Duo 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
| „1832-1982“ [music for cello and piano out of 150 years] | |
|---|---|
| Frederic Chopin | Grande Duo concertante (1832) |
| Richard Strauss | Sonate F-Dur (1882) |
| Dmitri Schostakowitsch | Sonate (1934) |
| Astor Piazzolla | Grand Tango (1982)h |
| „Sheer German Romantic“ | |
|---|---|
| Robert Schumann | Fantasiestücke op.73 |
| Friedrich Kiel | Drei Stücke op.12 |
| Robert Schumann | Fünf Stücke im Volkston op.102 |
| Friedrich Kiel | Reiseerinnerungen (Auswahl) |
| Friedrich Kiel | Sonate D-Dur |
| „Two worlds“ [music of „german romantic“ and „english modernity“] | |
|---|---|
| Robert Schumann | Fantasiestücke op.73 |
| Benjamin Frankel | Three Poems op.23 |
| Friedrich Kiel | Drei Stücke op.127 |
| Benjamin Brittenl | Sonata |
| Buxton Orr | A Carmen Fantasy |
| „From Baroque to the Classical Period“ | |
|---|---|
| Benedetto Marcello | Sonate Nr.3 a-moll |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Sonate Nr.3 a-moll |
| Stephen Paxton | Sonata in A op.1 Nr.1 |
| Luigi Boccherini | Sonata Nr.1 A-Dur |
| Georges Onslow | Sonata A-Dur op.16 Nr.3 |
| „Musical Triangle“ [„Classical pieces“ from England, Russia and Germany] | |
|---|---|
| Georges Onslow | Sonate A-Dur op.16/3 |
| Sergej Prokofjev | Sonate C-Dur op.119 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Sonate g-moll op.5/2 |
