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..
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CELLO CONCERTOS
First performed on 30th October 1946 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in the very midst of the Soviet turmoil, the Cello Concerto was the last of a series of three concertos, such as those for violin or piano, to be..
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BARTÓK & BAROQUE
"I recall as a young boy my father taking me to visit a family friend in Budapest, Elizabeth Láng, in order to show me a harpsichord. Both my father and I were intrigued by the instrument, especially the capability of coupling the keyboards. He..
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BAROQUESWING 3
The Charl du Plessis Trio is one of the most versatile and respected South African crossover ensembles. The diverse style of music this trio performs ranges from Baroque, Latin, Swing, Classical to Funk and sets..
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Shostakovich
This music draws incredible strength from the violent intersection of an overpowering will to live and the inevitability of death. First comes hope,..
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BLOCH SONATAS
Might Ernest Bloch have found his champions at last ? Nigh on 60 years after his death, the Swiss composer, born in 1880 of Jewish origin, naturalized American in 1924, remains relatively little known by the general public and music lovers alike. Yet..
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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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The Volckland organ (1732/37) of Erfurt’s Cruciskirche is one of the most remarkable baroque (Hochbarock) organs of the Thuringe instrument maker and music theorist. Jakob Adlung refers to it in his Musica Mechanica Organoedi (Berlin, 1768), saying that “Der Klang dieser Orgel ist unvergleichlich.” (“The sound of this organ is incomparable).
The foundation stops of this organ are rich in colour and ...
Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in d minor, op. 40 (1934) was in one of the first expressions of this trend. Shostakovich bows to ‘papa’ Haydn more than once in the traditional four-movement cycle comprised of a sonata Allegro, a happy-go-lucky Scherzo, a me...
This recording inaugurates a new historical series by Claves called "Revival", consisting of about fifty albums that have never been published as CDs; carefully remasterised, the recordings represent the firm’s initial years, from its creation in Thun in 1968. The whole product is 100% Swiss, the vinyls being made in Riedikon by the legendary company Turicaphon AG, still active to this day. The aim of this collection is to make the whole Cl...
After winning the 8th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2002, she founded the Tecchler Trio, with whom she concertized intensively between 2003-2011. The trio won several first prizes in impor...
