Filipe Quaresma (cello) and António Rosado (piano), two of the most distinguished
Portuguese musicians of our time, bring us a wonderful recording of Beethoven’s Cello
Sonatas nº 4 and 5 and the famous 7 Variations on “Bei Männen, Welche Liebe Fühlen”.
A beautiful album that register to posterity the unique artistry of this talented duo and
celebrates the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven.
FILIPE QUARESMA is "... one of the most interesting Portuguese musicians of today" (Jornal Público) and has
a ".... precise and superbly articulated way of playing, full of passion and often quite contemplative ..." (The
Strad Magazine).
Quaresma combines his intense solo and chamber music career with teaching at ESMAE, Porto (Portugal). He
is first cello of the Baroque Orchestra of Casa da Música (CdM), the Darcos Ensemble, the Remix Ensemble
CdM, the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble and the Orchester Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
A regular recital, chamber and orchestra musician, Quaresma appears in the major halls and festivals in Portugal
and across Europe, such as Casa da Música, Gulbenkian Foundation, CCB, New York Carnegie Hall, Hamburg's
Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall,
Concertgebouw, Tonhalle Zürich, Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Palau de
la Musica de Barcelona, working with the most prestigious Portuguese and foreign musicians of today.
He studied at EPABI (Covilhã) with Rogério Peixinho, at the Royal Academy of Music (London) with David
Strange and Mats Lidström, and at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Italy) with Natalia Gutman.
He has won several prizes and scholarships of national and international prestige, including the ARAM
(Associate Royal Academy of Music) in 2010.
Filipe Quaresma plays a Christian Bayon and a baroque cello by António Capela.
ANTÓNIO ROSADO is an “…interpreter in control of every note. He has so much emotion and poetry, as well
as colour and good taste" (in Diapason Magazine).
António Rosado has a nationally and internationally recognized career, a corollary of his talent and taste for
diversity, expressed in an extensive pianistic repertoire. He studied at the National Conservatory of Music in
Lisbon, and, at the age of sixteen, went to Paris to study with Aldo Ciccolini at the Conservatoire Superior de
Musique and at the Masterclasses in Siena and Biella. He has performed many times with national and
international orchestras and his discography includes remarkable works from the repertoire for solo piano and
chamber music. Distinguished by the International Academy Maurice Ravel and the International Academy
Perosi, António Rosado was also laureate at the Vianna da Motta International Competition and the Alfredo
Casella International Competition in Naples. In 2007 he was appointed by the French Government as Chevalier
des Arts et des Lettres.