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| Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917260724 |
Catalogue number CC 72607 |
Release date 27 September 2013 |
"These beautifully recorded performances on cello and organ are certainly free in spirit, but they offer theatre and imagination, really bringing the spirit of the genre to life."
The Strad, 01-4-2014Jelena Očić
The late Siegfried Palm, great interpreter of contemporary music, wrote of Jelena Očić, “she is one of the leading talents for contemporary music”. Bernard Greenhouse, founding cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio, said “I know no superior female cellist in her generation.” Jelena Očić was born in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Having completed her musical studies in her native city with honors at an early age, she took up residence in Germany to further her artistic spectrum under the guidance of esteemed American-born cellist Michael Flaksman at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim, where she is currently the youngest member of the string faculty. Among her students are winners of international competitions and members of major orchestras.
Spectacular in temperament and profound in her interpretations of the cello literature from Beethoven to Ginastera and living composers, Jelena Ocic leaves an unforgettable impression on her audiences. Her flaming red hair and dramatic gesture enhance the communicative power of her unique cello tone. Not only Palm and Greenhouse but also Leslie Parnas, Mischa Maisky and Heinrich Schiff, have given inspiration on her way to becoming a unique and powerful musical personality.
Yehudi Menuhin Festival, Kronberg, Ascoli Piceno are some of the festivals in which she has appeared as soloist or in chamber music, and she has been featured with leading chamber orchestras such as "Solisti di Zagreb", the “German Chamber Orchestra”, the “Chamber Orchestra of Padua and the Veneto” and the “Korean Chamber Ensemble”, and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe.
Among her chamber music partners have been Konstantin Bogino, Ulrike-Anima Mathé, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Yuri Gandelsman and the recently deceased
Greenhouse, to whose memory her most recent Challenge CD (Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata”) is dedicated. Numerous composers (Cornell, Šenderovas, Dott, Sorg, Prohaska, etc.) have dedicated works to her. Her recordings with Federico Lovato for Challenge Classics of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” transcription, sonatas by Ginastera, Hindemith and Kabalewsky, as well as contemporary works, have been adjudged superb by the critics.
These beautifully recorded performances on cello and organ are certainly free in spirit, but they offer theatre and imagination, really bringing the spirit of the genre to life.
The Strad, 01-4-2014
Ljerka plays the big organ subtily and fantasticly colors the cello of Jelena
Luister, 03-2-2014
(...) one can not help but admire the improvisatory orchestral textures the Ljerka manages to achieve on the organ.
Early Music Review, 01-2-2014
An intensive interpretation like this that the croation sisters are offering here might not be something for everyone, but they handle to create 80 minutes of bristling emotional tension.
Fono Forum, 01-1-2014
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Words&Music, 16-12-2013
The close bond between these two musicians, that you can feel in every note, make this release totally worth listening
Crescendo, 01-7-2013
These beautifully recorded performances on cello and organ are certainly free in spirit, but they offer theatre and imagination, really bringing the spirit of the genre to life.
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