An English Violin Geneviève Laurenceau, David Niemann, Orchestre de Picardie & Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

• Guirne Creith (1907 - 1996): Violin Concerto in G Minor:
• 1 Creith: Violin Concerto in G Minor: I. Maestoso - quasi recitativo - Allegro non troppo - Tranquillo - Adagio 12:13
• 2 Creith: Violin Concerto in G Minor: II. Adagio con intimo sentimento 05:42
• 3 Creith: Violin Concerto in G Minor: III. Allegro vivace 08:40
• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934): Chanson de matin, Op. 15 No. 2:
• 4 Elgar: Chanson de matin, Op. 15 No. 2 03:07
• Chanson de matin, Op. 15 No. 1:
• 5 Elgar: Chanson de matin, Op. 15 No. 1 04:05
• La Capricieuse, Op. 17:
• 6 Elgar: La Capricieuse, Op. 17 04:37
• Sospiri, Op. 70:
• 7 Elgar: Sospiri, Op. 70 04:11
• Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979): Midsummer Moon:
• 8 Clarke: Midsummer Moon 05:51
• Lullaby:
• 9 Clarke: Lullaby 03:50
• Chinese Puzzle:
• 10 Clarke: Chinese Puzzle 00:58
• William Walton (1902 - 1983): Two Pieces for Violin and Piano:
• 11 Walton: Two Pieces for Violin and Piano: No. 1, Canzonetta 03:52
• 12 Walton: Two Pieces for Violin and Piano: No. 2, Scherzetto 02:18
• Total Runtime 59:24

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„An English Violin“ porträtiert das musikalische England an der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. In den Mittelpunkt stellt die Geigerin Geneviève Laurenceau das Violinkonzert der vergessenen Komponistin Guirne Creith, das hier empfindsam und leidenschaftlich wieder zum Leben erweckt wird. Daneben erklingen bewegende Stücke von Edward Elgar, Rebecca Clarke und William Walton. Neben dem Orchestre de Picardie unter der Leitung von David Niemann ist bei den kammermusikalischen Werken der Pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger an der Seite Laurenceaus zu hören.

Genevieve Laurenceau, Violine
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Klavier
Orchestre de Picardie
David Niemann, Dirigent

Geneviève Laurenceau
Born in Strasbourg, Geneviève Laurenceau began playing the violin at the age of 3. Her mentors—Wolfgang Marschner, Zakhar Bron, and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, shaped her into a multifaceted artist, at the crossroads of three major European violin schools.

After several international successes and a First Prize at the Novosibirsk International Competition, she was awarded the Grand Prize of the Maurice Ravel Academy in Saint-Jean-deLuz in 2001. The following year, she won the 5th “Le Violon de l’Adami” competition.

Since then, she has been invited to perform as a soloist with leading French and international orchestras, under the direction of conductors such as Michel Plasson, Walter Weller, Tugan Sokhiev, Thomas Søndergård, Antony Hermus, and Christian Arming, in prestigious venues such as the Théâtre du Châtelet, Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, Arsenal in Metz, Opéra-Théâtre of Avignon, Métropole in Lausanne, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Tapiola in Helsinki, Palacio de la Ópera in A Coruña, Auditorium Manuel de Falla in Granada, and the Stadttheater in Weimar.

From 2007 to 2017, she served as concertmaster of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. She is equally passionate about chamber music, and has recently performed with Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Anne Gastinel, Philippe Jaroussky, Philippe Bianconi, and Bertrand Chamayou. Passionate about sharing music, Geneviève Laurenceau thrives on collaboration: her duo with philosopher Raphaël Enthoven, physicist Étienne Klein, her work with actor Didier Sandre, and the show La Symphonie des oiseaux, created with Johnny Rasse, Jean Boucault, and pianist Lidija Bizjak, all enrich her artistic journey.

Committed to contemporary creation, she regularly works with composers such as Karol Beffa, Benjamin Attahir, Bruno Mantovani, and Philippe Hersant. She is also president and artistic director of the Obernai Chamber Music Festival, and teaches at the IESM in Aix-en-Provence and at the CRR Grand Parc de Versailles.

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
has rapidly established himself as one of the most gifted musicians of his generation. He is an admired interpreter of a broad repertoire from Bach to composers of the twenty-first century.

His career takes him to perform with the world’s most prestigious orchestras: New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Radio France Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, NHK Symphony orchestras with such conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jonathan Nott, Osmo Vanska, Ingo Metzmacher, Kazuki Yamada, and Pierre Boulez, with whom he worked closely on the composer’s Second Piano Sonata.

Recent highlights included a tour of Asia with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Jonathan Nott, performances as soloist with François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, a recital at the opening weekend of La Scala in Paris and performances at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Lucerne Festival in a programme of Rihm, Schumann and the premiere of Alavo by Vito Zuraj under the auspices of the Berlin Philharmonic Academy.

Regularly invited to as a guest artist at international festivals such as Verbier, Lucerne, Menton, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Saratoga, La Jolla Music Society, as a chamber musician, he performs with Renaud Capuçon, Bertrand Chamayou, Tatjana Vassiljeva, the Thymos, Modigliani and Ebène quartets.

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger devotes a significant part of his musical activity to contemporary music, and has played the world premiere of piano pieces written by Bruno Mantovani, Phillip Maintz, Yves Chauris and of Echo-Daimonon, the concerto for piano and electronics by Philippe Manoury.

An acclaimed composer, his works include Aube, commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi and later performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris, his Piano Concerto No. 1 which he premiered by Philharmonique de Radio France and Jonathan Stockhammer in 2018 and most recently Faits et gestes commissioned and premiered with François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln in 2019.

Jean-Frédéric extensive discography on the Mirare label reflects his eclectic and varied repertoire - Ravel, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Neuburger, Hérold, Barraqué etc - and has received great acclaim in France and from the international press. Having received an early musical education in piano, composition and organ at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger studied composition in Geneva with Michael Jarrell. He was awarded the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2010, and the Hervé Dugardin Prize of the Sacem in 2015.

David Niemann
is establishing himself as one of the most gifted conductors of his generation. Second prize winner of the 2015 Malko Conducting Competition, in February 2015 he was appointed Assistant Conductor at the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, where he worked alongside chief conductor Michael Schønwandt for the following three seasons. He is developing a broad mainstream repertoire and is equally a persuasive advocate of twentieth century and contemporary repertoire.

Recent and forthcoming highlights incldue his Berliner Philharmonie debut with Ensemble Modern, as part of the Berlin Musikfest, alongside returns to the Orchestre de Picardie and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Recent projects with the RSNO have included conducing the finals of the Scottish International Piano Competition and their New Year regional tour. Other highlights include a full staging of the Mozart Requiem at Malmö Opera, with dancers from the SkånesDansteater and choreography by Örjan Andersson, a revival of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Der herzlose Riese with Luxembourg Philharmonic, a return to the Kammerakademie Potsdam and debut with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen.

Further highlights have included successful debuts with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de Belgique and Ensemble Modern (Hamburg Elbphilharmonie); the world premiere of world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s new opera Der herzlose Riese with Luxembourg Philharmonic; a special interdisciplinary project with Junge Deutsche Philharmonie featuring new commissions with the most renowned artists of the German-speaking poetry slam scene; Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, paired with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, to open the Barcelona concert season of the Valles Symphony in the iconic Palau de la Musica. Engagements have also included a series of projects with Qatar Philharmonic, a number of visits to Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Luxembourg Philharmonic; many main season and regional concerts with the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier and concerts with Opéra National de Lorraine and Orchestre Lyrique Région Avignon Provence.

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