SEI GUTES MUTS | Maurice Steger, together with the Kuss Quartet, has also recorded the piece “Sei gutes Muts” by Iris ter Schiphorst—composed specifically for the performers—on CD.
The CD received great acclaim from the specialist press and was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize in 2025.
» Read a review here
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LES ELEMENTS
Few things are as multifaceted as nature: enchanting and threatening, mysterious and playful—a source of inspiration, especially for composers of all eras. In the 17th and 18th centuries in particular, people loved lifelike musical depictions of nature. The Baroque concert by the NDR Radiophilharmonie features storms and calm weather, birds and other songs.
Maurice Steger curated the programme himself and appears both as a recorder soloist and conductor.
Maurice Steger & NDR Radiophilharmonie live, listen to the concert from 25 April 2025 on ARD
L’ÉNERGIE ET LA POÉSIE DE MAURICE STEGER
On 1 March, Maurice Steger performed a trio concert of Italian Baroque music at the Grand Manège in Namur, together with Jonathan Pesek (cello) and Daniele Caminiti (theorbo). The Belgian radio station BRF recorded the concert.
MUSIKVEREIN VIENNA | Ö1 concert from the Musikverein Vienna featuring Maurice Steger (recorder), Avi Avital (mandolin), and Sebastian Wienand (harpsichord).
ORF will broadcast the concert with works by J. S. Bach and the Italian Baroque on 20 August 2025. Listen to the fabulous trio
J. S. BACH: 6 BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS | Maurice Steger conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
The title is French and gets straight to the point: “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments”—this is how Bach himself described his famous series of concertos. Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger presents them all—each a masterpiece in its own right. Today they are world-famous as the Brandenburg Concertos. Yet their original title humbly captures their essence: they are neither pure solo concertos nor true concerti grossi. Rather, Bach explored every possible combination of how instrumentalists can engage in musical dialogue.
A true showcase of constructive interplay—something that only becomes fully apparent in a complete cycle. Maurice Steger will also demonstrate that while Bach rarely wrote for the recorder, it plays a remarkably sophisticated role in the Brandenburgs. And no one is more qualified than he is: Maurice Steger has long been recognised as an unrivalled virtuoso of the instrument.
Watch and listen to the livestream from 28 March 2025