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Visit to the hearing lab

Our ear: Like a piano with thousands of keys

We usually go to them when it's already too late, when our ears hurt, when they're stuffed with ...

Music can heal

"You feel safe in this sound"

Concerts can be emotionally moving, making music is good for you. No wonder, music therapy has a ...

Music can make you ill

Instruments are not wellness devices

The fact that playing music at a high level can lead to health problems is still a sensitive issue. ...

Work portrait

Experimental Lament

Haydn's symphony "Lamentatione" is performed less frequently than other of his works. Yet it ...

Ihr Engagement

Valuable Friendships

The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich has been able to count on the support of the Freundeskreis (formerly ...

Three Careers

The All-rounder

Borders? No, they don't interest the Brit Wayne Marshall. He switches from piano to organ, from ...

Question no. 22

What to do when electric guitars go missing?

Bryce Dessner and David Chalmin have landed safely in Zurich. Their instruments are not. ...

Three Conductors

They Are Still Somewhere the First

Two debuts, one return: with Simone Young, Joana Mallwitz and Alondra de la Parra, three prominent ...

Question no. 21

Which piano plays all by itself?

The concert foyer of the Tonhalle Zurich is currently home to a Steinway spirio that can play music ...

Body Percusscion

No Fabric Between Skin and Hand

When monkeys beat their chests, children clap their hands and someone slaps the face with a ...

Portrait Maurizio Pollini

The Incorruptible

Schönberg, Nono, Chopin: the great pianist plays a programme entirely to his liking. ...

Two Houses, One Soloist

«The Story Has To Be Right»

The Ticino pianist Francesco Piemontesi is at the centre of the Rachmaninoff cycle that the Zurich ...

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