Brahms / Joachim: Hungarian Dances

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Cat No: 8553026

Release Date: 01 January 2000

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 730099402620

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BRAHMS / JOACHIM

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Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)Hungarian Dances for Violin and Piano (arr. Joachim) Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) Andantino in A minorRomance in B flat majorThe violinist Joseph Joachim first met Brahms in 1853, when thelatter embarked on a concert tour with the Hungarian violinist Edo Remenyi. Joachimhimself was born at Kitsee near Pressburg, the modern Bratislava, in 1831 and moved withhis family to Pest in 1833. There he was able as a child to develop his remarkable giftsas a violinist under the tutelage of the Polish virtuoso Stanislaw Serwaczynski, who latertaught Henryk Wieniawski. He gave his first public recital in Pest at the age of seven andwas sent in the same year to Vienna, where he studied first with Hauser, then with GeorgHellmesberger, Hauser's teacher, and finally with Joseph Bohm, Hellmesberger's ownteacher. In 1843 he began an association in Leipzig with Mendelssohn, from whom he learneda great deal. Here he was able to further his wider education, notably in compositionlessons with Moritz Hauptmann, who occupied the position once held by Bach as cantor atthe Thomasschule, and with Hauptmann's former pupil, the violinist Ferdinand David.Joachim appeared as a soloist in a Leipzig Gewandhaus concert in 1843, playing an Adagio and Rondo by Beriot, and later in the same year heplayed Ernst's Othello-Phantasiewith the Gewandhaus Orchestra, directed by Mendelssohn. He now embarked on an international career as a soloist. In1850 Joachim briefly served as orchestral leader in Weimar under Liszt, now establishedthere as Director of Music Extraordinary. Here he was able to arrange evening chambermusic recitals, but found himself gradually in artistic disagreement with Liszt, who wasnow embarking on his series of symphonic poems, seeing the future of music in terms thatwere alien to Joachim and, subsequently, to Brahms. Joachim moved now to Hanover asviolinist to the King and developed friendship with the Schurnanns, a relationship thatwas a natural extension of his earlier relationship with Mendelssohn, who had died in1847. The meeting with Brahms led to a visit by the latter to Weimar, where Brahms'scompanion, the emigre violinist Remenyi, expected encouragement from afellow-countryman. Here, however, Brahms' partnership with Remenyi foundered, and ratherthan return to Hamburg empty-handed, he now continued his friendship with Joachim andthrough him met the Schumanns in D??sseldorf.Joachim's relationship with Brahms was important. The latterwas able to call on Joachim for advice in orchestration and in writing for strings, andwas undoubtedly influenced by the quartet that Joachim established in Hanover and by thevery distinguished Joachim Quartet, established first in 1869. Brahms and Joachim wereunited in their opposition to the Neo-German school of Liszt and Wagner and theirfriendship was only broken when Brahms, with habitual indiscretion, wrote a letter ofsupport to Joachim's wife, the singer Amalie Weiss, when divorce was threatened. Th
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