Issue 01_02/2025 - Focus "Talking about music"

SMZ (translation: AI) - 23 Jan 2025

Focus

I invite the listener into my head
Interview with Francesco Biamonte about music and language

In search of words for what is felt
"The Listeners" talk about the music after concerts

Pop, black on white
For Hanspeter Künzler, it is a certain "Je ne sais quoi" that motivates him to report

The discotheque (at Zwei) - a private listening club for everyone
Carte blanche from Moritz Weber

Chatting about ... podcasts
Susanne Stähr and Ulrike Thiele exchange ideas

(italics = summary in German of the original French article)

Critiques

New releases Sound carrier, Websites, Sheet music

Echo

With Bruckner's Third to Rome
The newly founded Swiss National Orchestra made a guest appearance at the Vatican on its first trip abroad

The future orchestra with a past
The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie is regarded as a pioneer of self-governing orchestras. In Basel, it performed a work by Daniel Schnyder for the first time.

Stored and unleashed time at the Dampfzentrale Bern
The Ensemble Proton and the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain venture a sonic tightrope walk with Enno Poppe's cycle "Speicher 1 - 6"

Penser d'abord à ce qui nous fait vibrer
The HEM de Genève et Neuchâtel celebrates its quinze years. Béatrice Zawodnik makes the point with us and imagines the future.

A Valaisan in America
Ludwig Bonvin, an almost forgotten Swiss composer and musicologist