Virtuoso Music for Cello
Derived from the viole da braccio family rather than that of the viols, the cello gained its independence in the Cremona cradle of Italian instrument making between the 16th and early 18th century. It adopted..
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Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18
November 1792. With a grant from the Prince-elector of Cologne and an invitation from Joseph Haydn to come and study with him, young Beethoven arrived in Vienna. At that time, there could be no better place for....
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L'Esprit des Six
«Les Six», composed of Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983), Georges Auric (1899-1983), Louis Durey (1888-1979) and Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), was active in Paris during..
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Brahms: The Symphonies
Thomas Zehetmair, exceptional musician of the classical scene, is offering us here an unusual vision of Brahms symphonies.
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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.
ICMA AWARD 2019
Seventeenth-century Wrocław (then Breslau) was one of Europe’s important musical centres. Its three main Protestant churches – St. Elisabeth, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Bernardine – collected extensive music libraries.
Their repertoire was shaped both by prints imported from Italy and Germany, and by works composed by local cantors and organists employed in church ensembles.
A separate collection of nearly 400 prints from 1610–55 reposed in private hands for most of the century.
It had probably been initiated by Ambrosius Profe, the organist of the Church of St. Elizabeth in 1633–49, and later owned by Daniel Sartorius, a teacher in the church gymnasium.
After the latter’s death the music prints were incorporated into the Biblioteca Rhedigeriana, a collection of rare manuscripts, prints, paintings, sculptures, coins and minerals assembled by a Breslau patrician Thoms Rhediger (1540–76).
PERFORMERS
Stephan MacLeod – Conductor
GLI ANGELI GENÈVE
Aleksandra Lewandowska, Grace Davidson – Sopranos
Alex Potter – Alto
Jan Kobow, Stephan Gähler – Tenors
Stephan MacLeod – Bass
Marzena Michałowska, Aleksandra Turalska – Sopranos
Piotr Olech – Alto
Maciej Gocman, Václav Čížek – Tenors
Jaromír Nosek – Bass
CONCERTO PALATINO
Bruce Dickey, Gawain Glenton – Cornets
Simen Van Mechelen, Claire MacIntyre, Charles Toet, Joost Swinkels – Trombones
WROCŁAW BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Zbigniew Pilch (Leader), Adam Pastuszka – Violins
Dominika Małecka – Viola
Jarosław Thiel (Artistic Director) – Cello
Ondřej Štajnochr – Violone
Adrian Rovatkay – Dulcian
Marcin Szelest (Musicologist, Artistic Consultant) – Organ
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During the first half of the twentieth century, many Swiss Romandy composers received parallel training in Germany and then in Paris, maintaining often afterwards, respective ties with both the Latin and German poles of their homeland. This was the case of Frank Martin. For the Genevan Pierre Wissmer, it was France, and this country alone, which would be his home base, in his life as in his creative aesthetics.
Born in Geneva, Pierre...
This CD brings together pieces of different nature, composed between 2010 and 2015. The specificity of each commission (homage to Beethoven, concertos, narrative music for the general public) led me to musical codes that differ in each case, without however relinquishing my “obsessions”: an attractive yet atonal harmonic language, expressive polyrhythmics, a melody that develops in a poly-metric space. Each time I attempt to solve a new poe...
When Othmar Schoeck began writing Vom Fischer un syner Fru (The Fisherman and his Wife) in the summer of 1928, he happened to be on an extended stay at Werner Reinhart's holiday house on the "Fluh" in Maur on the Greifensee lake. The Winterthur merchant Reinhart (1884–1951), who worked in the Gebrüder Volkart family business and possessed a considerable fortune, was also a patro...
MUSIC IN BOLOGNA AROUND 1660
The programme offers a fascinating journey through the sacred and the secular, delving into the lives of two major figures of the musical milieu in Bologna in the mid-17th century: Maurizio Cazzati (1616- 1678) and Carlo Donato Cossoni (1623-1700). For both of these “foreigners”, moving to Bologna had a huge influence on their artistic careers. [..] - Luigi Collarile
