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Ensemble Contrechamps
12+ albums
gammarec2jumaswiss contemporary
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Ensemble Contrechamps is a Swiss new music group, established in 1977 and based at Studio Ernest Ansermet, RSR in Geneva. Contrechamps has premiered works by George Benjamin, Unsuk Chin, Hugues Dufourt, Beat Furrer, Stefano Gervasoni, Heinz Holliger, Michael Jarrell, György Kurtág, Martin Matalon, Tristan Murail, Isabel Mundry, Rebecca Saunders, Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Klaus Huber, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Stefan Wirth and other contemporary composers. Many prominent conductors performed with the Ensemble, such as Peter Eötvös, Stefan Asbury, Pascal Rophé, Jurjen Hempel, Peter Hirsch, Jean Deroyer, Clement Power, François-Xavier Roth, Peter Rundel and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Notable international soloists who appeared with Contrechamps throughout the years include Teodoro Anzellotti, Luisa Castellani, Hedwig Fassbender, Isabelle Faust, Rosemary Hardy, Nicolas Hodges, Salome Kammer, Christoph Prégardien, Yeree Suh and Kai Wessel. Artistic Director Brice Pauset – since 2013 Music Director Michael Wendeberg – since 2011 Ensemble Contrechamps Members Laurent Bruttin – clarinet Gérard Métrailler – trumpet Olivier Darbellay, Charles Pierron – horn Alberto Guerra – bassoon Pierre-Stéphane Meugé – saxophone Sébastian Jacot – flute Jean-Marc Daviet – trombone Serge Bonvalot – tuba Antoine Françoise, Stefan Wirth – piano Sébastien Cordier, Thierry Debons – percussion Simon Aeschimann – guitar Maximilian Haft, Sabine
top songs
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Arpege (1986), For Six Instruments
222Oracles (listening spaces) - IV
103Memory Spaces (appearances)
94On Stellar Magnitudes
95Kya I
46Tre poemi: I. Per un fiore dato alla mia bambina, Lento vaghissimo
47For Eva Hesse
48Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado: IV. La primavera ha venido, Quasi adagio con amarezza
49Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado: I. La primavera ha venido, Mosso con vivacità
310Sex carmina Alcaei: I. O coronata di viole, Expositio
3albums
Castiglioni : Liedlein, Cantus Planus I , II - Donatoni : Arpege, Madrigale
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Prometheus
Promotheus, La chute d'Icare, On Stellar Magnitudes, Superscriptio, Carceri d'Invenzione III
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Memory Spaces
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Chiyoko Szlavnics: Memory Spaces
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Dallapiccola: Liriche vocali
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Nunes: Degrés; Nachtmusik I
Giacinto Scelsi: Kya
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Dallapiccola: Tre poemi
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Mahler, Lied von der Erde
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Prometheus / La Chute d'Icare / On Stellar Magnitudes / Superscriptio / Carceri d'invenzione III
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KYA