Morning Pro Musica; Roman Totenberg and Eda Mazo-Shlyam

Deviate radio Boston. Roman pulping burger and eat a muzzle. Our guests this morning. Roman I notice it was almost exactly 10 years ago that you Lester with us on morning Prime was a news item so close to the 21st of March 1978. Time does go by that you have been very busy traveling in the meantime the road I mean it was the good of those studios when the didn't do and the news that if were going the more sort of the more time to travel and to. And I'll do the counting on a professional musician expects to travel but in a you have just about travel as far as can be travelled linearly you've gone about the world recently having to deal with as I have been good to used to Europe and most of Western Europe of course you did a one world tour recently when was that and all other literally that in Japan those

in the last year and the O's in roasted and Poland beginning of this year really do decline to regularly. How did you enjoy your stay in Japan there. Quite rid of much of the person the dean the people and holds a great love for music and interest or school. Joe Budden users you know played beautifully these days and you know some of the leading musicians here and abroad the Japanese. And I think the school and orchestra fund them under this amount of oriental people playing and they have very rigorous standards in that country and educational system and also the ability to certain groups of litter emerge in the tooth and the other to the cultural music in the world rhythmical stability and so on.

And muzzle slammed you so you have been with us once before. You really are in the 1901 Welcome home. Welcome back I should say. Speaking of home I expected from reading your biography that I would meet. A very wise and very ancient woman but in fact your quite useful thank you. Well you have certainly a long career also behind you and. Have come to our country from your native USSR just about nine years ago was in the Army in June. Of 1979 leaking. To United States. If I asked you I guess I am asking you if you could name just one very important distinction between the musical life of your home country and this country could you think of one. You mean in terms of defense or something that really was important for

me like just the other way. I see the difference here. I would say more the right is in in the concert programs. In choosing programs you have more varieties it's more demanding from the performer. When you have a responsibility on your own. I can see what's going on now because nine years is a big difference in what I understand now it's it's a little bit changing in Soviet Union but just for me I can just recall what I had before and what I do have now. I have more no chances to play chamber music. Could what I am there grateful because it's its enrichment in my repertoire. It's into the middle and Eastern Europe still trembling music of some rarity in the modulars the

loo much slower than even the class. Repertoire under the hood too. Out to limited movie lore on the more contemporary music and the inertia the losers took over school courses and so on. The move caused her to do permanent string quarters and so on but generally it's not as popular in the daily bread so the news continues. Julie adopted 13 from Germany to England. You know I think it's remarkable you seem to have made a very successful transition here. Immigration in this country you have some very one of those distinctions both in your native country and in this country. Having won the piano competition in Michigan was that. This was long time ago in Lee. I would say I tried out for

myself. And this was very interesting because we participated together was my daughter just she was in another group range but I just decided for myself to see I never had a chance to participate in competitions abroad in the Western countries. So I just want to find out what is it. And my own experience and I would say it was very interesting and from my soul was a good experience too. And. It was a goal just to see where I'm standing in this country because this was really quite recently after we came to native state. And I was I had a chance to listen to a lot of very talented musicians. And it was always nice to work with something with your planning ahead. DB Well speaking of planning ahead the two of you have a rather. Interesting and ambitious set of programs coming up in which you're going to be

performing all of these sonatas for Violin and Piano or Beethoven. And we'll talk more about that in a couple of minutes when we hear one of those or not as we have two of them on our program this morning to lead us into that discussion. And this is perhaps the one that is best known among souls at least by it. Subtitle this spring so not of Beethoven. Now generally Beethoven did not give these titles to these works is this in the case of this one and somebody came along later and decided there was nothing springlike about it and. Sometimes because there were these told the music London some because of the dictation of the Kroto so no to the degree that little goes. This one dates from right at the turn of the century eighteen hundred and this is a time when Beethoven was. Rethinking all of his approach to music it's a very pivotal type of workers and those unusually sunny sort of so it's sort of a form of the I think we wanted to play because we play the end of it in the next concert under none

of the group the good souls will the load to work and I think the truth on to to listen to that in the radio or recording the tuitions. Well good then we have a fine opportunity right now and want to play for us now the Sonata number five. It's an F major opus 24 known for better or worse as the spring sonata of Beethoven. Yeah. Why. I am.

I am.

I am.

The One. Why.

While there are good reasons why this is such a popular work out there.

And you're right it's for Beethoven an extraordinarily sunlit pieces and it was the sort of load spills into he always managed to get him into the brooding into almost everything he wrote a lot of the new school you could call markable thing to load to some cause he was a road a little a little dramatic cooler. Alerting the little of it compose something completely those of sweetened don't sink into the realm of frivolous sometimes of his. Let's talk now about the series of Beethoven performances recommends as I mentioned earlier you're going to be playing all of the Beethoven Sonata for violin and piano in a series of concerts on consecutive Tuesdays beginning next Tuesday February 9th and then April. Well they are consecutive rather. April 5th. And people 19th all Tuesdays those who want to do this. So the 6:00 news is quite a gap between those buttons.

This concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to 80 the Fenway in Boston. Southerns inspiring place to perform and I think you saluted a lot tool of the old who to listen. Let me use some of those to come and see all the flowers beautiful pictures and some don't and there's the princely can of the whole cute intimate music wasn't done. They used to play a lot in the. And two men who toil and holds the top post lead to like being the home of the. New to the old into the source of suiting your own do you. So to put a person throw something that is in wonderful places when Jim been music. Yes it is. So your first appearance there will be next to that every night and you'll be playing this spring so often we heard as well as the next work we will either get to that in just a minute. I. Saw three of them on February 9th and three on the people for the last two. Leading the courts

are on April 9th these concerts are all at 6 p.m. at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The phone number if you need some information is 6 1 7 7 3 4 1 3 5 9. And our room and we should talk about your recording very briefly you have a brand new recording coming up on the Titanic label just about to be released as you know to and will record the little it was full and looked older. You made this recording in Poland and the Polish National Radio Orchestra loads of the and extraordinary about it your have on this recording the Brahms violin concerto but the extraordinary work of this Lipinski Concerto which has never been recorded before. No the quote to Lipinski was clever Kerth the end to the control of those that are popular those two of those a youngster revealed to him and polluted from him in the years I hate to tell you home and the like he was a little interesting man he was from the limber earth.

Come home cook the musician started to see his father and so on and then. The vote was started the trial was atrocious and composed and openness and the modern works and the good very much engrossed in voting and it became an extraordinary There too was he went to Italy and the trend that we're going to need to perform together. So that in the end and he was just a moment. He even loves to violent and to Lipinski. And the kind of a competition of the morsel were they both the Consul's and money critics thought that the pins cables more interesting I think he's turned towards the beautiful song on the old spinning

double stops and tops and so on. He was later in Dresden concert months to Oprah and for 20 years and it was tremendously or can go to the woods than the musician. Very good some of this recording will be coming out on the Titanic label very soon. And we look forward to that one when we move right on to the next work another Beethoven sonata from the series will be performing as well as an earlier work with another member to win a major from Opus 12 number two. The years something I knew seven and 78 were composed. And as soon as you're ready we'll go with the Sonata number two of Beethoven. Why. Why. Why.

Why. I am. I am. You are.

I am. I am.

No.

Oh.

Woo. Hoo.

Woo. Hoo. Hoo hoo. Whew. Are you just

exposition. Or second. Or. We run right out of time thank you for stopping we'll have to show up at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to hear

the rest of the Beatles and so not a number to. Those who would to do it in little old movies and write a lot closer together than this morning Roman Totenberg violin either Muslim pianist thank you both for joining us. This. Morning from was a cup made possible this morning by your generous contributions will also get a grant from banks a grant from Talbot's and I'm from have a lock. On Richard nice look in the book and thank you for joining us this morning. I hope you have a fine afternoon when this is the Public Radio Network.