Maurice Steger

Maurice Steger will be performing this Sunday at the Festival of Early Music (Festival de Música Antigua) in Seville. Together with Avi Avital, Hille Perl, David Bergmüller, and Sebastian Wienand, he will present their established program on Johann Sebastian Bach’s notebooks.

March 15th 2026, Sevilla

This week, Maurice Steger is back in Ankara to perform with the Orkestra Akademik Başkent for the first time. Thursday’s concert will feature a colorful Italian program with works by Brescaniello, Geminiani, Vivaldi, and others, setting a positive tone for the end of the year.

December 18th 2025, Ankara

Maurice Steger is spending the last days of November playing concerts both on his doorstep and far away in China.
This Friday, he will be performing in Shanghai as part of the Early Music Festival, together with Sebastian Wienand.
Next Wednesday, he will play in his hometown of Zurich. At the Tonhalle, he will present the programme ‘Les Nations’ together with Chouchane Siranossian, Alex Jellici and Irene González Roldán.

November 21st 2025, Shanghai
November 26th 2025, Zürich

Before October drops its final calendar page, Maurice Steger still has two orchestra projects ahead of him:
This week, he is a guest with the Argovia Philharmonic to prepare a program of works by Telemann, Haydn, and Mozart. These will then be presented at concerts in Vilmergen, Rheinfelden, and Beinwil from Thursday to Saturday.
After that, he will travel to Bochum to join the local symphony orchestra. Under the motto “Sacrifice and Praise,” half of the concert will feature works by Johann Sebastian Bach and half by Antonio Vivaldi.

October 23rd 2025, Vilmergen
October 24th 2025, Rheinfelden
October 25th 2025, Beinwil

November 1st 2025, Bochum

Maurice Steger will be performing several concerts with the Zagreb Soloists in Croatia this autumn. First, they will appear together tonight at the Baroque Evenings in Varazdin, a city that was celebrated in Emmerich Káláman’s operetta Countess Marizia in 1924. However, the programme of Maurice Steger and the Zagreb Soloists will not be of Hungarian origin, but rather Italian/German, featuring works by J. S. Bach, Arcangelo Corelli and Domenico Sarro, among others.
After several projects in Germany and Switzerland, Maurice Steger will return to Croatia in October to present the programme to the audience in Zagreb on 11 October.

September 29th 2025, Varazdin
October 11th 2025, Zagreb

Even though they have already played together several times, Maurice Steger and Martin Stadtfeld will both be performing at the Mainz Music Summer this year, but in their own concerts.

Maurice Steger is coming to the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital this Friday together with Hille Perl and Céline Pasche. They will demonstrate the great musical potential offered by the combination of recorder, harp and viola da gamba.

Martin Stadtfeld will then begin his visit to Mainz on 29 July with a family concert in which he will play and talk to young and old about Beethoven. In the evening, Martin Stadtfeld will not only entice the audience with works by J. S. Bach, Chopin and, once again, Beethoven, but also with some of his favourite self-arranged folk songs.

July 18th 2025, Evening concert Maurice Steger
July 29th 2025, Family concert Martin Stadtfeld
July 29th 2025, Evening concert Maurice Steger

This week, Maurice Steger is travelling back to East Frisia for his beloved Gezeitenkonzerte series. Together with Nuria Rial, Julia Schröder, Christoph Dangel and Arianna Radaelli, he will present the programme ‘Il Giardino D’Amore’ in the Nicolaikirche Wittmund. This program includes works by Scarlatti, Falconiero and Corelli, among others, bringing an Italian summer night to northern Germany.

July 2nd 2025, Wittmund

Maurice Steger | Recorder
Martin Stadtfeld | Piano

The musicians were united not only by their harmonious yet unfailingly tension-keeping interaction, but also by their extraordinary sensitivity to music, their palpable heartfelt language, and their bold interpretation, that always stayed respectful of the work’s creator.
(Schwäbische, August 27th 2021)

J. S. Bach Sonata D minor, BWV 527
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 1st Sonata in D major op. 91 pour un clavecin et une flûte
J. S. Bach Sonata G minor, BWV 1020
Handel Sonata A minor, HWV 362
Handel/Stadtfeld Arias arranged for instruments: Lascia ch’io pianga – Will the sun forget to streak
Sammartini Sonata IV G major for recorder & b.c.iiiiiiii

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Maurice Steger is back in Vienna to perform in the beautiful Brahms Hall of the Musikverein tomorrow. Together with Avi Avital and Sebastian Wienand, he will present an Italian programme with works by Scarlatti and Vivaldi and more.

June 5th 2025, Vienna

Venezia – Travel in Time to the Serenissima

Maurice Steger celebrates a colorful program full of pieces from Venice that are well-known or almost forgotten with high-profile colleagues from the baroque world like for example Amandine Beyer, Sebastian Wienand, Daniele Caminiti or Mauro Valli.

Program (subject to change)

Marco Uccellini
Symphonia XVII La Stucharda – per quatro canti e basso
Salomone Rossi
Sinfonia XI in eco – per due canti
Marco Uccellini
Symphonia XIV La Foschina – Aria con diminuzioni, per canti e basso

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto La Pastorella D major, RV 95
Allegro | Largo | Allegro
per flauto, oboe, violino, fagotto e basso

Giovanni Battista Riccio
Canzon a quattro
Giovanni Batista Fontana
Sonata seconda a canto solo
from: Sonate a 1 2 3. Per il violin, o cornetto a simile altro istrumento, Venezia 1641
Andrea Gabrieli
Ricercar Anchor che co‘l partire
after Cipriano de Rore
Marco Uccellini
Aria sopra la Bergamasca – per due canti, from: Sonate, arie e correnti, Venezia 1642

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto D major, RV 92
Allegro | Largo | Allegro
per flauto, violino, fagotto o basso
Claudio Monteverdi
Damigella tutta bella from: Scherzi Musicali, Venedig 1607
Improvisation per tiorba
Tarquinio Merula
Canzon La Pighetta – per canto e basso
Aria Folle è ben chi si crede from: Curtio precipitato et altri capricii, Venedig 1638

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto G minor, RV 107
Allegro | Largo | Allegro
per flauto, oboe, violino, fagotto e basso

Maurice Steger | Recorder
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

small orchestration (8 musicians) or big orchestration (15 musicians)

“Maurice Steger and the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel with euphony, virtuosity and great joy of playing. As always with these artists, a great pleasure!” (Online Merker, 2023)

Dialoghi con sig. Vivaldi
Vivaldi Concerto per archi G minor RV 157
J. S. Bach Concerto D major for recorder, strings & b.c., BWV 1053R
Vivaldi Concerto per violoncello e fagotto E minor RV 409
D. Sarro Concerto XI for recorder A minor
Vivaldi Concerto C major for strings & b.c. RV 114
Vivaldi Concerto La Notte in G minor RV 439 per flauto, strings & continuo
Vivaldi Concerto Il Gardellino in D major RV 428 per flautino, two violins, strings & continuo

Bach & Telemann

Telemann Concerto F major for recorder, bassoon, strings & b.c., TWV 52:F1
J. S. Bach Cocnert D major for recorder, strings & b.c., BWV 1053R
J. S. Bach Ricercar à 6 from The Musical Sacrifice, BWV 1079
J. S. Bach Concerto F major for harpsichord, two recorders, strings & b.c., BWV 1057
Telemann Overture B-flat major TWV 55:B5 (Suite Les Nations) for strings & b.c.

Excerpts from
J. S. Bach Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
J. S. Bach Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Audiences in many countries look forward to seeing Maurice Steger on stage. This May, he will be appearing with orchestras in Turkey and Lithuania.
On Thursday in Bursa, near Istanbul, he will perform a programme with the local symphony orchestra that focuses on works by Antonio Vivaldi.
Next week he will travel to Klaipeda in Lithuania to perform an equally delightful Italian programme with the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra.

May 15th 2025, Bursa
May 24th 2025, Klaipeda

La Ciaconna
Maurice Steger | Recorder
David Castro Balbi | Violin
Andreas Fleck | Violoncello
Sebastian Wienand | Harpsichord

Program
Vivaldi Concerto D major RV 92
Scarlatti Two sonatas for harpsichord solo
Merula Canzoni per canti e bassi
Merula La posterla per due canti
Merula La pighetta per canto e basso
Merula La ciaccona per due canti
Tartini Sonata G minor Devil‘s trill
Corelli Sonata No. 11 A major op. 5
Vivaldi La follia RV 63
Vivaldi Adagio, theme of the sarabande with
Vivaldi 19 variations

In Maurice Steger’s new tale Tino Flautino and the Tomcat Leo, the little hero takes off on a new adventure through baroque Europe.
The recorder player Maurice Steger sends his title character Tino Flautino on another journey, and a very exciting one indeed: Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo are sitting in the palace gardens when three pages of sheet music are carried away by the wind. And it is marvelous music! There is only one problem: while Tino is very impressed by the piece, it does not yet have an ending. One page seems to be missing. Thus, Tino embarks on a mission to search for the missing page. He travels through Germany, where he meets Johann Sebastian Bach – but the music surely is not his. The composers Tino meets in Venice can’t help him out, either. He goes on to Naples – and there…
The new tale of the little flautist is once again a creative play with illusions, inviting to listen to, travel along with and to engage in the guessing game. “The great thing about Tino Flautino is, that he succeeds with very few means”, says Maurice Steger. “In reality, the story develops in the minds of the listeners, they can let their imaginations run wild and discover the great world of music by themselves.”

Orchestra version
string orchestra
2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 bassoon
harpsichord
recorder
narrator (preferably local)

Trio/quartet version
recorder
piano
narrator (preferably local)
maybe violin

Other musical tales upon request:
Tino Flautino, Tino Flautino and the Magic Melody, Pinocchio and the Recorder Player

Photo Tino Flautino: Sibylle Heusser, Oculus Illustration
Text: Axel Brüggemann

“The string instruments create an atmospheric, sweeping arc from life to death, and the recorder player Maurice Steger responds to this: desperate, screaming, crying, resigning; […]”
(Fono Forum, February 2025)

Program

Beethoven String Quartet B-flat major op. 18 No. 6, Allegro con brio

John Dowland If my complaints could passions move
John Adson Adson’s Ayre
Giovanni Coperario Gray’s Inn
Jacob van Eyck The English Nightingale from “Fluyten Lust-hof”
John Adson The Furies

Beethoven String Quartet B-flat major op. 18 No. 6, Adagio ma non troppo

Iris ter Schiphorst Sei gutes Muts

Bernstein Variations on an Octatonic Scale (1989) for recorder and violoncello

Karl Friedrich Weidemann Sonata F major op. 3 No. 3 for recorder and two violins

Beethoven String Quartet B-flat major op. 18 No. 6, La Malinconia. Adagio – Allegretto quasi Allegro

Vivaldi Concerto Il Gardellino D major for recorder and strings, RV 375

“The evening began with the cantata ‘Quella pace gradita’ by Alessandro Scarlatti, in which all five performers were immediately able to showcase their enormous qualities, which kept the audience enthralled throughout the concert: what a gentle beginning with the baroque instruments! What a first luminous soprano part by Nuria Rial and a violinist who helped shape it, Julia Schröder! How lively and cheerful the flute interjections by Maurice Steger and how sensitive and intense the accompanying support of the harpsichordist Sebastian Wienand and the cellist Christoph Dangel! It was the showcase for all subsequent pieces.” (Simmentalzeitung, September 5th 2024)

Maurice Steger | Recorder
Nuria Rial | Soprano
Violin | Violoncello | Harpsichord

Il Giardino D’Amore

AScarlatti
Quella pace gradita, cantata for soprano, recorder, violin and basso continuo
Sconsolato rusignolo, aria for soprano, recorder, strings and basso continuo
Più non m’alletta e piace, aria for soprano, flautino, strings and basso continuo

A. Falconiero
La bella marchesetta e La suave melodia e Folias echa para mi Señora Doña Tarolilla de Carallenos

Vivaldi
Cello sonata in A Minor RV 44

F. Mancini
Quanto dolce è quell’ardore, cantata for soprano, recorder and basso continuo

H. I. F. von Biber
Sonata representativa for violin and basso continuo

Corelli
Sonata for recorder and basso continuo in G Minor op. 5 No. 8 (with ornaments by Pietro Castrucci)

T. Merula
La strada, canzona per due canti e basso
La pighetta, canzona per canto e basso
La ciaccona, canzona per due canti e ostinato
Folle è ben chi si crede, aria for soprano and instruments

Maurice Steger is known for his colourful and complex programmes and so the collaboration with Céline Pasche and Hille Perl and the instrumentation of recorder, harp and viola da gamba seems as unusual as it is natural. The trio presents well-known and rarely heard treasures of the Baroque in new ways, but without sacrificing any of the beloved energy and sensitivity.

Maurice Steger | Recorder
Céline Pasche | Baroque Harp & Recorder
Hille Perl | Viola da Gamba

Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonatine A minor for recorder & b.c. TWV 41:a4

A Jacobean Masque
(compiled from Jacobean Masque-Dances and Divisions by Robert Johnson, Giovanni Coperario and Sir Nicolas le Strange and the Fluyten Lust-hof, 1644)
The Temple Anticke
Gray’s Inn or Coperaree
Henry Purcell
Two in One upon a Ground for two recorders and basso ostinato (from Dioclesian, Z. 627, London 1690)
The Furies

Georg Friedrich Handel
Ouverture and Menuet from the Opera Rodelinda (arranged for solo harp by John Parry (ca. 1710-1782), from the Walsh manuscript)

Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata G major op. 5 No. 11 for recorder & b.c.
Preludio. Adagio | Allegro | Adagio | Vivace | Gavotta. Allegro
with ornamentation by Pietro Castrucci & Matthew Dubourg

Jacob van Eyck
The English Nightingale (from the Fluyten Lust hof, Utrecht, c. 1644)
Gottfried Finger
A Ground for recorder & b.c.

Canzoni di Andrea Falconiero
Passacalle | La bella Marchesetta (Napoli around 1620)

Marco Uccellini
Aria Quinta sopra la Bergamasca for two recorders and basso ostinato
(from Sonate arie et correnti a 2 e 3 per sonare con diversi instromenti, Venice 1642)

Christopher Simpson
Prelude und Divisions upon a Ground in e

Arcangelo Corelli
Variations on the old Spanish Sarabande La Follia per flauto e basso continuo, Sonata No. 12, op. 5 (London 1702)

Baroque composers are accompanied on their journeys through Europe and thus, as well as through the instrumentation itself, temperaments and moods from Italy, France, England and Germany, among others, are united.

There are two versions of this program with respectively different ensembles:

Version 1 Les Nations

Maurice Steger recorder
Amandine Beyer baroque violin
Daniel Rosin baroque violoncello
Sebastian Wienand harpsichord

Francesco Turini
Sonata per due canti
Intermezzo E tanto tempo hormai
Sonata per due canti e basso Il Corisino

Francesco Maria Veracini
Sonata A minor per flauto e basso continuo
Overtura – Allemanda Allegro – Paesana – Largo – Giga Il Postiglione
from Sonate a Violino o Flauto solo, Opera prima, Dresden 1721

Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata D major for harpsichord solo, BWV 912

Georg Friedrich Handel
Trio a flauto, violin e basso in C minor, HWV 386
Cantabile – Allegro – Andante – Allegro

Jean-Marie Leclair
Sonata IV op. 5 for violin & b.c. in B-flat major, troisième livre
Adagio – Allegro ma non tropo – Sarabanda. Largo – Ciacconna (avec un violoncelle obligato)

Francesco Geminiani
Sonata III C major for violoncello and b.c.
Andante – Allegro – Affetuoso – Allegro
Sonates pour le Violoncelle et Basse Continue, op.5 (1746)

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto D major RV 92 for recorder, violin and Basso continuo
Allegro – (……..) – Allegro

Version 2 Les Nations en Danse

Maurice Steger recorder
Chouchane Siranossian baroque violin
Alex Jellici baroque violoncello
Sebastian Wienand harpsichord

Francesco Turini
Sonata per due canti
Andrea Falconiero
Canzoni del sei’cento Napoli
La Bella Marchesetta – Passacalle – Folias echa para mi Señora Doña Tarolilla Carallenos

Francesco Maria Veracini
Sonata A minor per flauto e basso continuo
Overtura – Allemanda Allegro – Paesana – Largo – Giga Il Postiglione
from Sonate a Violino o Flauto solo, Opera prima, Dresden 1721

Padre Antonio Soler
Fandango for harpsichord solo

Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio II à Violon, Flûte à Bec et Basse chiffrée, TWV 42:a1 from Six Trio (Frankfurt 1718)
Affettuoso – Vivace – Grave – Menuet

intermission

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto D major RV 92 for recorder, violin and Basso continuo
Allegro – (……..) – Allegro
Jean-Marie Leclair
Sonata IV op. 5 for violin & b.c. in B flat major, troisième livre
Adagio – Allegro ma non tropo – Sarabanda. Largo – Ciacconna (avec un violoncelle obligato)

Antonio Vivaldi
La Follia for recorder, violin, violoncello and basso continue RV 63

Maurice Steger is once again collaborating with the NDR Radiophilharmonie this week. On Friday they will present a programme of works by Jean-Férry Rebel, Domenico Sarro, Carlo Monza, Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Friedrich Handel in the picturesque gallery of Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover.

You can also listen to the concert on 14 May 2025 at 8 pm on NDR Kultur.

April 25th 2025, Hannover

Zurich resident Maurice Steger is playing concerts with his home town chamber orchestra in Germany and Switzerland this week and next.
This Friday, the Swiss musicians will be joined by soprano Emöke Barath in Heidelberg to perform a programme full of enchanting baroque arias at the spring festival.
Next week, these works will then be performed in Zurich and Chur with Julia Lezhneva, surely helping to make everyone forget the long winter.

April 11th 2025, Heidelberg
April 15th 2025, Zurich
April 16th 2025, Chur

This week, Maurice Steger and the hr Sinfonieorchester are joining forces for a major project in which they will perform all six Brandenburg Concertos. On Thursday, they will play for the Frankfurt audience in the hr-Sendesaal. On Friday, music lovers from all over the world as well will be able to enjoy the concert and watch it online via live stream.

March 27th 2025, Frankfurt am Main
March 28th 2025, Frankfurt am Main

Maurice Steger is a guest of the Dortmunder Philharmoniker this week. Together they will present a versatile programme that ranges from the Baroque with Handel and Corelli, through the Classical period with Haydn, and finally Barber and Vaughan Williams to the Romantic period and beyond.
In addition to the regular concert on Monday, the very youngest also get to enjoy a baby concert on Sunday.

22 February 2025, baby concert
24 February 2025, adult concert

Today sees the release of the Kuss Quartet’s new album, which also features Maurice Steger. After several concerts together, at which the atmospheric commissioned composition by Iris ter Schiphorst Sei gutes Muts was played, this piece can now also be heard on CD or digitally.

To the album at Rubicon
To the album at Spotify

Maurice Steger is a Portrait Artist at BASF this season and therefore will present himself to the Ludwigshafen audience in various formats.
This weekend, he will be supported by the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, with which he has long had close ties. On Saturday, four musicians from the ensemble as well as presenter and narrator Juri Tetzlaff and Maurice Steger will present the story of Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo to the youngest music fans, before Bach and Telemann are placed side by side in a larger instrumentation on Saturday.
In December, Bach will once again take centre stage in the third concert of the series. Together with Avi Avital, Hille Perl, David Bergmüller and Sebastian Wienand, Maurice Steger will play excerpts from Bach’s notebooks for Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, while Martina Gedeck will read from texts by Hölderlin, Kant and more.
The last concert in the series will take place in March. With the strong support of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Maurice Steger plans to bring a programme of works by Handel, Purcell, Sammartini and Joseph Haydn to the stage.

November 2nd 2024, Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo
November 3rd 2024, Bach meets Telemann
December 13th 2024, Bach & more
March 19th 2025, Meeting Point London Haymarket

The first week of September is already behind us, but Maurice Steger still has five different exciting projects ahead of him this month.

These include two concerts in which he will be playing with string quartets – once with the Kuss Quartet at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival on Rügen and once with the Stradivari Quartet as part of the chamber music festival organised by the Hamburger Vereinigung von Freunden der Kammermusik at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

Maurice Steger will also perform a chamber music programme at the Klassik Festival Küsnacht in Switzerland and as an orchestral soloist under the direction of Andrés Gabetta at the Night Serenades in Tbilisi, Georgia.

September will conclude in Olten, Switzerland, with a colourful chamber music ensemble that will present a programme entitled ‘Venezia’ full of works from the Italian Baroque.

September 12th, Baabe (Rügen)
September 15th, Küsnacht (Switzerland)
September 29th, Tblisi (Georgia)
September 24th, Hamburg (Hamburg)
September 27th, Olten (Switzerland)

Summertime is festival time and what could be better than spending it in the mountains; and what a joy when Maurice Steger is also performing there! Many concert-goers in Switzerland will be in luck this year.
Next week Maurice Steger can be seen at two concerts at Klosters Music. In addition to a performance with the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel and Nuria Rial, he and the ensemble will be performing a children’s concert centred around the character Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo together with the actor Nikolaus Schmid.
Two further concerts with La Cetra Barockorchester Basel will follow in mid-August at the Barocktage Solothurn and the Rencontres Musicales Champéry, where they will perform programmes focusing on Antonio Vivaldi.
Finally, Maurice Steger will spend the last week of August in Gstaad at the Baroque Academy, which he directs, where he will open the doors to the ‘Giardino di Amore’ once again with Nuria Rial, among others.

July 29th 2024, Klosters
July 30th 2024, Klosters
August 13th 2024, Solothurn
August 14th 2024, Champéry
August 29th 2024, Gstaad

Maurice Steger continues his long-standing collaboration with the Braunschweig State Orchestra this May. Together, they will perform a varied programme of Baroque works by Handel, Geminiani and Babell as well as more recent pieces such as Haydn’s Symphony No. 60 Il distratto, Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Ralph Vaugahn Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for audiences in Wolfsburg, Helmstedt and Celle.

14 May 2024, Wolfsburg
16 May 2024, Helmstedt
27 May 2024, Celle

Maurice Steger has been in Istanbul since Easter Monday to prepare a programme with the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra featuring baroque works by Carlo Monza and Johann Sebastian Bach, among others, framed by symphonies by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The musicians will then present this programme together tomorrow in the AKM Turk Telekom Opera Hall.

April 5th 2024, Istanbul

After Maurice Steger’s last appearance in Linz had to take place in front of an empty hall, he is now back at the Brucknerhaus to play the preferred way in front of an audience. He will be joined by Chouchane Siranossian, Alex Jellici and Sebastian Wienand in the programme “Les Nations en Danse”, which will take them one dance after another through 17th and 18th century Europe.

March 14th 2024, Linz

Maurice Steger is once again visiting the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano this week. In a concert broadcast live on radio and videostream, he will conduct and play works by Telemann, Vivaldi and Corelli, among others, and Mozart’s Paris Symphony as the finale.

January 25th 2024, Lugano
To the concert
To the video stream

Maurice Steger is embarking on a little tour with the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel this week. Following the joint recording of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, which was released this autumn under the title ‘A Tribute to Bach‘ by Berlin Classics, there have already been several opportunities to experience the programme in concert. Now the musicians are bringing a selection from the album, supplemented with pieces by Georg Philipp Telemann, to Coesfeld and Bielefeld.

December 10th 2023, Coesfeld
December 19th 2023, Bielefeld

Maurice Steger is spending the week with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and preparing a programme of works by Francesco Veracini, Antonio Vivaldi and Toshio Hosokawa. This will be presented on Saturday at a concert in the Anneliese Brost Musikforum.

November 18th 2023, Bochum

Maurice Steger is currently travelling Asia. His first stop is in the “recorder country” Taiwan. There, he will start among other activities, with teaching students at the National Tsing Aua University in Hsinchu. Afterwards, him and the Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren will be part of the concerts celebrating the 20th anniversary of the “Swiss Music Nights” in Kaohsiung and Taipei.
Finally, Maurice Steger and Sebastian Bohren will travel to Bhutan, where, supported by the Society Switzerland Bhutan, a concert with Bhutanese recorder player, singer and multiinstrumentalist Jigme Drupka will take place.

October 15th 2023, Kaohsiung (Taiwan)
October 16th 2023, Taipei (Taiwan)

October 19th 2023, Timphu (Bhutan)

Today is the release date of Maurice Steger’s long-awaited new recording with Berlin Classics. A Tribute to Bach is fully dedicated to the grand master and shows shows sides of Maurice Steger that perhaps not everyone knew as well as perspectives on Bach that may seem unfamiliar but no less authentic.

The album was recorded with La Cetra Barockorchestra Basel with Sebastian Wienand on harpsichord in a prominent role alongside Maurice Steger.

To the album

Summer is in its full glory, and while heat waves and thunderclouds are taking turns, Maurice Steger continues to travel the meridians for his concerts.
This week his multi-part projects at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival is beginning.
With the baroque orchestra The English Concert, he will perform a colourful baroque festival on Tuesday and Wednesday in Meldorf and Rendsburg.
After that is the start of the rehearsal phase with the young ensemble Marsyas Baroque, with whom he will collaborate and pass on some of his wealth of experience as part of the master/master students’ concerts. They will give a first concert this Sunday in Neuhardenberg before repeating the programme 7 days later in Kellinghusen and Bad Oldesloe.
Before that, however, Maurice Steger will travel to the Rheingau to present the joint project around Johann Sebastian Bach’s notebooks with Avi Avital, Hille Perl, David Bergmüller and Sebastian Wienand in the Eberbach monastery. This will also be performed in Gstaad in the Swiss mountains.
Again interspersed with that is a concert with the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel at the Bachwoche Ansbach and an elaborate programme of Bach and Telemann.

July 25th 2023, Meldorf with The English Concert
July 26th 2023, Rendsburg with The English Concert
July 30th 2023, Neuhardenberg with Marsyas Baroque
August 1st 2023, Kloster Eberbach with Avi Avital, Hille Perl, David Bergmüller and Sebastian Wienand
August 2nd 2023, Ansbach with La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
August 4th 2023, Gstaad with Avi Avital, Hille Perl, David Bergmüller und Sebastian Wienand
August 6th 2023, Kellinghusen with Marsyas Baroque
August 7th 2023, Bad Oldesloe with Marsyas Baroque

This year once again, Maurice Steger is not letting his hair down and is travelling to various festivals from the north of Germany to the Swiss mountains.
He starts this Thursday at the Gezeitenkonzerte, where together with the Hamburg ensemble Elbipolis he will present a programme around Telemann’s Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth that truly fits the festival’s name.
On Sunday, the tour continues with the befriended musicians of the G.A.P. Ensemble at the Weilburg Schlossfestspiele and a colourful programme ranging from Vivaldi to Handel.
Maurice Steger will spend part of the first half of July giving lessons in Arosa, Switzerland, before performing at the Rigi Music Days with chamber music partners around Dietmut Poppen.
This will be followed by a performance at the Nieder-Moos Concert Summer with the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists, with whom he already played at the Darmstadt Baroque Festival at the beginning of June.
And even after that, there is still no time for a beach holiday…

June 29th 2023, Weener (Gezeitenkonzerte)
July 2nd 2023, Weilburg (Weilburg Schlosskonzerte)
July 14th 2023, Rigi Kulm (Rigi Musiktage)
July 16th 2023, Nieder-Moos (Nieder-Mooser Konzertsommer)

Maurice Steger will be playing at Tonhalle Zurich as part of the Meisterinterpreten-series and has therefore assembled an ensemble of esteemed musicians and longtime friends. Recorder virtuoso and baroque music expert Maurice Steger will be joined on stage by versatile string players Amandine Beyer, Mauro Valli and Fred Walter Uhlig, multiinstrumentalists, who apart from their recorders will bring oboe, bassoon and harp, Bettina Simon, Claudius Kamp and Céline Pasche, as well as trusted basso continuo players Daniele Caminiti and Joan Boronat Sanz. The program titled Venezia – Time Travel to the Serenissima promises a festive evening!

April 3^rd 2023, Zurich

Maurice Steger and La Cetra Basel will spend the upcoming weeks playing several concerts with their new program. This program combines pieces by Telemann and J. S. Bach and brings bassoon and harpsichord to the foreground next to Maurice Steger’s recorder.
After the kick-off in Vienna this sunday, the ensemble will travel to Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, Zug in Switzerland and finally to Hameln near Hanover.

February 26th 2023, Vienna
February 28th 2023, Neumarkt
March 1st 2023, Zug
March 7th 2023, Hameln

Maurice Steger has several concerts scheduled for this season with the CHAARTS Chamber Artists, with whom he has enjoyed a long collaborative relationship. Together they will present a diverse program under the title “Suite Italienne,” in reference to Stravinsky’s work of the same name, consisting of the latter, Telemann, Corelli, Vivaldi and Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade. In addition to visits to Swiss towns such as Beinwil, Solothurn, Liestal and Muri, the Lindau Stadttheater will also be played at. The kick-off, however, is in exactly one week at the illustrious St Peter Church in Zurich.

November 17th 2022, Zurich
November 18th 2022, Beinwil
January 9th 2022, Lindau
January 10th 2022, Liestal
January 11th 2022, Solothurn
June 24th 2023, Muri

Maurice Steger is en route to Canada for two different projects.

First, he will play a virtuoso program together with recorder player Vincent Lauzer at the Plaisir du Clavecin in Gatineau, Ottawa.

Next week he will then visit the Violons du Roy for concerts with Vivaldi, Hosokawa and more in Montreal and Quebec.

October 16^th 2022, Gatineau
October 21^st 2022, Montreal
October 22^nd 2022, Québec
October 23^rd 2022, Québec

This week, Maurice Steger will be visiting two orchestras at the same time as conductor and recorder player.
With the Frankfurt Radio Symphony he will play two concerts with baroque programs of Veracini, Vivaldi and Bach, as well as a modern pinch of Hosokawa.
In Mannheim Maurice Steger will play together with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Apart from the baroque elements the program here will also contain Mozart’s Haffner Symphony.

October 6th 2022, Frankfurt
October 7th 2022, Frankfurt
October 9th 2022, Mannheim

Tomorrow Maurice Steger will be performing with Avi Avital and consorts in Verbier. There will be exquisite chamber music by Bach to listen to – a little insight into his domestic music-making.

On 4 August, he will be in Klosters with La Cetra and soprano Nuria Rial to present music from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Sebastian Wienand will bring the famous historic Köberle organ to life.

On 7 August, after two years of Corona, the concert Wiener Sturm und Drang will finally take place in Gstaad, with some important representatives of the movement interpreted by Maurice Steger, Christoph Croisé and the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro.

22. July 2022, Verbier

04. August 2022, Klosters

07. August 2022, Gstaad

Maurice Steger is visiting the Bochum Symphony Orchestra this week. Together they will present a program with pieces by amongst others Georg Philipp Telemann, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello and as a grand final Joseph Haydn’s 8th Symphony “Le Soir”.
They will play two concerts, first in Bochum and then at the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte.

There, Martin Stadtfeld will be performing as well. A week later him and the Kammersymphonie Leipzig will play piano concertos by Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

June 18th 2022, Maurice Steger in Bochum
June 19th 2022, Maurice Steger in Weilburg
June 26th 2022, Martin Stadtfeld in Weilburg

Maurice Steger has compiled an exquisite group of musicians to present concerts under the title “Les Nations”. Together with Amandine Beyer, Daniel Rosin and Sebastian Wienand he will take audiences in Bern, Vienna and Lugano on a musical journey throughout baroque Europe.

May 9th 2022 Bern
May 10th 2022 Vienna
May 12th 2022 Lugano

This week Maurice Steger and the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel will present something for everyone:
In Lausanne (Pully), as well as at the Heidelberger Frühling, they will present regular concerts with pieces by amongst others Georg Friedrich Handel, Godfrey Finger and Francesco Geminiani. Furthermore, a concert aimed specifically at the younger generation will take place in Heidelberg. The musicians and host Ute Kabisch will show the children (and adults) some over 300 year old music and concert tradition.

April 12th 2022 Lausanne, Switzerland
April 13th 2022 Heidelberg for Old and Young
April 14th 2022 Heidelberg for Young and Old

After having to be postponed the last time due to the pandemic, this year it looks like the concerts to welcome the New Year will be able to take place. Thus, Maurice Steger together with soprano Rachel Harnisch and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra will play at Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Lucerne on New Year’s Eve and at Tonhalle am See Zurich on New Year’s Day. They will present a festive program with pieces by amongst others Handel, Rebel and Mozart.

December 31st 2021, Lucerne
January 1st 2022, Zurich

Maurice Steger has scheduled two nice projects for this and next week:
With I Musici di Roma he will performing in Stuttgart and Berlin. Their program will consist of Italian works with a lot of influence by Arcangelo Corelli.
Next week he will spend with the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover to give a concert of Bach’s 1st Brandenburg Concerto, pieces by Handel and Telemann and more.

December 4th 2021, Stuttgart
December 6th 2021, Berlin
December 10th 2021, Hannover

This season marks the impressive 25-year anniversary of sharing the stage for Maurice Steger and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. To celebrate, they will go on three separate tours through Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein. Under Maurice Steger’s direction the program will have a lot to offer from Bach to Mozart and even Arvo Pärt. They will start off this weekend with concerts in Braunwald, Zillis and Kaiserstuhl before continuing in the new year…

10.09.2021 Braunwald
11.09.2021 Kaiserstuhl
12.09.2021 Zillis

19.01.2022 Vaduz
21.01.2022 Bern
22.01.2022 Weingarten

21.04.2022 Zürich
22.04.2022 Sarganserland
23.04.2022 Rheinfelden
24.04.2022 Aarau

Summer 2021 is all about premieres for Maurice Steger.
This week he will start with the first of three world premieres at Boswiler Sommer together with CHAARTS Chamber Artists. They will present Johannes Fischer’s “A dining experience with Telemann” (for prepared table and ensemble).
In august, Maurice Steger and the KUSS Quartett will then premiere Iris ter Schiphorst’s composition of the title “Sei gutes Muts” at Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker.
Finally, the third premiere will take place at the Festival der Stille in Switzerland in september. Here, Maurice Steger and the Zürcher Kammerochester will perform the “Sinfonietta per archi” by Massimiliano Matesic.

24.06.2021 Boswiler Sommer, UA by Johannes Fischer
02.08.2021 Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, UA by Iris ter Schiphorst
11.09.2021 Festival der Stille, UA by Massimiliano Matesic

Tomorrow night will finally be the premier of a new duo: Martin Stadtfeld and Maurice Steger will come together to present a program with piano and recorder.
Apart from tomorrow’s concert there will be more chances to see them this summer, for example at the Thuringia Bach Festival.

08.06.2021 Hildesheim
22.08.2021 Villa Rot, Burgrieden
19.09.2021 Thuringia Bach Festival, Weimar

This week Maurice Steger and Christian Zacharias will be in Madrid one after the other. Tonight the latter will be playing with and conducting the Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid at the Auditorio Nacional. They will present a program of Haydn and Mozart. Maurice Steger will be performing a Recorder Concerto by Heberle and Mozart’s Mass in C together with the Orquesta Sinfonica y Coro de RTVE at the Teatro Monumental on Thursday and Friday. Both projects can be followed live on the radio.
Christian Zacharias will afterwards travel to Palma to play a concert with the Orquestra Simfonica Illes Balears this thursday.

19.04.2021 Christian Zacharias in Madrid
22.04.2021 Christian Zacharias in Palma

22.04.2021 Maurice Steger in Madrid
23.04.2021 Maurice Steger in Madrid

This Easter Monday Maurice Steger will be at Festhalle Viersen to perform a live-concert on the streaming-platform QChamberStream together with the Freiburger Barockorchester. They will play Recorder Concertos by Telemann and Vivaldi as well as Handel’s Wassermusik. The concert can be streamed by ticket-holders until June 5th.

05.04.2021 Viersen/QChamberStream

Maurice Steger stays present in the European concert halls.
Tonight he can be seen on the Live-Stream of the Konservatorium Bern where he is performing together with harpsichord player Sebastian Wienand.
Next week, he will visit his Spanish audience for two concerts in Salamanca and Madrid. There he will play together with baroque ensemble Tiento Nuovo and singer Nuria Rial.

15th of February 2021 Bern
24th of February 2021 Salamanca
26th of February 2021 Madrid

Maurice Steger has spent the week with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, preparing a concert program for a live stream on the Radio della Svizzera Italiana tonight at 08.30 p.m. The music by amongst others Händel, Vivaldi and Toshio Hosokawa has been modified to work with a reduced string section and without winds as one of several measures to protect the musicians.

28.01.2021 08.30 p.m. Lugano: Radio & Stream

Maurice Steger will be performing at two Swiss Festivals next week:
On August 4th he and the orchestra Il Pomo D’Oro as well as cellist Christoph Croisé are playing a concert at Klosters Music with a program of amongst others Haydn, Mozart and C.P.E. Bach.
After that he and La Cetra Basel will present Händel Telemann and Corelli on August 6th at Engadin Festival.

Furthermore, Pablo Barragán will be performing Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet at Klosters Music on August 3rd together with the Schumann Quartett.

03.08. Klosters Music Pablo Barragán & Schumann Quartett
04.08. Klosters Music Maurice Steger, Christoph Croisé & Il Pomo d’Oro
06.08. Engadin Festival Maurice Steger & La Cetra Basel

Maurice Steger has made his way to Canada to perform different concert formats with the Violons du Roy.
Together with comedian Renaud Paradis they will start with taking small and tall listeners on a journey in search of a magic sheet of music in Maurice Steger’s children’s program “Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo”.
After that there will be three concerts in Québec and Montréal with Maurice Steger’s success program “Mr Handel’s Dinner” with pieces by composers like Purcell, Geminiani and of course Handel.

08.02.2020 Québec Tino Flautino
12.02.2020 Québec Tino Flautino
13.02.2020 Québec Mr. Handel’s Dinner
14.02.2020 Montréal Mr. Handel’s Dinner

Together with Hille Perl and Diego Ares Maurice Steger will perform at the Festival Bach Montréal this sunday. Their program will consist of pieces by Bach but also by composers like Corelli and Uccellini.
For a little taste one can already see them on Saturday at the festival’s Off-Bach pop-up-shop.

30.11.2019 Off-Bach Shop
01.12.2019 Salle Bourgie

This week Maurice Steger will visit the Barock+ series of the hr Sinfonieorchester as a soloist as well as conductor. The program will not only present Recorder Concertos with Play/Conduct by Maurice Steger. Pieces like Telemann’s Concerto Grosso for three trumpets, timpani and oboe or his Double Concerto for recorder and bassoon will also put a spotlight on the hr’s solo wind players.

07.11.2019 Frankfurt am Main
08.11.2019 Frankfurt am Main

Maurice Steger is on his way to Norway to play a concert in beautiful Stavanger with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. They will interpret recorder concertos by Arcangelo Corelli and Antonio Vivaldi. After that, Maurice Steger will pack up his instruments and fly to Mexico for a masterclass and concert with a short stopover in Nantes.

03.10.2019 Stavanger

For his upcoming concerts at the Konzertsommer Nieder-Moos and Mainz Maurice Steger has gathered four of his master students. Laura Schmid, Céline Pasche, Claudius Kamp and Max Volbers will not only play baroque harp, baroque bassoon and harpsichord but also the recorder. Together with Maurice Steger they will be performing (arrangements of) pieces by Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell and others for up to five recorders.

11.08.2019 Nieder-Moos
13.08.2019 Mainz

After an intensive week of master classes at the SHMF that concluded on sunday with an successful closing concert, Maurice Steger will be playing exceptional programs in top-class instrumentation at the festival. Together with Hille Perl, Avi Avital, David Bergmüller and Sebastian Wienand he will enthuse the audiences in Rendsburg and Plön with excerpts of the Notebooks for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Anna Magdalena Bach

July 24 2019, 08:00 pm, Christkirche Rendsburg
July 25 2019, 08:00 pm, Nikolaikirche Plön

This year Maurice Steger will once again travel to East Frisia to perform at the Gezeitenkonzerte.
He will not only be playing his current program “Händel is(st)/Mr Handel’s Dinner” together with Nadja Zwiener, Hille Perl and Andreas Küppers but also enchant the junior audience with “Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo”.
21. June 2019 Aurich
22. June 2019 Hinte

Avison Concerto No. 3 D minor
Händel Concerto F major, op. 1/11, HWV 369 and organ concerto F major, op. 4/5, HWV 293
Geminiani Cello sonata C major, op. 5/3
Finger «A Ground»
Babell Concerto D major, op. 3/1
Händel Overture of Rinaldo, HWV 7 and trio sonata C minor, HWV 386a
Geminiani Concerto G major, op. 5/11

La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

Maurice Steger’s newest CD “Mr. Handel’s Dinner” is released today (April 26).
Together with the LaCetra Baroque Ensemble he devotes himself to the music that was played during the long intermission of Mr. Handel’s operas:
celebrations with the works and improvisations by the maestro himself and as well with colorful instrumental compositions by the Handel clan, meaning his international guests, while Mr. Handel recoverred from the exertions. Particularly badly tuned instruments and unflexible star singers made his life difficult.

J. S. Bach
Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (excerpts)
Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (excerpts)

Avi Avital, mandolin
David Bergmüller, lute
Hille Perl, viola da gamba
Sebastian Wienand, harpsichord and organ

J. S. Bach
Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (excerpts)
Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (excerpts)

Avi Avital, mandolin
David Bergmüller, lute
Hille Perl, viola da gamba
Sebastian Wienand, harpsichord and organ

Händel Overture from the opera “Almira, Queen of Castile”
Händel Aria of Armindo „Bramo restar ma no“ from the opera “Partneope”
Händel Dance movements from the opera “Partenope”, HWV 27
Händel Aria of Serse „Crude furie degli orridi abissi“ from the opera “Serse”
Vivaldi Concerto “Il Gardellino” per flautino D major
Mozart Aria of Ramiro „Dolce d’amor compagna“ from the opera “Finta Giardinera”
Mozart “Parto, parto” from “La Clemenza di Tito”, K 621
Rossini Aria of Rosina „Una voce poco fa“ from the opera “Barbiere di Seviglia”
Händel Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo-soprano
Musikkollegium Winterthur

Händel Concerto a quattro in D minor for recorder, violin, viola da gamba and b.c.
Sammartini Sonata in B-flat major, Sibley Manuscript
Händel Trio for recorder, violin and b.c. in C minor HWV 386
Finger A Ground for recorder and b.c.
Babell Concerto No. 1 in D major for recorder, violin and b.c.
Geminiani Concerto G major for recorder, violin and b.c. after the sonata op. 5 No. 11 by Arcangelo Corelli, with ornaments by Pietro Castrucci & Matthew Dubourg

Nadja Zwiener, violin
Hille Perl, viola da gamba
Andreas Küppers, harpsichord

Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo

Nadja Zwiener, violin
Hille Perl, viola da gamba
Andreas Küppers, harpsichord

Mancini Sonata No. 11 in G minor
Purcell Prélude for harpsichord
Piani Sonata IV in D major
Purcell Prélude for recorder
Händel Sonata F majro for recorder and b.c. HWV 369
Purcell Prélude for theorbo
Corelli Concerto per flauto in G major op. 5 No. 11

Daniele Caminiti, theorbo
Sebastian Wienand, harpsichord

Maurice Steger plays three concerts in February together with the Akademie für Alte Musik with a varied program around Handel, Hasse, Bach and Sammartini.

15th Feb Historischer Reitstadl Neumarkt
16th Feb Castle Church Varel
17th Feb Rudolf-Oetker-Halle Bielefeld

Telemann Symphony des Grilles ‘Cricket Symphony’ in G major TWV 50:1
Händel Concerto F major for recorder, strings and b.c., after the sonata HWV 369
Veracini Overture for orchestra VI in G minor for two oboes, bassoon, strings and b.c.
Corelli Concerto per flauto in A major op. 5 No. 11, edited by Matthew Dubourg
Vivaldi Concerto C major per molti strumenti, RV 558
Brescianello Chaconne A major for two violins, two violas and b.c.

Nürnberger Philharmoniker

Händel Trio sonata F major op. 2 No. 4
G. Sammartini Sonata B major from the Sibley-manuscript
J.B. Barrière Sonata D major No. 2 from Livre VI for harpsichord
Fiorenza Triosonata D minor
Piani Sonata G major op. 1 No. 4 for violin and b.c.
Hasse Cantata D major for recorder and b.c.
Vivaldi Concerto D major for recorder, violin and b.c.

G.A.P. Trio:
Emilio Percan, baroque violin
Oriol Aymat Fuste, baroque violoncello
Luca Quintavalle, harpsichord

Händel Suite de danse, HWV 1 & 287
Händel Concerto F major for recorder, strings and b.c. HWV 369 & 293
Purcell Ground, from «Timon of Athens», Z. 632
Purcell Chacony in G minor, Z. 730
Godfrey Finger A Ground for recorder and b.c.
William Babell Concerto No. 1 D major for recorder, violin and b.c.
Avison Concerto No. 5 for two violins, strings and b.c. D minor
Händel Suite de danse, HWV 1, 287 & 399
Geminiani Concerto G major for recorder after the sonata op. 5 No. 11 by Arcangelo Corelli

Zürich Chamber Orchestra

A Jacobean Masque, collected by Sir Nicolas le Strange & Robert Johnson
Improvisation
John Adson The Temple Antique 1
Händel Concerto F major for recorder, strings and b.c. after the sonata HWV 369
Purcell Rondeau for orchestra, from Abdelazer (Z570)
Corelli Concerto per flauto in A major op. 5 No. 11
Corelli Concerto No. 7 op. 5 in d minor for recorder, strings & b.c.
Händel Sonata per orchestra in G major HWV 399
Geminiani Concerto No. 12 op. 5 in d minor ‚La Follia’  for 2 violins, strings & b.c.

Yuri Tetzlaff, narrator
Folkwang Kammerorchester

A Jacobean Masque, collected by Sir Nicolas le Strange & Robert Johnson
Improvisation
John Adson Courtly Masquing Ayre (Furie) | The Temple Antique 1 |
John Coperario Cupararee or Graysin | Al folgorante sguardo
Händel Concerto F major for recorder, strings and b.c., after the sonata HWV 369
Purcell Suite from King Arthur
Corelli Concerto per flauto in A major op. 5 No. 11
Corelli Concerto No. 7 op. 5 in D minor for recorder, strings and & b.c.
Händel Sonata per orchestra in G major, HWV 399
Geminiani Concerto No. 12 op. 5 in D minor ‚La Follia’ for 2 violins, strings & b.c.

Folkwang Kammerorchester

At pre-Christmas time, Maurice Steger will give concerts in Würzburg, Bad Homburg and Wiesbaden with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, as well as Christmas concerts in Zurich with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

12th Dec Würzburg – College of Music
14th Dec Bad Homburg – Castle Church
16th Dec Wiesbaden – Herzog-Friedrich-August-Saal
20th Dec Zurich – Frauenmünster
21st Dec Zurich – Frauenmünster

¡Corelli!

Works by Arcangelo Corelli and more

Ignacio Prego, harpsichord

Veracini Ouverture No. 6 G minor
Vivaldi Concerto per flauto in G minor RV104 (La notte)
Heinichen Concerto a 7 in G major, Seibel 214
Hasse Cantata D major
Fasch Concerto F major FWV L: F deest
W. F. Bach Symphony F major Fk 67 (Dissoant)
Sammartini Recorder Concerto F major

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

J.S. Bach Concert for recorder D minor BWV 1053
J.S. Bach/Webern Fugue No. 5 (Ricercata) from “The Musical Offering”
Corelli Concerto for recorder No. 7 D minor (after the sonatas op. 5)
J.S. Bach Contrapunctus XIV from »The Art of Fugue«
Schubert Symphony No. 8 B minor »Unfinished Symphony«

Staatsorchester Braunschweig

Händel Overture G minor of «Agrippina» HWV 6
Händel Organ Concerto F major HWV 295 «The Cuckoo and the Nightingale»
Martin Luther From Heaven aboth to Earth I come
John Francis Wade Adeste fideles
Adolphe Adam Minuit, chrétiens
Vivaldi Concerto G major for recorder, strings and b.c. op. 10 No. 6 RV 437
Händel Overture F major of «Rinaldo» HWV 7
J.S. Bach Symphony and chorals from the christmas cantatas, compiled by Maurice Steger

Zürcher Kammerorchester

Mozart Divertimento D major KV 155
Castello Sonate concertate No. 15 D minor and No. 4 D minor
Händel Concerto grosso A minor op. 4/6 HWV 322
Vivaldi Concerto for recorder, strings and b.c. C major RV 443
Locatelli Concerto grosso F minor op. 1/8 “Christmas Concerto”
Telemann Suite for recorder, strings and b.c. A minor TWV 55:a2

Susanne von Gutzeit, conductor
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

Telemann Recorder Concerto C major TW 51:C1
J. Van Eyck “Engels Nachtegaeltje”
Vivaldi Recorder Concerto D major RV 428 “Il Gardellino”

Christian Knüsel, conductor
Neues Orchester Basel

Telemann Recorder Concerto C major TW 51:C1
J. Van Eyck “Engels Nachtegaeltje”
Vivaldi Recorder Concerto D major RV 428 “Il Gardellino”

Christian Knüsel, conductor
Neues Orchester Basel

Distinguished works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Marin Marais, Jean-François Dandrieu and Giovanni Antonio Piani

Hille Perl, Gamba
Diego Ares, Harpsichord

As part of the Settimane musicali Ascona, Maurice Steger appears on September 15th in Locarno in a concert for the classic fans of the future. He tells the musical story of Tino Flautino and the tomcat Leo, his new children’s project based on a story by Jolanda Steiner. Tino Flautino embarks on a musical journey throughout Europe and Maurice Steger playfully demonstrates the infinite wealth of Baroque music to children. Through his rousing, charismatic personality, he motivates his young listeners to grab an instrument and to get to know the world of music. His partners in this self-developed chamber music project are Annina Sedlacek as narrator, Fiorenza de Donatis on violin and Jan Schultsz on piano.

15th September Teatro di Locarno

M. Tippett Fantasie on a theme of Corelli
Vivaldi Concerto per flauto in g-Moll RV104 (La notte)
Toshio Hosokawa ‘Nacht – Schlaf’ from ‘Singing Garden in Venice’
Corelli Recorder Concerto F major after the sonata op. 5 No. 10
Interval
Terry Riley In C

Yuki Kasai, Concertmaster and Lead
Münchner Kammerorchester

Telemann Double Concert F major for recorder, bassoon, strings and b.c., TWV 52:F1
J.S. Bach Double Concerto BWV 1043
Telemann Double Concerto E Minor for flauto traverso and violin, strings and b.c., TWV 52:e3
Montanari Concerto per flautino in B flat Major
Interval
G. Sammartini Recorder Concerto F major
Vivaldi ConcertoB Minor, op. 3 No. 10, RV 580
Telemann Concerto E Minor for recorder TWV 52:e1

Wolfgang Katschner, Conductor
Lautten Compagney Berlin

Händel Sonata per orchestra in G Major, HWV 399
Sarri Concerto A Minor for recorder, violin and b.c.
Telemann Suite from “Sounding Geography”
Montanari Concerto per flautino in B flat Major
Interval
Corelli Concerto per flauto in D Major op. 5 Nr. 11
Händel Sonata per orchestra in G Major, HWV 399
G. Sammartini Recorder concerto F major

La Cetra Basel

On July 27th, Maurice Steger is once again a guest at the Klosters Music Festival. In the opening concert, he performs with the Baroque orchestra La Cetra from Basel through a varied program with works by Handel, Sarro, Telemann, Montanari and Sammartini. His well-thought-out programs, in which he pays tribute to some of the great baroque masters as well as unknown composers, keeps his concerts both meaningful and entertaining. The fact that his instrument, the recorder, is in no way inferior to other wind instruments, has been proven countless times throughout the world by Maurice Steger with his breathtaking virtuosity and musical narrative skills.

27th July Kloster, St. Jakobs Church

J. S. Bach Sonata E major for recorder & b.c., BWV 1035
D. Scarlatti Sonata C major K. 513, Pastorale
G. A. Pandolfi Mealli Sonata I ‚La Bernabea’ from: Sonate a Violino solo, opera quarta
D. Scarlatti Sonata G major K.304 Andante cantabile and Sonata G major K.305 Allegro
F. Mancini Sonata XI G minor for recorder & b.c.
A.Scarlatti (attr.) Sonata No. 1 in D minor for Violoncello & b.c.
G.F. Händel Prelude & Capriccio A minor HWV 571 and/or fugue A minor HWV 609
G.F. Händel Sonata D minor, HWV 367a for recorder & b.c.

Daniel Rosin, baroque violoncello
Ekaterina Kofanova, positive organ

Tino Flatuino e il gatto Leo

Annina Sedláček, narrator
Jan Schultsz, piano
Fiorenza de Donatis, violin

Maurice Steger and his fantastic music are in high demand again this summer. On June 23rd and 24th, he will be a guest at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival and the castle concerts in Thun. On the 29th of June, he opens the festival summerwinds münsterland under the theme BlockBuster. Steger has selected the program Souvenirs d’Italie with works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Hasse, Turini, Caldara and a few more. In addition to well-known works, the majority of the pieces come from the private house library of Count von Harrach from Austria, who was appointed Viceroy of Naples in 1728 and brought home numerous manuscripts as souvenirs. With his sparkling musicality and engaging charisma, Maurice Steger brings these works to life together with his wonderful chamber music partners in the concerto à cinque cast and the Baroque orchestra “La Cetra.”

23rd June Royal Palace Ludwigsburg
24th June Kaisersaal Schloss Salem
24th June City Church Thun
29th June Apostelkirche Münster

Turini Sonata per due canti “E tanto tempo hormai”
Turini Sonata per due canti e basso “Il Corisino”
Veracini Sonata in A minor
Ceracchini Minuè
Dellea La Maratona – Polka, Noraggio
Pellegrini No. 5 Mazurka di Stabio, Stabio TI
Schwartzkopff Sonate G major for recorder, bassoon and b.c.
Ceracchini Rondo e Air
Uccellini “La Bergamasca”
Interval
Britten Alpin suite for recorder trio
Caldara Chiacona a tre B major
Telemann Suite from “Klingende Geographie”

Nadja Zwiener, baroque violin
Laura Schmid, recorder
Claudius Kamp, recorder & baroque bassoon
Daniele Caminiti, theorbo & baroque guitar
Naoki Kitaya, harpsichord

Piani Sonata IV in D major
Falconiero Canzoni Napolitani: “Il Spiritillo”, “El Melo”, “La suave melodia”
Weiss Suite in F major
Telemann Fantasia 1 A major for recorder solo TWV 40:A2
Telemann Triosonata B major for recorder, harpsichord obligato, b.c. TWV 42:B4
Interval
Hasse Cantata D major
Platti Sonata III F major for harpsichord solo
G. Sammartini Sonata IV in G major for recorder and b.c.

Björn Colell, Theorbo and baroque lute
Ralf Waldner, Harpsichord

Händel Sonata per orchestra in G major, HWV 399
Sarri Concerto a-moll for recorder, strings and b.c.
Telemann Suite from “Sounding Geography”
Montanari Concerto per flautino in B major
Interval
Corelli Concerto per flauto in D major op. 5 No. 11
Händel Sonata per orchestra in G major, HWV 399
G. Sammartini Recorder Concerto F major

La Cetra Basel

On April 6th, Sony Classical releases Maurice Steger’s long-awaited CD Baroque Twitter, recorded together with Spanish singer Nuria Rial and the Kammerorchester Basel. The album combines Steger’s unique baroque flute playing with the clear soprano of Rial to create a harmonious dialogue that lets both artists shine.

One could already experience this program live last summer, the press calling it “highly virtuosic and brilliant” when Steger presented it here. If you don’t want to miss it this time, you will have the opportunity to attend the next concerts in May:

12.05.2018 Muri – Festsaal Kloster Muri
13.05.2018 Riehen – Landgasthof
17.05.2018 Göppingen – Stadthalle
21.05.2018 Warth – Kartause Ittingen
25.05.2018 Lutry – Temple de Lutry
26.05.2018 Guebwiler – Les Dominicains

In the coming weeks, Maurice Steger is traveling internationally with varied programs. His journey begins in Ankara, where he continues his already highly successful collaboration with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra performing works by Telemann and Handel with Hungarian soprano Emöke Baráth.
At the beginning of April, Maurice Steger, together with the harpsichordist Ignacio Prego, opens the Torralesones Old Music Festival near Madrid. Under the title “Mediterraneo”, Baroque masterpieces from Spain and Italy will be heard. A week later, he will be performing with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra in a Play & Conduct with works by Handel, Telemann, Heinichen, Vivaldi and Sammartini.
At the end of this phase, Maurice Steger will give a concert in his homeland with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has enjoyed many years of successful collaboration. The program includes works by Bach and Brescianello.

The virtuoso will once again inspire and amaze his Turkish, Spanish, Greek and Swiss audiences in April.

Händel Sonata per orchestra in G major, HWV 399
Sarro Concerto per flauto and orchestra in A minor
Telemann Suite from “Klingende Geographie”
Montanari Concerto per flautino, two violins and b.c. in B major
Interval
Corelli Concerto per flauto in D major op. 5 No. 11
Händel Sonata per orchestra in G major, HWV 399 – Passacaille
G. Sammartini Concerto per flautino and orchestra in F major

La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel

Turini – Sonata per due canti “E tanto tempo hormai”
Turini – Sonata per due canti e basso “Il Corisino”
Hasse – Cantata per flauto in B major
Hasse – Quadro D minor
Montanari – Concerto per flautino in B major
Interval
Telemann – Quartet A minor for recorder, oboe, violin and b.c., TWV 43:a3
Vinci – Favorite Song from the opera Elpidia
Caldara – Chiacona – Largo
Vivaldi – Concerto per flauto in G minor RV104 (La notte)

Xenia Löffler Oboe & Recorder
Nadja Zwiener Violin
Marco Postinghel Bassoon
Naoki Kitaya Harpsichord

Fontana – Sonata No. 2
Uccellini/Falconiero – Sinfonia 14 “La Foschina” for recorder and b.c.
Corelli – Sonata IV F major for recorder and b.c.
de Cabezon – Diferencias sobre el canto del cavallero, Diferencias sobre la gallarda milanesa, Pavana con sus glossas
de Cabanilles – Corrente italiana
G. Sammartini – Sonata IV in G major for recorder and b.c.
Scarlatti – Improvisation on the partite “Follia di Spagna”

Igancio Prego Harpsichord

Heinichen – Concerto G major SeiH 214
Telemann – Concerto for recorder C major TW 51:C1
Leo – Sinfonia from the opera ‚Andromaca’
Vivaldi – Concerto D minor for strings and b.c. RV 246
***Interval***
G. Sammartini – Recorder concerto F major
Haydn – Symphony No. 94 G major ‘Surprise’

Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra

Antonio Vivaldi
Overture of «La Senna festeggiante» RV 693
Concerto per flauto, archi e basso F-Dur RV 442
«Quell´usignolo che al caro nido» Aria for soprano from the opera «Arsilda regina di Ponto»

Alessandro Scarlatti
«Più non m’alletta e piace» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Il giardino d’amore» (1705-1710)

Tomaso Albinoni
«Zeffiretti che spiegate» for soprano from the opera «Eraclea»

Francesco Mancini
Sonata Decima Quarta per flauto solo, 2 violini, viola e basso g-Moll

Leonardo Vinci
«Rondinella che dal lido» Aria for soprano from the opera «Ifigenia in Tauride»

Angelo Maria Fiorè
«Usignolo che col volo» Aria for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Engelberta»

Pietro Torri
«Amorosa rondinella» for soprano from the opera «Nicomede”

Charles Dieupart
Concerto per flautino in A minor

Francesco Gasparini
«Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «L’oracolo del fato»

Johann Adolph Hasse
«L’augellin fra lacci stretto» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Didone abbandonata»

Julia Schröder Conductor
Kammerorchester Basel

Alessandro Scarlatti
«Più non m’alletta e piace» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Il giardino d’amore» (1705-1710)

Tomaso Albinoni
«Zeffiretti che spiegate» for soprano from the opera «Eraclea»

Francesco Mancini
Sonata Decima Quarta per flauto solo, 2 violini, viola e basso g-Moll

Leonardo Vinci
«Rondinella che dal lido» Aria for soprano from the opera «Ifigenia in Tauride»

Angelo Maria Fiorè
«Usignolo che col volo» Aria for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Engelberta»

Pietro Torri
«Amorosa rondinella» for soprano from the opera «Nicomede”

Charles Dieupart
Concerto per flautino in A minor

Francesco Gasparini
«Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «L’oracolo del fato»

Johann Adolph Hasse
«L’augellin fra lacci stretto» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Didone abbandonata»

Julia Schröder Conductor
Kammerorchester Basel

Alessandro Scarlatti
«Più non m’alletta e piace» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Il giardino d’amore» (1705-1710)

Tomaso Albinoni
«Zeffiretti che spiegate» for soprano from the opera «Eraclea»

Francesco Mancini
Sonata Decima Quarta per flauto solo, 2 violini, viola e basso g-Moll

Leonardo Vinci
«Rondinella che dal lido» Aria for soprano from the opera «Ifigenia in Tauride»

Angelo Maria Fiorè
«Usignolo che col volo» Aria for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Engelberta»

Pietro Torri
«Amorosa rondinella» for soprano from the opera «Nicomede”

Charles Dieupart
Concerto per flautino in A minor

Francesco Gasparini
«Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «L’oracolo del fato»

Johann Adolph Hasse
«L’augellin fra lacci stretto» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Didone abbandonata»

Julia Schröder Conductor
Kammerorchester Basel

Alessandro Scarlatti
«Più non m’alletta e piace» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Il giardino d’amore» (1705-1710)

Tomaso Albinoni
«Zeffiretti che spiegate» for soprano from the opera «Eraclea»

Francesco Mancini
Sonata Decima Quarta per flauto solo, 2 violini, viola e basso g-Moll

Leonardo Vinci
«Rondinella che dal lido» Aria for soprano from the opera «Ifigenia in Tauride»

Angelo Maria Fiorè
«Usignolo che col volo» Aria for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Engelberta»

Pietro Torri
«Amorosa rondinella» for soprano from the opera «Nicomede”

Charles Dieupart
Concerto per flautino in A minor

Francesco Gasparini
«Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «L’oracolo del fato»

Johann Adolph Hasse
«L’augellin fra lacci stretto» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Didone abbandonata»

Julia Schröder Conductor
Kammerorchester Basel

Alessandro Scarlatti
«Più non m’alletta e piace» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Il giardino d’amore» (1705-1710)

Tomaso Albinoni
«Zeffiretti che spiegate» for soprano from the opera «Eraclea»

Francesco Mancini
Sonata Decima Quarta per flauto solo, 2 violini, viola e basso g-Moll

Leonardo Vinci
«Rondinella che dal lido» Aria for soprano from the opera «Ifigenia in Tauride»

Angelo Maria Fiorè
«Usignolo che col volo» Aria for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Engelberta»

Pietro Torri
«Amorosa rondinella» for soprano from the opera «Nicomede”

Charles Dieupart
Concerto per flautino in A minor

Francesco Gasparini
«Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «L’oracolo del fato»

Johann Adolph Hasse
«L’augellin fra lacci stretto» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Didone abbandonata»

Julia Schröder Conductor
Kammerorchester Basel

Alessandro Scarlatti
«Più non m’alletta e piace» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Il giardino d’amore» (1705-1710)

Tomaso Albinoni
«Zeffiretti che spiegate» for soprano from the opera «Eraclea»

Francesco Mancini
Sonata Decima Quarta per flauto solo, 2 violini, viola e basso g-Moll

Leonardo Vinci
«Rondinella che dal lido» Aria for soprano from the opera «Ifigenia in Tauride»

Angelo Maria Fiorè
«Usignolo che col volo» Aria for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Engelberta»

Pietro Torri
«Amorosa rondinella» for soprano from the opera «Nicomede”

Charles Dieupart
Concerto per flautino in A minor

Francesco Gasparini
«Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «L’oracolo del fato»

Johann Adolph Hasse
«L’augellin fra lacci stretto» for soprano and flauto dolce from the opera «Didone abbandonata»

Julia Schröder Conductor
Kammerorchester Basel

Telemann – Grillen-Symphonie “Cricket Symphony” in G major TWV 50:1
Händel – Delirio Amoroso “da quel giorno fatale”, HWV 99
Händel – Giulio Cesare, HWV 17 “Da tempeste il legno infranto”, “Piangeró la sorte mia”
Händel – Feuerwerksmusik HWV 351

Emöke Baráth Soprano
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra

Mozart – Recorder Concert after the Bassoon Concert B major K 191
Heberle – Recorder Concert G major

Howard Griffiths Conductor
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt

Mozart – Recorder Concert after the Bassoon Concert B major K 191
Heberle – Recorder Concert G major

Howard Griffiths Conductor
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt

Mozart – Recorder Concert after the Bassoon Concert B major K 191
Heberle – Recorder Concert G major

Howard Griffiths Conductor
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt

Wherever Maurice Steger appears, he leaves an enthusiastic audience behind, as seen already this winter in southern Germany and Switzerland. And now the sequel: on December 7th, he will conduct a play & conduct Baroque program with the Württembergischen Philharmonie Reutlingen. He will then be performing with the Munich Chamber Orchestra on December 11th in Erlangen and again on December 17th in Essen, performing virtuoso solo concerti by the great Italian Baroque composers Sammartini, Vivaldi and Corelli.

On December 22nd, Maurice Steger opens the series of Baroque concerts of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover. In addition to Baroque luminaries, the program also includes lesser-known works that owe their resurgence to Maurice Steger, who captivates their compositional quality. Maurice Steger’s exuberant musicality, virtuosity and charismatic demeanor promise his listeners a magical Advent season with Baroque music.

Corelli – Concerto grosso op. 6/4 D major
Vivaldi – Concerto for recorder and strings G major RV 437
Scarlatti – Concerto grosso No. 1 F minor
Vivaldi – Concerto for strings D major RV 121
Sarro – Concerto for recorder, 2 violins, viola and b.c. A minor
Vivaldi – Concerto for strings G minor RV 156 |
Albinoni – Sinfonia G minor Si7
Vivaldi – Concerto for flautino, strings and b.c. C major RV 443

Marcello di Lisa conductor
Concerto de’ Cavalieri

Corelli – Concerto grosso op. 6/4 D major
Vivaldi – Concerto for recorder and strings G major RV 437
Vivaldi – Concerto for strings G minor RV 156 | Concerto for flautino, strings and b.c. C major RV 443
Vivaldi – Concerto for strings D major RV 121
Scarlatti – Concerto grosso No. 1 F minor
Domenico – Sarro Concerto for recorder, 2 violins, viola and b.c. A minor
Albinoni – Sinfonia G minor Si7

Marcello di Lisa conductor
Concerto de’ Cavalieri

Gifts with Maurice Steger! From November 22-26th, Maurice Steger brought to the stage a sophisticated program of music from Handel to Mozart to the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz. He kicked off the pre-Christmas period under the atmospheric banner “Thoughts.”

This is now followed by concerts with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano on December 1st, presenting a play-conduct program of Baroque/Early Classical music from Rosetti, Telemann, Sammartini and Haydn. And on December 3rd, works from Telemann, Montanari and Vivaldi in a chamber music evening with musicians from the orchestra. As always, he presents his art full of energy and with enchating sound and colorful musicality. More to come!

Telemann – Overture-Suite in g minor
J.S. Bach – Concerto in D major
Vivaldi – Flute Concerto in g minor  ‚La notte‘
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Brescianello – Chaconne  in A major
G. Sammartini – Flute Concerto in F major
Handel – Concerto a due cori in B flat major

Maurice Steger | recorder & direction
Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

Telemann – Suite from „Klingende Geographie“
G.B. Sammartini – Symphony G major
Sarri – Concert for recorder d minor
A. Montanari / G. F. Händel (wrongly accredited) – Concerto per flautino B major
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Heinichen – Concer G major Seibel 214
Brescianello – Chaconne A major
G. Sammartini – Concert for Recorder F major

Maurice Steger recorder & conductor
NDR Radiophilharmonie
Sebastian Wienand harpsichord & chest organ
Daniele Caminiti theorbo & Baroque guitar

Haydn – Symphony Nr. 23 G major
Sammartini – Concert for Recorder F major
Telemann – Sinfonie spirituosa D major TWV 44:1
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Vivaldi – Concert for Recorder g minor “La Notte”
Mozart – Symphony A major KV 201
Corelli – Concert for recorder Nr.10 F major

Maurice Steger recorder
Munich Chamberorchestra

W.F. Bach – Symphony F major BR C2
Sammartini – Concert for Recorder F major
Telemann – Sinfonie spirituosa D majpr TWV 44:1
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Tippett – Fantasia on a Theme of Corelli
Sørensen – „Whispering“ for alto recorder and strings
Corelli – Concert for recorder Nr.10 F major

Maurice Steger recorder
Munich Chamberorchestra

Veracini – Ouvertüre Nr. 6 g minor 2
Vivaldi – Concerto per molti strumenti F major, RV 569
Kaiser – Jodelet
Vivaldi – La Notte
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Vivaldi – Gardellino
Fasch – Concert D major
Sammartini – Concerto per flautino

Maurice Steger conductor & recorder
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen Philharmonic orchestra

Telemann – Sonata a tre per flauto, violino e basso continuo n.5 TWV42:a4
Telemann – Fantasia n. 1 da «12 Fantasie per flauto»
Telemann – Concerto a tre per flauto, corno e basso continuo

Montanari – Concerto per flautino, 2 violini e basso continuo in si bemolle maggiore

Vivaldi – Concerto per flauto, oboe, violino, fagotto e basso continuo in sol minore RV 107

Maurice Steger recorder
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Walter Zagato violin I, Katie Vitalie violin II, Johann Sebastian Paetsch violoncello, Marco Schiavon oboe, Alberto Biano bassoon, Zora Slokar horn

Rosetti – Symphony n. 39
Telemann – Concert for Baroque Flute in C major TWV 52
Sammartini – Concert for Flautino in F major
Haydn – Symphony n. 94 Surprise

Maurice Steger conductor and recorder
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Handel – Suite de dance from the opera Almira, Königin von Kastilien’
Sarri – Concerto 11 for recorder, strings & b.c. in a minor
Vivaldi – Concerto for recorder, strings & b.c. in D Major, RV 375
Veracini – Overture No. 6 in g minor for two hautbois, bassoon, strings and b.c.
Sammartini – Concerto per flautino in F Major

Maurice Steger, recorder and conductor
La Cetra Barockorchester

Sammartini – Concerto per flauto F Major
Telemann – Concerto in C Major

Maurice Steger, recorder
Ensemble Esperanza

Veracini – Sonata in la minore per flauto e basso
Canzoni del sei’cento: Sonata seconda per flauto solo (Fontana) – Symphonia ‘in Eco’ (Rossi) ‚La suave melodia’ (Falconiero) – Canzona La Pighetta per flauto e basso (Merula)
Vivaldi – Concerto per flauto, violino e basso in D Major, RV 92
Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso in D Major
Caldara – Chiacona
Vivaldi – Sonata XII in sol minore ‚La Follia’, RV 63 per flauto diritto, violino, cello & basso continuo

Maurice Steger, recorder
Max Volbers, harpsichrod
Chouchane Siranossian, Baroque Violin
Bruno Hurtado, Baroque Cello

Handel– Suite de danse from the opera Almira HWV 1
Montanari – Concerto per flauto piccolo
Brescianello – Chaconne A Major
Sammartini – Concerto for recorder F Major
Mozart – Symphony E flat Major K 543

Maurice Steger, recorder and conductor
Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz

This summer, one musical highlight after another awaits Maurice Steger. On 30^th June, the recorder player will travel with the Lautten Compagney Berlin to Astana, Kazakhstan. There, the future will meet the past when Maurice Steger and the remarkable Baroque ensemble take a delightful Baroque programme focusing on Telemann to the stage against the technical-futuristic backdrop.

Then it’s on to London’s Wigmore Hall. There, Maurice Steger will join his brilliant cembalo partner Jean Rondeau to perform an as always perfectly balanced programme complete with local flair: Alongside the great masters of the Baroque, works by Londoner composer Stephen Storace (1762 -1796) can also be heard.

For concert goers in Santander (Spain), Maurice Steger, together with duo partner Spanish native Ignacio Prego on the cembalo, has crafted an opulent Italian programme featuring works by Corelli, Fontana, Uccelini, Scarlatti and others, which they will present on 6^th July at the city’s university.

Finally, Maurice Steger will be welcomed at Palace Esterhazy for the Haydn Festival on 15^th July. Before this resplendent, authentic backdrop, he will conduct and, together with the Budapest Strings, play a programme featuring Haydn’s Baroque predecessors and musical precursors.

Maurice Steger excels with his awe-inspiring versatility, abounding musical prowess not to mention his unparalleled energy. Audiences can look forward to this musical summer! To be continued …

Telemann – Fantasia 1 in A Major for recorder solo // Trio Sonata F Major for recorder, viola da gamba & b.c., TWV 42:F3
Forquera – „La Rameau“ and „Jupiter“
Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso in D Major
Telemann – Trio Sonata in B flat Major for recorder, obligatory harpsichord & b.c., TWV 42:B4
Marais – Les Folies d’Espagne for viola da gamba
Sammartini – Sonata IV G Major for recorder & b.c.

Maurice Steger, recorder
Hille Perl, viola da gamba
Olga Watts, harpsichord

J. Hotteterre – Préludes pour la flûte à bec seul
A. Danican-Philidor – Sonate D Minor
M. de la Barre – Suite No. 9 G Major »Sonate L’inconnuë«
J.J. Froberger – Affligée et tombeau sur la mort de M. Blancrocher
L. Couperin – Chaconne »La Bergeronnette«
A. Desplanes / G.A. Piani – Sonata IV D Major
J.B. de Boismortier – Sonata D Major op. 91 pour un clavecin et une flûte
F. Couperin – Les langueurs tendres | Les barricades mistérieuses
D. Ares – Prélude (sur les barricades mistérieuses)
F. Couperin – L’Arléquine
A. Corelli – Sonata X op. 5 F Major for flautino and b.c. with ornaments of the French Compositeuren

Maurice Steger, recorder
Diego Ares, harpsichord

SOUVENIRS d’ITALIE
works by D. and A. Scarlatti, J. A. Hasse, G. Sammartini, S. Gleitsmann, A. Falconiero, G. B. Piani and others

Maurice Steger, recorder
Daniele Caminiti, theorbo
Naoki Kitaya, harpsichord

N. Fiorenza – Sonata A Minor for recorder and b.c.
Canzoni del sei’cento di A. Falconiero – ‘Il Spiritillo’ – ‚El Melo’ – ‚La suave melodia’
N.A. Porpora – Sonata per cello e basso continuo in F Major
S. Gleitsmann – Capriccio in C Minor for lute solo
G.A. Piani – Sonata IV in D Major
G.A. Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso in B flat Major
L. Leo – Toccata II in G Minor und VI in C Major for harpsichord solo, Napoli ca. 1730
G. Sammartini – Sonata in G Major, op. 2

Maurice Steger, recorder&direction
Mauro Valli, baroque cello
Daniele Caminiti, theorbo
Naoki Kitaya, harpsichor

Maurice Steger, recorder&direction
Mauro Valli, baroque cello
Daniele Caminiti, theorbo
Naoki Kitaya, harpsichord

F. M. Veracini – Sonata A Minor per flauto e basso continuo
G.B. Fontana – Sonata seconda per canto solo
G.A. Piani – Sonata IV in D Major
Canzoni del sei’cento di A. Falconiero, Napoli 1625: ‘Il Spiritillo’ – ‚El Melo’ – ‚La suave melodia’
P.D. Paradisi – Sonata IX A Minor for harpsichord solo
A. Corelli – Sonata No. 10 op. 5 in F Major for recorder and b.c

Maurice Steger, recorder
Olga Watts, harpsichord

G.P. Telemann – Fantasia 1 in A Major fur recorder solo | Trio Sonata F Major for recorder, viola da gamba & b.c., TWV 42:F3
J.B.A. Forqueray – „La Rameau“ and „Jupiter“
G.A. Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso in D Major
G.P. Telemann – Trio Sonata in B flat Major for recorder, obligatory harpsichord & b.c. TWV 42:B4
M. Marais – Les Folies d’Espagne for viola da gamba | Variations on the Follia Basso, from the second book(1701)
G. Sammartini – Sonata IV G Major for recorder & b.c.

Maurice Steger, recorder
Hille Perl, viola da gamba
Olga Watts, harpsichord

J.S. Bach – Concerto for 2 violins, strings and continuo D Minor BWV 1043 | Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 4, BWV 1048 & 1049
F. Mancini – Sonata Decima Quarta per flauto solo, 2 violini, viola e basso G Minor
A. Vivaldi – Sinfonia per archi G Minor RV 156 / Concerto ffor recorder G Major, RV 437

Maurice Steger, recorder & director
Chamber Orchestra Basel
Stefano Barneschi, solo violin
Anna Faber, violin (Bach 1043)
Katya Polin, recorder (Bach 1049)
Sergio Ciomei, harpsichord

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L. Vinci – “Rompi i lacci aquila altera” für Sopran aus der Oper “Astianatte”
P. Torri – “Amorosa rondinella” für Sopran aus der Oper “Nicomede”
F. Gasparini – “Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando” für Sopran und Flauto dolce aus der Oper “L’oracolo del fato”
F. Mancini – Konzert g-moll für Blockflöte und Orchester
A. Vivaldi – “Io son quel gelsomino” für Sopran aus der Oper “Arsilda regina di Ponto”
G.F. Händel – “Il volo cosi fido” für Sopran und Flauto dolce aus der Oper “Riccardo Primo”
G. Sellitto – “Siface eccoti giunto … Quell’usignolo ch’innamorato” für Sopran aus der Oper “Siface”
L.Vinci – “Rondinella che dal lido” für Sopran aus der Oper “Ifigenia in Tauride”
A. Scarlatti – “Più non m’alletta e piace” für Sopran und Flauto dolce aus der Oper “Il giardino d’amore”
A. Vivaldi – Konzert G-Dur ‚per flauto e orchestra‘, RV 437
G.B. Pergolesi – “Andrò ramingo e solo” für Sopran aus der Oper “Salustia”
J.A. Hasse – “L’augellin fra lacci stretto” für Sopran und Flauto dolce aus der Oper “Dioden abbandonata”

Nuria Rial, soprano
Maurice Steger, recorder
Kammerorchester Basel
Stefano Barneschi, concertmaster

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L. Vinci – “Rompi i lacci aquila altera” for Soprano from the Opera “Astianatte”
P. Torri – “Amorosa rondinella” for Soprano from the Opera “Nicomede”
F. Gasparini – “Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando” for Soprano and Flauto dolce from the Opera “L’oracolo del fato”
F. Mancini – Concerto g Minor for Recorder and Orchestra
A. Vivaldi – “Io son quel gelsomino” for Soprano from the Opera “Arsilda regina di Ponto”
G.F. Händel – “Il volo cosi fido” for Soprano and Flauto dolce from the Opera “Riccardo Primo”
G. Sellitto – “Siface eccoti giunto … Quell’usignolo ch’innamorato” for Soprano from the Opera “Siface”
L.Vinci – “Rondinella che dal lido” for Soprano from the Opera “Ifigenia in Tauride”
A. Scarlatti – “Più non m’alletta e piace” for Soprano and Flauto dolce from the Opera “Il giardino d’amore”
A. Vivaldi – Concerto G Major ‚per flauto e orchestra‘, RV 437
G.B. Pergolesi – “Andrò ramingo e solo” for Soprano from the Opera “Salustia”
J.A. Hasse – “L’augellin fra lacci stretto” for Soprano and Flauto dolce from the Opera “Dioden abbandonata”

Kammerorchester Basel
Nuria Rial, soprano

G. Fr. Handel – Overture Agrippina (1709) HWV 6
G. Ph.Telemann – Concerto C Major for recorder and orchestra TWV51:C1
A. Salieri – Sinfonia Veneziana
J. Chr. Bach – Overture Alessandro nell’Indie
G. Sammartini – Concerto for flautino in F major
L. Boccherini – D minor “La Casa del Diavolo” Symphony, op 12 No 4 (G 506) (1787)

Maurice Steger, recorder & conductor
Budapest Strings, chamber orchestra

Arcangelo Corelli – Sonata IV F Major for recorder & b.c.
Giovanni Battista Fontana – Sonata seconda per canto solo
Canzoni del sei’cento di Marco Uccellini e Andrea Falconiero – Sinfonia 14 “La Foschina” – ‘Il Spiritillo’ – ‚El Melo’ – ‚La suave melodia’
Georg Philipp Telemann – Fantasia 1 in A Major for recorder solo
Georg Philipp Telemann – Sonata C Major for recorder & b.c. from Essercizii Musici, TWV41:C5
Giuseppe Sammartini – Sonata IV G Major for recorder & b.c.
Antonio Soler – Fandango per a clave
Alessandro Scarlatti – Variazioni sulla Partite di ‘Follia di Spagna’, Napoli, ca 1716

Maurice Steger, recorder
Ignacio Prego, harpsichord

Giovanni Adolfo Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso D Major
Canzoni del sei’cento di Andrea Falconiero – Il Spiritillo’ – ‚El Melo’ – ‚La suave melodia’
Bernardo Storace – La Ciaccona per cimbalo solo
Pietro Castrucci – Sonata per flauto e basso – after the Sonata op 5 No 8 in g Minor by Arcangelo Corelli with ornaments by Mr P. Castrucci
Domenico Scarlatti – Sonate per cembalo solo _ K. 213 Andante in d Minor and K. 119 Allegro in D Major
Giuseppe Sammartini – Sonata in G Major, op.2

Maurice Steger, recorder
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord

J.S. Bach – Concerto D minor BWV 1043
Vivaldi – Concerto B minor RV 580
Sammartini – Concerto F major for recorder, strings and b.c.
Vivaldi – Concerto in D major
Vivaldi – L’estate from Le quattro stagioni RV 315
Telemann –Double concerte E minor l TWV 52:e1

Lautten Compagney
Maurice Steger, recorder and conductor
Wolfgang Katschner, conductor

Telemann – Concerto C major for recorder, strings and basso continuo
Schacher – Romance stories for recorder and symphony orchestra
Wagner – Prelude to Parsifal
Franck – Symphonie D minor

Bielefeld Philharmonics
Patrik Ringborg – Conductor

Several works for recorder and orchestra by Vivaldi, Heinichen, Hasse, Fasch, Bach and other

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Georg Kallweit, Concert master

Händel – Suite from the Opera Almira, Königin von Kastilien
Sammartini – Concerto F major for Recorder, Strings and b.c.
Heinichen – Concerto G major
Vivaldi – Concerto G major per flauto RV 437
Händel – Concerto F major a due cori, HWV 334

Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt

Händel – Sonata F major
Corelli – Sonata 8 op. 5
Purcell – A New Ground
Jianping – Recorder solo
Corelli – Sonata 10 op. 5 with Variations

Maurice Steger, Recorder
Dmitry Dichtiar, Baroque Cello
Irene Müller-Glasewald, Harpsichord

Händel – Suite aus Almira, Königin von Castilien
Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Schacher – Romance Pictures
Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO)
Maurice Steger – Recorder and Leader

Händel – Suite aus Almira, Königin von Castilien
Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Schacher – | Romance Pictures
Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO)
Maurice Steger – Recorder and Leader

Piani – Sonata IV in D-Dur; Canzoni del sei’cento di Andrea Falconiero, Napoli 1625‘Il Spiritillo’ – ‚El Melo’ – ‚La suave melodia’
Porpora – Sonata per cello e basso continuo in F major
Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso in D-Dur
Fiorenza -Sonata A minor für Altblockflöte und b.c.
Gleitsmann – Capriccio in C minor for Lute solo
Sammartini -Sonata in G major, op. 2

Maurice Steger, Recorder
Daniele Caminiti, Lute
Mauro Valli, Cello

The new year will take Maurice Steger directly overseas. On 26^th and 27^th of January in Quebec City and Montréal, he will conduct the chamber orchestra “Les Violons du Roy”, one of the most prestigious orchestras in the Canadian music scene and named after the infamous string orchestra of the French court. Maurice Steger will be conducting a programme featuring early classical music by Rosetti, Mozart, Leo and Haydn. Only very few works were composed for the recorder during this time. The recorder concert by Anton Heberle is, however, a true gem and in his performance, Maurice Steger, the “Paganini of the recorder”, conjures up unforgettable moments in the concert hall with his richly nuanced, technically and tonally brilliant playing.

Vivaldi – Concerto for recorder in G minor op.10 no. 2 RV 439 »La notte«
Mozart – Divertimento D major KV 136
Telemann – Concerto for recorder in C major TWV 52:C1
Beethoven – Symphony no. 2 D major op. 36

Staatsorchester Braunschweig
Maurice Steger, conductor and recorder

N. Fiorenza – Sonata la mineur pour flûte
Canzoni del sei’cento di Andrea Falconiero – Il Spiritillo‚ El Melo, La suave melodia’
Giovanni Antonio Piani – Sonata IV en Ré Majeur pour flùte
Leonardo Leo – Toccata II en sol Mineur pour clavecin solo solo, Napoli ca 1730
Giovanni Adolfo Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso en Si Bemoll Majeur
Alessandro Scarlatti – Variazioni sulla Partite di ‘Follia di Spagna’, Napoli, ca 1716
Domenico Scarlatti – Sonate per cembalo solo, La Majeur K. 208 – Andante e cantabile & Ré Majeur K. 29 – Presto
Giuseppe Sammartini – Sonata en Sol Majeur, op.2

Sebastian Wienand, cembalo
Maurice Steger, recorder

L. Leo – Sinfonia from the oprea ‚Andromaca’
Rosetti – Symphony no. 39 in G minor, RWV A 42
Mozart – Serenade no. 13 in G major, K. 525, “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
Heberle – Concerto Sol majeur pour flûte à bec, cordes et deux cor ad libitum
Haydn – Symphony no. 8 in G major, Hob.I:8, “Le soir”

Les Violons du Roy
Maurice Steger, rec-+order and conductor

Souvenirs

Turini – Sonata per due canti | Intermezzo „E tanto tempo hormai“ | Sonata per due canti e basso „Il Corisino“
Hasse – Cantata B major| Quadro for oboe, violine, bassoon and cembalo in D minor
Montanari – Concerto B major per flautino
G.P. Telemann – Concerto A minorl, TWV 43:a3
Leonardo Vinci – A favorite Song from the opera „Elpidia“
Caldara – Chiacona
Vivaldi – Concerto for rechorder , Oboe, violine, bassoon and cembalo in G minorl, RV 107

Maurice Steger, recorder & condcutor
Xenia Löffler, oboe & recorder
Nadja Zwiener, baroque violin
Marco Postinghel, baroque bassoon
Naoki Kitaya, cembalo

Souvenirs

Maurice Steger, recorder & condcutor
Xenia Löffler, oboe & recorder
Nadja Zwiener, baroque violin
Marco Postinghel, baroque bassoon
Naoki Kitaya, cembalo

Souvenirs

Maurice Steger, recorder & condcutor
Xenia Löffler, oboe & recorder
Nadja Zwiener, baroque violin
Marco Postinghel, baroque bassoon
Naoki Kitaya, cembalo

Heard the latest? On November 11, Maurice Steger will be publishing long forgotten, yet to be heard works on his latest CD, delightfully entitled Souvenirs d’Italie.

In the archive of Austria’s Count of Harrach, who frequently travelled to Italy as a diplomat and viceroy of Naples, Maurice Steger uncovered a fascinating collection of unique musical souvenirs, which the count, an avid player of the recorder, brought back from his travels. He specially commissioned some of the works for his own use while collecting others as an enthusiast. Maurice Steger has now rediscovered these long forgotten gems and recorded delightful, yet to be heard sonatas, chamber music pieces and concerts pairing them with well known works. The new recording promises to delight listeners!

In addition to the sound of the Baroque from Handel, Purcell and Vivaldi, Maurice Steger will also present the Sammartini souvenir together with the hr symphony orchestra. After his successful debut last year, he will once again join the orchestra to perform in Frankfurt and during the Kasseler Musiktage. With these souvenirs on board, he will head home to present the spoils of the count’s travels together with frequent collaborator, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

More information to the new CD and a link for orders you may find here.

And here are more information to the concerts with the hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Zürcher Kammerorchester.

When he prepares his exquisite programmes, Maurice Steger is musician, musicologist, interpreter, artist, historian and dramaturg all in one. In his current programme, he takes audiences on a journey back to Venice of the Baroque Period, promises musical highlights not to mention a few surprises that have never been heard before. Together with his Baroque ensemble, he plays works by the Venetian masters of the Baroque not to mention a few rediscovered gems, lost in archives for centuries.
Maurice Steger’s energy permeates the entire programme with every single note ringing true and his technique of the often underestimated recorder and musical expressiveness knows no limit. The Bucerius Kunst Forum provides the perfect setting for this journey to Venice of the Baroque. This backdrop as well as the captivating sound of Maurice Steger’s playing are sure to take the audience away to Venice of the Baroque.

For more information please click here

Travel fantasies from Napoli to Spanien and Berlin, Dresden and Vienna

Mancini – Sonata IV A minor
Mancini – Canzoni del sei’cento di Andrea Falconiero
Giovanni Antonio Piani – Sonata IV in D major
Giovanni Adolfo Hasse – Sonata da camera per cimbalo solo Eflat major
Alessandro Scarlatti – Variazioni sulla Partite di Follia di Spagna
Giovanni Adolfo Hasse – Cantata per flauto e basso
Francesco Geminiani – from Pièces de clavecin
Giuseppe Sammartini – Sonata in G major op. 2

Maurice Steger – recorder
Jermaine Sprosse – hapsichord

Travel fantasies from Napoli to Spanien and Berlin, Dresden and Vienna

Maurice Steger – recorder
Jermaine Sprosse – hapsichord

Corelli – Concerto grosso G minor„Fatto per la Notte di Natale“
Vivaldi – Concerto B flat major for recorder for recorder, strings and b.c. RV 375
Händel – Concerto grosso F major op. 6 Nr. 2
Geminiani – Concerto grosso D minor no. 12 „La Follia
Vivaldi –Concerto G minor for recorder for recorder, strings and b.c. „La Notte“ RV 439
Vivaldi –Concerto D major f for recorder for recorder, strings and b.c. „Il Gardellino“ RV 428

Zuger Sinfonietta
Maurice Steger, conductor and recorder

Holzbauer – Symphony in D minor
Vivaldi – Konzert für Blockflöte und Orchester g-Moll op. 10, Nr. 2 RV 439 „La Notte“
Vivaldi – Konzert für Blockflöte und Orchester F-Dur op. 10, Nr. 1 RV 443 „La tempesta di mare“
Corelli – Konzert für Flautino und Orchester Nr. 10 F-Dur according to the sonata op. 5 (Orchesterfassung von Francesco Geminiani)
Janáček – Suite for strings

Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester
Johannes Schlaefli, conductor

Selected Repertoire Ideas
further suggestions upon request

Avec plusieurs Instruments
J. S. Bach
Brandenburg concerto No. 3 G major BWV 1048
Brandeburg concerto No. 5 D major BWV 1050
Brandenburg concerto No. 4 G major BWV 1049
Concerto D minor BWV 1060
Orchestra suite No. 4 D major BWV 1069

Barock +
Rebel Les Éléments – Symphonie nouvelle (excerpts)
Telemann Quadro A minor TWV 43:a3
Rebel Les Éléments – Symphonie nouvelle (excerpts)
Vivaldi Concerto F major RV 569
Rebel Les Éléments – Symphonie nouvelle (excerpts)
Corelli Concerto grosso F major op. 6 No. 2
Mozart Symphony No. 31 D major K 297 Paris

Night Changes
Veracini Overture for orchestra VI G minor
Vivaldi Concerto La Notte G minor RV 439
T. Hosokawa Nachspiel Nacht – Schlaf (from: Singing Garden in Venice)
Vivaldi Concerto per molti strumenti F major RV 569
J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 G major BWV 1049
Vivaldi Concerto Il Gardellino D major RV 428
Vivaldi Concerto per molti strumenti C major RV 558

Contrasts
Barber Adagio for strings
Handel Concerto F major for recorder and orchestra, HWV 369 & 293
R. V. Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
F. Geminiani Concerto A major for recorder & orchestra after sonata op. 5 Nr. 11 by A. Corelli
W. Babell Concerto No. 1 D major for sixth flute, violins & b.c.
Haydn Symphony No. 60 C major Il distratto

Scherzo con il diavolo
Leo Sinfonia from Andromaca for two french horns, two hautbois, strings & b.c.
Mozart Divertimento D Major K. 136
Boccherini Symphony No. 6 La Casa del Diavolo
Beethoven Symphony No. 2 D Major op. 36

Pure Baroque
Handel Suite for orchestra G major, HWV 1 & 399
Handel Concerto F major for recorder & orchestra, HWV 369 & 293
Heinichen Concerto G major SeiH 214
Corelli Concerto A major for recorder & orchestra after the sonata op. 5 No. 11, orchestrated by Francesco Geminiani
Godfrey Finger A Ground for recorder & b.c.
Brescianello Chaconne A major for two violins, two viols & b.c.
Telemann Concerto grosso D major for three trumpets, two oboes, timpani, strings & b.c., TWV 54:D3

Works from Francesco Turini, Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Salomone Rossi, Angelo Michele Bartolotti, Tarquinio Merula, Antonio Caldara

Maurice Steger and Friends

conductor, Maurice Steger
violin, Nadja Zwiener
oboe, Xenia Löffler
bassoon, Christian Beuse
cello, Mauro Valli
theorbo, Björn Collel
b.c., Naoki Kitaya

Vivaldi – Concerto in D major , RV 375
Wagenseil –Symphony in G minor
Vivaldi – Concerto in G minor ‚La Notte’ RV 439
Vivaldi – Concerto C major, RV 443
Mozart –Linzer

Staatsorchester Braunschweig
Maurice Steger – condoctur, recorder & flautin

Staatsorchester Braunschweig
Maurice Steger – condoctur, recorder & flautino

Telemann – Double concert in F major
Bach – Concert in D minor BWV 1043
Telemann – Double concert in e minor
Montanari – Concerto Bflat major
Sammartini – oncert in F major
Vivaldi – Concerto B minor RV 580
Telemann –Double concert in E minor, TWV 52:e1

Maurice Steger & Lautten Compagney

Veracini – Sonata for Recorder and Basso continuo in A minor
Symphonia – No.14 ‘La Foschina’
Rossi – Sinfonia no.9
Frescobaldi – Toccata Prima in G minor
Fontana – Sonata no.2
Corelli – Sonata for Violin and Basso continuo in E minor,op.5/8 (performed on Recorder and Harpsichord)
Sammartini – No.4 in G major, op.2
Scarlatti – Sonata in D minor K.213, Sonata in D major K119
Scarlatti -Improvisation upon the Partite di ‘La Follia di Spagna’

Maurice Steger, recorder
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord

Sammartini – Allegro | Siciliano | Allegro assai
Schacher – Romance Pictures for Recorders and orchestra

National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Darell Ang, conductor

Telemann – Suite from the “Klingenden Geographie”
Vinci – Ouverture from “Elpidia”
Sarro – Concerto per flauto in D minor
Händel/Montanari – Concerto per flautino in H-Major
Hasse – Cantata per flauto in H-Major
Bresclianello – Chaconne in A-Major
Sammartini – Concerto per flautino in F-Major

Zürcher Kammerorchester
Maurice Steger, recorder and conductor

G. Händel – Suite de danse from the Opera »Almira« HWV 1
Vivaldi – Concerto e Minor for cello, bassoon, strings and b.c., RV 409
Sammartini – Concerto F Major for descant recorder, strings and b.c.
Vivaldi – Concerto C Major for flautino, strings and b.c., RV 443
Purcell – Suite from the Opera »King Arthur«
G. Händel – Concerto a due cori F Major, HWV 334

hr Sinfonieorchester
Maurice Steger, conductor and recorder

G. Händel – Suite de danse from the Opera »Almira« HWV 1
Vivaldi – Concerto e Minor for cello, bassoon, strings and b.c., RV 409
Sammartini – Concerto F Major for descant recorder, strings and b.c.
Vivaldi – Concerto C Major for flautino, strings and b.c., RV 443
G. Händel – Concerto a due cori F Major, HWV 334

hr Sinfonieorchester
Maurice Steger, conductor and recorder

Telemann – Concerti con molti strumenti

Maurice Steger & Lautten Compagney

…with the Kuss Quartett
Iris ter Schiphorst Sei gutes Muts
Partner: Kuss Quartett (string quartet)
Rubicon RCD1104

A Tribute To Bach
J. S. Bach: Concerto for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo No. 2 in E major BWV 1053 (reconstr. by Sebastian Wienand)
Musical Sacrifice BWV 1079 excerpt (for recorder)
Sonata for violin and basso continuo in G minor BWV 1020 (for recorder)
Trio sonata for organ No. 3 in D minor BWV 527
Concerto for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo No. 6 in F major BWV 1057
(with 2 recorders)
Partner: Sebastian Wienand (harpsichord & organ), La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Berlin Classics 11544814 (2023)

Mr Handel’s Dinner – George Frideric Handel & Friends
Music for the Opera Intermissions
Händel: Concerto for recorder after HWV 369 & 293
              Suite for orchestra from HWV 1 & 287
              Sonate a flauto e cembalo HWV 362
              Pasacaille HWV 399
              Trio a faluto, violino e basso HWV 386a
              Chaconne HWV 435
Geminiani: Concerto per flauto after Arcangelo Corelli’s Sonata op. 5 No. 11
G. Finger: A Ground
W. Babell: Concerto in 7 parts for sixth flute and four violins op. 3 No. 1 D-Dur
Partner: Sebastian Wienand (harpsichord & organ), La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
harmonia mundi HMM 902607 (2019)

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Fiorè: Usignolo che col volo, Aria from the opera Engelberta 2018
Vinci: Rondinella che dal nido, Aria from the opera Ifigenia in Tauride
Gasparini: Bell’augelletto che vai scherzando, Aria from the opera L’oracolo del fato
Mancini: Sonata 14 in G Minor
Torri: Amorosa rondinella, Aria from the opera Nicomede
Albinoni: Zeffiretti che spirate, Aria from the opera Eraclea
Hasse: L’augelletto in lacci stretto, Aria from the opera Didone abbandonata
Dieupart: Konzert in A Minor
Vivaldi: Quell’usignolo ch’al caro nido, Arie aus der Oper Arsilda regina di Ponto
Scarlatti: Più non m’alletta e piace, Aria from the opera Il giardino d’amore
Vivaldi: Concerto in F Major, RV 442
Partner: Nuria Rial, Chamber Orchestra Basel
harmonia mundi 8898 549 7582 (2018)

Leonard Bernstein: Klavier- & Kammermusik
Bernstein: Variations on an Octatonic Scale for Recorder and Cello
Partner: Maria Kliegel
CAvi 8790492 (2018)

Souvenirs d’Italie – Mr Harrach’s Musical Diaries Sammartini: Concerto per flautino in F Major
Colista: Sinfonia à 3
Hasse: Cantata per flauto in B flat Major
Sarro: Concerto per flauto in D Minor
Caldara: Chiacona à 3
Vinci: Ouverture from the Opera Elpidia, A favourite Song for Recorder from the Opera Elpidia, Tortora che il suo bene (The Love Birds)
Leo: Toccata XIII per cembalo in C Major
Fiorenza: Sonata per flauto in A Minor
Montanari: Concerto per flautino in B flat Major
Piani: Sonata IV in D Major
Partner: Nadja Zwiener, Fiorenza de Donatis, Jonas Zschenderlein, Katharina Heutjer, Shai Kribus, Mauro Valli, Giulia Genini, Vanni Moretto, Naoki Kitaya, Philippe Grisvard, Gianluca Capuano, Daniele Caminiti, David Bergmüller
Michele Pasotti, Margit Übellacker
harmonia mundi HMC 902253 (2016)

Vivaldi Concerti per flauto
Concerto in G Major
Concerto La notte in G Minor
Concerto La pastorella in D Major
Concerto in D Minor
Concerto in E flat Major
Concerto in G Minor
Concerto Il gardellino in D Major
Partner: I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
harmonia mundi HMC 902190 (2014)

Tea for Two
A. Heberle Concerto G Major for recorder, string orchestra and two horns ad lib.
Partner: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Griffiths (conductor)
Berlin Classics 0300426BC (2013)

Una Follia di Napoli
Sarro: Concerto No. 11 A Minor
A. Scarlatti: Improvisations on the Partita Follia di Spagna
Fiorenza: Sinfonia A Minor
Barbella: Concerto No. 3 C Major
Mancini: Sonate No. 11 G Major
Leo: Concerto G Major
Partner: Fiorenza de Donatis, Andreas Rognoni, Anais Chen, Stefano Marcocchi, Mauro Valli, Vanni Moretto, Brigitte Gasser, Naoki Kitaya, Daniele Caminiti
harmonia mundi HMC 902135 (2012)

Pinocchio und der Flötenspieler
A musical fairy tale by Viktor Fortin
Story: Jolanda Steiner
Partner: Musikkollegium Winterthur
Philips 278 551-9 (2011)

Mr. Corelli in London
Corelli / Geminiani / Anonymus
Concerto per flauto Nos. 4, 7, 8, 10
Concerto Grosso after Corelli’s La Follia
Ground upon the Sarabanda of the 7th Sonata
The favourite Gigg in Corelli’s 5th Solo
Partner: The English Concert, Laurence Cummings (conductor)
harmonia mundi HMU 907523 (2010)

Venezia 1625
Sonatas, Symphonies, Ciaccones, Canzonas & Toccatas
by G. B. Fontana, M. Uccellini, B. Storace, T. Merula, S. Rossi, D. Castello, A. Piccinini
harmonia mundi HMC 902024 (2009)

Tino Flautino und die Zaubermelodie
musical fairy tale by Rudolphe Schacher
story/narrator: Jolanda Steiner
Partner: Musikkollegium Winterthur, Marc Kissoscy (conduct)
Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zürich 978-3-03713-301-9 (2008)

Sammartini: Sonata per flauto e basso continuo
Sonatas op. 2 No. 3, op. 2 No. 4, op. 13 No. 1, op.13 No. 4, op. 13 No. 5, Sonata No. 21, No. 23
Partner: Sergio Ciomei, Margret Köll, Mauro Valli, Christian Beuse, Eduardo Egüez, Naoki Kitaya
harmonia mundi HMC 905266 (2007)

Telemann: works for recoder
Suite A Minor TWV 55:a23
Concerto C Major TWV 51:C1
Overture Hamburger Ebb und Flut C Major TWV 55:C3
Partner: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
harmonia mundi HMC 901917 (2006)

Georg Friedrich Telemann: Quartets for flute
TWV 43:g4, G6, d3, G11, a3, G12, B2, G10
Partner: Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
Deutsche Grammophon Archiv 00289 477 5379 2005 (2005)

Maurice Steger: Portrait
Works by Robert Carr, Francesco Mancini, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi und anderen Komponisten
Claves 50-2208 (2004)

Tino Flautino
A musical fairy tale for children
music: Vivaldi, Mozart, Baston and more
story / narrator: Jolanda Steiner
Partner: Zürcher Kammerorchester, Howard Griffiths (condcutor)
Philips 476 111-0 (2003)

Georg Philipp Telemann: Solos & Trios
Sonatina A Minor
Sonata C Major
Fantasia No. 1 A Major
Trio Sonata A Minor
Trio Sonata B flat Major
Trio Sonata F Major
Sonatina A Minor
Fantasia No. 8 E Minor
Trio Sonata D Minor
Partner: Naoki Kitaya, Hanna Weinmeister, Rainer Zimmerling, Brian Feehan, Käthi Gohl, Markus Märkl
Claves 50-2112 (2001)

Vivaldi: Concerti
Concerti for recorder and orchestra RV 428 Il Gardellino, RV 442
Tutti gli instrumenti sordini-Konzerte RV 437, RV 155, RV 108, RV 438, RV 127
Partner: I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Claves (2000)

La Castella
Works by M. Uccellini, A. Corelli, G.A.P. Mealli, B. Marcello, D. Castello, F. Mancini
Partner: Continuo Consort, Naoki Kitaya
Claves 50-9809 (1998)

An English Collection
Works by G. F. Händel, M. Locke, G. Sammartini, J. Hilton and anonmyous composers
Claves 50-9614 (1996)

An Italian Ground
Baroque Music for recorder by G.B. Fontana, A. Piccinini, F. Rognoni Taeggio, G. Paolo Cima, T. Hume, M. Locke, A. Vivaldi, D. Scarlatti, G. Sammartini, R. Carr
Claves 50-9407 (1994)

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Anon
Concerti of the Harrach collection in g

Albinoni
All Concerti Veneziani (Concerto Italiano)

Babell
All Concertos for common and small flute (An English Concert) (d, D, e, A, D, F)

J. S. Bach
Brandenburg Concertos No. 2, 4, 5
All cantatas and sinfonias
Concert F for cembalo, 2 recorders, strings & b.c., BWV 1057
“Tripel“-concert a, BWV 1044
Concerto in D, BWV 1053
Overture h, BWV 1067
Double concert d, c, BWV 1060

Barbella
Concerti Napolitani (Concerto Italiano)

Baston
All Concertos for common and small flute (An English Concert) (G, D, G, A, D, D)

Bodin de Boismortier
Concertos for recorder (Concerts francais)

Buffardin
Concerto in e

Corelli
Concerti da grosso & solo

Corrette
Concertos for recorder (Concerts Francais)

Fasch
Concertos for recorder (German Concerto)

Fiorenza
Concerti in a, f, c

Graun
Concertos for recorder (German Concerto)

Graupner
Concertos for recorder (German Concerto)

Händel
Concerti F, B, g, B, B for recorder

Mancini
Concerti Napolitani (Concerto Italiano)

Marcello
Concerti Veneziani (Concerto Italiano)

Molter
Concertos for recorder (German Concert)

Montanari
Concerto in B for flauto piccolo

Naudot
Concertos for recorder (Concerts francais)

Pergolesi
Concerti Napolitani (Concerto Italiano)

Sammartini
Concerti F, Es

Sarri
Concerti Napolitani (Concerto Italiano) a, d

Scarlatti
Concerti Napoloitani (Concerto Italiano)

Scheibe
Concerto in B

Schickhardt
Concerti in F, g

Schultz(e)
Concerti in G, C

Stulick
Concerti in C, A

Tartini
Concerti Veneziani (Concerto Italiano)

Telemann
Concerts C, F, g
Overtures a, F
Double concerts, e with recorder, a with viola da Gamba, F with bassoon, B & g with recorder
Sinfonia F with Viola da Gamba

Vinci
Concerti in c, a

Vivaldi
Concerti for recorder C, C, G, D, G, RV 443, 444, 230, 312
Concerto for recorder c, a, B, RV 441, 108, 375
Concerti G, G, D, RV 438, 436, 429
Concerti op. 10, 1 La Tempesta di Mare, 2 La Notte, 3 Il Gardellino,
4, 5 Tutti gli instrumenti con sordini, 6
All Concerti da Camera & Concerti per molti strumenti
Double concerti with organ, oboe, recorder, violin

Valentine
All Concertos for common and small flute (An English Concert)

Woodcock
Concertos for one or several recorders

Classic

Mozart
Concert for recorder based on the concert for bassoon B, KV 191

Romantic

Heberle
Concert for recorder G

Modern

Fortin
Pinocchio Suite for recorder and small orchestra (world premiere 2010 – Maurice Steger)

Furrer-Münch
Concerto for recorder and chamber orchestra (world premiere 2009 – Maurice Steger)

Hosokawa
Singing Garden in Venice: Suite for a baroque orchestra (recorder, oboe, bassoon, strings, theorbo, harp ad. lib. & harpsichord) and nature sounds (2011, 2015, 2018)
Recorder concerto (2012)

Jacob
Suite for recorder and orchestra

Jiangping
Fei Ge (Flying Song)

Naoki Kitaya
Concert for recorder and orchestra

Schacher
Suite for recorder and symphony orchestra (world premiere 2009 – Maurice Steger)

True to the very fitting title of “Recorder Revolutionary”, Maurice Steger and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra along with Paul Dyer will be presenting a superb Baroque program on the stages of Sydney and Melbourne. The ensemble will invoke masterpieces from Telemann, Handel, Fiorenza among others. Steger also has a selection of Vivaldi concertos in store, perfectly complemented by his Swiss charm. In the words of Paul Dyer (Artistic Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), Australian audiences can look forward to witnessing the “Speedy Gonzales” of the recorder at work. Steger has a long history of captivating audiences with his breathtaking virtuosity combined with technical brilliance. The musicality and emotional depth of his performance also makes the slow, moving passages a true delight. This collaboration with the young not to mention dynamic ensemble of Australia’s leading Baroque orchestra is sure to delight audiences with vibrant, superb music performances!

24. & 26.02.2016 19:00 Sydney / City Recital Hall
27.02.2016 19:00 Melbourne / Recital Centre
28.02.2016 17:00 Melbourne / Recital Centre
02. & 04.03.2016 19:00 Sydney / City Recital Hall
05.03.2016 14:00 & 19:00 Sydney / City Recital Hall

Vivaldi Concerto in G major RV 443
Gallo Sonata no. 12 in g minor “Follia”
Telemann Concerto for 3 trumpets D major TWV 54:D4
Fiorenza Sinfonia in a minor
Händel Overture from “Judas Maccabeus” in g minor HWV 63
Vivaldi Concerto D major RV 428 “Il gardellino”
Rittler Ciaccona a 7 C major
Geminiani On Corellis Violinsonatas Op. 5

Maurice Steger’s tour with the Cappella Gabetta this Christmas season is in full swing: After exceedingly successful concerts in Lucerne, Riehen, Bonmont, Munich and Kufstein, he will also perform in Wilhelmshaven and Dresden. Together with the ensemble, Maurice Steger is presenting an evocative, captivating programme. Harald Eggebrecht of the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised Steger’s performance of Vivaldi concertos in D major RV 375 and RV 428: “In addition to his breathtaking technical mastery of this small woodwind instrument, Steger’s ability to accurately convey the essence of the piece and to deploy his capacity for refinement true to the musical context remains the most remarkable of all.” (15 December 2015)
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In this spirit, we of the KS Schoerke team would like to wish our partners, friends and musicians a happy, reflective holiday season as well as all the best for a successful new year!

Upcoming concert dates:
17.12.2015 | 20:00 | Wilhelmshaven – Stadthalle
18.12.2015 | 20:00 | Dresden – Frauenkirche

Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburgisches Konzert no. 3, G major, BWV 1048
Brandenburgisches Konzert no. 4, G major, BWV 1049
Brandenburgisches Konzert no. 5, D major, BWV 1050
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Flautino, string and b.c., D-Dur, op. 10/2, RV 428, („Il Gardellino“)
Concerto for recorder, strings and b.c., D-Dur, RV 375
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso, op. 6/8, („Weihnachtskonzert“)

Maurice Steger is awarded the sought-after ECHO recognising him as the Instrumentalist of the Year! His vibrant musicality and breathtaking technique continue to captivate audiences. Any doubts about the prominence of his performance instrument have long been dispelled.

He is currently touring the concert stages of Europe performing from his repertoire of Vivaldi’s brilliant, virtuosic flute concertos. The inspiring recorder player has also released a recording of this repertoire with harmonia mundi.

Congratulations Maurice Steger!