Salle des Combins is the Verbier Festival’s main concert hall. It normally seats 1,419. Each row is on a separate tier, which guarantees an excellent view of the stage. Improvements to the soundproofing and heat insulation make this a very high-quality non-permanent venue. All of the Festival’s symphonic concerts, operas, large world music, jazz, dance events and some recitals are presented here.
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda and Yefim Bronfman
Salle des Combins,
Verbier, Switzerland
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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
Rodion Shchedrin: Dialogues with Shostakovich
Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto no. 2 in G major, Sz 95
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony no. 1 in F minor, Op.10
Overview
An explosive evening with Gianandrea Noseda leading the Verbier Festival Orchestra in a fiery evening of works from the Russian masters, plus Bartók’s brilliant Concerto for Piano No. 2 with Yefim Bronfman.
The cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch said of Rodion Shchedrin that he was the “king of the modern orchestra” as well as one whose music displayed “maximum expressivity of sound.” Shchedrin, a major figure in modern Russian music, whose body of work is as vast as it is diverse, will be celebrating his 90th birthday in 2022. For this occasion, the Verbier Festival exceptionally honours Mr Shchedrin by performing three of his symphonic works, one of which will be a world premiere. The second of the three concertos for piano and orchestra by Béla Bartók, which was written during the period of 1930-31, is the piece Shchedrin has played most often. The significant difficulty and complexity of this work highlights the composer’s technical prowess on the piano. Even though the first and last movements are dominated by forceful percussive elements, the grandiose Adagio-Presto-Adagio of the second movement explores, in a magical and poetic way, the partnership between the piano and the timpani. This piece is one of the most outstanding examples of Bartok’s ‘night music’. Shostakovich finished his Symphony No. 1 (1925) at the age of nineteen. At this time, the composer was still a student at the conservatory in Leningrad, and made a living playing the piano at a movie theatre. This orchestral work, made up of four movements, is fresh and mischievous, and confidently affirms its ‘musical identity’: playful humour rubs shoulders with the grotesque, sarcastic humour, and tragic lyricism, especially in the grandiose final lento that resembles the works of Mahler.
Venue Info
Salle des Combins - Verbier
Chemin de Plan Pra
Chemin de Plan Pra
Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2022
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:00