| Reto Bieri does not like crowds and does not believe in mass movements: he feels genuinely alive in the intimacy of a dialogue. And he shares a particularly close bond with Schubert. ’I know that millions of people have heard his music before me, but I nonetheless have the feeling of being the only one to know certain details about him, certain facets of his musical personality.’ Originally written for violin and piano, the three sonatas recorded on his debut album for Claves are accompanied by a recording of ten German Dances (in his own transcriptions) and the celebrated ’Ständchen’ from Schubert’s Schwanengesang. He is joined in this magnificent laudation of human fragility by a poet on the piano: Gérard Wyss. |
