Prima Carezza

Prima Carezza is a favorite Swiss-based ensemble specialized in the overall performance of salon music. In lots of ways it is a totally exclusive chamber group: though it includes seven users, a lot of the concerts receive by just a trio of players. Furthermore, while they perform in a few from the leading concert halls in European countries, a lot of their concerts receive at luxury resorts, mostly situated in Switzerland. To increase these distinctions, Prima Carezza’s players, as sort of grand prank, once followed pseudonyms for the European tv appearance, but held their aliases for several afterwards concerts. Prima Carezza’s repertory is normally, of course, generally from the salon genre, with very much attention directed at the music of Romanian composer/violinist Georges Boulanger. Various other familiar names in the salon globe also appear on the applications, including Fritz Kreisler, Imre Kálmán, and Josef Rixner. Lighter fare by even more mainstream traditional composers, typically provided in arrangements, can be played with the ensemble, including music by Schubert, Brahms, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, and Raff. Prima Carezza provides made several recordings over time, most on the Tudor and Wintertime & Wintertime brands. Prima Carezza’s root base date back again to the 1970s, when its founding associates were students. However the group’s current formation had taken form in 1989. The associates result from the U.S., Romania, Poland, Germany, and Switzerland but bottom their functions in Bern. The associates of Prima Carezza are Klaus Neftel (initial violin), Michaela Paetsch Neftel (violin), Cheryl Home (cello), Tobias Schabenberger (piano), Fred Greder (dual bass), Wieslaw Pipczynski (accordion), and Christoph Ogg (clarinet). Originally offering most concerts in Switzerland, Prima Carezza obtained international see in 1994 when its Compact disc of Georges Boulanger music, Comme-ci, comme-ça over the Tudor label, was honored a Grand Prix du Disque from the Académie Charles Cros. Thereafter the group started appearing more regularly throughout European countries, and in such esteemed locations as the Gewandhaus in Leipzig as well as the main concert halls in Munich, Vienna, Paris, and Milano. Prima Carezza also made an appearance on the string of extremely successful recordings from your 1990s and in to the fresh century. Among later on efforts was this year’s 2009 Tudor Compact disc Pourquoi, Madame?, which presented functions by Boulanger, Franz Lehár, Grigoras Dinicu, Ludwig Schmidseder, and additional composers of salon music.