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)..
FIND MORE
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..
FIND MORE
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)..
FIND MORE
17TH CENTURY SACRED MUSIC IN WROCLAW
Seventeenth-century Wrocław (then Breslau) was one of Europe’s important musical centres. Its three main Protestant churches..
FIND MORE
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..
FIND MORE
CERHA
Despite my old age, I am constantly in search of something new. The path I take invariably leads to my own self. I must therefore constantly reveal new facets of my personality. Intensive musical practice allows the musician to find himself..
FIND MORE
Out
Out
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.
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.
more_horiz
The Israeli violinist and violist Nurit Stark studied in Israel with Haim Taub, at the Juilliard School, Musikhochschule Cologne (Alban Berg Quartet), Universität der Künste Berlin (Ilan Gronich). She is a prizewinner in t...
In 1999 I visited the beautiful village Ernen in the Alps of canton Wallis in Switzerland for the first time. I was selected to attend master classes by the world-renowned teacher and pianist György Sebök. He founded the master classes and an international music festival here. Little did I know that the weeks spent learning face to face with this master, practicing and watching him work with other pianists from all over the world would be m...
“INGENIOUS, BRILLIANT THIRTY-YEAR-OLD” (Le Temps)
“ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT ORGANISTS OF HIS GENERATION” (Revue musicale de Suisse romande)
“AN EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED MUSICIAN” (Diapason)
Benjamin Righetti is titular organist of the church of Saint-François, teaches at the Conservatoire and the University of Music Lausanne (HEMU). He was born in Switzerland in 1982 and is fas...
