This album is closely linked to a previous "Swiss Clarinet Music" CD, recorded during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and features newly discovered scores.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Paul Müller-Zürich, a significant figure in Swiss 20th-century music, affirmed his belief in tonality, the triad, and the diatonic and chromatic scales, distancing himself from post-war developments.
Composer Biography
Paul Juon, born in Moscow to a Swiss confectioner, studied at the Moscow Conservatory and in Berlin, where he won the Mendelssohn Prize for Composition.
Composition History
Richard Flury's Trio in one movement was a commission for the 25th anniversary of Radio Bern in 1950.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Paul Juon, a composer with an independent late-Romantic style, was called 'the missing link between Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky' by a contemporary.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Despite being composed over a century, all works on this album share a musical idiom deeply rooted in Romanticism and late Romanticism.
Composer Biography
Johann Carl Eschmann, a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn and friend of Wagner and Brahms, was once a celebrated figure in Zurich's musical life but was largely forgotten after his death.
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