Maurice Steger
Recorder player Maurice Steger ranks as one of the great virtuosi on his instrument among figures on the contemporary scene. His range of activities has been unusually wide, encompassing both unusual repertoire and projects such as children's music. He has also been active as a conductor.
Steger was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1971. Pedro Memelsdorff and Kees Boeke were among his recorder teachers, and he studied conducting with Marcus Creed. Steger made a splash with a Karajan Prize in 2002 and began to find soloist bookings with the top Baroque ensembles in Europe, including the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, the Accademia Bizantina, and Musica Antiqua Köln. Steger also appeared with modern ensembles, such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Steger's list of prestigious collaborators is long and includes vocalists Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Röschmann, and Cecilia Bartoli, as well as violinist Hilary Hahn. His accompanists in his numerous solo recitals include Naoki Kitaya and the Continuo Consort, Markus Märkl, and Alexander Weimann. Steger's conducting activities in the 2010s increasingly ranged beyond the Baroque and have involved ensembles with no emphasis on Baroque music. Among these ensembles were the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
His solo discography is large and has mostly involved the Claves label (1994-2003), and after that Harmonia Mundi. In 2019, he released Mr Handel's Dinner: Music for the Opera Intermissions on Harmonia Mundi. Many of his projects aimed to reproduce a specific musical venue or juncture rather than simply covering repertory for its own sake.
Steger has also created a project centered on a figure called Tino Flautino, a set of recorder-oriented fairytales for children, that has been marketed with books and accompanying materials allowing children to play along with what they hear.
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Discographie
13 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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A Tribute to Bach
Maurice Steger, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Classique - Paru chez Berlin Classics le 8 sept. 2023
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Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto
Maurice Steger, I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 6 oct. 2014
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mr Handel's Dinner
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 26 avr. 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mr. Corelli in London: Recorder Concertos, La Follia, after Corelli's op.5
Maurice Steger, The English Concert, Laurence Cummings
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 13 avr. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Souvenirs d'Italie
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 4 nov. 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sammartini: Sonatas for Recorder and Continuo
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 6 nov. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Venezia 1625
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 21 août 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Musique baroque italienne pour flûte à bec
Classique - Paru chez Claves Records le 1 janv. 1998
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Una Follia di Napoli (Concerti, Sinfonie per flauto, 1725)
Classique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 23 oct. 2012
4 étoiles Classica5 de Diapason16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Concertos pour flûte à bec
Classique - Paru chez Claves Records le 1 janv. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tea for Two
Maurice Steger, Davide Cabassi, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana & Howard Griffiths
Symphonies - Paru chez Berlin Classics le 26 avr. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bernstein: Piano & Chamber Music
Benyamin Nuss, Wayne Marshall, Maria Kliegel, Maurice Steger
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin le 16 nov. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
An English Collection
Classique - Paru chez Claves Records le 1 janv. 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo