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.
Sergei Babayan, piano
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
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Overview
Sergei Babayan brings Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations to the Église de Verbier with his rare and refreshing approach that poetically transforms audiences from the opening aria to the last.
Published in 1741, Bach’s Goldberg Variations stand as one of the most supreme combinations of architectural symmetry and high expression in the pianistic canon. Sitting at each end is the same 32-bar aria, divided into two 16-bar halves, whose bass line feeds the 30 intervening variations, whose own second half is trumpeted by the distinctiveness of No 16 – a French overture in the style of Bach’s orchestral suites. Meanwhile each of the set’s two fugues, nos 10 & 22, sits six bars from the centre; and each of its canons – nos 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 – is one interval higher than the last. Expressive landmarks towards the climax include intense G minor aria No 25. Then No 28’s dizzying, delicately leaping octaves and trilling inner parts, matched in virtuosity by No 29’s chords and tumbling cascades, before the warmest return to earth via No 30’s folk song medley. When the Aria reappears, we’re hearing it entirely differently.
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: 11:00
Duration: 1h 15min