Orgelfestival Basel
In September 2020, between the two Covid-19 lockdowns, some 30 organists from across the world – from Switzerland to Latvia, Israel, France, China and elsewhere – gathered in the city of Basel to inaugurate the new Metzler organ in the city’s..
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Jean Françaix
Jean Françaix had a passion for wind instruments, in particular for the dextuor, an original formation for which he could combine the expressive richness of the octet, so dear to Mozart, with the shimmer and volubility of the wind quintet.
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Comme il faut
Bertrand Gallaz and Pierre-François Massy met in 1984, the year in which they gave several concerts as a trio with drummer Olivier Clerc, interpreting Ornette Coleman’s compositions in a creative and libertarian way.
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Grischuns dal cor
What do the composers Derungs and d'Alessandro, the work La Partenza by Oliver Waespi and the son of a Russian confectioner who emigrated to Switzerland have in common? Graubünden, the largest canton in Switzerland!
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Vue sur la mer
Le 7 septembre 2018, à l’occasion de notre 20ème anniversaire et après plusieurs années de collaboration avec d’autres compagnies, nous sommes revenus à notre formation première: le quintette. Les ingrédients indispensables..
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Psalms and Motets from Renaissance Switzerland
In the middle of the 16th century, the Geneva Psalter infected the whole of Reformed Europe – Switzerland included – with a true psalm fever.
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Clé d'or ResMusica ![]()
pour le dernier album Jean Françaix
"[..] Avec cette gravure réalisée par Claves au début de cette année, on déguste, grâce aux charmes, à l’homogénéité et à la musicalité
des vents de l’Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne, un large pan de ses productions pour dixtuor que Françaix chérissait particulièrement.
Nicolas Chalvin, musicien aguerri et inspiré coordonne cette réalisation avec goût et entrain.
Lui et ses instrumentistes s’investissent pour faire briller l’esthétique de Françaix. Classé dans le groupe « Jeune France »,
il appartient totalement à un néoclassicisme aussi léger que brillant, aussi attrayant qu’élégant, magnifiant cet « esprit français »
avec un double lignage vers Chabrier, Ravel et Poulenc, et vers Mozart et Schubert.[..]"
Jean-Luc Caron, ResMusica, Clé d'or 2021
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Out
The most well-known venues have already hosted the young musician: Paris Philharmonic, Musikverein in Vienna, KKL Luzern, Basel Casino, Dijon Opera, Flagey in Brussels, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Kennedy Center Washington....
The recording made in 2016 by the Claves Records label and dedicated to Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc and Komitas was greatly acclaimed by critics, including the Musica Prize. She obtained a “coup de coeur” by the French-speaking Belgian Radio-Television during the 2017 Queen Elisabeth competition.
Since making the decision to establish his own trio with bassist Werner Spies and drummer Hugo Radyn in 2006, Charl du Plessis has alerted audiences to the complexities and capabilities of combining jazz and classic music. The creative possibilities of this musical unit have offered him the means to produce a wide range of music not confined by any style or genre.
One of Ireland's most successful musicians, Dubliner Finghin Collins was born in 1977 and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O'Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. Winner of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the Classical Category at the National Entertainment Awards in Ireland in1998, he went on to achieve major international success by taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has developed a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe, the United States and the Far East.
The multi-talented musician was appointed the youngest principal flutist at the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra and at the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with additional conducting responsibilities. It followed a period of full time opera and symphonic conducting.
