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.
Rencontres Inédites I
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2021
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 11:00
Duration: 1h 15min
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Festival
Verbier Festival 2021
The Verbier Festival, now in its 28th year, announces its return for 17 days of concerts, masterclasses, talks and education events in the picturesque setting of the Swiss Alps.
Programme
Alfred Schnittke: String Trio for violin viola and cello
Richard Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.13
Overview
The Rencontres Inédites embody the spirit of the Verbier Festival, and this concert presents a starry line-up including Augustin Hadelich and Alban Gerhardt, who both appear for the first time at the Festival, with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Antoine Tamesit and Denis Matsuev.
Alfred Schnittke’s bleak two-movement String Trio is a late-career work, composed in 1985 in honour of the centenary of Alban Berg’s birth, and its nods to Berg’s Viennese heritage include whispers of Schubert and Mahler, and a sonata form first movement. This movement’s material springs mostly from its initial melancholic dance theme. The ensuing Adagio then inverts this theme, and transforms into an even darker funeral march. It ends on an eerily rising wisp from the violin. Strauss’s Piano Quartet of 1885 was penned when he was just 21. Its opening Allegro‘s shades of Brahms are almost uncanny, but hints of the Strauss to come include the ardent, long-lined second subject, tailed with little falling sighs. An elfin Scherzo houses a romantic Viennese trio. Then after a sentimental Andante comes a passionate finale.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
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Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2021
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 11:00
Duration: 1h 15min