Tanja Tetzlaff will be teaching at the Hochschule in Dresden a masterclass this September (11-16). You can apply til the 31st of May HERE!
General
NEW CD
The new album of the Tetzlaff Quartett was just released by the label Ondine – with the great Schubert String Quartet G Major No. 15 D887 and the String Quartet Op.20 No. 3 by Joseph Haydn.
Excerpts and purchasing HERE
Success in London
Tanja Tetzlaff was playing with her brother Christian and pianist Lars Vogt at the Royal Festival Hall with Beethovens Tripel Concerto under the baton of Parvo Järvi and the Philharmonia Orchestra on February 2nd – after that some online magazines published the following nice reviews:
“..the first movement in Sinfonia concertante style but in the central Largo Tanja Tetzlaff announced the tune with utmost gentility before Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt expanded it in their different ways.” (Anthony Hodges, classicalsource.com)
“I was very impressed with the lyricism which the string players brought to the work and the close rapport between all three soloists. (…) The Philharmonia’s strings brought warmth and intimacy to the Largo second movement before Tanja Tetzlaff entered with a highly expressive, heartfelt melody. Vogt played the meandering piano figurations with enormous sensitivity while Christian Tetzlaff and his sister sustained the melodic line beautifully.” (Robert Beattie, seenandheard-international.com)
“Controlling the emotional register of this performance was cellist Tanja Tetzlaff. Assembled from a motley array of constituents, her performance reflected the Beethovenian course that runs the gamut of Classical to Romantic to presciently Modern and back to Romantic again.” (Sophia Lambton, bachtrack.com)
A heroic performance
“The players make declarations, pose questions, give answers, thrust and parry, chase each other, proceed in lockstep; there are moments of tender lyricism and of furious aggression – I’ve never seen string players subject their instruments to such apparently extreme maltreatment – but the Tetzlaffs encompassed it all with wit and impeccable virtuosity. This was a heroic performance.”
Independent, Michael Church, 05.01.2016
58th Grammy Nomination
Tanja Tetzlaff, Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt, with “Brahms: The Piano Trios” by Ondine, received a nomination in the category “Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance”
Mahler-Record Prize to Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt
The Jury of the Mahler-Record Prize in Toblach (South Tyrol) has given a Special Award to a CD featuring Mahlers Fourth Symphony in the chamber version of Erwin Stein, recorded for Cavi by Christiane Oelze and the Festival Ensemble Spannungen, composed among others by Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff. (more…)