24/10/2013
ANA-MARIJA MARKOVINA
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Dear Madams and Sirs,
The year 2014 will mark a special anniversary: The 300th birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach!
It is a a highly unique project: Ana-Marija Markovina is the first pianist ever to have successfully recorded on CD the complete solo works for piano by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The box, including 25 CD‘s, will be released in February 2014 by the Hänssler Classic label. There is at the moment nothing equivalent in the classical music area.
It is our deeply felt desire to make the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach available to a wider international audience. For this reason, we are particularly happy to have obtained sponsors for this important project so that we can make it available at unusually favorable conditions.
Ana-Marija prepared different Solo-Piano-Recitals with the focus on Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's piano works. e.g. The Wurttemberg Sonata No. 3, Wq 49.
If there is any interest to organize a masterclass, Ana-Marija would not take any extra fee, because she would love to pass on her understanding of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s music from the point of view of historical performance practice to other pianists. We would provide the necessary sheet music, if you like. Of course she is teaching also other repertoire.
Furthermore she is specialised in barely known piano concertos, but especially in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's music she is an absolute expert. In her repertoire are most of his over 50 piano concertos (Wq. 1 – Wq. 47), e.g Piano Concerto in A minor. If you are interested in taking into account a piano concerto by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach with Ana-Marija as soloist we could provide the complete orchestra material.
What Ana-Marija says about CPE:
"Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has been at the center of my artistic work for ten years now. The inspiration I draw from his music allows me to gain new understanding of ALL music. Whether it is Mozart or Beethoven, Schumann or Schubert, Chopin or Liszt, or even “Pictures at an Exhibition” – my ability to understand music has incredibly improved after having studied the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.”
What critics say about her interpretation of CPE’ music:
„Poised between baroque strictness and romantic sensitivity, this music is totally convincing in Markovina’s so expressive sounding disciplined hands. Thereby memories of Wanda Landowska or Rosalyn Turreck are more than reawakened.“ (Stereoplay)
„The tremendous profundity and musicality of the Croatian-born pianist is also captivating. Ana- Marija Markovina plays with her whole heart and mind, phrases cogently and beckons listeners to make a compelling discovery with her recording of the piano concerto.“ (Gießener Anzeiger)
„Her simultaneously speaking and singing touch in no way smoothes the frequent pauses and beginnings but unites them conclusively into a sensitive polyphony.“ (Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Berliner Zeitung)
„Throughout, Markovina relates this as highly personal music, adopting a rather free, even highly romantic sound in this music. She is a pianist and unabashedly so. The A-Minor Keyboard Con- certo, one of about 50 that the composer wrote throughout his lifetime, shows off the dramatic side of the composer well: the use of dynamics as expressive, the harmonic twists and turns of phrase, the virtuosic and sequential passagework. Overall she seems to have mastered the techniques necessary for this music and has hopefully brought more interest to this extremely important, and perhaps more importantly, great music.“ (Scot Noriega, Fanfare Magazine)
„Ana-Marija Markovinas reading of the ‘Württembergische Sonatas“ is addictive!“ (Klassik.com)
„Markovina surprised us with breathtaking passages and a totally individual interpretation. Brilliantly rapid runs and sudden changes of mood characterise the Württemberger Sonatas, demanding an acrobatic and reliable finger technique.“ (Schwäbische Zeitung)
For more information please visit www.ifbk.com or www.markovina.com.
If we have aroused your interest we would be delighted to hear from you.
Best wishes from Cologne
Fabian Laubner
IfBK GmbH • Artists Management • Gocher Strasse 19 • D-50733 Köln
Fabian Laubner • [email protected] • +49 (0) 221 – 13 95 40 93 • www.ifbk.com
Croatian-born Ana-Marija Markovina studied in Berlin, Vienna and Weimar, and now lives in Cologne. She gave concerts and masterclasses in more than 40 countries. As a soloist she played with most orchestras in Germany as well as abroad with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra Tokyo, the Oulu Symphony Orchestra, the Stettin Philharmonic Orchestra Poland or the Romanian Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Bucharest. She played solo-recitals in the Vienna Musikverein, the Auditorium di Milano and at Berlin’s Philharmonie, in Rome, Amsterdam, Luxemburg, Brussels, Prague, Thessaloniki, Sofia, Kiev, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo etc. and at festivals like e.g. at the International Piano Festival Yokohama, the C.P.E. Bach Festtage in Frankfurt/Oder, the the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival and the Piano Stars Festival in Latvia. Her discography includes world premiere recordings of works by Hugo Wolf, Luise Adolpha Le Beau and Anton Urspruch. Her teacher and mentor, Paul Badura-Skoda, calls her “one of the most significant artists of her generation.”
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