Victor Yoran
Victor Yoran ( Russian Виктор Йоран ; born June 25, 1937 in Moscow ) is a Russian cellist and composer.
He studied with Mstislav Rostropovich and finished his studies in 1962.
This was followed by extensive tours through the Soviet Union, Romania and Bulgaria, as well as an award at the Prague Spring. In 1969 he left the Soviet Union illegally and first went to Israel. There he taught at the Rubin Academy of Music and directed a chamber orchestra. He has repeatedly appeared as a soloist in concerts by the Israel Philharmonic, including the cello concertos by Schumann, Lalo and Chatschaturjan.
From Israel, Yoran undertook several concert tours to England, during which he made a name for himself in concerts by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Dvořák's cello concerto. Yehudi Menuhin, who heard Yoran at the time, described him as one of the most impressive cellists he had ever heard.
Further tours, mainly with works for cello solo, took Yoran to the United States (Philadelphia, Washington DC and New York) and Norway.
In 1976, Yoran was hired by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra as first solo cellist, with whom he excelled in numerous concerts: Under the direction of conductors Eliahu Inbal , Václav Neumann and Vladimir Ashkenazy , he played the cello concertos by Honegger, Prokofiev and the double concerto by Brahms, as well "Shelomo" by Bloch and "Don Quixote" by Richard Strauss.
He presented his extensive chamber music repertoire in duo evenings with the pianist Irina Lein-Edelstein as well as in numerous radio recordings. In 1992 he made a CD recording of Bach's six solo suites.
In 1993 Yoran returned to his homeland for the first time in 24 years: In St. Petersburg he played with the equally idiosyncratic pianist Valery Afanassiev and the violinist Lydia Dubrovskaya during the "White Nights of St. Petersburg" festival.
The Berliner Tagesspiegel wrote about the "Duo for violin and tuba" composed by Yoran in 1995: "In order to complete the convergence of the two contrarian instruments, Yoran has 'taste and, moreover, the greatest compositional science', a large word from Joseph Haydn about his colleague Mozart to be used here with ease. "
In 2005 he recorded two of Bach's violin works, which he played on the cello for the first time. In September 2011 a recording of Rachmaninoff's works will be released - the Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19 and the Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14, both together with the pianist Elena Smolanskaya .
Victor Yoran lives in Berlin. He plays an Italian instrument made by Giovanni Grancino in 1700.
Violin works on the cello
His most notable recordings include the sonatas and partitas for solo violin (Bach) by Johann Sebastian Bach , which Yoran plays on the cello. Yoran justifies his unusual decision to play these works on the cello as follows:
“Nobody would question the high value of Bach's cello suites - just think of the exuberant lyricism of the Prelude in D minor, the noble beauty of the Sarabande in C minor, the unyielding, magical motor skills of the Prelude in C major or the ornate Allemande in D major that haunts all mental labyrinths.
And yet - when the cello suites stand opposite the violin sonatas and partitas, you quickly become aware of the difference. The grandiosity of such movements as the Fuga in C major or the Ciaccona, the brilliant shine of the Preludio in E major or the ingenious monotony of the Andante from the Sonata in A minor: next to such boulders, the relatively modest grace of the Cello works fades.
The question now arises as to whether works of this format can be fully exhausted by a violin, an instrument that can swing up to the highest pitches but whose lowest note is only the 'small g'. In order to do justice to Bach's spiritual depth and heaviness, tonal depth and heaviness are also required. "
Reviews
“Victor Yoran is a player who has become one with his instrument and who put over the surging tunes with tremendous élan and dramatic force. [...] his interpretations are individual, extremely dramatic, intensely serious. His personality as a performer is as strong as his technique; what marks him out as an exceptional player is that he never seems to work against the music. "
"The aura that is Yoran."
"He is a cellist of the Russian school and, apparently without effort, elicits warm, round colors from his instrument even in the Forte."
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Золтан Кодай: Соната для виолончели соло, Дуэт для скрипки и виолончели - Виктор Йоран, виолончель; Лидия Дубровская, скрипка , intoclassics.net (Russian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Yoran, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Йоран, Виктор (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cellist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |