Finding her career expending quickly after winning the 1981 Concours Rostropovich in Paris, Maria Kliegel achieved celebrity for both her commanding live performances and her extensive discography on the Naxos label. Her repertory is wide and varied, embracing compositions of her own time as well as standard works from the Baroque period forward. She has lived up to Mstislav Rostropovich's assessment: "the best cellist I've heard since JacquelineRead more du Pré."
After undertaking studies with Janos Starker at Indiana University, Kliegel began winning first prizes in several competitions in America and Europe, including the First German Music Competition, and was chosen for the Concerts with Young Artists program. After enjoying the publicity that followed her first prize in the Rostropovich competition, she began touring and was accompanied by Rostropovich himself. Her attractive appearance brought offers of television appearances, and by 1990 her recording of Alfred Schnittke's first cello concerto brought acknowledgement from the composer himself that hers was a definitive interpretation. For Naxos, Kliegel has recorded most of the core cello repertory, becoming in the process a leading cellist in worldwide sales. The concertos of Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Bruch, Dohnányi, Dvorák, Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Schumann, Tavener, and Tchaikovsky have all been preserved on disc, as have numerous chamber works by such composers as Gubaydulina, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schubert. Several of these recordings were honored as editor's choices. Another major recording project has been the complete Haydn concertos with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. Beginning in 1986, Kliegel has conducted master classes at the Cologne Music Academy. In 1999, she participated in two events honoring the 75th birthday of her teacher Janos Starker. The first took place in Kronberg at the International Cello Academy; the second was held at Indiana University, where she performed with the Indiana University Philharmonic directed by Rostropovich. Kliegel performs on the ex-Gendron Stradivarius of 1693 owned for three decades by Maurice Gendron. In addition to her concert performances and recording projects, Kliegel has won acknowledgement for her broader services to music. In 1998 she was appointed a board member of the Deutscher Musikrat; she was also awarded the North-Rhine Westphalia Order of Merit. Read less
Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8501204
Release Date: 04/30/2013
Number of Discs: 12
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
Stefan Vladar,
Claire Rutter,
Matilde Wallevik,
Marta Fontanals-Simmons
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Conductor:
Béla Drahos,
Barry Wordsworth,
Stephen Gunzenhauser,
Kenneth Jean
Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8578214
Release Date: 03/27/2012
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer:
Oxana Yablonskaya,
Maria Kliegel,
Joseph Banowetz,
Ilona Prunyi
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Conductor:
Michael Halász,
Philippe Entremont,
Gerhard Markson,
Ondrej Lenárd
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8572379
Release Date: 05/25/2010
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Giovanni Battist Martini,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Christian Pezold,
Antonín Dvorák
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Performer:
Terence Dennis,
Takako Nishizaki,
János Sebestyén,
Maria Kliegel
Conductor:
Jaroslav Dvorák
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Capella Istropolitana
Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8572381
Release Date: 05/25/2010
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Antonio Vivaldi,
Carl Maria von Weber,
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
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Performer:
Takako Nishizaki,
Maria Kliegel,
Terence Dennis,
Alexander Jablokov
Conductor:
Peter Walls,
Oliver von Dohnányi
Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8572383
Release Date: 05/25/2010
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Arcangelo Corelli,
George Frideric Handel,
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Takako Nishizaki,
Terence Dennis,
Maria Kliegel,
Lucy Van Dael
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Conductor:
Jaroslav Krcek
Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8506019
Release Date: 04/28/2009
Number of Discs: 6
Composer:
Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer:
Christian Hommel,
Benoît Fromanger,
Philipp Spatling,
Daniel Rothert
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Conductor:
Helmut Müller-Brühl
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Cologne Chamber Orchestra
Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8504040
Release Date: 03/25/2008
Number of Discs: 4
Composer:
Philip Glass,
John Adams,
Charles Wuorinen,
Hans Werner Henze
...
Performer:
Nathan Gunn,
Adele Anthony,
Peter Sheppard Skaerved,
Aaron Shorr
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Conductor:
Takuo Yuasa,
Marin Alsop,
Tamás Benedek,
Hannu Lintu
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ulster Orchestra,
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,
Group for Contemporary Music
...
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8506015
Release Date: 03/25/2008
Number of Discs: 6
Composer:
Arvo Pärt,
Einojuhani Rautavaara,
John Adams,
Jorgen Plaetner
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Performer:
Jurgen Petrenko,
Laura Mikkola,
Maria Kliegel,
Elsbeth Moser
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Conductor:
Noel Edison,
Tamás Benedek,
Hannu Lintu,
Marin Alsop
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Elora Festival Singers,
Elora Festival Orchestra,
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8570760
Release Date: 09/25/2007
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Arvo Pärt,
Einojuhani Rautavaara,
John Adams,
Jorgen Plaetner
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Performer:
Laura Mikkola,
Elsbeth Moser,
Maria Kliegel,
Kathrin Rabus
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Conductor:
Tamás Benedek,
Hannu Lintu,
Marin Alsop,
Fuat Kent
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra,
Royal Scottish National Orchestra,
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8502502
Release Date: 11/15/2006
Number of Discs: 25
Composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Bruce Montgomery,
Michael Hurd,
Haydn Wood
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Performer:
Roderick Williams,
Iain Burnside,
Graham Johnson,
John Metcalfe
...
Conductor:
James Judd,
David Lloyd-Jones,
Michael Tippett,
Adrian Leaper
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,
Duke String Quartet,
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8552139
Release Date: 10/31/2006
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Qian Zhou,
Edmund Battersby,
Christian Kohn,
Silke-Thora Matthies
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Conductor:
Stephen Gunzenhauser,
Antoni Wit,
Michael Halász,
Robert Shafer
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Joachim Trio,
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,
Vlach String Quartet Prague
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8552133
Release Date: 10/31/2006
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Sir Edward Elgar
Performer:
Dong-Suk Kang,
Sarah Connolly,
William Kendall,
Sarah Fryer
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Conductor:
Adrian Leaper,
James Judd,
Simon Wright,
David Hill
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8552129
Release Date: 04/18/2006
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer:
Maria Kliegel,
Konstantin Scherbakov,
Ekaterina Saranceva,
Dmitry Yablonsky
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Conductor:
Christopher Lyndon-Gee,
Antoni Wit,
Ladislav Slovák,
Alexander Rahbari
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,
Éder String Quartet,
Stockholm Arts Piano Trio
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Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8556790
Release Date: 02/21/2006
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
Teodora Miteva,
Peter Schmidl,
Madoka Inui,
Jénö Jandó
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Conductor:
Béla Drahos,
Kenneth Jean,
Barry Wordsworth
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia,
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra,
Capella Istropolitana