Finally, after much work, I can proudly announce the coming of a new CD with the string works of Heidi Baader-Nobs on the  "MGB musique suisse" label.
Yesterday, in a  tour de force session of ESCAPADE I, I finished the last recording in the Zurich studio. Besides this fabulous solo violin piece, the CD will contain a string trio, a string quartet, and solo performances of Käthi Gohl and Kolja Lessing.
Heidi Baader-Nobs is not only one of Switzerlands secret great musical thinkers, but also a composer with an incredible affinity for string instruments - something that has become increasingly rare. History weighs heavily if you want to write for violin. Well not for her, judge yourself!

 Official launch in March, so more to come!

Salvatore Sciarrino 6 capricci to be played in Weimar on April 4th 2013!
Along with two first performances by Jürg Wyttenbach and Edu Haubensak i will play Sciarrino again, getting ready to record them later in the year:

As you know, I have always been fascinated about the many ways how you can get around - or rather: how to fiddle around the violin!
Ever since my Hindemith & Ysaÿe CD       I feel free to include those pieces into my concert programs. So now Sciarrino: They were written in the seventies for Salvatore Accardo, betraying an impressive insight in transcendental violin technique: Things that don't work as written, but with no other way of writing it - Hats off, Mr.Sciarrino!

These pieces are more or less recognisably modelled on Paganinis op.1. They create however a wholly different musical world  due to their different perspective on shadows and light.

Thanks to a magnificient public in our Gare du Nord concert we can boast with a very successful launch of our two new CD's, the "Tartini 1758 Gagliano" and the "etudes & preludes"
I'd like to thank the crew of the Gare du Nord, my pianist Kirill Zwegintsow and of course you all, who were there with us, and witnessed a huge weight falling of my shoulders - it may seem nice to be able to play all those findish technical stuff, but you know, enough is enough. Let's go back and play some easy stuff: Bach etc.. (??)


PS: Well, come to think of it: New frontiers already looming again with the new Ballada by Jürg Wyttenbach for solo violin, an  ambitious piece by one of Switzerlands legendary pianist-composers.

2012 was a year of much work, lots of recording, so it was a fitting occasion to receive my new recording of the Polyphonic Etudes by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst. Very decent - though I say it myself!
After this I feel easy about the coming recording of the 6 Sciarrino and their 6 counterparts by Paganini.

With the coming new website to accomodate the design of our Label streiffzug.com I will be able to upload soundbites. Until then stay tuned!

A HAPPY 2013! Egidius