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 30min
Cast
Performers
Piano:
Lucas Debargue
Piano:
Alexandra Dovgan
Cello:
Edgar Moreau
Violin:
Raphaëlle Moreau
Viola:
Timothy Ridout
Violin:
Yamen Saadi
Creators
Composer:
Frédéric Chopin
Composer:
Gabriel Fauré
Programme
Frédéric Chopin: Trio in G minor for piano, violin and cello, Op.8
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet no. 1 in D minor, Op.89
Overview
Two rarely performed chamber gems, interpreted by a constellation of some of the classical world’s brightest new-generation stars.
Chopin’s four-movement Piano Trio was his only large scale chamber work, and while, inevitably for a piece composed when he was just 18, it carries the influence of the past masters (notably Beethoven), it also contains the beginnings of his trademark sophisticated assimilation of Polish folk dances; the Scherzo second movement, for instance, draws on the leaping Oberek, while the finale’s rondo theme is a syncopated, duple-time krakowiak. Fauré’s First Piano Quintet was completed in 1905, but begun as early as 1887, when he was also composing his Requiem – and the nostalgic Molto moderato’s opening doesn’t feel worlds apart from the Requiem’s ‘In Paradisum,’ with its long-lined strings against iridescently rippling piano figures. A tender, melancholic Adagio follows, full of close dialogue, before an equally densely-woven Allegretto moderato whose radiant climax features the work’s first truly bravura piano writing.
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