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.
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Eglise de Verbier, Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:30
Duration: 1h 45min
Cast
Performers
Piano:
Lucas Debargue
Violin:
Bomsori Kim
Violin:
Josef Špaček
Cello:
Kian Soltani
Viola:
Lars Anders Tomter
Piano:
Nikolai Lugansky
Creators
Composer:
Gabriel Fauré
Composer:
Richard Strauss
Programme
Richard Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.13
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor, Op.45
Overview
Strauss’s early Piano Quartet, followed by Fauré’s mature Second Piano Quartet, performed by a multi-generational line-up of consummate chamber musicians.
Strauss’s Piano Quartet was penned in 1885, when he was just 21. Its opening Allegro’s shades of Brahms are almost uncanny, but hints of the Strauss to come include its ardent, long-lined second subject, tailed with little falling sighs. Next come an elfin Scherzo housing a romantic Viennese trio, a sentimental Andante, and a passionate finale. Dating from the same time, Strauss’s older colleague Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet launches in on turbulent piano figures and a bold unison strings melody, but this opening Allegro molto moderato also features more cloudless writing. A forwards-pushing Scherzo of syncopated rhythms and swirling figures follows; then a quietly alert Adagio ma non troppo whose tolling opening piano figure apparently recalls boyhood memories of village evening bells, before an upbeat, richly textured finale of big-boned lilt.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
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Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:30
Duration: 1h 45min