On this Claves album, featuring a Serenade each from Mozart and Schoeck, the press information highlights how both composers were only twenty years old at the time of composition and how one hundred and thirty years separates the two works. This fascinating programme is played by the Musikkollegium Winterthur, a forty or so strong ensemble here...

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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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A Swiss-French composer in search of identityA musician from the French-speaking part of Switzerland approaches composition with qualms unknown to the French or Italians. His origins introduce a sterilising slip of a doubt into his mind. Should he find inspiration in the works of the great French composers? Or should he aim for some kind of fus...

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Our Youtube's channel is growing up and some of our playlists are more viewed than others. Our "Best of Classical Flute music's playlist", for example, is one of the most appreciated from our approximately 750 videos online. This playlist includes a lot of well-known artists recorded by Claves like: Peter-Lukas GrafMarina PiccininiMaurice Steg...

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