NZZ am Sonntag
07. Februar 2010
Mit Bach und Schubert im Badezimmer
Postkartenwetter in Ober bayern. Still liegt Schloss Elmau im verschneiten Tal. Hoch über der weit läufigen Anlage, die 1916 vom Theologen Johan nes Müller opened as a meeting place for his artist friends was now serving as the hotel boasts the weather stone ridge in the winter sun. It's freezing cold.
with the patience and courtesy of the great artist Daniel Hope is posing for the photographers. step out with his violin under his arm in the snow, he does not, however. The cold could damage the instrument. It is not a Stradivari or Guarneri del Gesu, but at least a Gennaro Gagliano 1769th "I have of my mentor Yehudi Menuhin," says Hope. He gave it to me when I was fifteen years old, and after fifteen years more, I had finally paid off. "
ins Schloss Elmau ist Hope gekommen, um im Rahmen der Kammermusiktage mit seinem langjährigen Klavierpartner Sebastian Knauer einen Duoabend zu geben. Anderntags geht es um sechs Uhr morgens schon weiter nach Hamburg, wo Hope einen seiner Wohnsitze hat - die anderen sind in London und Wien -, und von dort weiter rund um die ganze Welt.
Der umtriebige Künstler, der nicht nur seine Karriere als Solist verfolgt, sondern auch Festivals in Deutschland und den USA organisiert, Bücher schreibt und für Radio und Fernsehen arbeitet, ist überall und nirgends zu Hause. Das kann nicht erstaunen, wenn man seine Herkunft betrachtet.
Von Südafrika nach England
Geboren wurde Daniel Hope 1974 im südafrikanischen Durban. Seine Vorfahren waren einerseits irische Katholiken, die während des zweiten Burenkriegs mittellos nach Südafrika kamen und es dort zu Wohlstand brachten, andererseits deutsche Juden, die als Industrielle in der Weimarer Republik zum Grossbürgertum gehörten, während des Dritten Reiches aber unter Zurücklassung ihrer ganzen Habe fliehen mussten und ebenfalls in Südafrika eine neue Existenz aufbauten. Dort fanden die beiden scheinbar so gegensätzlichen Familien zusammen. Als Daniel ein halbes Jahr alt war, kehrten sein Eltern, die sich als Gegner der Apartheid in Südafrika zunehmend fremd fühlten, nach Europa zurück. Sie gingen nach England. Der Vater war ein damals noch erfolgloser Schriftsteller, die Mutter übernahm any type of work to keep the family afloat. By a stroke of luck, she met Yehudi Menuhin know who they hired as a secretary, but soon realized their potential and made it to his manager. She organized his performances, was traveling with him was his girl for everything. The children took them where possible. A story like a fairy tale.
Happy in Saanen
The little Daniel and his brother grew up in a music-so-friendly climate. They crawled around under the wing of a world stars, looked prominent visitors and a walk, sat respectfully in the concert hall. The most intense memories has at Hope to the Mauritius Church in Saanen Gstaad, where annually held the Menuhin Festival. "We each summer in the Bernese Oberland, spent until I was 18 or 19," he says, "and the magnificent scenery combined for me playing with the sacred space of divine music masters such as Rostropovich and Kempff there." As a curious , Menuhin invited open mind but also people like the Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and the French swing violinist Stéphane Grappelli. And here Hope heard for the first time - then under the direction of Edmond de Stoutz - the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, which he values highly and with whom he's worked this year.
A child prodigy Daniel Hope was not. He loved the Music, but she did not fly too easy, and nowhere did he was so unhappy as the Menuhin School of Music, a boarding school in Surrey. He almost died of homesickness, hated the rigid educational methods and never missed a trick. "I liked to play and found me very well," he says, "but when I was about twelve years old and heard the same age, I realized that I could not do much at all. I told myself that if something will happen to you, you now need to work. So I did, and with practicing the joy grew. "
Daily Play is still the alpha and omega of Daniel Hope. "I am not even Fritz Kreisler, the nachsagt you, he never practiced," he says. "But my happiness is that I need no special requirements to play. The smallest room is enough for me. Most of the time of the year I'm on the road. Then I go to the bathroom each of my hotel room, put the damper on the violin and play. I disturb no one and am happy. . Sometimes I play music all night "
Also before each concert Hope rehearsing several hours - no matter how well he knows the program already. He must bear in mind that he can muster on the podium, the total concentration. Stage fright is one of them. "I'm never
," he says. "The last quarter of an hour before the performance is hell. You sit in the stuffy wardrobe, and it kribbelt im Bauch.»
Diese Aussage erstaunt bei einem Künstler, der schon früh vom Erfolg verwöhnt wurde, mittlerweile von Triumph zu Triumph eilt und selbst in der globalen Krise der Tonträgerindustrie zu den Happy Few gehört, die einen Exklusivvertrag mit einem renommierten Label haben. Aber Daniel Hope kokettiert nicht, wenn er die Musik als grausame Geliebte bezeichnet. Er gilt als Perfektionist. Um virtuose Selbstdarstellung geht es ihm jedoch nicht. Er sieht sich als Vermittler. Die Musik, wie sie vom Komponisten geschrieben und gemeint war, umzusetzen, ohne sich unnötig zwischen sie und den Zuhörer zu schieben: Das ist sein Anliegen. Seine Begeisterung gilt dem Werk, nicht der artistischen Prachtentfaltung. «Die Technology, "he says," is of course a prerequisite. You have the difficult places in the master bedroom. The listener should not notice any strain. Speed \u200b\u200bper se but to me means nothing. The real problems begin designing until all technical problems are solved. "
Once the conversation turns to specific works, as the Hope is an ardent enthusiast. About Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, he speaks with the same fire as about Schnittke, whom he visited in the last years of life over again, or the largely unknown Basel composer Hermann Suter. The German Music he has fallen ever since. "Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert can "we only admire with gratitude and humility, he says. But in the end it's nothing like Bach: "He is the most profound and most modern composer I know. I would like to record his sonatas for violin and harpsichord like new. While his solo sonatas are considered Pièce de Résistance. But of them there are so many great shots. Henryk Szeryng with his round, cathedral-like sound. Nathan Milstein, with its austere elegance. George Enescu. Adolf Busch. Gidon Kremer. But I also take pictures with baroque instruments and arched interesting. Every violinist should get involved again in this experience. Arch allow one to actually play chords pianissimo, as it prescribes Bach. With the modern Sheet, which can tear the strings must, it's not. "There is also
music that will make Daniel Hope cold? He thinks for a long time. "In every age it boring composer," he says finally. "But I do not play easy. And of course there is a lot of commercial pop in the dreary stuff. "The Pop as such but he would not demonize. Prince and Sting, U2 and Depeche Mode, he finds amazing.
Daniel Hopes to important experiences as a musician among the six and a half years he spent with the Beaux Arts Trio. He was the last of the legendary violinist formation, under the auspices of the pianist Menahem Pressler over half a century long existed. "Every end is a little sad," he puts it, "but I think that we have stopped at the right moment. We have been four hundred concerts, at all festivals, all the big halls. And we had the most beautiful music ever play. Beethoven. Schubert. Brahms. For me it was an indescribable happiness. "
Currently, Daniel Hope not imagine playing again in a fixed chamber music ensemble. First, the work can be with the Beaux Arts Trio barely beat. Secondly, he has too many other projects. "I love chamber music," he says. "I can not live without them. I will certainly as often as possible in private with friends . Play But to participate as an ensemble of world leaders to perfect the interpretations - go away. That can only happen if you do nothing else "
And Daniel Hope has many other plans. CDs with Deutsche Grammophon. Concerts as a soloist - with large orchestras and small ensembles, which he heads out of the violin. Ambitions as a conductor, he has not. "That I'll leave that to those who can do it," he says. become "There are so many great musicians, the conductors are mediocre. Conductor will not be just so. You have to study it. The harmony rule, can not read score, know every instrument in its nature from the ground up. "
Mit diesen Worten verabschiedet Daniel Hope sich so freundlich wie bestimmt. Die Probe für den Abend ruft.
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