Fueter / Kost - Komponisten-Portrait - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Swiss musician See Siang Wong presents a compendium of new Swiss piano music in the form of works composed for him from 2001-04. Born in Holland in 1979, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described pianist See Siang Wong as a Inchsubtle sound painterInch. He made his debut with the Dutch Radio Orchestra at age 12 and has since performed concerts in renowned houses throughout Europe, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East. In addition to his interest in new music, he has also received high praise from the trade press for his solo CDs of works by Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Schumann, and Beethoven.

Passenger is Mike Rosenberg, the Brighton-born singer/songwriter known for busking his way to the global hit InchLet Her GoInch which topped the charts in 19 countries. Produced by Rosenberg, along with longtime collaborator Chris Vallejo, his tenth studio album Runaway is largely inspired by the North American landscape and geography, both musically and lyrically, and taps into Rosenberg's family roots in New Jersey. This brings a fresh new approach and sound, and speaks to the road going traveler in all of us. He explains that epic opener InchHell Or High Water,Inch Inch... was the first song I wrote for this new record. It's a song about trying to get you're head around the complexities of relationships and why, ultimately, a lot of them don't work out.Inch

Born in Odessa, pianist and conductor Boris Bloch has long been regarded as one of the most important interpreters of classical and romantic piano music. His large and ever expanding repertoire extends from Scarlatti and Bach, the Viennese Classicists, Chopin and Liszt, the German and Russian Romantics, and the most important composers of the 20th c. This new six-disc edition of Bloch live Liszt recordings contains the complete Annees de Pelerinage I-III, the Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, paraphrases on opera themes, as well as polonaises, concerto etudes and other piano pieces.