Konzertpianist Oliver Drechsel

Oliver Drechsel - pianist

"Miracle in substance and compelling nature" - "true to the original style" - "sleepwalking independece of fingers" - "a real vision" - "incredibly virtuoso" - "staggering, fulminant, very, very good interpretation"

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Duo Dagmar Spengler / Oliver Drechsel

Duo Foto Spengler/Drechsel

The Duo Dagmar Spengler (solo cellist of Staatskapelle Weimar) / Oliver Drechsel exists since 1998, when both artists first play together at the concert exam of a fellow student at Hochschule für Musik Köln. This causes in the first instance, that Oliver Drechsel - after his own concert exam - has been duo partner of Dagmar Spengler at her concert exam.

Since then, regular concert activities take place, for example in the series „Live Music Now“ by Lord Yehudi Menuhin as well as benefit concerts for the cultural forum Solingen-Minsk under patron Vladimir Ashkenazy or for the seaquake-victims in the Indian Ocean 2004.

Next to the usual repertoire for cello and piano (Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann and other) both musicians apply themselves to rarely known composers of different epochs; in Verlag Dohr (Köln) a CD has been published, which contains apart from the sonatas of Prokofjev and Britten world premiere recordings of „Carmen Fantasy“ and „Elegy“ of the british composer Buxton Orr.

program suggestions

I) "1832-1982" [music for cello and piano out of 150 years]		II) "Musical Triangle" ["Classical pieces" from England, Russia and Germany]
Frederic Chopin Richard Strauss Dmitri Schostakowitsch Astor Piazzolla	Grande Duo concertante (1832) Sonata F-Major (1882) Sonata (1934) Grand Tango (1982)	Georges Onslow Sergej Prokofjev Ludwig van Beethoven	Sonata A-Major op.16/3 Sonata C-Major op.119 Sonata g-minor op.5/2

III) "Two worlds" [music of "german romantic" and "english modernity"]		IV) "Sheer German Romantic"
Robert Schumann Benjamin Frankel Friedrich Kiel Benjamin Britten Buxton Orr	Fantasiestücke op.73 Three Poems op.23 Drei Stücke op.12 Sonata A Carmen Fantasy	Robert Schumann Friedrich Kiel Robert Schumann Friedrich Kiel Friedrich Kiel	Fantasiestücke op.73 Drei Stücke op.12 Fünf Stücke im Volkston op.102 Reiseerinnerungen (excerpt) Sonate D-Major

V) "From Baroque to the Classical Period"
Benedetto Marcello AntonioVivaldi Stephen Paxton Luigi Boccherini Georges Onslow	Sonate No.3 a-minor Sonate No.3 a-minor Sonata in A op.1/1 Sonata No.1 A-Major Sonata A-Major op.16/3

Last updated: 07.02.2005