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Badische Zeitung, Culture, Monday April 18th, 2005 - by Roswitha Frey
Airy Yet Deeply Felt - The Orchestergesellschaft Weil am Rhein […]

“As soloist, outstanding Basel concert guitarist Christoph Denoth showed true empathy for the Spanish tone colour, instrumental subtleties and technical finesse and truly gorgeous Mediterranean tunes. The guitarist played his solo part with a filigree and subtle sound alternating with more accented parts in a dialog with the orchestra having the dances ring out with a lot of rhythmic colour. Indeed, these sounds from the motherland of the guitar were musically highly attractive in their impressively harmonious rendering by Denoth and the Weil Orchestra. […]”

Nice Matin, July 2003 - by Sylvie Carbou
Recital with Classical Guitar - Talent and Empathy!

“The Church of Saint Grégoire has known a beautiful moment of classical music. Besides, the guest performer was quite prestigious as well: Swiss Christoph Denoth, who has enjoyed ovations at the great Carnegie Hall in New York, had agreed to give an evening recital at Tourrettes. […]

Some precious moments embellished this truly exceptional evening. Thus, the audience was spell-bound to discover a piece written by Christoph Denoth himself that he called Hommage à Federico Garcia Lorca.
A demanding piece as to dexterity and interpretation. […]”

Basler Agenda, June 2002, No. 23 - by Thomas Waldmann
A Sinuous Sound
“Basel-based guitarist Christoph Denoth with a ‘Serenata Española’ at the Stadtcasino

“Spanish poet Lorca expresses in a poem how truly magical the sound of a guitar can be. If someone is able to make this instrument, wrongly considered as little suited to concert halls, sing out by combining technique and expression and elicits those sounds from it that assured it an important place in the history of music far beyond Spain, you will, time and again, be enchanted. […]

A Sensitive Performance
Christoph Denoth, born in Basel in 1963, belongs to the younger generation of internationally successful musicians who not only savour the range of sound and style of the guitar but try to make the audience aware of it, too. Christoph Denoth studied in Lucerne, Basel, and Zurich; he counts Konrad Ragossnig, Pepe Romero, and Oscar Ghiglia among his teachers. […]

An Extensive Repertoire
By now, his repertoire ranges from Renaissance to contemporary music such as Nocturnos de Andalucía, the concert for guitar and orchestra written by Lorenzo Palomo that he played in Berlin. A CD released last year focused on the oeuvre of English Renaissance composer John Dowland; last December he performed for the first time at New York’s Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall).”

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