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.
Quatuor Ébène
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
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in G major, K387
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet no. 3 in B flat major, Op.67
Overview
The leading French quartet Quatuor Ébène brings joy to the Église with Mozart’s String Quartet No. 14 in G major and Brahms’ riveting String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major Op. 67.
Mozart’s ‘Spring’ String Quartet No 14 is the first of a set he wrote aged 26, dedicated to Haydn, who himself was bowled over by their structural and emotional scale, declaring Mozart to be ‘the greatest composer known to me’. An animated first movement leads to a humorous Menuet whose quirky offbeat accents Haydn must have appreciated – contrasted by darker trio material. A violin aria dominates the warm Andante, before a cheerful fugal finale. Brahms’s String Quartet No 3 of 1875 is similarly sunny and intricately polyphonic. A horn motif launches its pastoral opening Vivace, before an Andante whose serenity is punctuated by dramatic flashpoints. Viola leads in the Agitato minuet described by Brahms as ‘the tenderest and most impassioned I have ever written’, before a variations finale that eventually reintroduces the work’s very opening 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