Jean-Marie Leclair
A brilliant dancer before becoming “famous throughout Europe for his learned and elaborate sonatas, and for the elegance of his performance on the violin”, Jean-Marie Leclair is far more than the sum of his talents. His music is..
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Unpublished italian baroque cantatas
The Antoniana Library in Padua holds a manuscript called Cantate alla virtù della Signora Maria Pignatelli. A true vocal anthology of the early 18th century, this period canzoniere contains forty-eight secular cantatas..
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Duende
One hot summer day, I headed due south from London and crossed France and Spain on my road bike. Challenging it was, yet beautiful, emotional and colourful all at once - while pedalling thousands of kilometres,..
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Antoine Reicha
The two Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Flute and for two Cellos by Antoine Reicha show an astonishing balance between innovation and reflection. They bear witness to an outstanding virtuosity and art of composition, which revolutionise forms...
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Samuel Ducommun
Born in Peseux (Neuchâtel), Samuel Ducommun, a composer from Neuchâtel, studied organ first with Louis Kelterborn then Charles Faller, harmony with Charles Humbert, counterpoint and composition with Paul Benner. He later became a disciple of..
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CPE Bach
C. P. E. Bach and his keyboards für Kenner und Liebhaber allow us to enter into a forgotten world of sound where various keyboard instruments, especially those strings that are struck, mix and mingle, revealing new colours..
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DUENDE
"Quand il joue du piano, Teo Gheorghiu a cette capacité à parler à la première personne, même s’il joue la musique des compositeurs du passé.
Sorte de journal de bord de son propre voyage en Espagne magnifiquement gravé à la Salle de Musique de La Chaux-de-Fonds, l’album «Duende» parcourt
les pages célèbres du répertoire pianistique inspiré par la péninsule Ibérique avec l’envie de s’y brûler les doigts.
Les sons et les parfums du sud sont évidemment propices à un feu d’artifice technique, et le pianiste virtuose s’amuse à faire crépiter
certaines pages emblématiques, comme l’«Alborada del Gracioso» de Maurice Ravel ou la «Danza ritual del fuego» tirée d’«El amor brujo» de Manuel
de Falla. Comme le suggère très justement Patrick Peikert, directeur du label Claves et producteur de l’enregistrement, il y a bien chez Teo
Gheorghiu ce côté prestidigitateur propre aux pianistes roumains comme Dinu Lipatti, Clara Haskil, Radu Lupu ou Cristian Budu.
Mais, derrière ces sortilèges diablement efficaces, on apprécie dans le toucher de Teo Gheorghiu ce charme plus discret qui saisit le chant du
rossignol nocturne chez Enrique Granados, cette pudeur qui retient l’élan d’un rythme de habanera chez Debussy, ces arpèges
jouant avec le silence et des accents de guitare plus vrais que nature dans certaines pages d’Isaac Albéniz. Des gouffres
insondables s’entrouvrent dans l’ombre des grandes démonstrations de midi."
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Matthieu Chenal, décembre 2020
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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.
