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November 09 2017

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November 09 2017

La Liberté: Chopin Recital, Finghin Collins

Il a étudié à Genève, a gagné le Concours Clara Haskil. Finghin Collins est aussi connu du public fribourgeois pour s’être plusieurs fois produit en récital et engagé aux côtés de l’Orchestre des jeunes. Après deux sublimes disques Schumann, le pianiste irlandais reste fidèle au label suisse Claves pour graver un stimulant et émouvant récital C...


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October 24 2017

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October 24 2017

Gramophone (UK): Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2, Finghin Collins

Stanford’s answer to the great Russian concerto It is not perhaps surprising that the key, opening flourishes and other episodes in this splendid concerto recall Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2. Stanford had conducted its British premiere, with the composer as soloist, the year before he completed his own. If the second and third movements do...


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September 18 2017

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September 18 2017

Gramophone (UK): Schumann Complete Piano Works Vol 3, Finghin Collins

Collins’s refreshing pianism makes a welcome return to this Schumann survey The Swiss label Claves has struck gold with Finghin Collins, the Irish pianist who won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 1999. Vol 1 was glowingly reviewed in these pages (A/06) and, while Vol 2 was given to another pianist (Cédric Pescia; 3/07), Clave...


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August 11 2017

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August 11 2017

Classical CD Of The Week: Child's Play - The Complete Beethoven Sonatas

Records are made to be broken, even in classical music. When then-24-year-old Korean HJ Lim recorded the (just-about) complete Beethoven Sonatas for EMI (Warner), released for a tenner on iTunes, it made a splash more for its audacity than quality. Two years later, in 2014, she was bested in every way: Swiss-born Chinese pianist Mélodie Zhao had...


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March 18 2017

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March 18 2017

Gramophone (UK): Schumann Complete Piano Works Vol 2, Cédric Pescia

Finghin Collins's first volume in Claves's complete cycle of Schumann's piano music (A/06) may be a hard act to follow but in Cédric Pescia, a young French-Swiss pianist, the label has chosen well. Vivacious, lucid and affectionate, all his performances are unfailingly musical. He plays Album for the Young without a hint of condescension but wit...


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March 14 2017

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March 14 2017

Gramophone (UK): Schumann Complete Piano Works Vol 5, Cédric Pescia

The Swiss-French pianist Cédric Pescia adds two further discs to his previous volume in Claves’s series of Schumann’s complete piano works. And in Vol 5 he admirably blends the familiar and unfamiliar. Yet, if his energy and enthusiasm are almost palpable, there is too little sense of counterbalancing poise, of calm as well as disquiet. True, he...


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March 01 2017

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March 01 2017

ARTAMAG': Schumann de l’ombre, Cédric Pescia

Participant à une intégrale du piano de Schumann qui parvient aujourd’hui à son sixième volume, Cédric Pescia assemble ici, pour l’essentiel, des partitions peu courues. Cela suffirait à faire du double album un ajout parfait à toute discographie schumannienne, d’autant que les cycles d’Études sur les Caprices de Paganini y sont enlevés avec aut...


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May 19 2016

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May 19 2016

RTS - Magma: Francesco Piemontesi, une étoile est née

Premier prix du concours Reine Elisabeth de Bruxelles en 2007, ce remarquable pianiste suisse connaît enfin la carrière qu'il mérite. Hôte du prestigieux Wigmore Hall de Londres et du Concertgebouw d'Amsterdam le temps d'un cycle des sonates de Mozart, Francesco Piemontesi est de passage à la Fondation Pierre Gianadda de Martigny samedi 21 mai 2...


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July 18 2014

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July 18 2014

Die Harfen-Fee

Wie niemand sonst in unseren Tagen verkörperte sie ihr Instrument; mit ihrer zierlichen Gestalt und ihren langen blonden Haaren schien Ursula Holliger geradewegs dem Märchenbuch entstiegen. Und das Märchen wurde Wirklichkeit, wenn sie in die Saiten griff und ihrem Instrument jene silberhellen Klänge entlockte, für die sie berühmt war. Am 8. Juni...


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October 04 2013

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October 04 2013

Ingo Goritzki, Mister Oboe

Born in Berlin, Ingo Goritzki first studied flute and piano in Freiburg i.B., where he found his way to the oboe and completed his studies with Helmut Winschermann in Detmold. Studies in Paris and courses in Zermatt with Pablo Casals and Sandor Vegh followed. A prize winner at various national and international competitions, Ingo Goritzki was th...


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