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.
Avi Avital (mandolin), Maurice Steger (flute), David Bergmüller (lute), Hille Perl (viola de gamba) and Sebastian Wienand (harpsichord & organ)
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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Friday 22 July 2022
8 PM
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Festival
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
Johann Sebastian Bach: Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach): extracts
Johann Sebastian Bach: Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, excerpts
Overview
Bach’s serene music for keyboard is reimagined for an early music ensemble led by the dazzling mandolinist Avi Avital.
The music on this evening’s programme, originally for keyboard, offers a snapshot of JS Bach’s domestic music making. Wilhelm Friedemann was Bach’s eldest son and a gifted keyboardist and composer, but died in poverty after a chequered career. He was about ten when Bach began to compile this book in 1720. It begins with an explanation on clefs and how to finger, and its contents include early versions of the preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier. The two books Bach compiled for his second wife, soprano Anna Magdalena, date from 1722 – the year after their marriage, when she was 20 – and 1725. The first book’s works are all his, but the second features other composers including Hasse and Couperin, plus Christian Petzold’s famous Minuet in G. It’s also not impossible that Anna Magdalena herself authored some of the unattributed pieces.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2022
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 20:00