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 Alexandre Kantorow
Eglise de Verbier, Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:30
Duration: 2h
Cast
Programme
Béla Bartók: Rhapsody for piano, Op. 1 (Sz.26)
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Études, S 139: no. 12 Chasse neige
Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage I (Suisse), S 160 no.6: Vallée d'Obermann
Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne for piano in D flat major, Op.63
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata no. 1 in D minor, Op.28
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne, arr. Brahms
Overview
Alexandre Kantorow presents works by and inspired by Liszt, culminating in the austerely beautiful left-hand transcription of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor by Liszt’s younger sparring partner, Brahms.
There’s a distinct flavour of Liszt about the richly textured chromaticism of Bartók’s Op. 1 Rhapsody, first published in 1909; especially when heard next to Liszt’s final Transcendental Étude of fiftyish years earlier, ‘Chasse neige,’ whose tremolo and swirling chromatic figures depict a snow storm. Liszt’s Vallée d’Obermann is equally chromatic and pictorial; inspired by a French novel about a recluse who retreats to the Swiss Alps for nature-inspired existential musings, its initial descending left-hand idea provides the material for the ensuing restless music. Fauré’s thematically unified Nocturne No. 6 of 1894 is closer to the world of Liszt than to Chopin, despite its title. Similarly it’s Liszt, specifically his Faust-themed works, hovering behind Rachmaninoff’s grand-scale First Piano sonata of 1907. Initially titled ‘Faust,’ its three movements represent Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, the latter complete with Dies irae motif. Finally, Brahms’s transcription of Bach’s D minor Chaconne, a technical study for the left-hand, is no less poetry-imbued for not being programmatic.
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: 2h