About this Recording

BECK • BERR • BURKHARD • R. FLURY • U.J. FLURY • GERBER • HONEGGER • JAQUES⁠-⁠DALCROZE
LANG • MARESCOTTI • MIEG • MOESCHINGER • ROESGEN-CHAMPION • ZBINDEN

This acclaimed edition covering the early 20th century’s fashionable wave of hot dance music from America into Europe now takes us to Switzerland. One luxury hotel owner was able to boast that ‘only here, and at the Savoy Hotel in London, can you hear real jazz’. The trend for hotel bands spread its influence to all corners of ‘light’ and ‘classical’ musical culture, and Switzerland, as a popular destination for international travel, became an epicentre for this worldwide dance fever. 20th Century Foxtrots • 5 presents more evocative piano rarities from this Golden Age, performed with panache and grace by Gottlieb Wallisch.