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It all started with him. His passion and skills for mechanics and electricity, particularly in the service of sound reproduction, led him to build and operate, at the age of 18, professional equipment (recorder, preamplifiers and amplifier) used for the recording of a first record. From there, it was one thing leading to another, with the creation of the company and numerous projects in a wide variety of musical styles. André worked for Kudelski on Nagra recorders, and was stage [...]

Almost 60 years of collaboration with VDE-GALLO. His latest major recording: Paul Miche's works for violin and piano by Alexandre Dubach and Marlis Walter (Double CD ref. VEL 1681-1682). A musician and teacher by training, Claude Maréchaux is interested in everything (arts, techniques, reflections), not only by documenting but also by practicing. He has made almost a thousand superb recordings, in the most diverse locations and conditions: at Victoria Hall for Mendelssohn's Psalms or [...]

  We are sad to announce the death of an accomplished humanist musician, an enthusiastic, competent and demanding discoverer. Chen Liang-Sheng, for 33 years conductor of the Geneva University Choir, composed of equally enthusiastic singers, passed away on February 27. We participated together in three significant moments, the first two of which, because of their financial scope, gave our small family enterprise a cold sweat: in 1971, the world premiere recording of the original [...]

Longtemps dominée par son créateur et dédicataire Mstislav Rostropovich (Warner) et par la version ample et narrative de Christian Poltéra (Bis), la discographie du concerto pour violoncelle Tout un monde lointain (1967-1970) a connu depuis onze ans (cf. n° 587 notre Œuvre du mois) un substantiel renouvellement, notamment avec Emmanuelle Bertrand (HM, Diapason d'or) et Johannes Moser (Pentatone, cf. n° 675). En voici un nouveau témoignage, issu d’un concert inédit donné le 6 mars 1 [...]