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.
Kirill Gerstein, piano
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
Igor Stravinsky: Piano Sonata
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata no. 19 in C minor, D.958
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178
Overview
Kirill Gerstein brings to life one of Liszt’s greatest solo piano works and a cornerstone of the repertoire, the groundbreaking B minor Sonata, alongside Schubert’s powerful D minor Sonata and Stravinsky’s Piano Sonata.
Composed in 1924 and soberly titled Piano Sonata, Stravinsky’s piece, which length doesn’t exceed ten minutes, is considered a masterpiece of the genre, dedicated to the Princesse de Polignac, friend and patron of the Russian composer. Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor is one of three he composed just two months before his death aged 31, and in its impassioned emotional range it sounds both like a fevered personal emotional outpouring, and a conscious uptake of the piano sonata mantle left by Beethoven, who had died the previous year; and in fact its opening Allegro contains echoes of Beethoven’s 32 Variations also in C minor. Similarly full of contrasting high passions is Liszt’s monumental Piano Sonata in B minor of 1853. Structured ground-breakingly as a three-movement sonata within a single extended sonata movement, it draws most of its material from three motivic cells heard in the first 17 bars: three dark syncopated Gs followed by a chromatic downwards snake; a short, defiant, forte shout; spikily rapping repeated Ds (described by Liszt as his “hammer-blow” theme).
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2022
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 11:00