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Sep 30, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Quartetto di Cremona assumes 'Paganini-Quartett'

A unique and great privilege in a musician's life: after completing the Beethoven String Quartet cycle, which was honoured with a lot of notable awards - especially the ECHO KLASSIK -, the four musicians of the Quartetto di Cremona now assumes from the Nippon Music Foundation the so-called 'Paganini Quartet' - a set of two violins, a viola and a cello by the famous luthier Stradivari and once owned by virtuoso violinist Paganini.
So they join into the list of prestigious ensembles such as the Tokyo Quartet or the Hagen Quartet, which were also allowed to play these instruments on loan.
 

Sep 26, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Release | Award Next SUPERSONIC for Quartetto di Cremona

The recently released final production of the 8-part series of all Beethoven String Quartets with the Quartetto Cremona is no exception. This also holds the level of outstanding recordings and, like the previous parts, was awarded with a SUPERSONIC by the renowned trade magazine Pizzicato.

We are very happy about this appreciation!

Sep 19, 2017 | Schweizer Klaviertrio – Swiss Piano Trio | Artists Concert tour in South America: Swiss Piano Trio & Zurich Chamber Orchestra

​From September 25 until October 7 the Swiss Piano Trio will be on tour together with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. In 6 concerts in Lima, Quito, Cordoba, Rosario, Buenos Aires and San Juan, the Swiss Piano Trio will perform the famous Triple Concerto by Beethoven. Immediately after the tour, this concerto will be recorded as part of Volume V of the Complete Works for Piano Trio by Beethoven, performed by the Swiss Piano Trio.

Sep 4, 2017 | Release Darius Milhaud, congratulations on the 125th birthday!

​On occasion of this anniversary we give away the recording of his Suite française with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of Sergiu Celibidache as music download.

Aug 30, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News REMASTER OF THE MONTH

​For the excellent technical treatment of Nelson Freire's historic archive recordings from the 1966 and 1986, which were made accessible to the public for the first time, our August release Nelson Freire plays Saint-Saëns, Grieg and Liszt was awarded in the current September issue of Steroplay as REMASTER OF THE MONTH.

We are very happy about this award!

Aug 28, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News CD of the week: Darius Milhaud & Bohuslav Martinů – Complete Works for String Trio

The latest release of the Jacques Thibaud Trio Darius Milhaud & Bohuslav Martinů: Complete Works for String Trio was reviewed on Bayerischer Rundfunk and honoured as CD of the week. Here you can read the full broadcast contribution!

Jul 27, 2017 | Release ECHO Klassik 2017 for Quartetto di Cremona

​​The Quartetto di Cremona is one of the winners of the ECHO Klassik. The last but one album of the complete edition of Beethoven's string quartets won in the category Chamber Music Recording (19th century music / String Player). The award ceremony will take place on October 29th 2017 in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. The gala will be broadcast on television the same evening from 10:00 PM on by the ZDF (German Public TV).

Jul 18, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Award | Rezension | Release | Artists SUPERSONIC for Duo Pietsch - Eisinger

The third audite album of the Duo Pietsch - Eisinger also seems to be a complete success. After the first two productions (Grieg and Prokofiev) were nominated for the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) in addition to numerous other accolades of renowned trade magazines, the recently released third CD with works for violin and piano by Szymanowski and Franck also received the coveted SUPERSONIC award from Pizzicato.
We are very pleased about this positive response from expert music critics!

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