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.
Piano Recital David Fray
Eglise de Verbier, Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:30
Duration: 1h 30min
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Overview
Described as ‘Perhaps the most inspired, certainly the most original Bach player of his generation,’ pianist David Fray plays the Goldberg Variations.
Bach’s Goldberg Variations owe their nickname to a legend that they were written for his young pupil, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, to play at night to his insomniac aristocratic employer. Yet when Bach published them in 1741 it was under the title, ‘Aria with diverse variations for the harpsichord with two manuals,’ and certainly it’s lyricism, structure and invention that are the stars of the show: a symmetrical 32-movement work beginning and ending with the same peaceful, delicately ornamented 32 bar aria, itself divided into two 16-bar halves, whose bass line provides the material for the intervening 30 variations; the two fugues, nos 10 and 22, each sitting six variations from the centre; every third variation a canon (multiple overlapping imitative entries); stylistic diversity including No. 7’s gigue, the grand French overture of No. 16, and ‘Black Pearl’ No. 25; and not a single forced moment across around an hour’s worth of music.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:30
Duration: 1h 30min