The Aargau pianist Beata Wetli has published a small anthology of Aargau composers from the 19th and 20th centuries under the title Aargau hikes recorded. It is immediately audible how predestined the piano has been since the early Romantic period to create a poetic atmosphere, to parade, dream, narrate, fantasize and capture moods even for less spectacular soundscapes. Pictorial and poetic are the most fitting attributes of this recording, which, in addition to a great stylistic variety - from early Romantic tonal language to late Romantic-Impressionist suggestions to neo-classical sound structures, everything can be heard - also offers first recordings.
The focus is on the 22 short piano pieces From a hike (op.17) by Werner Wehrli. His masterly cycle is synonymous with the programmatic title of the CD. In addition, works by Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich, Ernst Widmer, Emil Frey, Walther Geier, Ernest Bloch, Busoni master student Robert Blum and, fortunately, the multi-talented Peter Mieg can also be heard. And it is also clear that some composers were not included, such as Carl Attenhofer, Hermann Suter and Heinrich Sutermeister.
This may be regrettable at first. But in view of the urgency of Wetli's impressionistic refinement of sound, which is also captured very favorably in terms of sound technology, one can hope that a follow-up edition is planned with other composers. It would be desirable. Aargau offers an inexhaustible source of piano music spanning 150 years. In any case, this recording whets the appetite for more.

Aargauer Wanderungen. Piano music by Aargau composers from 150 years. Beata Wetli, piano. Wiediscon WD 9451