Morgen Andrew Joyce & Rae de Lisle

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897):
• 1 Brahms: Liebestreu, Op. 3 No. 1 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 02:00
• 2 Brahms: Minnelied, Op. 71 No. 5 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 02:43
• 3 Brahms: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, Op. 105 No. 2 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:44
• 4 Brahms: Wie Melodien zeiht es mir leise durch den Sinn, Op. 105 No. 1 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 01:50
• 5 Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op. 94 No. 4 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 02:00
• 6 Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86 No. 2 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:20
• 7 Brahms: Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 01:50
• Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904):
• 8 Dvořák: Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, B. 104: No. 4, Songs My Mother Taught Me (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 02:24
• 9 Dvořák: 4 Lieder, Op. 82, B. 157: No. 1, Lasst mich allein (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 04:40
• Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947):
• 10 Hahn: 7 Chansons grises: No. 5, L'heure exquise (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 02:24
• 11 Hahn: À Chloris (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:06
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924):
• 12 Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 3 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:10
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856):
• 13 Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25 (Excerpts Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 1, Widmung 02:21
• 14 Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25 (Excerpts Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 4, Du bist wie eine Blume 01:50
• 15 Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5, Mondnacht (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:33
• Johannes Brahms:
• 16 Brahms: Gestillte Sehnsucht, Op. 91 No. 1 (Arr. for Cello, Viola & Piano) 06:26
• 17 Brahms: Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91 No. 2 (Arr. for Cello, Viola & Piano) 05:12
• Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957):
• 18 Korngold: Die tote Stadt, Op. 12: Glück das mir verblieb (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 05:55
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828):
• 19 Schubert: Du bist die Ruh, Op. 59 No. 3, D. 776 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:50
• 20 Schubert: Nacht und Träume, Op. 43 No. 2, D. 827 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:40
• Alfredo Catalani (1854 - 1893):
• 21 Catalani: La Wally: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (Arr. for Cello & Piano) 03:29
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949):
• 22 Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4, Morgen (Arr. for Cello, Viola & Piano) 03:31
• Total Runtime 01:12:58

Info for Morgen

The purpose of transcriptions has never been to "improve" the original, nor has it been to stimulate an identical effect. It can only be likended to a painter putting on canvas the same tray of fruits, or the same landscape, that others before him have painted. The subject therefore may be identical, but each artist's approach is different, conditioned by his brush, eyes and creative personality." (Joanos Starker)

This is a special album for Rae de Lisle, who has created it with her son-in law Andrew (NZSO's Principal Cello) and daughter Julia (Principal Viola with the NZSO).

"As well as a sharing of music with my own family, this album has been something of a land mark in my personal story. Twenty five years ago I suffered a massive overuse injury, and the chronic pain that followed was to end my busy career as a concert pianist....

During some down time following a brush with cancer three years ago, I started to play a little, and my wonderful son-in-law Andrew suggested that perhaps we could make a album together. For many years he had wanted to explore song transcriptions, and this repertoire appealed to me as a reasonable goal. Brain research has progressed immeasurably in the last twenty years, and I now realised that all my previous treatments were based on symptoms; my pain moved around, and the practitioners would simply treat each location in turn. This was not the problem, and recent research has shown that chronic pain is due to a malfunctioning in the brain. Through my PhD research, I had learnt about the necessity of retraining the technique to find new neural pathways in order to overcome focal dystonia. Chronic pain is no different. I had to retrain my brain...

The body doesn't forget, even after all this time, and the memory associated with sitting at the piano was still there. Working towards the recording of this album was not without flare-ups. However, my new knowledge helped me to understand and divert this reaction, so that after some months I was able to enjoy the recording days and emerge without significant problems. The joy of being able to make music again was overwhelming." (Rae de Lisle)

Andrew Joyce, cello
Rae de Lisle, piano

Andrew Joyce
Before joining the NZSO in September 2010, Andrew spent five years freelancing in London, during which time he worked regularly with the London Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestras, touring and performing in the world's great concert halls. He also played as Guest Principal with Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. A dedicated chamber musician, Andrew co-founded the Puertas Quartet who have performed in both the UK and New Zealand to great critical acclaim, and recorded two CDs for Atoll Records.

He performs regularly in a trio with pianist Diedre Irons and NZSO Concertmaster, Vesa-Matti Leppanen.

Born in Norwich, England, at 11 he went to London to pursue his musical studies at the Purcell School of Music where his teachers were Amanda Truelove and Michal Kaznowski. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music with Alexander Boyarsky and the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Troels Svane, as a holder of the coveted DAAD Scholarship. He has performed in masterclasses with the late Bernard Greenhouse, Alexander Baillie, David Geringas, Alexander Rudin, Natalia Gutman, Karine Georgian, Leonid Gorokhov, the Takacs Quartet and the Kopelman Quartet. Violinist, and Artistic Director of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Gordan Nikolitch, also played a very important role in his artistic development and continues to be a source of inspiration.

He plays a beautiful old English cello by Thomas Dodd, c.1800, kindly loaned to him by Old and New Strings Ltd.

Rae de Lisle
is one of New Zealand’s foremost piano pedagogues. Currently Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Auckland, she has produced many outstanding students, most notably John Chen, first prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition. Since then her students have won all the major piano competitions in New Zealand and have also been prizewinners internationally in the Lev Vlassenko Australasian Piano Competition, the Bradshaw and Buono Competition in New York, and the Perrenoud Foundation International Piano Competition.

Rae is Artistic Director of the Wallace National Piano Competition and the Wallace International Piano Festival. She is respected as as an adjudicator and has been on international competition juries in Singapore, Dublin and America. She is also an examiner for the New Zealand Music Examination Board.

Rae’s groundbreaking PhD research into focal dystonia, the most devastating of musician’s injuries, has resulted in specific concepts about instrumental retraining which has led to presentations and keynote speeches throughout the world. Her PhD has has received international recognition and is published by Paladinomedia.

For many years Rae has been researching methods of piano technique, interviewing pianists and pedagogues in America, England, Europe, Australia and New Zealand on this subject. Her experience in teaching students from the very beginning to international competition winners, as well as her own studies with renowned pedagogues Brigitte Wild (student of Claudio Arrau), Cyril Smith (student of Rachmaninoff) and Maria Curcio (student of Artur Schnabel) gives her a unique perspective on the development of injury-preventative piano technique at every level, from the beginner to the advanced pianist.

In 2015 Rae was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music.

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