Angela Kleger
New album is available.
Angela Kleger is a Lute and 10-String Guitar player. She comes from Winterthur, Switzerland and took her first guitar lesson at the age of nine. Her parallel interest in other instruments and timbres gradually informed her style of playing guitar which evolved her personal sound. Between 2011 and 2013 she studied in the conservatory of Winterthur, Switzerland, where she was presented with a vast repertoire of music from the Renaissance to the modern eras, and formed her musical orientation. Since 2013 her main repertoire became the music of J.S. Bach. She soon explored all of his lute works and the sonatas and partitas for solo violin.
In 2017 she finished her higher musical education at the Zurich University of the Arts – ZHdK. Kleger met many guitar masters during her time studying in Zurich, including, among others, Leo Brouwer, from whom she received guidance and knowledge. In 2019 she record the CD Classical Fragments with classical music arranged for two guitars together with Dimitar Ivanov.
In September 2020 Angela signed with the label “Naxos“ for a new album release: “Goldberg Variations“ for two 10-string guitars together with Dimitar Ivanov in Duo Synaphé. The album enters in the priority list of the label with world premiere on 27th of August 2021 and shortly after the release, it is nominated for the prestigious International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) for 2022.

“The Goldberg Variations, this time in an arrangement for two 10-string guitars! And you almost want to jump in the air with enthusiasm, because the transcription and the interpretation of the Duo Synaphé (Angela Kleger and Dimitar Ivanov) are so great that they completely inspire…”
Upcoming Concerts
26.5.2023
MARIUS – Boulangerie-Pâtisserie – Route de la Scie 1 – 1271 Givrins, 19:00
Le luth noir et Un peuple de promeneurs – Histoires tziganes, Alexandre Romanès
Örs Kisfaludy, comédien
Angela Kleger, luth – Suite en Ré mineur de S.L. Weiss
Givrins (VD)
Switzerland
27.5.2022
La Carée, St Maurice, 20h
PROGRAM: Duo Synaphé - J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations
St-Maurice (VS)
Switzerland
28.5.2022
La Carée, St Maurice, 20h
PROGRAM: Duo Synaphé - J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations
St-Maurice (VS)
Switzerland
New Album Out Now
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a contrapuntal tour de force, and one of the pinnacles in the history of the variation genre. Composed ‘to refresh the spirits of music-lovers’, it is a constantly fascinating and deeply enriching evocation of an entire musical universe. This arrangement with two ten-string guitars is a transcription of the original text including later corrections and additional musical indications made by the composer. The additional bass strings of these instruments provide an entire lower octave, giving access to the full range of musical timbres in this eternal masterpiece.
Discography
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
Arranged for two 10-string classical guitars
Schumann: Kinderszenen
Arrangement for solo 10 string guitar
Classical Fragments
Works from J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bartok arranged for two classical guitars