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Coro della Radio Svizzera (AKA Coro Della Radio Televisione Della Svizzera Italiana; The Swiss Radio Choir) of Lugano was founded by Edwin Löhrer in 1936 and over the years has won worldwide reputation, particularly through its radio and disc recordings concerning the Italian repertoire between 16th and 18th Centuries. The Choir appears in formations which vary from Madrigal ensembles to over sixty singers coming from various nations. It is especially tended to performances of Renaissance and Baroque Music. After over forty years under the leadership of Edwin Löhrer, ten years with Francis Travis and three with André Ducret, the Choir is directed since 1993 by Diego Fasolis who has developped a further rich production of concerts and recordings.
Over the years the wide production, with "I monumenti dell'arte italiana", the new Löhrer Edition and the recording conducted by Diego Fasolis, has collected the praise of the specialized press, as well as several awards such as Golden Records, Diapason d'Or, R10, Star of Phonoforum, Monthly Record, Altemusikaktuel, 5 Diapason, Nomination at Grammy Award, Foundation Cini's Final, A of Ama-deus ...
The Choir was in 1998 on tour with J.S. Bach's Motets, and has been defined as the European Top at the well-known Flander's Festival at Bruges : it has at once been invited in 1999 for a new success with Monteverdi's Il Vespro della Beata Vergine and for the year 2000 with George Frideric Handel's Messiah.
Being a radiophonic Ensemble, the Choir has a very large repertoire which spans hunderts of compositions of over six Centuries, and in more than 60 years has collected a huge archive of productions.
Guest Directors of great renown have praised the musical and technical qualities of the Choir that, thanks to its flexible structure, feels at its ease in Madrigals as well as in Operas. Contemporary works are also visited with several first per-formances.
In the last years following conductors among others have performed with the Choir: R. Clemencic, Michel Corboz, Serge Baudo, Diego Fasolis, Ton Koopman, Robert King, Gustav Leonhard, Alain Lombard, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Fritz Näf, Andrew Parrot, Michael Radulescu, Helmuth Rilling, Nigel Rogers, Isaac Karabchewski, Mario Venzago.
The production is committed to the Swiss musicologists Carlo Piccardi and Giuseppe Clericetti. Several production received the scientific support of the Italian musicologist Francesco Luisi. |
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Gundula Anders
Claudine Ansermet
Laura Antonaz
Antonella Balducci
Rossana Bertini
Annamaria Calciolari
Alena Dantcheva
Lorenza Donadini
Suzanne Flowers
Elisa Franzetti
Emanuela Galli
Roberta Giua
Olaz Gorrotxategi
Esther Haarbeck
Colette Hochain
Roberta Invernizzi
Antonella Lalli [MB]
Paola Valentino Molinari
Maria Teresa Nesci
Loredana Nocerino [MB]
Katharina Ott
Silvia Piccollo
Silvia Pozzer
Nadia Ragni [MB]
Alessandra Rampoldi
Adriana Savonea
Lia Serafini
Anna Simboli
Doris Steffan-Wagner
Elisabetta Tiso
Ilaria Torciani
Dorothee Wohlgemuth |
Roberto Balconi
Renzo Bez
Emanuele Bianchi
Cristina Calzolari
Annemieke Cantor
Cristina Calzolari
Elena Carzaniga
Claudio Cavina
Ulrike Clausen
Thierry Dagon
Eva Dedkova
Daniela Del Monaco
Rosa Domínguez
Silvia Finali
Mya Fracassini
Maria Chiara Gallo
Caroline Germond
Isabella Hess
Christina Hildering
Dorothee Labusch
Suzanne Otto [MB]
Brigitte Ravenel
Paola Reggiani
Nicole Rossier
Fabian Schofrin
Bianca Simone
Liliana Tami
Clemy Zarrillo [MB] |
Sergio Allegrini
Marco Beasley
Paolo Borgonovo
Maurizio Dalena
Charles Daniels
Vincenzo Di Donato
Luca Dordolo
Axel Everaert
Paolo Fanciullacci
Edgar Fleet
Luigi Gariboldi
Enrico Gianella [MB]
Raffaele Giordani
Thomas Gremmelspacher
Jörg Krause
Frieder Lang
James Lewington
Davide Livermore
Giuseppe Maletto
Nico van der Meel
Sandro Monti [MB]
Renato Moro
Sandro Naglia
Gerhard Nennemann
Jeremy Palumbo
Massimiliano Pascucci
Michael Paumgarten
Luigi Santos
Martin Steffan
Baltazar Zuniga |
Antonio Abete
Klaus Basten
Matteo Bellotto
Fulvio Bettini
Mauro Borgioni
Daniele Carnovich
Richard Collier
Alessandro Colombo
William Dickinson
Antonio Domenighini
Jean-Luc Follonier
Thomas Foreman
Sergio Foresti
Alfredo Grandini
Gabriele Lombardi
Delfo Menicucci
Emanuele Nocco
Marco Radaelli
Pino Raduazzo
Ulrich Rausch
Marco Ricagno
Marco Scavazza
Achim Schwesig
Manrico Signorini
Walter Testolin
Yiannis Vassilakis
Salvo Vitale
Furio Zanasi |
