The Église de Verbier hosts morning, afternoon and evening concerts. It is the Verbier Festival’s primary venue for solo, chamber music and vocal recitals.
Brad Mehldau (piano) and Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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Festival
Verbier Festival 2022
The classical world's most anticipated, highest-altitude festival of the year returned in summer 2022. The Verbier Festival came back on July 15 – 31, 2022. It brought the biggest and brightest stars in classical music, revisiting favorite works and taking on brand-new repertoire in the storied Salle des Combins and Verbier Église. Beloved performers of Verbiers past are once again on the docket—alongside some exciting Verbier debuts—in this blockbuster event from the gorgeous Swiss Alps, where the only thing more breathtaking than the view is the music.
Programme
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Brad Mehldau: The Folly of Desire
Overview
A unique programme that unites British tenor Ian Bostridge and American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, pairing Mehldau’s Song Cycle The Folly of Desire with Schumann’s Dichterliebe. Mehldau's song cycle is derived from poetry by various poets including Shakespeare, Yeats, Goethe and Blake among others.
After seeing each other perform in Schloss Elmau, Germany, in 2015, the American pianist/composer Brad Mehldau and British tenor Ian Bostridge met and quickly professed their admiration for each other’s body of work. That chance run-in resulted in an initial friendly correspondence where the two musicians discussed everything from their shared love of lieder to Bach and jazz. This correspondence materialized into a creative spark resulting in a few pieces that Mehldau wrote specifically with Bostridge in mind. After sharing these pieces, the two musicians began to discuss building out this original repertoire into a song cycle revolving around text and themes they both wanted to explore. At the onset of their discussions Mehldau brought up his interest in investigating the themes of the modern sinuous nature of human desire as it exists in love and adoration. With this agreed central theme in mind, Mehldau began composing a set of music with lyrics drawn from the poetry of Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Goethe, and others. In 2019, Bostridge and Mehldau premiered this new song cycle, The Folly of Desire, fittingly paired in a program with Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe (“The Poet’s Love”).
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
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Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2022
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 20:00