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Caspar Diethelm was a native of Lucerne. Among his composition teachers were Hindemith and Honegger. He taught at the Lucerne Conservatoire between 1963 and 1993. Besides a busy musical life he was heavily involved in politics and in conservation. As can be deduced from the opus numbers of the three works recorded here, he was a prolific composer. The three compositions in question were written in the last year of his life – the 12 Segments for string orchestra were completed only weeks before he died.

Rainer Held hat mit dem Schottischen Nationalorchester die sinfonischen Hauptwerke des Obwaldner Komponisten Caspar Diethelm auf CD eingespielt: Die späten Uraufführungen sind eine Empfehlung auch für Live-Aufführungen im Konzertsaal.

Last year Guild Records changed hands for the third time in its 50 year existence. Begun in 1967 by Barry Rose initially as a means of promoting the musical excellence of his choir and organ at Guildford Cathedral (from which the label’s name partially derives), Guild Records became a byword for excellence in recordings of British cathedral organs and choirs.
That speciality was initially continued by the Swiss entrepreneur, Kaikoo Lalkaka, who bought the label in the early 1990s.