ABOUT THIS ALBUM
Catalogue No.: AZ1032
UPC: 3618115884698
Total Playing Time: 55:42
Release Date: November 2025
Composer(s): JS Bach, Cassadó, Hindemith, Ligeti, Glass
Artist(s): Nemanja Stanković
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core
Cello works by JS Bach, Cassadó, Hindemith, Ligeti, Glass
Nemanja Stanković, cello
On CORE, Serbian cellist Nemanja Stanković gathers five masterworks for unaccompanied cello that lie at the very heart of his artistic identity. The album frames compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gaspar Cassadó, Paul Hindemith, György Ligeti, and Philip Glass as successive developments within a single evolving tradition. Across this 300-year historical trajectory, Stanković applies a disciplined structural awareness, wide dynamic range, and vocal approach to phrasing, demonstrating how a single string instrument can encompass an entire musical universe, across centuries, styles and with sustained emotional depth.
J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Prélude
1
2:31
Allemande
2
4:14
Courante
3
2:35
Sarabande
4
2:21
Menuets I & II
5
3:26
Gigue
6
1:44
Gaspar Cassadó (1897–1966)
Suite for Solo Cello
I. Preludio-fantasia. Andante
7
5:53
II. Sardana (danza). Allegro giusto
8
4:40
III. Intermezzo e danza finale. Lento ma non troppo – Allegro marcato
9
5:57
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 25 No. 3
I. Lebhaft, sehr markiert
10
1:47
II. Mäßig schnell. Gemächlich
11
1:18
III. Langsam
12
3:59
IV. Lebhafte Viertel
13
0:42
V. Mäßig schnell
14
1:52
György Ligeti (1923–2006)
Sonata for Solo Cello
I. Dialogo
15
3:52
II. Capriccio
16
3:49
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Song V
17
4:59
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nemanja Stanković is one of the most prominent Serbian cellists of his generation, known for his expressiveness, technical virtuosity, and distinctive artistic identity across classical and contemporary repertoire. He began his musical education in Kragujevac with Boža Saramandić and at the age of 15 was admitted to the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he studied with Professor Sandra Belić and graduated as Student of the Year. He completed his Master’s degree at the Conservatory of Vienna under Natalia Gutman and earned a Doctorate in Arts from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He furthered his studies at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Gutman and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Enrico Bronzi, and has worked with distinguished artists including Alfred Brendel, Mischa Maisky, and Jens Peter Maintz.
Stanković has performed at leading concert venues including the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Flagey in Brussels, Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, Emory Performing Arts Studio in Atlanta, Shanghai Concert Hall, Lysenko Hall in Kyiv and Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade. He has appeared at international festivals including Beethovenfest, BEMUS, Cellissimo, Alpen Classica and Musica con Vista. He has performed with the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Milan Symphony Orchestra, RTS Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Serbica, Italian Youth Orchestra and Czech Virtuosi, under conductors including Marcus Bosch, Cristian Mandeal, Fabrice Bollon, Rafael Payare and Noam Zur.
Stanković has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the City of Belgrade Award for his album Tragovi (2020), the “Aleksandar Pavlović Award for a Young Artist” from the Association of Serbian Composers (2022), and the Muzika Klasika Young Artist of the Year award. He also won First Prize at the International Cello Competition in Liezen, received the Audience Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade, and was a finalist at the Johannes Brahms International Competition in Pörtschach. A founding member of the Corda Piano Trio, alongside violinist Una Stanić and pianist Vladimir Milošević, the ensemble received the 2023 City of Belgrade “Despot Stefan Lazarević” Award and the Muzika Klasika Concert of the Year award.
Stanković is currently Associate Professor of Chamber Music at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He regularly collaborates with contemporary composers and has premiered and recorded numerous new works. Nemanja Stanković performs on a cello made in 2012 by Carlos Roberts in Cremona.