LE PETIT PRINCE
"I have always perceived music in the text of the Little Prince, this address to children, which expresses life’s graceful and transient state. Hence my positive reply to Eric Vigié, director of the Lausanne Opera, who suggested adapting the..
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GUILLAUME BELLOM
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..
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Fantaisie - Duo Perlamusica
Partners in work for the last fifteen years, Sophie Rudaz Mudry and Grégory Scalesia propose an unusual duo: piano and guitar. Searching for balance, they have developed, over the years, a finesse and airiness in..
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Geneva Competition Piano Laureates 2015
Montres Breguet and its President & CEO, Marc A. Hayek, have long-standing tradition of supporting arts and culture preservation. In line with this patronage, the..
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The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. VI
It is sometimes said that the Swiss are rather slow… As far as our project of recording Robert Schumann’s complete piano works, it is quite true that we have taken our time, with a first album published in… 2006.
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MOZART & POULENC
In recent years, Esther Hoppe has established herself as a stylistically confident, virtuosic violinist in both the solo and chamber music repertoires – someone who always places her stupendous technique at the service of the music..
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Son grand intérêt pour la musique de chambre et sa maîtrise d’un vaste répertoire font de lui un partenaire musical convoité :
il se produit ainsi avec plusieurs formations, dans le cadre du Festival de Pâques ainsi qu’à l’Août Musical de Deauville.
Il est régulièrement invité à jouer à la fondation Singer-Polignac où il est pianiste résident depuis 2012.
Guillaume Bellom a enregistré deux disques à quatre mains avec le pianiste Ismaël Margain sous le label Aparté, l'un consacré aux œuvres de Schubert (ffff), l’autre à Mozart. Un album avec le violoncelliste Yan Levionnois paraîtra en 2017. Son premier album solo Schubert / Debussy est paru au Printemps sous le label Claves Records.
Guillaume Bellom a enregistré deux disques à quatre mains avec le pianiste Ismaël Margain sous le label Aparté, l'un consacré aux œuvres de Schubert (ffff), l’autre à Mozart. Un album avec le violoncelliste Yan Levionnois paraîtra en 2017. Son premier album solo Schubert / Debussy est paru au Printemps sous le label Claves Records.
„Pure Music […]. Xavier de Maistre is a virtuoso of the highest order, profoundly musical and capable of realizing a remarkable range of nuance.” Gramophone
Xavier de Maistre belongs to an elite category of soloists who are redefining what is possible with their instrument. Aside from commissions from composers such as Kaija Saariaho, he performs works like Smetana’s “Ma Vlast“ with breathtaking precision, presenting masterful arrangements of works that are usually played by an entire orchestra. The interpretation of these works, that few harpists before him have even considered playing, has contributed to his reputation as one of the most creative and extraordinary musicians of his generation.
Xavier de Maistre belongs to an elite category of soloists who are redefining what is possible with their instrument. Aside from commissions from composers such as Kaija Saariaho, he performs works like Smetana’s “Ma Vlast“ with breathtaking precision, presenting masterful arrangements of works that are usually played by an entire orchestra. The interpretation of these works, that few harpists before him have even considered playing, has contributed to his reputation as one of the most creative and extraordinary musicians of his generation.
Charl du Plessis rose to fame when he was the youngest pianist in Africa to be named a Steinway Artist in 2010.
He has since embarked on an international career working simultaneously as classical and jazz pianist and has illuminated the music of Bach,
Chopin, Gershwin and Antonio Carlos Jobim and for a new generation of listeners.
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.
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.
Peter-Lukas Graf was born in Zürich. He studied flute with André Jaunet (Zürich), Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortet (Paris).
He was awarded the First Prize as flautist and the Conductors Diploma at the Conservatoire Nationale de Paris. During three years he studied conducting in Munich.
Graf won the First Prize at the International Music Contest of the ARD in Munich and the Bablock Prize of the H. Cohen International
Music Award in London.
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.
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.
Roberto González Monjas, Violin & Direction
Musikkollegium Winterthur
They were both just twenty years young and always good for a musical laugh when they composed the serenades we have recorded on this CD. One of them, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote his “Haffner Serenade” KV 250 for Sigmund Haffner d. J., who had commissioned him with a “Braut Musick” for his sister Marie Elisabeth's wedding with Franz Xaver Anton Späth from Salzburg. The other one, Othmar Schoeck, 130 years later humorously reverberated this genre, which had peaked in Mozart’s works composed from 1769 until 1779.
The genre of the serenade originates in the 16th century. Its purpose was to perform music outdoors at night so as to honor a beloved one or to show respect to a high-ranking person. In Salzburg, it developed into a separate tradition known as “Finalmusik”, with which the students of the University of Salzburg thanked their sovereign at the end of the academic year. At first, the musicians played the work commissioned for this occasion in the courtyard of the summer residence of the Prince-Archbishop. Afterwards, while marching through town, they performed a march also specially composed for the occasion, which had to be played by heart.
Musikkollegium Winterthur
They were both just twenty years young and always good for a musical laugh when they composed the serenades we have recorded on this CD. One of them, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote his “Haffner Serenade” KV 250 for Sigmund Haffner d. J., who had commissioned him with a “Braut Musick” for his sister Marie Elisabeth's wedding with Franz Xaver Anton Späth from Salzburg. The other one, Othmar Schoeck, 130 years later humorously reverberated this genre, which had peaked in Mozart’s works composed from 1769 until 1779.
The genre of the serenade originates in the 16th century. Its purpose was to perform music outdoors at night so as to honor a beloved one or to show respect to a high-ranking person. In Salzburg, it developed into a separate tradition known as “Finalmusik”, with which the students of the University of Salzburg thanked their sovereign at the end of the academic year. At first, the musicians played the work commissioned for this occasion in the courtyard of the summer residence of the Prince-Archbishop. Afterwards, while marching through town, they performed a march also specially composed for the occasion, which had to be played by heart.
Avec les deux CDs du volume 6 de l'intégrale des oeuvres pour clavier de Schumann, Cédric Pescia prolonge et ferme une aventure commune menée alternativement avec l'Irlandais Finghin Collins et L'Italien Francesco Piemontesi. Peu présent sur nos scènes hexagonales, ce disciple de Dominique Merlet au Conservatoire de Genève a pourtant à son actif une riche discographie qui court de Bach et Couperin à Cage, Messiaen ou Gubaidulina.
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Dernier volet d’une intégrale consacrée à la musique pour piano de Robert Schumann, ce double-disque propose un programme marqué par l’éclectisme. Loin d’être un défaut, la réunion dans un même projet discographique d’oeuvres d’inspirations multiples, couvrant de surcroît toute la période créatrice de Schumann, permet au contraire de mesurer l’ampleur de l’apport du compositeur au répertoire pour piano et de rappeler les tendances majeures de ...
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Francis Poulenc comptait Mozart parmi ses compositeurs préférés. Son unique Sonate pour violon et piano côtoie dans cet enregistrement trois sonates pour le même effectif du compositeur autrichien.
La mort du poète espagnol Federico García Lorca, assassiné par les nationalistes en 1936, choqua Poulenc, car il lui vouait une grande admiration. Il lui dédia sa partition, dont la réalisation doit beau...
Wer ein klassisches, charmantes reines und ätherisches Harfenkonzert sucht, sollte sich gewiss nicht jenes von Alberto Ginastera aussuchen, dessen rhythmisch-perkussive Ecksätze und ein düsteres, fast Shostakovich-nahes Molto moderato eine solche Erwartung gewiss enttäuschen werden. Das Konzert wurde 1956 von Edna Phillips, Solo-Harfenistin des ‘Philadelphia Orchestra’, in Auftrag gegeben. Doch Jahre vergingen, Philips zog sich aus dem Musikb...
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There are two common perceptions of “late works”, and they are mutually exclusive. The one regards “lateness” as a summation – a cumulative phenomenon in which the artist creates the crowning works of his oeuvre. The other sees lateness as decay. Some artists have been subject to both approaches. Beethoven’s last quartets were thought an embarrassing testimony to mental decline until Richard Wagner saw genius and logic in them where others had...
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Bianca FAVEZ, commence le violon à l’âge de 5 ans. D’abord élève de Gérard Poulet au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, où elle obtient un Prix de violon et de musique de chambre, elle passe ensuite une Virtuosité au Conservatoire de Genève. Elle se perfectionne auprès de V.Spivakov, A. Dumay, T. Zehetmair, et E. Friedman.
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Since their first encounter in 2007 during the Swiss festival Piano à Saint-Ursanne, Christiane Baume-Sanglard and Dana Ciocarlie have started working together and collaborating as a Four-Hands Piano Duo. The female duo has since played in numerous concerts and festivals all over Europe. Through their friendship, their contrasting personalities make for a vibrant mixture of energy, poetry and musical expressiveness.
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Swiss ensemble Trio Nota Bene consists of pianist Lionel Monnet, cellist Xavier Pignat and violinist Julien Zufferey.
Having obtained their virtuosity diplomas in chamber music at the Lausanne Conservatory, the trio perfected their studies in Paris with the Trio Wanderer and took advice from such professors as Roberto Szidon, Menahem Pressler (Beaux-Arts Trio), Patrick Genet (Sine Nomine Quartet), Christian Favre (Schumann Quartet), J... more_horiz
Having obtained their virtuosity diplomas in chamber music at the Lausanne Conservatory, the trio perfected their studies in Paris with the Trio Wanderer and took advice from such professors as Roberto Szidon, Menahem Pressler (Beaux-Arts Trio), Patrick Genet (Sine Nomine Quartet), Christian Favre (Schumann Quartet), J...
