BBT Christian Tetzlaff Tour 2006
BBT Christian Tetzlaff Tour 2006
Violinist and BBT Honorary Committee member Christian Tetzlaff led a high-profile European tour with five Borletti-Buitoni Trust award winners from 2004 and 2005: Colin Currie percussion, Soovin Kim violin, Christian Poltéra cello, Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano and Shai Wosner piano.
Such a diverse ensemble resulted in an eclectic programme, ranging from Mahler, Dvořák and Honegger to Bartók, Dave Maric and Richard Baker, the latter commissioned by BBT to compose a new work to include all the players, entitled Written on a Train.
Prior to the tour, the group worked together in the inspirational setting of Aldeburgh for three days of collaboration, developing partnerships and friendships, which was an important fulfilment of the Trust’s aims.
Time on tour with Tetzlaff
Programme
Bartók Duos for violin
Honegger Sonatine for violin and cello
Mahler songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Dave Maric Trilogy
Dvořák Piano Quartet in E flat Op 87
Richard Baker/Lavinia Greenlaw Written on a Train
Tour dates
30 September
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh
1 October
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
2 October
Conservatoire Royal de Musique/Koninklikj Conservatorium, Brussels
3 October
Kleine Zaal at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
4 October
Laeiszhalle – Musikhalle Hamburg
5 October
Mozart-Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna
Photographs by John Ferro Sims
Reviews
Six young musicians pool together their spectacular talents
…what a unique event Tuesday evening’s concert was. Under the banner ‘Strings with Variations’ the audience of the Concertgebouw’s Kleine Saal was treated to an entire chamber-music festival condensed into two marvellous hours.
Peter van der Lint, Trouw, 5 October 2006
Chamber Music of the finest
The presentation of this concert in the small hall was quite unpretentious, but the quality and sound of what was on offer was quite spectacular… These fabulous six musicians …presented on Wednesday chamber music of the finest played in brilliantly varied formations.
Die Welt, 6 October 2006
Masterful and spellbinding
Right at the beginning he [Tetzlaff] presented Honegger’s Sonatine as an exciting dialogue with the cellist Christian Poltéra. Christianne Stotijn’s interpretation of songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn got right under the skin; percussionist Colin Currie showed virtuosity and wit with Trilogy by Dave Maric. Pure love of music and joy of collaboration were played out in perfect harmony by Tetzlaff, Poltéra, violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Shai Wosner in Dvorak’s piano quartet…
Hamburger Abendblat, 6 October 2006
Young, grand and uncomplicated
Might and money are still always concentrated but no longer require education. The finer forms of patronage are, therefore, all the more heart warming. And the Borletti-Buitoni Trust is a good example…Headed by violinist Tetzlaff, the 2005 winners are currently on tour and appeared at the Brussels Conservatory on Monday evening. Firstly it was a great pleasure to see Shai Wosner again,… Without a single virtuoso trick, his accompaniment of several songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn showed that he is cut from a rare cloth. And the same holds true of Christianne Stotijn who, together with Wosner, achieved complete psychological equilibrium in Das irdische Leben and Urlicht.
The programme also included two Belgian premieres: Trilogy for live percussion and CD by Dave Maric, and Written on a Train by Richard Baker. The former was performed with striking precision by Colin Currie, even though the work could just as well have been done entirely on CD. But then just looking at and listening to a loudspeaker would have been rather boring! Richard Baker’s piece vied with Trilogy in its lack of motivation and rhetorical cogency, but worked well nonetheless: as a totally innocent and innocuous piece d’occasion, specially written for this unusual combination of forces.
Dvorák’s piano quartet, with Tetzlaff playing viola and Soovin Kim the violin, was also a coming-together at once grand and unassuming. These young musicians are already at the top of their profession and it is wonderful that they are still prepared to take part in an uncomplicated party of this nature.
De Morgen, 10 October 2006
BBT Christian Tetzlaff Tour 2006
