Sounds of Lucerne Mirjam Lötscher & Thomas Wise

• Reto Stadelmann (b. 1977):
• 1 Flute Sonata 15:36
• 2 Pilatus 07:08
• Joseph Lauber (1864 - 1952): Grande sonate, Op. 53:
• 3 Grande sonate, Op. 53: I. Patetico 08:27
• 4 Grande sonate, Op. 53: II. Pastorale 06:47
• 5 Grande sonate, Op. 53: III. Burlesco 05:35
• Joseph Lauber:
• 6 Sonata-fantasia in una parte, Op. 50 13:35
• 7 Fantaisie for Flute & Piano 17:18
• Total Runtime 01:14:26

Info for Sounds of Lucerne

Atmospheric music from the Swiss mountains with late-romantic echoes, impressionism, and new compositional techniques—that's what Mirjam Lötscher's debut CD "Sounds of Lucerne" offers. Together with pianist Thomas Wise, she presents sonatas and fantasies for flute and piano by Reto Stadelmann and Joseph Lauber—two Swiss composers of the 20th and 21st centuries who fuse the deeply rooted traditions of the Alpine country with contemporary elements to create their own forms of musical expression. Stadelmann's works and Lauber's Fantaisie pour Flûte et Piano have been recorded here for the first time on CD—a discovery not only for Swiss classical music lovers!

Mirjam Lötscher, flute
Thomas Wise, piano

Mirjam Lötscher
Concert flutist Mirjam Lötscher has always been fascinated by music as language and as a form of communication that can transcend boundaries and promote cultural exchange.

Mirjam Lötscher studied in the master classes of Anna Katharina Graf and Charles Aeschlimann at the Lucerne School of Music. She subsequently pursued further studies in Paris, Munich and Berlin.

She performs in orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Opernhaus Zürich, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.

Mirjam Lötscher is devoted to music of our time and has performed with the Lucerne Festival Academy, at the Musikfestival Bern, the Biennale Bern and the Culturescapes Festival. She collaborates with conductors and composers such as Beat Furrer, Péter Eötvös, Christian Henking and Tsung Yeh. Mirjam Lötscher’s work with young composers of her generation and her CDs and recordings for radio and television broadcasters round out her work in New Music.

Booklet for Sounds of Lucerne