• All three works are first recordings • The well-known Swiss violinist Bettina Boller is a member of the Absolut Trio • Booklet with extensive English texts about composers and their respective works

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Solissimo: Works for Tuba and Ensembles, features tuba player Daniel Schaedeli performing with the String Ensemble of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Wind Orchestra of the Swiss Army Band and the Swiss Army Brass Band. These various and varied pieces for tuba exhibit a range of sounds, styles and colors, from Baroque to jazz, from old to new. The Bern, CH born Mr. Sch�deli is tuba player in the Bern Symphony Orchestra and a member of the internationally award-winning Lucerne Chamber Brass.

What makes a vintage year? What does the 2016 vintage of Swiss folk music taste like? 27 hours of live recordings from the Zurich Tonhalle have been put in the wine press and have here been reduced to 80 minutes of music - 20 tracks by 19 different ensembles are the result. Folk music is a cultural heritage that has grown up over thousands of years, nourished by the topography of Switzerland and by the life and love for music of our predecessors. Every generation passes on the fruits of the generations before it, and adds its own life experiences to the mix. All kinds of things are tried out and tested, and even the blues is ground up among the glaciers until it comes out singing à la Suisse. Here, then, are the main characteristics of 2016.

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The fourth festival Stubete am See presented 32 ensembles from the realm of new Swiss folk music. The present compilation offers an insight into the 23 concerts that took place in the Zurich Tonhalle. The Stubete am See is a stage for folk musicians who on the on the one hand have internalized tradition, but on the other are seeking out new paths and means of expression and thereby help to renew folk music from the inside out.

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This new release paints a portrait of Michael Pelzel (b. 1978). The tracks included in this album focus on his chamber music written between 2004-2015. Michael Pelzel has received numerous commissions and awards throughout South America, Berlin, and India.

An exploration of the music of the Swiss born, Singapore based contemporary composer Martin Jaggi featuring a breadth of top notch ensembles including Luzerner Sinfonieorchester; Collegium Novum Z�rich, Mondrian Ensemble, the Basel Sinfonietta and more.

“Altfrentsch” is a rarely used concept in Appenzell dialect that has its origins in the German expression “altfrankisch” (“old Franconian”), which itself derives from the Middle High German “altvrenkisch”, thus “in the manner of the old Franks.” It means roughly “old fashioned” or “in the old manner.” “Altfrentsch” is also used to denote the original forms of Appenzell string music. “Altfrentsch” is thus the name given to the oldest collection of dances from Canton Appelzell. The dances in this collection, dating from the late 18th century, were only discovered in Gonten in 1998, and have thus not been frequently recorded or performed.

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