Jenny Abel

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Jenny Abel (born November 13, 1942 in Bredstedt , Husum district ) is a German violinist .

Life

Jenny Abel started playing the violin at the age of 6 and gave her first concert the following year. After important artistic impulses from Yehudi Menuhin and Hans Rosbaud , she became a junior student at the Freiburg Music Academy at the age of 13 and later in Cologne. At the age of 14 she received an invitation from Max Rostal for his master class in London. She studied with Ulrich Koch and Henryk Szeryng . She quickly pursued an international concert career that took her across Europe, the USA, South America, Asia and Australia. She played a violin made by the Guarnieri workshop in 1698. From 1964 she gave concerts with Leonard Hokanson . Jenny Abel has an entry in the music and gender lexicon.

Through her friendship with the Wilhelm Furtwänglers family , she came into contact with Oskar Kokoschka , who portrayed her in 1978 in the seven-part series of drawings Jenny Abel plays Bartók and Bach , now owned by the Albertina in Vienna . The correspondence between Kokoschka and Abel is in the Zurich Central Library. Abel has lived in Gernsbach in the northern Black Forest since she was three .

repertoire

Since the beginning of her career, Jenny Abel has not only dealt with the great standard works of the repertoire, but has also placed a special focus on rarely performed compositions. She has been entrusted with numerous world premieres, including works by Volker Blumenthaler , Gerhard Rosenfeld , Boguslaw Schaeffer , Tamara Ibragimowa and Giannis Papaioannou .

Gerhard Rosenfeld and Jenny Abel had a long friendship between artists. He composed three sonatas for the violinist. Hans Werner Henze wrote the solo sonata Tirsi, Mopso, Aristeo for her , which she performed more than a hundred times in over 20 countries after the premiere in Montepulciano . With unusual solo programs as well as in the violin-piano duo, Abel often goes artistically uncompromising paths and creates musical dramaturgical arcs from baroque music to modernity. Her long-term duo partners included the pianists Roberto Szidon , Leonard Hokanson and Mihai Ungureanu.

Concert reviews

“It's almost touching how old acquaintances sometimes appear here in a new guise - certain double-action sequences, for example, simply remind us that Bach has basically already composed everything. This has nothing to do with postmodern arbitrariness, but is given its meaningful, structuring place in a coherent dramaturgy. The violinist Jenny Abel and the pianist Mihai Ungureanu, who, as before as soloists at the concerts, impress with a great sense of sound and intelligent design, come together in the reduced, sometimes barren sound to create even more intense tension. "

- Isabel Herzfeld : Neue Musikzeitung June 2006

“The Grand Duo concertant sur la romance de Le Marin is a virtuoso challenge for every performer, and Jenny Abel approached it with her own professional calm. Sprawling, mysterious and indulgent, no note remained hidden here, and in Liszt's elegy for violin and piano piano and violin also led a perfect dialogue. "

- Holsteinischer Courier dated September 28, 2011

Discography

  • Siegfried Wagner : Violin Concerto in A major. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under Gilbert Graf Gravina (LP, Colosseum, ca.1962)
  • Johannes Brahms : Complete Violin Sonatas. With Leonard Hokanson, piano (LP, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1971)
  • Béla Bartók : The Sonatas for Violin and Piano. With Roberto Szidon (LP, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / EMI Electrola, 1976)
  • Johannes Brahms: 2 sonatas for clarinet op. 120 in Brahms' own version for violin. With Roberto Szidon, piano (LP, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1978)
  • Works for solo violin Vol. 1 by Johann Georg Pisendel , Bach, Bartók, Henze (CD, Podium Wendel, WOW-001, live recording 1979)
  • Works for solo violin Vol. 2 by Bach, Grażyna Bacewicz, Ralf Emig (CD, Podium Wendel, WOW-003, live recording 1984,1998)
  • Works for solo violin Vol. 3 by Bach, Yannis Papaioannou (CD, Podium Wendel, WOW-004, live recording 1985)
  • Ottorino Respighi : Concerto Gregoriano, Alban Berg : Violin Concerto. Philharmonie Moldova Iași, Horia Andreescu (LP, Electrecord, 1985; CD re-release Bayer Records, 1993)
  • Robert Schumann : Works for pianoforte and violin. With Roberto Szidon (LP Ars Musici 1985, CD re-release 2010)
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos : Sonatas for Violin and Piano. With Roberto Szidon (CD, Bayer Records, 1995)
  • Gerhard Rosenfeld : Sonatas for violin and piano. With Mihai Ungureanu (CD, Hastedt Music Edition, 2003)
  • Gerhard Rosenfeld : Requiem for Kaza Kathárinna (2 CDs THOROPHON DCTH 2271/2, including Jenny Abel with the 3 movements of the sonata for solo violin, 1994)
  • Violin sonatas by Francis Poulenc , Johannes Brahms, Nikolai Medtner . With Roberto Szidon (CD, Hastedt Music Edition, 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jenny Abel - violin. Requiem for Kaza Kathárina, accessed November 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Bea Rim: In the key of b -Jenny Abel . In: The News Herald . Franklin, Pennsylvania April 8, 1970 p. 19 (English, newspapers.com ).
  3. ↑ Hartmut Lück: Jenny Abel. Retrieved November 17, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Volker Schmidt: The woman's room in the music room. Zeit Online, June 22, 2010, accessed November 17, 2015 .
  5. ^ Oskar Kokoschka - exile and new home 1934-1980. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Albertina, 2008, p. 3 , archived from the original on November 18, 2015 ; accessed on November 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / albertina.at
  6. ↑ Klaus Göbes: Jenny Abel - virtuoso world artist from Gernsbach . In: Heimatbuch 2005, district of Rastatt . No. 44 , ISBN 3-925553-22-3 , pp. 83-92 .
  7. ↑ The written estate of Oskar Kokoschka in the Zurich Central Library. (PDF) Zurich Central Library, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
  8. ^ People in Baden: Violinist Jenny Abel from Gernsbach | Program | SWR4 Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved January 17, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Psychogram of a torn soul. Potsdam Latest News, March 3, 2005, accessed November 17, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Isabel Herzfeld: Repertoire refreshments fallen out of time. nmz Neue Musikzeitung, June 2006, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Perfect dialogue between violin and piano. Holsteinischer Courier, September 28, 2011, accessed November 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bredstedt , Husum district