Swiss Dreams (Live) Swiss Orchestra & Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer

• Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder (1725 - 1765): Symphony in E-Flat Major:
• 1Stalder: Symphony in E-Flat Major: I. Spiritoso (Live)02:56
• 2Stalder: Symphony in E-Flat Major: II. Andante grazioso (Live)02:24
• 3Stalder: Symphony in E-Flat Major: III. Allegro (Live)02:56
• Jean Baptiste Edouard Dupuy (1770 - 1822): Jugend und Leichtsinn, Overture (Live):
• 4Dupuy: Jugend und Leichtsinn, Overture (Live)07:17
• Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786 - 1868): Overture in C Minor (Live):
• 5Wartensee: Overture in C Minor (Live)08:14
• Hans Huber (1852 - 1921): Serenade No. 2 "Winternächte", WoO:
• 6Huber: Serenade No. 2 "Winternächte", WoO: I. Pastorale (Live)07:09
• 7Huber: Serenade No. 2 "Winternächte", WoO: II. Spinning Song (Live)02:07
• 8Huber: Serenade No. 2 "Winternächte", WoO: III. Reverie (Live)03:44
• 9Huber: Serenade No. 2 "Winternächte", WoO: IV. Legend (Live)06:10
• 10Huber: Serenade No. 2 "Winternächte", WoO: V. Carnival (Live)06:28
• George Templeton Strong (1820 - 1875): Suite No. 3 "Le Livre d’Images":
• 11Strong: Suite No. 3 "Le Livre d’Images": I. Jack le tueur de géants (Live)07:59
• 12Strong: Suite No. 3 "Le Livre d’Images": II. Les rêves de cendrillon (Live)05:03
• 13Strong: Suite No. 3 "Le Livre d’Images":: III. Cortège oriental (Live)04:40
• Hermann Suter (1870 - 1926): Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 23:
• 14Suter: Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 23: I. Allegro amabile (Live)17:11
• 15Suter: Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 23: II. Tempestoso (Live)06:31
• 16Suter: Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 23: III. L'istesso tempo, quasi fantasia (Live)10:16
• Paul Huber (1918 - 2001): Concerto for Dulcimer and Strings:
• 17Huber: Concerto for Dulcimer and Strings: I. Andante sostenuto – Allegro giocoso – Tempo di Valse (Live)09:59
• 18Huber: Concerto for Dulcimer and Strings: II. Variations on a folk song. Adagio - Andante (Live)05:47
• 19Huber: Concerto for Dulcimer and Strings: III. Rondo (Live)07:37
• Total Runtime02:04:28

Info for Swiss Dreams (Live)

Unfortunately, the diversity of Swiss symphonic music from the late 18th to the early 20th century is hardly known to concertgoers today. Swiss classical and romantic composers still lead a shadowy existence, even in Switzerland. This is precisely where the Swiss Orchestra, founded in 2018, comes in: it wants to bring forgotten Swiss symphonists back onto the concert stage and onto recordings and thus into the consciousness of music lovers. This double album contains works from the orchestra’s concert programmes from recent years.

"In 2018, the Swiss Orchestra was founded on the initiative of Zurich conductor Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer (former assistant to Claudio Abbado) with a clear profile: to perform forgotten, rarely performed Swiss music again. For the musicologist Wüstendörfer – she has published on the reception of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, among other things – this is the perfect terrain. And so, on their new album, the Swiss Orchestra and its musical director present composers and works that live a shadowy existence far from the usual repertoire – unjustly, as this production proves.

We enter the program with classical verve and elegance, with nobility and lightness: Early and late classical music by Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, Edouard Dupuy and Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee.

The tonal and stylistic diversity and sophistication of the Swiss Orchestra – resident orchestra at Andermatt Music – then come to the fore in their entirety with the Serenade by Hans Huber. In five movements, we experience atmospheric winter nights (the title of the work) – starting with an idyllic pastorale and moving on to the tireless turning of the spinning wheel, on which filigree strands of notes are woven, right through to the exuberant carnival atmosphere at the end.

The interpretation of ‘Le livre d’images’ by British-born George Templeton Strong is also characterized by a strong pictorial quality. Impressionistic splashes of color are symbiotically combined with delicate melodies and a powerful, indulgent orchestral sound. Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer succeeds time and again in creating new moments of tension and animating the Swiss Orchestra to create an evocative visual language.

Michael Barenboim’s interpretation of Hermann Suter’s Violin Concerto is extremely exciting, committed and intense. The program concludes with a delightful combination of folk music and symphony – a concerto for hammered dulcimer by Paul Huber, which Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer and Christoph Pfändler strip of all clichés on the solo instrument without completely blurring the dulcimer’s folk roots." (Guy Engels, pizzicato.lu)

Swiss Orchestra
Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer, conductor
Michael Barenboim, violin

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Booklet for Swiss Dreams (Live)