“She inspired with great tone and enormous expressive dimension – fantastic!” – rbb Kultur
Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff has been one of the most influential musicians of her generation for decades, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Her playing is characterised in particular by a uniquely fine, at the same time powerful and nuanced sound, which is always accompanied by cultivated musicality. Tanja Tetzlaff is particularly interested in going beyond the presentation of classical music to include other art forms and to engage with contemporary events. For her special commitment to bringing the issues of nature conservation and climate change into the concert hall, she was appointed a lifetime ambassador by the German orchestra association “Orchester des Wandels”.
In April 2021, Tanja Tetzlaff became the first scholarship holder to be awarded the highly endowed Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship of the city of Weimar. With the prize money, she was able to realise the film project “Suites4Nature”, which relates Bach’s famous cello suites to nature and issues of climate change. The film had its premiere in Weimar in April 2023 and will be shown in the coming months at the Vienna Film Festival, Bonn Beethovenfest, Kronberg Festival and in various cinemas, among others. This extraordinary project will be crowned with the Innovation Prize for Sustainability at the Opus Klassik Awards in October 2023. She will receive another Opus Klassik Award for the best chamber music recording in 2023, together with her brother Christian Tetzlaff and posthumously Lars Vogt, for their recording of the Schubert Piano Trios, released by Ondine.
Tanja Tetzlaff’s special trademark is her extraordinarily broad repertoire. In addition to the major concertos of the standard cello repertoire, she is particularly fond of the cello concertos by Unsuk Chin, Witold Lutosławski, Jörg Widmann, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and the Double Concerto for Cello & Percussion by Rolf Wallin. In September 2022, she premiered the Double Concerto for Cello & Percussion by Olga Neuwirth with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and percussionist Hans Kristian Kjos Sørensen.
In the 2023/24 season, Tanja Tetzlaff will perform with the Odense Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony, Staatsorchester Braunschweig and Beethovenorchester Bonn, among others. As part of the Tetzlaff Quartet, she will perform chamber music at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Pierre Boulez Hall, the Bozar in Brussels and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as concerts with her husband Florian Donderer, the pianists Kiveli Dörken and Lauma Skride and the Signum Quartet.
Over the course of her career, Tanja Tetzlaff has performed with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as well as Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with renowned conductors including Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Karina Canellakis, Paavo Järvi, Sir Roger Norrington and Robin Ticciati.
Chamber music is a great passion of Tanja Tetzlaff. She is a founding member of the Tetzlaff Quartett, formed in 1994 together with Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath and Hanna Weinmeister, and since then the quartet have appeared on stages worldwide. Other regular chamber music partners include violinist Florian Donderer, pianist Lauma Skride, the Signum Saxophone Quartet and a septet led by violinist Franziska Hölscher.
Recordings appear on CAvi, Ars, NEOS and Ondine, including concertos by Wolfgang Rihm and Ernst Toch. A solo recording with Bach suites and works by Thorsten Encke was released in October 2019.
Tanja Tetzlaff studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Professor Bernhard Gmelin and at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Professor Heinrich Schiff. Since the winter semester 2021/22, she has held a professorship in the cello department at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. She plays a cello by Giovanni Baptista Guadagnini from 1776.
Zoltán Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
Florian Donderer (violin), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello)
Erzsébet Szőnyi: Five Preludes
Nikita Khnykin (piano)
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no. 12 in C-sharp minor, S.244/12
Nikita Khnykin (piano)
György Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes"
Quatuor Agate
György Kurtág: Ligatura—Message to Frances‐Marie (the Answered Unanswered Question), Op. 31b
Adrien Jurkovic, Thomas Descamps (violins), Victor Julien-Laferrière, Simon Iachemet (cellos), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
György Kurtág: Selections from Játékok and Jelek, játékok és üzenetek
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Antoine Tamestit (viola)
György Kurtág: Omaggio a Luigi Nono, Op. 16
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor)
Robert Schumann: Gute Nacht, Op. 59 No.
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor)
INTERVAL
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
Zlata Chochieva (piano), Vilde Frang (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello)
György Kurtág: Hommage à R. Sch., Op. 15d
Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Franz Schubert: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D.714
Norwegian Soloists' Choir (male voices), Grete Pedersen (conductor), Antoine Tamestit, Raphaël Pagnon (violas), Victor Julien-Laferrière, Simon Iachemet (cellos), Christian Henriksen (double bass)
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 6 in D minor, Sz. 114
Quatuor Agate
INTERVAL
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, K. 581
Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Quatuor Agate
Johann Sebastian Bach / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in G minor
Florian Donderer (violin), Raphaël Pagnon (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello)
INTERVAL
Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV 1059 (reconstruction by Masato Suzuki)
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord), baroque ensemble
Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 3 in D major, BWV 1054
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord), baroque ensemble
Franz Liszt: Consolations No. 2, 3, & 6
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Franz Liszt: Elegy No.1, S.130b
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Franz Liszt: Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth (Elegie), S.382
Florian Donderer (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Franz Liszt: Romance oubliée, S.132
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Johann Sebastian Bach / Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue, S.463
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Franz Liszt: Consolations No. 2, 3, & 6
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Franz Liszt: Elegy No.1, S.130b
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Franz Liszt: Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth (Elegie), S.382
Florian Donderer (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Franz Liszt: Romance oubliée, S.132
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Johann Sebastian Bach / Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue, S.463
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Franz Liszt: Consolations No. 2, 3, & 6
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Franz Liszt: Elegy No.1, S.130b
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Franz Liszt: Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth (Elegie), S.382
Florian Donderer (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Franz Liszt: Romance oubliée, S.132
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Johann Sebastian Bach / Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue, S.463
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
György Ligeti: Continuum
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord)
György Ligeti: Hungarian Rock
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord)
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: Solo for Voice
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice)
Edvard Grieg/Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: In The Hall of the Mountain King
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Ernő Dohnányi: Sextet in C major, Op. 37
Florian Donderer (violin), Raphaël Pagnon (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Nikita Khnykin (piano), Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Ragnhild Lothe (horn)
György Kurtág: From Játékok: Aus der Ferne
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Jon Fosse: Er det ei meining over desse tinga. Utdrag.
Arnhild Litleré
J. S. Bach/Kurtág: Chorale Prelude: Aus tiefer not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 687
Zlata Chochieva (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Refaat Alareer: Om eg må døy
Arnhild Litleré
J. S. Bach: From Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande
Florian Donderer (violin)
Paul Celan/Olav H. Hauge: Dødsfuge
Arnhild Litleré
László Weiner: Adagio from Serenade for String Trio
Florian Donderer (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello)
Åse Marie Næsse: Men du syng
Arnhild Litleré
J. S. Bach/Bartók: Lento from Trio sonata in G major, BWV 530
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
J. S. Bach/Rachmaninov: Prelude from Partita for Solo Violin in E Major BWV 1006
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn: Fred
Arnhild Litleré
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer: Trinity
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (voice), Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor)
INTERVAL
Arnljot Eidslott: Stabat Mater
Arnhild Litleré
Franz Liszt: Via Crucis, S.53
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Einleitung. Vexilla Regis ("O Crux, Ave!")
- Station I. Jesus wird zum Tode verdammt
- Station II. Jesus trägt sein Kreuz
- Station III. Jesus fällt zum ersten Mal
- Station IV. Jesus begegnet seiner heiligen Mutter
- Station V. Simon von Kyrene hilft Jesus das Kreuz tragen
- Station VI. Sancta Veronica ("O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden")
- Station VII. Jesus fällt zum zweiten Mal
- Station VIII. Die Frauen von Jerusalem ("Nolite flere super me, sed super vos ipos et super filios vestros")
- Station IX. Jesus fällt zum dritten Mal
- Station X. Jesus wird entkleidet
- Station XI. Jesus wird ans Kreuz gsechlagen ("Crucifige")
- Station XII. Jesus stirbt am Kreuze ("Eli, Eli, lamma Sabacthani")
- Station XIII. Jesus wird kom Kreuz genommen
- Station XIV. Jesus wird ins Grab gelegt ("Ave Crux, spes unica")
Soloists:
Pilatus: Olle Holmgren
Jesus: Øystein Stensheim
Mari Askvik, contralto
