Caroline Charrière: Mittelschwere Noten

Suissitude (Swissness) What makes an identity? I have created 4 various musical descriptions expressing my concepts of Switzerland, and what seems to me is the essence of each section of the country a...

Suissitude (Swissness) What makes an identity? I have created 4 various musical descriptions expressing my concepts of Switzerland, and what seems to me is the essence of each section of the country a...

Suissitude (Swissness) What makes an identity? I have created 4 various musical descriptions expressing my concepts of Switzerland, and what seems to me is the essence of each section of the country a...

Texte latin (chanté) Augustin: Quid agis, homuncio? quid somnias? quid expectas? miseriarum ne tuarum sic prorsus oblitus es? An non te mortalem esse meministi? François: Memini … Aug.: cum sit profec...

Texte latin (chanté) Augustin: Quid agis, homuncio? quid somnias? quid expectas? miseriarum ne tuarum sic prorsus oblitus es? An non te mortalem esse meministi? François: Memini … Aug.: cum sit profec...

Der evokative Titel La Forêt enchantée [der verwunschene Wald] fiel mir rein zufällig ein und die Untertitel folgten spontan: 1. Par un matin [eines Morgens] , 2. Dans le lointain, e...

Die Idee kam mir unvermittelt: Es würde Undine oder Ophelia sein, auf jeden Fall einen Bezug zu Wasser haben. Als ich die beiden Geschichten nochmals gelesen hatte, entschied ich mich für Shakespeares...

Victor Music for the stage for Victor ou les Enfants au pouvoir by Roger Vitrac (1928) Between 2001 and 2006, Caroline Charrière wrote several pieces of music for the Théâtre des Osses in Fribourg, ei...

Victor Music for the stage for Victor ou les Enfants au pouvoir by Roger Vitrac (1928) Between 2001 and 2006, Caroline Charrière wrote several pieces of music for the Théâtre des Osses in Fribourg, ei...

This piece has been written for Swiss saxphone player Laurent Estoppey, with whom Caroline Charrière cooperates since 1994. He gave its first performance together with pianist Virginie Falquet the 1st...

La Voix meurtrie (The Bruised Voice) is an important milestone in my personal history. The first four measures have been extrapolated from an harmony exercise done in 1984 during my studies with Jean...

La Voix meurtrie (The Bruised Voice) is an important milestone in my personal history. The first four measures have been extrapolated from an harmony exercise done in 1984 during my studies with Jean...

Der evokative Titel La Forêt enchantée [der verwunschene Wald] fiel mir rein zufällig ein und die Untertitel folgten spontan: 1. Par un matin [eines Morgens] , 2. Dans le lointain, e...

Die Idee kam mir unvermittelt: Es würde Undine oder Ophelia sein, auf jeden Fall einen Bezug zu Wasser haben. Als ich die beiden Geschichten nochmals gelesen hatte, entschied ich mich für Shakespeares...

This Trio has been written to the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the subject 'water'. The piece starts very quietly in the low and middle register, getting more lively, whirles with trills befo...

This Trio has been written to the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the subject 'water'. The piece starts very quietly in the low and middle register, getting more lively, whirles with trills befo...

I wrote this piece in Janurary 1996 after a rehearsal with the Choeur de Jade (Fribourg, Switzerland). I was always curious to know what kind of melody, which is often mentioned at the end of some epi...

This calm and fluid piece with a pleasant harmony is, at first sight, written in the spirit of the Ave Maria of a Franz Schubert or a Charles Gounod/Johann Sebastian Bach, to quote only the most famou...

This calm and fluid piece with a pleasant harmony is, at first sight, written in the spirit of the Ave Maria of a Franz Schubert or a Charles Gounod/Johann Sebastian Bach, to quote only the most famou...

L’enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered] As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, di...

L’enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered] As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, di...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...