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.
Sergei Babayan, 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
Andrius Žlabys: Echoes of light
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne
Franz Schubert: Der Müller und der Bach, in G minor, D.795s
Franz Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade (Goethe), D.118
Franz Schubert: Ständchen, D.957d
Franz Schubert: Aufenthalt, D.957e
Franz Schubert: Auf dem Wasser Zu Singen
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau in E minor, Op.39 no.5
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Moments Musicaux in E-flat minor Op. 16 No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff: 6 Moments musicaux: Maestoso in C major, Op.16 no.6
Franz Liszt: Ballade no. 2 in B minor, S 171
Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op.16
Overview
Sergei Babayan lends his deep understanding and insight to a stylistically diverse repertoire from Bach to Rachmaninoff, Schumann to Liszt, plus a work from Andrius Žlabys.
Consisting of 64 variations on a 4-bar theme, Bach’s Chaconne in D minor for solo violin is one of crowning achievements of the strings repertoire, and Busoni’s transcription requires a similar level of pianistic artistry to that which the original places on the violinist. Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert Lieder were effectively new pieces, preserving the originals’ melodic purity alongside his own distinctive textural and technical complexity. Elaborate textures equally abound in the three Rachmaninoff works, along with emotional turbulence, and tussle between darkness and light. Pianist-composer Andrius Žlabys’s Echoes of Light meanwhile receives its European premiere here, and was written for Babayan. Schumann’s Kreisleriana then brings the pianist-composer theme to a climax, with its wild emotions and unconventional structure which bemused its own dedicatee, Chopin.
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: 20:00