This work is influenced by the bilingual French-German environment of the city of Biel-Bienne (Switzerland). Two cultures clash each other. Latine impulses are expressed by some sorts of toccatas or dancing passages, the german ones rather by... Read more

The Variations, written for the Tibor Varga violin competition, correspond to a theatrical, operatic monologue, or to a clown’s number: in Jost Meier's music there is always dramaturgy, motion, in addition to the purely musical form. There are... Read more

A very dramatic and gripping work, featuring animated and lyrical phrases at a challenging technical level in all three movements. Read more

The music of “Eclipse Finale?” is a fantasy on the well-known German folk song “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” (The moon has risen). “Eclipse finale?” is a piece which presents the age-old fear that the moon will not rise again. The tuba, as in an opera,... Read more

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) describes shattering events in a narrative emanating from the depths of his imagination in a sensitive poetic language. The musical representations of these graphic scenes occur sparsely in subtle, restrained ways,... Read more

The music of “Eclipse Finale?” is a fantasy on the well-known German folk song “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” (The moon has risen). “Eclipse finale?” is a piece which presents the age-old fear that the moon will not rise again. The tuba, as in an opera,... Read more

The music of “Eclipse Finale?” is a fantasy on the well-known German folk song “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” (The moon has risen). “Eclipse finale?” is a piece which presents the age-old fear that the moon will not rise again. The tuba, as in an opera,... Read more