Comme il faut
Bertrand Gallaz and Pierre-François Massy met in 1984, the year in which they gave several concerts as a trio with drummer Olivier Clerc, interpreting Ornette Coleman’s compositions in a creative and libertarian way.
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Grischuns dal cor
What do the composers Derungs and d'Alessandro, the work La Partenza by Oliver Waespi and the son of a Russian confectioner who emigrated to Switzerland have in common? Graubünden, the largest canton in Switzerland!
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Vue sur la mer
Le 7 septembre 2018, à l’occasion de notre 20ème anniversaire et après plusieurs années de collaboration avec d’autres compagnies, nous sommes revenus à notre formation première: le quintette. Les ingrédients indispensables..
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Psalms and Motets from Renaissance Switzerland
In the middle of the 16th century, the Geneva Psalter infected the whole of Reformed Europe – Switzerland included – with a true psalm fever.
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Frank Xaver Mozart
A musical homage on Franz Xaver Mozart’s 230th birthday Already at my early stage of pianist, I felt especially drawn to the compositions of Franz Xaver Mozart, the younger of Wolfgang Amadeus’s two sons. His music touched my..
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Frank Martin
Free man, you will always cherish the sea!” Even Geneva-born Frank Martin (1890-1974), who walked along the Swiss Alps’ rugged paths when he was a young man and tried his hand at rock climbing, didn’t give the lie to the poet Baudelaire!
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⭐ 5 Diapason ⭐
pour l'ensemble Lamaraviglia
"Dès la publication du Psautier de Genève (1562), des traductions et adaptations polyphoniques des textes calvinistes ont essaimé
dans toute l’Europe.
L’Ensemble Lamaraviglia,
dont c’est le premier disque, illustre ici toute la diversité et la plasticité de ces psaumes,
en chantant notamment sur la musique de Sweelinck les versions en romanche de Lurainz Wietzel (1661).
D’une transparence parfaite, le contrepoint est subtilement phrasé. Ces déclinaisons inattendues confèrent à ces pages une
touche d’exotisme et révèlent un pan oublié de l’Histoire des polyphonies protestantes"
Guillaume Bunel, Diapason Magazine N° 703, été 2021
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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.
