Badische

Classical Music from Fantasy Films is a compilation album. Contains music from Batman, Superman, X-Men and more.

In March 2018, Escape Argot released the prominently cast Swiss trio to drummer Christoph Steiner (known from the band Hildegard learns to fly), his first joint album. Still Writing Letters enjoyed a very positive international response. The Confederation of Bern praised the "playful improvisational joke" of the "daring and enormously agile trio" and Bird Is The Worm was stunned to hear, "How suddenly they're ready to shift into the most delicate phrasing, making the transition seem as natural as thunder to lightning, pressure into peace. "Jazzzeitung. de: Due to their strong, homogeneous interaction, Escape Argot creates a very special sound, which unites musical opposites, grooving in a dreamlike way, determined by lyrical themes to soulful, unbridled improvisations.

In March 2018, Escape Argot released the prominently cast Swiss trio to drummer Christoph Steiner (known from the band Hildegard learns to fly), his first joint album. Still Writing Letters enjoyed a very positive international response. The Confederation of Bern praised the "playful improvisational joke" of the "daring and enormously agile trio" and Bird Is The Worm was stunned to hear, "How suddenly they're ready to shift into the most delicate phrasing, making the transition seem as natural as thunder to lightning, pressure into peace. "Jazzzeitung. de: Due to their strong, homogeneous interaction, Escape Argot creates a very special sound, which unites musical opposites, grooving in a dreamlike way, determined by lyrical themes to soulful, unbridled improvisations.

Recorded with a stellar cast, one of the brightest and most insightful conductors of our day and a specialist handpicked orchestra playing at their best in the stunning venue of Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (July 2015), Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s “completely gripping, high-contrast” Figaro is “a brilliant triumph”, wrote Badische Zeitung of the July 2015 concert performance recorded here, while heaping praise on Luca Pisaroni’s “thrilling” Figaro, Thomas Hampson’s Count “illuminating every word”, Sonya Yoncheva’s Countess “recalling Callas’s vocal colours”, Angela Brower’s “fascinatingly delicate, sensitive” Cherubino and Anne Sofie von Otter’s “wonderfully perceptive, charming Marcellina”, all in a performance “crowned” by Christiane Karg’s “enchanting” Susanna and Rolando Villazón as Basilio, who “had the audience at his feet”.

Fabio Martino began playing the piano at the age of five in his grandmother's instrument. Seventeen years later - after rigorous training at leading universities in Brazil and Germany - Martino buys his first Steinway instrument. The money comes from the 1st place in the largest international piano competition in Latin America, the "BNDES".