COSSONI & CAZZATI
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..
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PIERRE WISSMER
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.
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ZEFIRO SPIRA
This CD was born from the pleasure and desire to highlight the rarity and delicacy of madrigals and frottole by Philippe Verdelot and Bartolomeo Tromboncino. The beauty and “cantabile” character of this..
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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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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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Official release date: 01.09.2017
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 o...
Musicians And Amateurs
Musical tastes and practices in Geneva in the 17th and 18th centuries
Following the Protestant Reform of the 16th century, Geneva became a recognized intellectual and religious centre. Attracting an important community of foreign nobility, the city did not stray from European artistic trends. Itinerant musicians, amateurs and dancing masters were essential actors of the transmission...
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 House of Breguet began, in 2002, a partnership with the Geneva International Music Competition. Fourteen years later, this association has grown stronger, leading to the establishment of a genuine harmony between the horological and m...
