Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 BWV 1042 - Viktor Liberman, violin; Leningrad Philharmonic, Yuri Simonov

Описание

Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 in E Major BWV 1042
(00:00) I) Allegro
(08:36) II) Adagio
(15:40) III) Allegro assai

Viktor Liberman, violin
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra,
Yuri Simonovv, conductor
Grand Hall of Leningrad Philharmonic, Live, 13.11.1975


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Viktor Simenovich Liberman (January 10, 1931 - July 17, 1999) was a Russian violinist and conductor.

Liberman started violin lessons when he was six years old. In 1958 he was one of the prize winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Violin in Moscow. Before his twentieth birthday, Liberman was accepted to the Leningrader Philharmonic Orchestra, where he made a career in the first violin group. In 1968 he was appointed concertmaster of this orchestra, which was then conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. He remained associated with the Leningrad Orchestra for 29 years.
Liberman emigrated from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands in 1979. On the recommendation of Kirill Kondrasjin, he became concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1985 he took up this position with the (Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Liberman also performed several times as a soloist, for example on January 18, 1987 with the violin concerto by Tchaikovsky under the direction of chief conductor Riccardo Chailly.
At his farewell concert on the occasion of his retirement in 1996, he conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in, among other things, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. He was then made a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion, one of the highest royal honors in the Netherlands. He returned to the Concertgebouw Orchestra as a guest conductor, including replacing Carlo Maria Giulini on 15 October 1998.
In 1996 he became permanent guest conductor with the Noord Nederlands Orkest in Groningen, of which he was chief conductor from 1997 until his death. In addition, Liberman continued to perform as a soloist and was guest conductor with various European orchestras, including Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam and the National Youth Orchestra in the Netherlands.
Liberman combined his activities as a musician with teaching. He was a violin teacher at the Utrecht Conservatory for a long time. He also regularly gave master classes.
In an interview with Het Parool, Liberman said that he had never felt any affinity with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but that he did not feel like a dissident either. "The violin is my life," he said.
Viktor Liberman's health in later life was fragile; he survived major heart surgery in the mid 1990s. He died in 1999 at the age of only 68 from liver cancer. He had one son.