Trip to Russia Daniel Müller-Schott, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Aziz Shokhakimov

• Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840 - 1893):
• 1Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62, TH 6207:00
• Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840 - 1893), Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936): Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42, TH 116 (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra):
• 2I. Méditation10:37
• 3II. Scherzo04:03
• 4III. Mélodie03:55
• Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936): 2 Pieces for Cello & Orchestra, Op. 20:
• 5No. 1, Mélodie06:53
• 6No. 2, Sérénade espagnole02:42
• Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840 - 1893): Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, TH 57:
• 7Moderato assai quasi andante00:58
• 8Tema. Moderato semplice01:38
• 9Var. 1, Tempo del tema00:55
• 10Var. 2, Tempo del tema01:19
• 11Var. 3, Andante sostenuto03:51
• 12Var. 4, Andante grazioso01:58
• 13Var. 5, Allegro moderato03:36
• 14Var. 6, Andante02:46
• 15Coda. Allegro vivo02:12
• String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11, TH 111:
• 16II. Andante cantabile (Version for Cello & Orchestra)06:42
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908):
• 17Sérénade, Op. 37 (Version for Cello & Orchestra)04:03
• Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840 - 1893): 6 Pieces, Op. 19, TH 133:
• 18No. 4, Nocturne (Version for Cello & Orchestra)04:31
• Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936):
• 19Chant du ménestrel, Op. 7104:21
• Total Runtime01:14:00

Info for Trip to Russia

Rare Russian cello repertoire: From the Old World: Perhaps the relatively small size of a repertoire is an advantage after all. The vast realm occupied by the leading genres – as in Verdi’s operatic oeuvre, Bach’s cantatas, Schubert’s Lieder or Haydn’s symphonies – seems so extensive as to make one despair of embracing it in its entirety.

The cello repertoire cannot boast such wide expanses, and Daniel Müller-Schott seems to take real pleasure in making a virtue of necessity, in introducing us to great works of the literature and casting fresh light on each of them.His new all-Russian programme revolves around Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. Other works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov bring together composers in a late Romantic tradition that ended on the death of Glazunov in 1936, even if that troika met only once – at the dedication of a statue to Glinka in 1885.

Apart from that the three composers are united by a complex and tense relationship portrayed in detail in the booklet in an extensive artist interview conducted by Meret Forster. Daniel Müller-Schott brings home to us how the Rococo Variations depict Tchaikovsky’s love of Mozart and his “modern”, nobly historical awareness of past times – along with his own intensive emotionalism. He also presents Tchaikovsky’s three-part “Souvenir d’un lieu cher”, a work scarcely to be heard in its original version for violin, now transposed to the cello by the soloist (having previously been orchestrated by Glazunov) who thus poses himself the ultimate challenge – while enlarging the cello repertoire.

This and other highly entertaining and enlighteningly different examples of the genre, presented by an accomplished soloist who himself studied under that monumental Russian virtuoso Mstislav Rostropovich, cannot fail to give their interpreter a historical dimension of his own. It is already more than a quarter of a century since he won first prize in the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, which marked the commencement of his international career – a career which has lasted longer and more sustainably than is to be expected amid the evanescent glories of our times.

Daniel Müller-Schott, cello
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Aziz Shokhakimov, conductor

Daniel Müller-Schott
is one of the most sought-after cellists in the world, and can be heard on all the great international concert stages. For more than two decades now he has been enchanting audiences as an ambassador for classical music in the 21st century. The New York Times refers to his "intensive expressiveness" and describes him as a "fearless player with outstanding technique". (New York Times).

Daniel Müller-Schott guests with important leading international orchestras; in the US with the orchestras in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles; in Europe the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig, the Radio Orchestras from Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig and Hamburg, Copenhagen and Paris, the London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra as well as in Australia with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and in Asia with Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan’s National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) und Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

All over the world Daniel Müller-Schott has appeared in concert with such renowned conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Thomas Dausgaard, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Iván Fischer, Alan Gilbert, Gustavo Gimeno, Bernard Haitink, Neeme Järvi, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Susanna Mälkki, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, André Previn, Michael Sanderling and Krzysztof Urbański. Many years of musical collaboration linked him with Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel and Yakov Kreizberg.

In addition to performances of the great cello concertos, Daniel Müller-Schott has a special interest in discovering unknown works and extending the cello repertoire, e.g. with his own adaptations and through cooperation with contemporary composers.

Sir André Previn and Peter Ruzicka dedicated cello concertos to the cellist which were premiered under the direction of the composers with the Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig and the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Last year, to much acclaim from the press, Daniel Müller-Schott performed the premiere of Berger's "Rime Sparse" for soprano and piano trio in Chicago and then in New York. Both the US-born Sebastian Currier as well as Olli Mustonen have composed a cello sonata for Daniel Müller-Schott.

Highlights of the season 2018/19 include the opening concert Settimane Musicali di Ascona with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and Krzysztof Urbański, concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Lionel Bringuier, in den USA with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Karina Kannellaki, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Gilbert Varga, as well as the Spanish Radio Television Symphony Orchestra and Erik Nielson. There are three extended recital tours on the concert calendar: a solo recital tour to Asia, a trio tour with Julia Fischer and Nils Mönkemeyer as well as with Baiba Skride and Xavier de Maistre. Daniel Müller-Schott will play the premiere of Currier's piano trio with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis in New York's Carnegie Hall, followed by a stop in Chicago. At the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival Daniel Müller-Schott is artistic director for the Rügen Classical Music Spring Festival 2019.

International music festivals regularly invite Daniel Müller-Schott to perform, including the London Proms, the Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Schwetzingen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Heidelberg Spring Festival and the Vancouver Festival, and, in the USA, festivals in Tanglewood, Ravinia and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. In his chamber music concerts, Daniel Müller-Schott collaborates, inter alia with Nicolas Angelich, Kit Armstrong, Renaud Capuçon, Xavier de Maistre, Julia Fischer, Igor Levit, Nils Mönkemeyer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Francesco Piemontesi, Lauma and Baiba Skride and Simon Trpčeski.

Daniel Müller-Schott has been involved for many years now in the project "Rhapsody in School". He regularly gives master classes and helps to support young musicians in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.

Since his childhood, Daniel Müller-Schott has felt a great love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. For his first CD record he chose the Six Suites for Cello Solo for Bach’s jubilee in 2000.

Daniel Müller-Schott has already built up a sizeable discography in a career spanning twenty years under the ORFEO, Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Pentatone and EMI Classics labels and includes among others, works from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Schubert, Khachaturian, Shostakovich, Elgar, Walton, Britten and Dvořák.

His recordings have been enthusiastically received by both the public and the press and have also received numerous awards, including the Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Strad Selection, and the BBC Music Magazine’s “CD of the month”. He has been awarded the Quarterly Prize of German Record Critics for his recordings of the Elgar and Walton Cello Concertos with Oslo Philharmonic and André Previn and for his CD of the Shostakovich Cello Concertos recorded with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Yakov Kreizberg. In France the "Solo Suites" by Benjamin Britten were awarded with the Diapason d’or and "Dvořák The Cello Works" with the "Choc de Classica". For "Duo Sessions" Daniel Müller-Schott and Julia Fischer received the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) 2017. On his new CD to appear in fall 2018 with ORFEO, Daniel Müller-Schott recorded works by Tchaikovsky, Glasunow and Rimski-Korsakov with the German Symphony-Orchestra Berlin and Aziz Shokhakimov.

Daniel Müller-Schott can be regularly experienced on national and international radio broadcasters and on the TV channels ARD, ZDF, ARTE and 3Sat as a soloist in concert recordings and as an interview guest.

Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He was supported personally by Anne-Sophie Mutter and received, among other things, the Aida Stucki Prize as well as a year of private tuition under Mstislaw Rostropovich. At the age of fifteen, Daniel Müller-Schott won the first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 1992 in Moscow.

Beside the music Daniel Mueller-Schott has also a considerable affinity for the fine arts, in particular for French paintings of the 19th century. During his travels he always visits the major museums, seeing the great masters in the original. The cellist regularly takes part in art projects himself, for example in the "Street Art“ project in Munich, Berlin (ARTE) and Melbourne 2016.

Daniel Müller-Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727.

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