, and Étienne Vatelot Prize, Paris 2018) and ARD Competition Munich 2021 (Second Prize, GEWA and GENUIN Prize).
Among the prestigious artists with whom he works are Heinz Holliger in the Swiss Chamber Concerts, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico in the Haydn2032 project, and Sol Gabetta at the SOLsberg Festival. In 2018 he founded his own ensemble, Camerata Rhein, in Basel.
He has made debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Nikkei Hall in Tokyo, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Mariinsky Concert Hall and the Shostakovich Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic.
Dmitry Smirnov plays an instrument by Philipp Bonhoeffer (2018).
© Nikos Economopoulos, Magnum Photos
Biography
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Nikos Economopoulos
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece. He studied law in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist. In 1988 he started photographing in Greece and Turkey, and eventually abandoned journalism in order to dedicate himself to photography. He joined Magnum in 1990, and his photographs started appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the same period, he started traveling and photographing extensively around the Balkans. This won the "Mother Jones Award" (San Francisco, CA) for work in progress. Upon the completion of his Balkans project in 1994, he became a full member of Magnum. His book "In The Balkans" was published in 1995 in New York (Abrams) and in Athens (Libro).
In the 1990s, he started working on borders and crossings, photographing the inhabitants of the "Green Line" in Cyprus, the irregular migrants on the Greek-Albanian borderline, and the mass migration of ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo. In the mid-1990s, he started photographing the Roma and other minorities. In 2000 he completed a book project on the Aegean islands storytellers, commissioned by the University of the Aegean. A retrospective of his work titled "Economopoulos, Photographer" was published in 2002, and later exhibited at the Benaki Museum, Athens. Subsequently, he returned to Turkey to pursue his long-term personal project on the country, where he received the Abdi Ipektsi award (2001), for peace and friendship between Greek and Turkish people.
He has recently turned to the use of color. Currently, he is spending most of his time away from Greece, traveling (mostly in S.America and Africa), teaching and photographing around the world, in the context of his long-term “On The Road” project.
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«Gute und delicate Pomeranzen!»
Ach, hielte dieser Papagey doch endlich den Schnabel! Oder gäbe anderes von sich, Bedeutenderes! Die Kaiserhymne habe er zu Haydns Lebzeiten den Gästen vorgeträllert, so wird erzählt, überhaupt sonstwas gepfiffen, das blanke Mirakel. Und nun? Dabei hatte Krylln sich so viel von dem unverhofften Besitz versprochen.
Excerpt from «Die sieben vorletzten Worte von Haydns Papagey unterm Dachstuhl»
by Albrecht Selge
The text «Die sieben vorletzten Worte von Haydns Papagey unterm Dachstuhl» (in english) by Albrecht Selge will be published at a later date within the vinyl edition vol. 17.
Biography
Writer
Albrecht Selge
Writer
Albrecht Selge, born in Heidelberg in 1975, works in Berlin as a freelance writer. In 2011 he made his literary debut with wach, which Die Zeit critic David Hugendick called one of the few really good Berlin novels. In 2016, Deutschlandfunk Kultur critic Jörg Plath said his zany experimental novel Die trunkene Fahrt was ‘the funniest book of the season’.
This was followed by Fliegen, about a woman who lives on a train, and Beethovn, which Jan Brachmann of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described as ‘one of the finest ever books about Beethoven of any kind’. His most recent book, Luyánta – Das Jahr in der Unselben Welt, published in 2022, is at once a family novel and a sprawling epic fantasy, aimed at both young and adult readers.