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 VI
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
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet in E flat for Piano and Winds, K452
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.57
Overview
This year’s Rencontres Inédites series comes to a majestic conclusion, with quintet performances featuring Festival favourites including Lawrence Power, Mischa Maisky, Lucas Debargue and Nikolaï Lugansky, as well as wind players from the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.
Scored for the unusual forces of piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, Mozart’s three-movement Quintet in E-flat major inspired Beethoven’s own Op. 16 Quintet for the same line-up. His democratic treatment of the instruments goes so far as a written-out cadenza for all five of them in the concluding Rondo. Shostakovich looked to musical tradition in 1940 when writing his Piano Quintet, for instance casting its first two movements as a Prélude and Fugue. That fugue is of a heartwrenching pathos, and while ostensibly this was a better period in his relations with the Communist regime (and the Quintet would win him the Stalin Prize) it’s possible to hear a darker, mournful subtext: in the mechanical quality to the ensuing Scherzo‘s jollity; the fragile beauty of the Intermezzo opening, with its lost-sounding circling pizzicato walking bass; even the Finale‘s Mahlerian and Viennese whispers.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2021
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 20:00
Duration: 1h 15min