Deserno plays Dinescu Katharina Deserno

• Violeta Dinescu (b. 1953): Gehen wir zu Grúschenka:
• 1Dinescu: Gehen wir zu Grúschenka: Gehen wir zu Grúschenka05:37
• 2Dinescu: Gehen wir zu Grúschenka: Wirst noch zurückkehren!07:07
• 3Dinescu: Gehen wir zu Grúschenka: Etwas übereilt03:31
• 4Dinescu: Gehen wir zu Grúschenka: Ich weiß noch nicht …06:57
• 5Dinescu: Gehen wir zu Grúschenka: Offene Wunde06:33
• Lytaniae I:
• 6Dinescu: Lytaniae I12:02
• Clara:
• 7Dinescu: Clara03:44
• Corona:
• 8Dinescu: Corona18:58
• Flammentropfen:
• 9Dinescu: Flammentropfen05:33
• Abendandacht:
• 10Dinescu: Abendandacht04:39
• Total Runtime01:14:41

Info for Deserno plays Dinescu

The search for the individual character of each instrument, for new tonal colours and the exploration of different registers are the focus of the artistic work of Romanian composer Violeta Dinescu and characterise this album. Cellist Katharina Deserno explores the extraordinary sound spaces of the scores with a great deal of imagination and a feel for the complex tonal language, an irrepressible desire to play and virtuoso technique.

Violeta Dinescu and Katharina Deserno have enjoyed an intensive artistic collaboration for almost 10 years, which has resulted in the premieres of a wide variety of works. Dinescu has found "an ideal interpreter" in Katharina Deserno. "What is remarkable about Katharina Deserno's interpretation is the coexistence of precision with the naturalness of the musical gesture, which determines an exceptionally expressive phrasing," says the composer. This quality of penetrating the essence of musical thought is the secret of creative interpretation. Violeta Dinescu has composed several works for Katharina Deserno. Having already juxtaposed solo works by Dinescu with suites by Johann Sebastian Bach on her album "Suites & Roses" [Kaleidos, KAL6344-2], cellist Katharina Deserno now presents a programme of compositions for solo cello (from the last 30 years to the present day) by Violeta Dinescu - with enormous stylistic and technical variety.

Katharina Deserno, cello

Katharina Deserno
born in Frankfurt/Main, is famous for her wide repertoire and her exciting concert programming as well as for her sensitive and expressive playing. Her international concert activities include appearances as a soloist i.a. with the Spanish National Orchestra, and as a chamber musician. Katharina performs as part of a duo with Serbian pianist Nenad Lečić, since more than 15 years. Her artistic work encompasses numerous world premieres of compositions written for her; concert tours and festival invitations, radio broadcasts at WDR, Deutschlandfunk, Radio Clasica, ORF i.a. and CD-productions. Reviewers outline her “perfect playing” and “perfection of technique” (Rondo Magazine).

On her debut CD “Hommage à Clara Schumann” (2011), she presented music for cello and piano and for cello solo by women composers; on subsequent albums for KALEIDOS and WERGO she has recorded music by Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Grechaninov, Konrad Lang and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as chamber music by Barbara Heller. All recordings include world-premieres and have been praised highly by the press. On her just recently published CD she presents a solo program with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Violeta Dinescu. First reviews write about a “an impressing recording”, “enthralling interpretation” and “an extraordinary, touching CD” (pizzicato, Musenblätter).

Katharina Deserno received her artistic education in Frankfurt, Paris and Cologne from Maria Kliegel, Gerhard Mantel and Philipp Muller; further inspiration and artistic impulses came i.a. from Janos Starker, Siegfried Palm, Wolfgang Boettcher, György Kurtág, José Luís de Delás, and Rainer Zipperling for baroque cello. Already during her studies she became an assistant to Maria Kliegel. Being one of the youngest teachers at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, she established her own cello class in 2008. Meanwhile, many of her students are prizewinners of international and national competitions. Katharina is regularly invited to give master classes for young cellists. Her book on the history of women cellists was published in 2018 by Böhlau publishers. Her teaching book for young cellists, published by Schott, was a sheet music top seller for several years.

In 2015, Katharina Deserno became professor at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She is artistic director of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Frankfurt.

Katharina Deserno plays an Italian Violoncello by Carlo Antonio Testore from 1712 which has been generously loaned to her by a German Maecenas.

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