Live performance at the Musikverein, Vienna - TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

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#		Title	Length
1		Applause	0:40	Play
2		Andante - Allegro con Anima	16:52	Play
3		Andante Cantabile	14:12	Play
4		Valse. Allegro Moderato	5:55	Play
5		Andante Moderato - Allegro Vivace	13:20	Play
6		Applause	1:01	Play

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WINNER OF THE "BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM" AWARD AT THE 2002 JUST PLAIN FOLKS MUSIC AWARDS IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA.

LIVE PERFORMANCE OF TCHAIKOVSKY'S 5TH SYMPHONY AT THE MUSIKVEREIN IN VIENNA. SUNDAY MARCH 25, 2001

"Earle evozierte eine symphonische Sogwirkung, die bis zum letzten Ton des langen und kraefteberaubenden Werkes anhielt."
-Die Presse, Vienna, March 27, 2001

"Earle summoned a symphonic surge from his orchestra that carried all before it until the very last note of this long and strenous work."
-Die Presse, Vienna, March 27, 2001

HOBART EARLE

Born in Venezuela of American parents, Hobart Earle is in the middle of his twelfth season as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra. During his tenure, the OPO's development has been unprecedented. The orchestra is the only performing arts organization in the entire country to have been raised from regional status to national status since the independence of Ukraine in 1991.

Hobart Earle has conducted several hundred concerts with the Odessa Philharmonic to wide acclaim - in major concert halls in the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Russia and a total of twelve different cities throughout Ukraine. The concert halls Hobart Earle has performed in with the OPO include the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the Barbican Hall in London, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Davies Hall in San Francisco and the General Assembly of the United Nations. Maestro Earle has led the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra not only in international orchestra subscription series in the countries listed, but also in such music festivals as the Bregenz Spring Festival, Austria, the Festival of Perth, Australia, the Lugano Spring Festival, Switzerland, the Chichester Festivities in England, the Nuits Musicales du Suquet in Cannes, France, the Varna Summer Festival, Bulgaria and the Cultural Capital of Europe 1997 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

In honor of his work with the OPO, Hobart Earle was awarded the title "Distinguished Artist of Ukraine", the first and only foreigner in the history of Ukraine so honored. Under his dynamic leadership, the Orchestra has become a great source of pride at home with the concert hall regularly sold out. One of the most popular figures in the city of Odessa, Maestro Earle was presented with the annual "Friend of Ukraine" award by the Washington Group (an association of Ukrainian/American professionals) on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the independence of Ukraine in 1996. He was the first person in the arts to receive the award.

Hobart Earle has conducted the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Tonkuenstler Orchestra, the Noord-Nederlands Orkest in Holland, and in the U. S. the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. As founder and music director of the American Music Ensemble Vienna/Ensemble for Viennese Music New York from 1987-1991, Hobart Earle premiered many works in addition to reviving several lesser-known compositions from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was a student of Ferdinand Leitner in Salzburg and Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood. Hobart Earle studied conducting at the Academy of Music in Vienna; received a performer's diploma in clarinet from Trinity College of Music, London; and is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he was awarded the Isodore and Helen Sacks Memorial Prize in Music. Hobart Earle and the American Music Ensemble Vienna/Ensemble for Viennese Music New York have two compact discs on the Albany Records label; his work with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra is on the ASV label.

To date, Hobart Earle has conducted a total of over 265 different orchestral compositions in public concerts. During his tenure in Odessa, Maestro Earle has led many performances of repertoire not previously performed there. Aside from a number of compositions by living composers, Hobart Earle has presided over the first performances in Odessa of such works as Gustav Mahler's 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th symphonies. This list continues with the Odessa premieres of Anton Bruckner's 8th symphony, Richard Strauss's "Four Last Songs", Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, Alban Berg's "3 Excerpts from Wozzeck", Gustav Holst's "The Planets", Aaron Copland's "El Salon Mexico" and "Lincoln Portrait" and Leonard Bernstein's 'Jeremiah' symphony.

ODESSA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Odessa, one of the most beautiful cities on the Black Sea Coast, can look back upon a remarkable cultural history. The home of a large port and a bustling city of 1.3 million people today, Odessa is multinational to the core, with one of the broadest ethnic make-ups in the entire region. From Georgian to Greek, from Armenian to Jewish, from Russian to Bulgarian, these communities and many more form an integral part of this cosmopolitan city whose heritage spreads as far west as France and Italy. At the end of the nineteenth century, Odessa was a major cultural center, visited by many outstanding musical personalities. Violin pedagogue Piotr Stoliarsky and his pupils David Oistrakh and Nathan Milstein are among Odessa's best known musical "children". The pianists Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter also grew up in Odessa, as did Shura Cherkassky, who was born on Pushkin Street, one of the city's most colorful avenues.

From this proud musical tradition comes the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, the vast majority of whom are graduates of the Odessa Conservatory and almost half of whom entered the conservatory from the Stoliarsky School. The orchestra was founded in 1937 and throughout the Soviet era performed regularly at home under such conductors as Nathan Rachlin, Yuri Temirkanov, Kurt Sanderling, Arvid Jansons and also Mariss Jansons. During the Soviet years, Odessa, a major center before the revolution, was relegated to the ranks of "regional" city. Unlike Moscow and St. Petersburg, in Odessa the orchestra was not allowed to travel outside the borders of the USSR.

With the independence of Ukraine, the orchestra's status rose; in January of 1993 the Government of Ukraine formally awarded the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra federal status. The OPO is the only performing arts organization in Ukraine outside of Kiev to attain this distinction. The new status was acknowledgment of the orchestra's dynamic progress during the preceding two years under new music director Hobart Earle.

The orchestra has since become the first from Ukraine to cross both the Atlantic Ocean and the Equator. In the years since 1992 the orchestra and Hobart Earle have made a total of fifteen trips abroad to twelve different countries, performing in such major halls as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the Barbican Hall in London, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Davies Hall in San Francisco and the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

In addition to their regular concerts at home in Odessa, during the 1990s the orchestra and Hobart Earle have traveled to the Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Ivano Frankivsk, Ternopil, Chernivtsy, Uzhgorod, Vinnitsya, Zhitomir, Khmelnitsky, Kirovagrad, Poltava, Mikolayev, Yuzhny and Illichivsk, in addition to making a total of eleven different trips to perform in Kyiv (Kiev). In 1994 the OPO became the first symphony orchestra from a former republic to perform the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society since the breakup of the USSR.

Today, the local audience in Odessa takes great pride in the orchestra's achievements and fill the concert hall regularly. The OPOs series of CD recordings "Music of Ukraine" under Hobart Earle for British record
label ASV features previously unrecorded works by Ukrainian composers.