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Stephanie Bühlmann, Benjamin Engeli – Zauberluft – Air Magique (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:37 minutes | 921 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
For her debut album, Swiss soprano Stephanie Bühlmann went in search of clues: based on personal encounters with works by her compatriots, she discovered musical treasures off the beaten track of the standard vocal repertoire. This is how the idea of an album of unknown songs by Swiss composers was born, most of which were recorded for the first time for the album ‘Zauberluft’. Magic, air, love, nature, soul, peace and home are the themes of the songs, set to music in enchanting, airy, touching, stirring and comforting melodies in the late romantic tradition. The life dates of the five composers Richard Flury, Urs Joseph Flury, Paul Miche, Peter Mieg and Daniel Behle, who set texts in German and French, go from 1896 to the present day. Stephanie Bühlmann studied at the conservatories of Zurich and Lucerne. She deepened her studies in ‘Lied singing’ in the Liedduo class with Hartmut Höll and in collaboration with Daniel Behle. As a sought-after soloist, she can be heard regularly in opera and concert. Together with her lied partner Benjamin Engeli she presents with ‘Zauberluft’ a series of fascinating first recordings.
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Sonja Leutwyler, Astrid Leutwyler & Benjamin Engeli – Hymne à la Beauté (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:56 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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The album Hymne à la beauté brings together seldom heard gems of chamber music in the delightful formation of voice, violin and piano — passionately performed by the aspiring and outstanding Swiss artists Sonja Leutwyler, Astrid Leutwyler and Benjamin Engeli, who are among the most versatile musicians of their generation and have long-established reputations within Switzerland and abroad. This programme of discoveries features captivating works by Louis Spohr, Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, Camille Saint-Saëns, Felix Petyrek, Czeslaw Marek and Ottorino Respighi. On a special commission for this release, the Swiss composer Martin Wettstein has composed the piece Hymne à la beauté (hymn to beauty) for mezzo soprano, violin and piano after a poem by Charles Baudelaire. The music is inspired by the incredible power of beauty, which is part and parcel of this world, giving us meaning and lust for life. At the same time, though, beauty can seduce and ruin people. Lying somewhere between kitsch and madness, beauty waits to be discovered by us.
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Bernhard Röthlisberger, Nils Kohler, Ernesto Molinari, Benjamin Engeli – Swiss Clarinet Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:27 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album explores clarinet music by Swiss composers from the mid-19th century to the present, showcasing six different instruments from the clarinet family. Five of the eight pieces are world premiere recordings. The main performer, Bernhard Röthlisberger, is principal clarinet and bass clarinet in the Berne Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist he has played with internationally acclaimed conductors such as Jonathan Nott, Reinhard Goebel, Vasily Petrenko and Mario Venzago. His chamber music partners include the Amar Quartett, the Merel Quartett, Esther Hoppe, Rafael Rosenfeld, Peter Somodari, Ivo Gass, Matthias Racz and pianists Benjamin Engeli and Christian Chamorel. He is the artistic director of Summer Academy Hitzkirch (Lucerne) and he gives master classes in throughout Europe and has visited prestigious institutions such as the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Gent, Leuven, Gnesin Academy und Tschaikowsky Conservatory Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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Benjamin Engeli, Florian Noack, Zurich Ensemble – Scheherazade: Zurich Ensemble (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:22 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Zurich Ensemble, consisting of four award-winning Swiss soloists, make their paladino debut with two of their own spectacular transcriptions: Rimsky-Korsakov’s much-loved “Scheherazade” and “Five Oriental Melodies” by Bortkievicz. Especially their version of “Scheherazade” follows the old tradition of making orchestral music available for live performances in private homes and smaller venues as chamber music reductions.
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Olivier Darbellay, Noëlle-Anne Darbellay & Benjamin Engeli – Constellations Ardentes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:07 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
Don’t be put off by the rather “gruff” style of this album’s first piece, Ori, from Swiss composer Jean-Luc Darbellay, played here by Olivier Darbellay on the horn, and on the violin, Noëlle-Anne… yes, you guessed it: Darbellay, a great family business, even if the work itself only runs to just ten minutes of intensity and musical experimentation. The mixture of the horn and the solo violin has its own charms, and Darbellay clearly knows what he is about. The album continues with some all-too-rare pieces from Koechlin, namely the Four short pieces for piano, violin and horn (played here by pianist Benjamin Engeli who is himself not a Darbellay), written between 1894 and 1907. There follow the Lunules électriques, for horn and violin, with Stefan Wirth, who is every bit as Helvetian as the other artists on this album. Electric? Lunula? This probably doesn’t refer to the half-moon at the base of the fingernail, nor to the Bronze Age jewellery of the British Isles – the local Celts hadn’t invented electricity back then, after all. Perhaps it refers to the Calophasia lunula moth, caught in a bug zapper? The album borrows its name from Lucretius, who, in his De Rerum Natura speaks of “ardent constellations”. But by any name, the album closes beautifully with Brahm’s Trio for horn, violin and piano which Darbellay, Darbellay and Engeli play with great conviction and spirit.
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