IL PASTOR FIDO
Battista Guarini’s Il pastor fido was a real literary sensation, which unleashed one of the last controversies of poetic theory and moral philosophy of the late Renaissance. It may seem strange that a story of pastoral loves set in...
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KORNGOLD & MOZART
For nearly a decade, the virtuoso violinist Caroline Goudling has performed with the world’s premier orchestras, in recital and on record and has blossomed from “precociously gifted” (Gramophone)..
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NICOLAS CAPRON
Descendant of a prominent family from Buerglen in Thurgau, Louis-François Guiguer, baron of Prangins, was born in Paris on December 1st, 1741 and lived in opulence thanks to the wealth of his great-uncle, the banker Louis Guiguer. From..
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INTO THE WILD
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)..
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17TH CENTURY SACRED MUSIC IN WROCLAW
Seventeenth-century Wrocław (then Breslau) was one of Europe’s important musical centres. Its three main Protestant churches..
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Before and after the War
The works recorded here, with the obvious exception of Philippe Hersant’s solo, were written between 1930 and 1956. Following the CD that Marc and I had dedicated to the memory of the Jewish..
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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 NOMINEE, MAHLER & SCHNABEL
Since the memorial concert for Artur Schnabel that took place in my hometown of Schwyz in 2009, which we shall return to later,
the MythenEnsembleOrchestra has been regularly performing the chamber version of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony under my musical direction:
at festivals, in museum concerts or in private venues.
Consisting of freelance chamber musicians and soloists from various Swiss
symphony orchestras, the ensemble functions like a small republic of art in which each individual musician has a clear say.
This approach seemed ideally suited to the music of Mahler and its manner of transforming the individual orchestral voices into
characters, sound metaphors and voices of the people. From a historical perspective, we felt indebted to the tradition of the Society
for Private Musical Performances founded in 1918 in association with Arnold Schönberg’s composition classes.
Due to the inflationary
economic conditions at the time, the music enthusiasts of the Vienna Circle could not afford full symphonies and had to rely on specially
arranged, cheaper chamber renditions in private settings.
In the ingenious chamber version by Klaus Simon from 2007, the symphonic scoring
of Mahler’s work is similarly limited to just 14 instruments with a solo soprano.
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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...
THE PASTOR FIDO OF BATTISTA GUARINI AND LUCA MARENZIO
Battista Guarini’s Il pastor fido was a real literary sensation, which unleashed one of the last controversies of poetic theory and moral philosophy of the late Renaissance. It may seem strange that a story of pastoral loves set in an exceptionally cultivated Arcadia could cause so much argument and resentment. However, under the pastoral veil, in a fei...
THIERRY SCHERZ PRIZE
Sponsored by the Pro Scientia et Arte Foundation and the Friends of the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad.
One of the main goals of the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad has always been to give young talents a chance, to help and guide them, reason for which, from the very start, the festival included into its program...
