Andrey Gugnin, 2014 Bachauer Gold Medalist, performs Liszt's transcription of Schubert's song Erlkönig, followed by Liszt's Faribolo Pastour.
Schubert/Liszt: Erlkönig
An important part of Franz Liszt's work is his treatment of almost 100 other composers' music. 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert is a collection of 12 songs originally written by Franz Schubert and adapted for solo piano by Liszt. The collection includes Der Erlkönig which Schubert wrote using a poem by Goethe, based on a traditional Danish ballad depicting a boy being carried on horseback by his father. The boy sees and hears and is enticed out of life by an otherworldly being (the Earlking) not seen or heard by the father.
Schubert’s composition for solo voice and piano is difficult to perform as the vocal part requires the singer to sing four characters: the narrator, the father, the son, and the Earlking. The piano represents a fifth character, the horse with its relentless rapid triplet figures mimicking hoof beats along with rapidly repeated chords and octaves to create the drama and urgency in the poetry. In the Liszt version, the pianist must portray the difficult vocal parts as well as the piano part.
Franz Liszt: Faribolo Pastour
Liszt’s rarely performed Faribolo Pastour is based on a Pyrenean folk song inspired by the poem, “Franconnette” written by the French dialect poet, Jacques Jasmin in the local Languedocien d’Agen dialect. The lovely little piece was written in 1844 and dedicated to the Countess Caroline De Saint-Cricq.
In the Spring of 1828, when Liszt was 16 years old, he had been engaged as a piano teacher for the 16-year old Countess Caroline. The two formed a passionate attachment of which her mother approved but her father did not. Her mother, unfortunately, died that summer, and her father dismissed the piano teacher causing Caroline to fall ill and Liszt to suffer a nervous breakdown. In 1830, Caroline entered a marriage arranged by her father to Bertrand d’Artigaux and lived unhappily with him in the southern French village of Pau. In 1844, 16 years since his last meeting with Caroline, Liszt, on a concert tour, spent two weeks in Pau, where, we might assume he spent time with his childhood love.
The title “Faribolo Pastour” has sometimes been translated as “Pastoral Whimsey.” However, given the poet’s dialect, a more correct translation would be “The Frivolous Shepherd Girl”, giving some pause about its dedication to Caroline, the first serious love of his life; Caroline the Countess, whose father turned him out.
[grateful acknowledgment to the excellent article, “Caroline de Saint-Cricq: Siren with a Heart of Ice” by Gert Nieveld, published in The Liszt Society Journal, Vol. 31, 2011]
Andrey Gugnin
Moscow-born concert pianist Andrey Gugnin won the Gold Medal and Audience Award at the Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in 2014. In 2016, he won the prestigious Sydney International Piano Competition where he also received prizes for Best Overall Concerto, Best 19th/20th Century Concerto, Best Violin and Piano Sonata, and Best Preliminaries for his first-round recital.
He has been rapidly gaining international acclaim as a passionately virtuosic performer, who possesses an “extraordinarily versatile and agile technique, which serves an often inspired musical imagination” (Gramophone). Gugnin has gone from strength to strength in concerts and recordings which exhibit his impassioned interpretations. He is increasingly in demand as a concerto soloist, and has been invited to perform as a guest artist with notable orchestras worldwide, such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony.
His recent release of Shostakovich: Sonatas (Hyperion, 2019) was selected by BBC Music Magazine as Recording of the Month and then as the 2020 Winner in the Instrumental division. His release of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes (Piano Classics, 2018) were commended as Editor’s Choice, and distinguished Gugnin as “one to watch” (Gramophone). In addition to these recordings, Gugnin’s Shostakovich Concertos (Delos International, 2007) were selected to feature on the soundtrack of Steven Speilberg’s Oscar®-winning film Bridge of Spies.
Gugnin’s expanding list of performance venues include Vienna’s Musikverein, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Carnegie Hall in New York, Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, Sydney Opera House, the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, and the Louvre in Paris. Gugnin has also participated in a plethora of international festivals, including Verbier, Klavier Festival Ruhr, and the Duszniki Chopin International Festival.
In 2020 Gugnin embarks on performing the complete set of Beethoven concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic in a personal subscription series.
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