Salle des Combins is the Verbier Festival’s main concert hall. It normally seats 1,419. Each row is on a separate tier, which guarantees an excellent view of the stage. Improvements to the soundproofing and heat insulation make this a very high-quality non-permanent venue. All of the Festival’s symphonic concerts, operas, large world music, jazz, dance events and some recitals are presented here.
Gábor Takács-Nagy, Alexandra Dovgan and Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Salle des Combins,
Verbier, Switzerland
Saturday 3 August 2024
6:30 PM
E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.
You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 18:30
E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.
You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).
Programme
Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 1 in D major
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in C minor, Op.68
Overview
From the symphony’s grandfather to symphonic grandeur, Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the VFCO in Haydn’s and Brahms’s first symphonies, between which rising star pianist Alexandra Dovgan performs as soloist in Grieg’s thrilling Piano Concerto in A minor.
Haydn didn’t compose the first ever symphony, but he did develop the genre to become the Everest of musical expression through which subsequent composers proved their mettle – and his three-movement (no minuet) First Symphony, penned around 1757, hints at what was to come. Unusually, the only symphonic work Grieg released was the Piano Concerto he wrote aged 25. Exploding in, its first movement’s main theme isn’t the piano’s famous descent but the subsequent woodwind melody. A melting Adagio follows, before a folk-inspired finale. Brahms took over 20 years to write his First Symphony, wrestling with how to follow Beethoven’s legacy, in his own voice, while taking the genre forwards. Completed in 1876, his eventual masterpiece did exactly that with its grandeur, clever melodic development, and finale whose heroic theme sings of Beethoven with its Ode to Joy feel, but through horn colour that’s pure Brahms.
Venue Info
Salle des Combins - Verbier
Chemin de Plan Pra
Chemin de Plan Pra
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 18:30