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本帖最后由 石南根 于 2015-3-15 20:57 编辑
There was an entry about Renee Marcel, which is the maiden name for Mme. Michele Auclair. I found a very interesting liner note on her life and art as follows:
"Michèle Auclair was born on 16 November 1924 into a family with sense for arts and culture. At the age of six she heard Beethoven’s Kreutzer sonata and was moved to ask her parents for a violin. Her first teacher was Line Talluel and later, she studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Jules Boucherit and Jacques Thibaud, and with Russian Boris Kamensky. They all influenced the development of her talent and explains her style of playing with a beautiful technique and above all with a natural passion. While still at the Conservatoire she was giving concerts with Tasso Janopoulo or with fellow students like Janine Andrade.
In 1943 she won the “Prix Jacques Thibaud” and in 1945 she was a laureate of the “Concours International de Genève”, the Geneva International Competition. Thus began the career that would take her across Europe and the Americas.
Her first recording after when she won the first prize on “Long-Thibaud” was Haydn’s Violin Concerto No.1 in D major, Hob. 7a Prize with Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire under Jacques Thibaud on 7 October 1943 in Paris. This was also the first recording of this Haydn concerto. She had breakfast with Thibaud prior to the recording session at Studio Albert. It was planned to rehears it first and then to record. After the rehearsal was finished, she asked Thibaud “Shall we start now with the recording”. Thibaud said: “No, the rehearsal was recorded and it’s just marvellous. We take it for the record!”
After the liberation of Paris in 1944, she played for soldiers at Allied camps across Europe with her dear friend Samson François, transported in British military transport aircrafts. In Paris on February 4, 1945, she performed Mozart’s Concerto in G Major K216 with Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire and conductor Charles Munch.
She came to the USA in 1949 to study with Theodore and Alice Pashkus in New York. Among their most famous pupils were Yehudi Menuhin, Ossy Renardy, Ivry Gitlis and Blanche Tarjus. Pashkus supervised a series on the Remington label for young violinists, which were produced by Don Gabor. It was in 1950 that she made her first recording for this label with Austrian Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kurt Wöss of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto Op. 35. She recorded the work with a 1732 Guarneri del Gesu violin, which had been the property of Adolf Brodzky. It was Brodzky who gave the first performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto when the work received its world première in Vienna in 1881.
On January 9, 1951 she made her debut for the American audience with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She played the Tchaikovsky Concerto Op. 35 conducted by Charles Munch. From 1956, she collaborated with the pianist Jacqueline Bonneau with their concert debut a year later. In 1962, she started another collaboration with the pianist Geneviève Joy. Since then she appeared with all the French orchestras of national importance and played with ever increasing acclaim in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Greece and throughout South America. Her first Berlin appearance took place on 13 April 1952 playing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic under Otto Matzerath.
Her recitals were usually played in collaboration with Jacqueline Robin-Bonneau with their concert debut in 1956. In 1962, she started another collaboration with the pianist Genevieve Joy (wife of the composer Henri Dutilleux).
After a severe accident she was forced to end a relatively short career as a soloist. In 1969 she became a violin teacher at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris, a post which she held until 1989, reaching their mandatory retirement age. She then commuted regularly from Paris to teach at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts between 1989 and 2002. Her pupil Irina Muresanu at the New England Conservatory said: “She had the rare gift of seeing in her students their own qualities and then bringing them out. She could customize her advice, depending on what she saw in somebody’s personality, musical gifts, and technical abilities … and talking to her was like reading a wonderful history book; she had so many insights into music and into the great musicians she had known.”
She made recordings which were released on Remington, Masque and Concerteum. She also recorded for Philips. Some of these recordings were re-released by Philips on their Fontana and Classette labels. Later she recorded in France for Erato and Discophiles Français.
She had been married to composer Antoine Duhamel and later to critic Armand Panigel.
Michèle Auclair died 10 June 2005 in her sleep at her home in Paris. She was 80."
It seems not ethical to quote in wholesale manner such a well written biographical introduction. However, there are many interesting points worth remembering, which tempted me to paste the above here, such as the inheritance of a top quality instrument from a top echelon player to another, Auclair's controversial association with Thibaud, her first recording for Remington, which I happened to have picked up on a flea market as serendipity:0) without knowledge about Marcel being the juvenile Auclair.
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