Fortunat Frölich – Wetterleuchten

Joolerei

KOMPONISTINNEN-PORTRAIT

Fröhlich: Miserere - Motetten

Ex Libris Doctoris Amerbachii - Musikbücher des Basler Juris

Juon: Piano Quintet, Op. 33 - Kammersinfonie

Classical Music

Classical Music

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.

This new release from Musiques Suisses includes the three string quartets by composer Friedrich Theodor Froehlich. The Beethoven Quartet is premiering his works on this recording. Froehlich was a Swiss composer who wrote many orchestral works, chamber and piano music, as well as vocal works. The Beethoven Quartet was founded in 2006 in Beethoven's hometown of Bonn and are based in Basel today. Matyas Bartha and Laurentius Bonitz play violin, Vahagn Aristakesyan plays viola, and Carlos Conrad plays violoncello.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Burkhard: Das gesicht jesajas, Das jahr

Verliebt I Züri

Cantus coagulatus

Hanottere - Däichwou

STUBETE AM SEE - Ein querschnitt durch das Festival 2010

Classical Music

The pieces of Swiss pianist and composer Yves Theiler focus on the jazz universe, and seamlessly fuse together world music influences and minimalism. Dance In A Triangle includes seven of Theiler’s compositions. The works are performed by the Yves Theiler Trio, which includes the composer on piano, Luca Sisera on bass, and Lukas Mantel on drums. The ensemble is currently nominated for one of the most exclusive jazz-prizes of Switzerland.

Beat Furrer’s art of composition is like an exploration of fundamental principles, an exploration that is made accessible in the work and through the act of hearing it. Aggregate states in sound, musical processes, the nature of time itself and the contrast between the subject and the world are the topics of his works – though they are at the same time expressive snapshots of the moment. This portrait CD with works by Beat Furrer from 1991-2011 affords a twenty-year overview of his works. Aer, …cold and calm and moving, and Lied belong to a group of works that he wrote after completing his first opera Die Blinden (1989). Auf tönernen füssen (2001) after Friederike Mayröcker belongs to the time when he wrote his music theatre piece Begehren, while Studie, for piano (2011) was composed most recently, shortly after his music theatre work Wüstenbuch.

The four men on this ‘Swiss songs after 1900’ CD - Emil Frey (1889-1946), Walter Lang (1896-1966), Marcel Sulzberger (1876-1941) and Max Zehnder (1901-72) - can stand for a whole generation of Swiss composers who practiced varying forms of Modernism, but succumbed to long-term obscurity. Marcel Sulzberger must be regarded as the first-ever Swiss to compose atonal music. His works are occasionally reminiscent of the music of Arnold Schoenberg, but his main influence always remained Debussy. Edward Rushton is an internationally active composer, song accompanist and chamber musician.

Vrenelis gärtli - Neue Schweizer volksmusik

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.

Clarinettist Bernhard Röthlisberger and pianist Benjamin Engeli return to the Musiques Suisses label and are joined by violinist Fióna Kraege and cellist Milena Umiglia, in an album of mostly world premiere recordings. The artists write: “The genesis of the present album is closely linked to that of the Swiss Clarinet Music album (Musiques Suisses NXMS 7002) that we recorded in the summer of 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, as a reaction to the lockdown. Further scores had come to light in the course of researching that project, which have hitherto been largely ignored. Five of these works, by Johann Carl Eschmann, Paul Juon, Richard Flury and Paul Müller-Zürich, are brought together here. What they all have in common, regardless of the dates of composition, which span a century, is that their musical idiom is deeply rooted in Romanticism and late Romanticism.”

REVIEW:

All of the works here share a musical idiom that is deeply rooted in Romanticism. The surprising harmonic turns of Eschmann's pieces are reminiscent of Schumann and Mendelssohn, while Juon (the trio is from 1901) has been described as "the missing link between Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky". Flury's trio was written in 1950 to mark the 25th anniversary of Radio Bern, and Müller-Zürich, one of the most significant figures in Swiss 20th-century mystical life, demonstrates the utmost technical refinement in his 1937 quartet.

-- Records International