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.
Augustin Dumay and Maria João Pires
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2021
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 20:00
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
Robert Schumann: Three Romances, Op.94
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 1 in D major, Op.12 no.1
Overview
An exceptional debut as the Verbier Festival welcomes Augustin Dumay and Maria João Pires, both for the first time, in an intimate evening of chamber music.
Schumann’s Op.94 romances are an exceptionally stylistically unified set: all with a pensive, nostalgic feel, albeit with bursts of energy; all in either A major or minor; similar moderate tempi. By contrast, Debussy presents a dizzying array of tempi, dynamics and moods in just the first minute of his own melancholic, nostalgia-laden Violin Sonata of 1917. Indeed its gypsy folk inflections and the defiant energy of its finale are very much at odds with his own downbeat assessment of it as “an example of what may be produced by a sick man in time of war”. Published in 1798, Beethoven’s first violin sonata is an early work, but the instruments’ joint opening flourish signals he’s already challenging the 18th century idea of the genre as piano sonata with violin accompaniment. An emotionally wide-ranging theme and variations follows, before a bright closing Rondo.
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: 20:00
Duration: 1h 15min