The Sylvie Courvoisier Discography A work in progress by David Belkin, with Rick Lopez. Born December 20, 2000 UPDATE July 11, 2004
Photo of Ms. Courvoisier copyright © Mario del Curto. Reproduced with permission.

• An Index of Compositions written and/or recorded by Sylvie Courvoisier is provided below.
  
  
• Visit Ms. Courvoisier's homepage for information about her bands and projects, touring schedule, writings, photos, contacts, and links.
  
  
• "Not in my collection." A list of out-of-print and difficult to find recordings R.L. is searching for.
  
  
• Thanks to those who've helped.

Session-by-session listing:

• 94.03.26 / Sylvie Courvoisier Quintetto: Sauvagerie Courtoise / Unit
• 95.04.00 / Jacques Demierre / TST: Le Tout sur le Tout / MGB
• 95.11.00 / Michel Godard Quartet: Una Mora / Hopi
• 96.01.20 / Various Artists: Instants D'Année / La Spirale
• 96.06.00 / Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Nauseef: Birds of a Feather / Unit
• 96.06.15 / Mark Feldman / Sylvie Courvoisier: Music for Violin and Piano / Avant
• 96.08.00 / Sylvie Courvoisier: Ocre / Enja
• 97.04.17 / Various Artists: Mózg - 5 Lat / Mózg
• 98.12.23 / [Mark Feldman / Sylvie Courvoisier: Music for Violin and Piano / Avant]
• 99.02.01 / Sylvie Courvoisier / Jacques Demierre: Deux Pianos / Intakt
• 99.02.02 / [Sylvie Courvoisier / Jacques Demierre: Deux Pianos / Intakt]
• 99.03.00 / Lucas Niggli / Sylvie Courvoisier: Lavin / Intakt
• 99.03.26 / Sylvie Courvoisier / Ocre: Y2K / Enja
• 99.03.27 / [Sylvie Courvoisier / Ocre: Y2K / Enja]
• 99.03.28 / [Sylvie Courvoisier / Ocre: Y2K / Enja]
• 99.11.29 / Sylvie Courvoisier: [Unissued / broadcast recording] Concerto Pour Guitare et Orchestra
• 99.12.01 / Third Ear Årchestra: [Unissued / broadcast video] Musique du Troisieme Type
• 99.12.02 / [Third Ear Årchestra: [Unissued / broadcast video] Musique du Troisieme Type]
• 99.12.30 / Various Artists: Live at Tonic / Tonic
• 00.06.15 / Sylvie Courvoisier: [Unissued / private recording] Vocal Chamber Music
• 01.04.04 / Sylvie Courvoisier / Joëlle Léandre / Susie Ibarra: passaggio / Intakt
• 01.04.07 / [Sylvie Courvoisier / Joëlle Léandre / Susie Ibarra: passaggio / Intakt]
• 01.11.13 / Mephista: Black Narcissus / Tzadik
• 02.01.02 / John Zorn: Cobra, Volume 2 / Tzadik
• 02.07.00 / Various Artists: John Zorn: Voices in the Wilderness / Tzadik
• 02.09.00 / Sylvie Courvoisier: Abaton / ECM
• 02.09.29 / Various Artists: Great Jewish Music:Sasha Argov / Tzadik
• 03.07.05 / Various Artists: irving stone memorial concert / Tzadik
• 03.11.11 / Mephista: entomological reflections / Tzadik
• 04.02.17 / John Zorn: Masada Recital / Tzadik

Svlvie Courvoisier Quintetto: Sauvagerie Courtoise

1. Entre une salamandre et une bande de gaze [6:22]
2. Cherchez l'intrus [12:28]
   
   La petite fille au ballon rouge
3. premier mouvement [1:21]
4. deuxième mouvement [6:16]
5. troisième mouvment [2:09]
6. Bizarre Bizarre [7:51]
7. Choral embryonnaire [11:55]
8. Sarcastonique greli-grelot [5:39]

Jacques Demierre / TST: Le Tout sur le Tout

1. L. (Demierre / TST) [3:07]
2. mecredi (Demierre / TST) [2:02]
3. divine reprise (Demierre / TST) [6:38]
4. calorife bis (Demierre / TST) [5:36]
5. jodel (Demierre / TST) [5:17]
6. paul et henriette (Kessler / TST) [0:53]
7. nonne, hante! (Demierre / TST) [1:39]
8. le tout sur le tout (Demierre / TST) [6:36]
9. leonorus cardiaca (Demierre / TST) [5:41]

Michel Godard Quartet: Una Mora

1. Samai for Nabil (Godard) [10:08]
2. Ferma l'ali (Godard) [5:34]
3. Triton et demi (Courvoisier) [8:03]
4. G.A. (Godard / Courvoisier) [5:53]
5. Crasse - Tignasse (Courvoisier) [1:50]
6. Gracias a la vida (Violetta Parra) [5:53]
7. Bal au château (Godard / Courvoisier / Overwater / Nauseef) [2:04]
8. Viable (Godard / Courvoisier) [0:56]
9. Una mora (Godard) [7:36]

Various Artists: Instants D'Année

1. La Goualante de l'idiot (Courvoisier) [7:20]

Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Nauseef: Birds of a Feather

1. Interlude I [1:51]
2. Interlude II [2:08]
3. Interlude III [1:07]
4. Interlude IV [2:22]
5. Interlude V [1:17]
6. Suite I [7:31]
7. Interlude VI [1:52]
8. Interlude VII [1:55]
9. Interlude VIII [1:11]
10. Interlude IX [1:00]
11. Interlude X [2:22]
12. Valsette [2:29]
13. Suite II [2:22]
14. Interlude XI [2:04]
15. Interlude XII [0:39]
16. Interlude XIII [1:01]
17. Interlude XIV [1:19]
18. Interlude XV [4:03]
19. Suite III [8:37]

Mark Feldman / Sylvie Courvoisier: Music for Violin and Piano

1. Smoke (Courvoisier / Feldman) 2:57]
2. Terra d'Agala (Courvoisier) [7:34]

Sylvie Courvoisier: Ocre

1. Gugging (Courvoisier) [3:51]
2. Anecdote 1 (Charial) [0:31]
3. La Goualante de l'idiot (Courvoisier) [6:56)
4. Anecdote 2 (Charial) [0:45]
5. Machines-à-sons (Charial) [8:32]
6. Ensorceliradiant (Courvoisier) [1:38]
7. Triton et demi (Courvoisier) [6:24]
8. Anecdote 3 (Charial) [0:55]
9. Curio in Trivia (In memory of Hugo Pratt) (Courvoisier) [6:40]
10. Anecdote 4 (Charial) [1:08]
11. Terre d'Agala (Courvoisier) [6:01]
12. Viable (Godard / Courvoisier) [1:45]
13. Paradiso Perduto (Courvoisier) [3:16]
14. Tabular (Charial) [7:56]
15. Gnou-Gnou Valse (Charial) [0:45]

Various Artists: Mózg - 5 Lat

1. fragment koncertu (Courvoisier / Pawlicki) [3:54]

[Mark Feldman / Sylvie Courvoisier: Music for Violin and Piano]

1. One Too (Courvoiser) [9:15]
   Too Romantisch Too (Courvoiser / Feldman)
   Too Speedy (Courvoisier)
2. La Goualante de l'idiot (Courvoiser) [9:45]
3. Kit (Feldman) [13:46]
   Les Tenebrides (Courvoisier)
   Murmur (Feldman)
   Luna Park (Courvoisier)
4. Gugging (Courvoisier) [7:35]
5. Dog Town Road (Courvoisier / Feldman) [3:32]
6. Valse Noire (Courvoisier) [7:30]

Sylvie Courvoisier / Jacques Demierre: Deux Pianos

1. Arraché [2:27]
2. Pendulaire [0:46]
3. Haut-le-coeur [2:06]
4. Attorno [5:09]
5. Tremolio [1:44]
6. Incruste [2:45]
7. Axe [3:38]
8. Etendu [1:12]
9. Terminaison [1:08]
10. Instant [3:04]
11. Quasi [2:47]
12. Ecorce [6:01]
13. Intime [1:21]
14. Contre [1:12]
15. Hors [4:38]
16. Woo [1:29]
17. Sonné [4:26]
18. Strette [0:42]
19. Treize [4:11]
20. Stock [1:22]

Lucas Niggli / Sylvie Courvoisier: Lavin

1. Lavin (Courvoisier / Niggli) [7:37]
2. Miniature I (Courvoisier / Niggli) [1:08]
3. Solitude (Courvoiser) [4:50] (-1)
4. Buzz (Niggli) [4:19] (-2)
5. Contreparties (Courvoisier / Niggli) [4:08]
6. Miniature II (Courvoisier / Niggli) [1:34]
7. Miniature III (Courvoisier / Niggli) [2:25]
8. Flies in the Furry Flotsam (Courvoisier / Niggli) [2:20]
9. La Vouta (Courvoisier / Niggli) [3:29]
10. Gate Lane (Courvoisier / Niggli) [4:46]
11. Miniature IV (Courvoisier / Niggli) [1:33]
12. Muzette (Courvoisier / Niggli) [3:11]
13. Miniature V (Courvoisier / Niggli) [1:59]
14. Black Hole (Courvoisier / Niggli) [6:05]

Sylvie Courvoisier / Ocre: Y2K

1. Y2K (Courvoisier) [4:40]
2. Too Suite (Courvoisier) [8:44]
3. Abra (Courvoisier) [5:17]
4. La valse des frommages blancs (Charial) [2:56]
5. Mutant (Courvoisier) [8:16]
6. Sarajevo (Charial) [3:25]
7. Crasse-Tignasse (Courvoisier) [5:46]
8. Machines-à-sons (Charial) [6:40]
9. Fluxus (Courvoisier) [8:55]

Sylvie Courvoisier: Concerto Pour Guitare et Orchestra

1. Concerto for electric guitar and chamber orchestra [26:03]

Third Ear Årchestra: Musique du Troisieme Type

1. Concerto for electric guitar and chamber orchestra [25:45]

Various Artists: Live at Tonic

1. Opaline (Courvoisier / Friedlander / Mori) [7:57]

Sylvie Courvoisier: Vocal Chamber Music

1. Sans air, sans voix (for soprano & piano 1998) [8:56]
2. Hotel de Grand brouillard (for soprano & piano 1999) [8:41]
3. Balbutiement I (for soprano & vocal quartet 1995) [3:30]
4. Balbutiement II (for soprano, vocal quartet & 2 tubas 1997, 2000) [11:23]
5. Balbutiement III (for soprano, vocal quartet & piano 2000) [8:43]

Stephanie Burkhard (soprano)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
Mark Fabulich (tuba)
Serge Gros (tuba)

Vocal quartet: Anne Ottiger, Beatrice Diaz, Christian Reichen, Christian Gavillet

{Primary Source: unissued private recording (CD)}

Sylvie Courvoisier - Joëlle Léandre - Susie Ibarra: passaggio

1. Mini One (collective) [1:20]
2. Mini Two (collective) [3:37]
3. Mini Three (collective) [2:37]
4. Mini Four (collective) [4:00]
5. Mini Five (collective) [3:10]
6. Fact One (Courvoisier/ Ibarra) [1:21]
7. Fact Two (collective) [7:08]
8. Fact Three (collective) [2:44]

[Sylvie Courvoisier - Joëlle Léandre - Susie Ibarra: passaggio]

1. Taktlos Encore (collective) [4:04]
2. Taktlos 1 (Courvoisier/ Léandre) [5:48]
3. Taktlos 2 (Ibarra/ Léandre) [5:41]
4. Taktlos 3 (collective) [8:38]

Mephista: Black Narcissus

1. The Children's Hour [3:25]
2. Black Narcissus [6:45]
3. Willow's Weep [8:11]
4. Cabbalussa [7:05]
5. Poison Ivy [3:25]
6. Black Widow [14:47]
7. Legend of Pele [6:03]
8. Leda and the Swan [5:38]
9. Laughing Medusa [3:13]

John Zorn: Cobra, Volume 2

1. Pendet [4:47]
2. Tabanan [10:45]
3. Uluwati [7:26]
4. Tamangiri [7:50]
5. Paras [6:07]
6. Sangeh [11:26]
7. Penganggahan [10:40]
8. Raksasa [4:40]
9. Goa Gajah [6:50]

Various Artists: John Zorn: Voices in the Wilderness

1. Malkut (Zorn - arr. by Mephista) [3:30]

Abaton

1. Ianicum (Courvoisier) [19:55]
2. Orodruin (Courvoisier) [12:33]
3. Poco a poco (Courvoisier) (-1) [9:24]
4. Abaton (Courvoisier) [11:29]
5. Icaria 1 (Courvoisier / Feldman / Frielander) [4:04]
6. Imke's (Feldman / Frielander) (-1) [2:08]
7. Icaria 2 (Courvoisier / Feldman) (-3) [3:30]
8. Clio (Courvoisier / Feldman / Friedlander) [2:46]
9. Novo Solyma (Courvoisier / Feldman / Friedlander) [4:42]
10. Spensonia (Courvoisier / Feldman / Friedlander) [3:58]
11. Octavia (Courvoisier /Feldman/ Friedlander) [3:34]
12. Icaria 3 (Courvoisier / Friedlander) (-2) [2:37]
13. Sonnante (Courvoisier / Feldman / Friedlander) [3:37]
14. The Scar of Lotte (Courvoisier) (-2,-3) [1:35]
15. Turoine (Friedlander) (-1,-2) [1:04]
16. Archaos (Courvoisier / Feldman / Friedlander) [3:37]
17. Ava's (Friedlander) [1:30]
18. Brobdingnag (Courvoisier) (-2,-3) [1:29]
19. Calonack (Feldman / Friedlander) (-1) [2:55]
20. Precisio (Courvoisier / Feldman / Friedlander) [2:46]
21. Sekel (Courvoisier / Feldman / Friedlander) [1:26]
22. Izaura (Feldman / Friedlander) (-1) [2:51]
23. Narnia (Courvoisier) (-2,-3) [1:50]

Various Artists: Great Jewish Music: Sasha Argov

1. At VaAni (Argov - arr. by Feldman/Courvoisier) [6:56]

Various Artists: irving stone memorial concert

1. Screwgun (Berne) (-1) [11:13]
2. Beyond (Courvoisier / Feldman) (-2) [3:59]
3. Ear (Mephista) (-3) [11:13]

Mephista: entomological reflections

1. La Femme 100 Têtes [2:44]
2. House [3:18]
3. Drôle de mots [5:31]
4. Cardiogram [5:47]
5. Void [3:44]
6. Fractions [3:46]
7. Entomological Souvenirs [2:53]
8. Le Château de Cène [4:48]
9. Fringe [1:50]
10. Procession [4:10]
11. Beloukia [2:43]
12. Air [5:21]
13. Apartment [0:46]
14. Sans Mots [4:44]
15. Shifting Roll [4:11]

John Zorn: Masada Recital

1. Kanah [4:15]
2. Socoh [3:46]
3. Mahshav [5:39]
4. Karet [2:05]
5. Abidan [3:07]
6. Malkut [2:15]
7. Azekah [6:05]
8. Nezikin [2:14]
9. Karaim [8:55]
10. Hath Arob [2:12]
11. Aravot [3:48]
12. Mahlah [4:52]

Index of Compositions

Thanks

Assistance, Direction, and Encouragement has come from
the following gracious individuals--

• David Belkin thanks Rick Lopez
• Rick Lopez thanks David Belkin
  
  We both thank:
  
  
• Ms. Sylvie Courvoisier
• Cadence Magazine, the indispensable "Review of Jazz & Blues: Creative Improvised Music."
  For subscription info and much more visit the Cadence website.
• CODA Magazine.

R.L. would appreciate any help in locating the following Sessionography items "not in my collection:"

• Marilyn Crispell:
  
  Various Artists: Sampler A.V. Arts - Vol. 1 (Knitting Factory - MUWORKS) Musiche, No. 13 (Mag & CS) 1992 IT
  
  
• William Parker:
  
  Associated Big Band / Stork
  Jackson Krall: & the Secret Music Society / Stork