Ballade for… saxophone and orchestra | flute and orchestra | piano and orchestra | trombone and orchestra | cello and orchestra | viola and orchestra

Hans Zender Schubert’s Winterreise
Frank Martin Ballade for saxophone and orchestra
Frank Martin Ballade fur flute and orchestra
Frank Martin Ballade for piano and orchestra
Frank Martin Ballade for trombone and orchestra
Frank Martin Ballade for cello and orchestra
Frank Martin Ballade for viola and orchestra

The contemporary reading of Franz Schubert’s celebrated Winterreise by Hans Zender and Frank Martin’s six Ballades offer two ways of narrating a journey in music. By freely exploring the sonorities – sometimes unexpected – of different instruments, these works trace a musical path in which meaning arises from the journey itself rather than from the destination…

Sébastian Jacot, flute
Valentine Michaud, saxophone
Louise Ognois, trombone
Natasha Roqué-Alsina, piano
Clara Schlotz, cello
Ayaka Taniguchi, viola