Natalie Clein
Cellist Natalie Clein burst into the spotlight in 1994 with victories in the BBC Young Musician of the Year contest and the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians. She was just 16 when she won the former competition and was the first British musician to win the latter. Clein has fulfilled the promise these victories augured, appearing on acclaimed recordings for EMI and Hyperion and regularly performing as a soloist with major orchestras around the world. She has appeared in recital with pianists Stephen Kovacevich, Kathryn Stott, and Charles Owen and in chamber ensembles with such keyboard titans as Martha Argerich and Melvyn Tan. Clein plays a broad range of repertoire, taking in works by J.S. Bach, Elgar, Tavener, and many others. She dedicates much of her time to young musicians, regularly conducting workshops and master classes. In 2020, she issued a live recording of Haydn cello concertos on Oehms Classics.
Clein was born in Poole, Dorset, England, on March 25, 1977. Her mother was a professional violinist, and her father an amateur violist. From age six, she studied cello, having earlier tried the violin. Her advanced studies were at London's Royal College of Music with Alexander Baillie and Anna Shuttleworth. She had later studies in Vienna with Heinrich Schiff. In the midst of her studies, the 1994 competition victories afforded her valuable career opportunities: she played the cello part in Duruflé's Requiem in an acclaimed 1995 Hyperion recording, and she debuted at the Proms in Royal Albert Hall in 1997 in a performance of the Haydn C major Cello Concerto, with Roger Norrington conducting.
Clein continued to build her career throughout the turn-of-the-century era. She performed Tavener's Thrinos, for cello and choir, on a 2003 Decca release. Her first major recording was an EMI disc of the Brahms cello sonatas in 2005, with pianist Charles Owen. That same year, Clein was given the Classical Brit Award for Young British Performer. In 2008, she formed a piano quartet with pianist Polina Leschenko, violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, and violist Krzysztof Chorzelski. Around this time, she was also becoming more active in contemporary music. 2009 saw Clein perform several works she had commissioned, including Thomas Larcher's Solo Cello Sonata, which she premiered at London's Wigmore Hall. Clein's 2009 Hyperion recording of Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for solo cello and other works, with pianist Julius Drake, was critically acclaimed.
From 2015 until 2019, she served as artist in residence and director of musical performance at Oxford University. While there, she inaugurated her Bach Project in 2016, exploring the composer's works through lectures, master classes, and performances. Clein, with pianist Christian Ihle Hadland, issued a recording of works for cello and piano by Rebecca Clarke, Frank Bridge, and Vaughan Williams on Hyperion in 2019 and returned the following year with a live recording on Oehms Classics of Haydn cello concertos. Clein is a professor of cello at the Royal College of Music in London and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock.
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Discografía
14 álbum(es) • Ordenado por Mejores ventas
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Bloch: Schelomo & Voice in the Wilderness – Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Natalie Clein, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 27/07/2012
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Bloch, Ligeti & Dallapiccola: Suites for Solo Cello
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 27/01/2017
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Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata – Bridge: Cello Sonata
Natalie Clein, Christian Ihle Hadland
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 28/12/2018
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Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1-2 & Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Hob. I:13 (Live)
Natalie Clein, recreation - Großes Orchester Graz, Michael Hofstetter
Clásica - Editado por Oehms Classics el 15/05/2020
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 etc. (Hyperion Romantic Cello Concerto 5)
Natalie Clein, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 31/08/2014
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Kodály: Cello Sonata & Other Works
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 1/06/2010
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The John Tavener Collection
Temple Choir, Holst Singers, Natalie Clein, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Layton
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1/01/2003
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The Romantic Cello. Rachmaninov & Chopin: Cello Sonatas
Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 4/09/2006
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 - Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 13/11/2006
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The Romantic Cello. Rachmaninov & Chopin: Cello Sonatas
Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 4/09/2006
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Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata – Bridge: Cello Sonata
Natalie Clein, Christian Ihle Hadland
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 28/12/2018
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 etc. (Hyperion Romantic Cello Concerto 5)
Natalie Clein, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 31/08/2014
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Bloch: Schelomo & Voice in the Wilderness – Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Natalie Clein, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 27/07/2012
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Bloch, Ligeti & Dallapiccola: Suites for Solo Cello
Clásica - Editado por Hyperion el 27/01/2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo