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The Eisenstadt Trio (Vienna) with Jamie MacDougall (Tenor) and Lorna Anderson (Soprano)Saturday 17 January 2009
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Joseph Haydn: Trio C Major Hob.XV/27
INTERVAL
In the 18th and early 19th centuries there was a huge boom in the popularity of Scottish folksongs, not only in Scotland but also in England. The old melodies and texts started to be collected as early as 1700, and were published in numerous “Collections” and “Selections”. The “songs” were both the traditional poems and well-known “airs”, i.e. melodies, and new texts and even new compositions.The song collections of the time often contained both old and new songs, or a new text was written for an old, well-loved melody. This was understood to be quite aacceptable, as text and melody were not considered to be an inseparable unit. Some editors and publishers found prominent European composers as arrangers for their collections, and the fact that composers such as Haydn, Beethoven and Weber were happy to arrange Scottish songs shows that this work carried with it both prestige and a good fee.
The Haydn Trio
Eisenstadt was founded in 1992.
Instruction in the chamber music class of the Vienna Academy of Music under
Georg Ebert was followed by participation in master classes given by the Trio di
Trieste. In 1994, the renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena bestowed on
the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt the honorary diploma for the "best piano
trio“ and an award for "the best foreign contribution" of the entire festival.
This distinction led to their being admitted to the Scuola Internazionale di
Musica da Camera del Trio di Trieste, which the ensemble attended for two
years.
In addition to regular concerts in Austria, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
has been on tour to Germany, Italy, France, England, Ireland, Hungary, Israel,
Turkey and Switzerland. The ensemble has performed at music festivals worldwide
such as the Klangbogen - Festival in Vienna, the Haydn Biennale
Vlaanderen in Belgium, the VenysselFestival
in Denmark, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Haydn Festival in Japan.
Since 2002 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has worked together with the
well-known and much loved Scottish singers Lorna Anderson (soprano) and Jamie
MacDougall (tenor) on presenting all 429
Folksong Arrangements composed by Haydn both in the concert hall and on CD.
This project, which is supported by a large number of sponsors, is supervised by
the Scottish musicologist Professor Marjorie Rycroft from the University of
Glasgow. This first ever complete CD edition of Haydn's Folksong Arrangements
will comprise a total of 17 CDs. The first CD of the edition was released in May
2004.
In the same year the trio initiated a new concert series entitled
ton.art.project which aims to be a platform for contemporary music within
the context of other art forms.
Since 1995 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has presented the exclusive
concert cycle “The Piano Trio” at the Haydn Festival
Eisenstadt, held at the Haydn Hall of Esterházy
Castle. The cycle
features all 39 piano trios by Joseph Haydn as well as the principal works of
piano trio literature.
Apart from the trio’s annual concert series at the Haydn Festival in Burgenland
the year 2006 was filled with a rich and varied programme.
2006 Austria celebrated both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Austrian writer
Ingeborg Bachmann. As part of the ensemble’s “Bachmann to Music” project the
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt performed over 20 concerts in New York, Washington,
Beograd, Dublin, Klagenfurt and Vienna.
Tours took the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt to the USA, Cyprus, Germany and
Belgium.
Numerous CDs were recorded 2006: Schubert’s complete piano trios on 2 CDs,
volume 8 of Haydn’s piano trios, 65 Scottish songs by Joseph Haydn together with
Scottish singers Lorna Anderson and Jamie MacDougall on 3 CDs and a CD of the
“Bachmann to Music” project.
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