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.
Yuja Wang, Klaus Mäkelä and Verbier Festival Orchestra
Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 18:30
Duration: 2h 15min
Programme
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 4 in G minor, Op.40
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
Overview
Yuja Wang joins Klaus Mäkelä and the VFO for Rachmaninoff’s urgent, virtuosically glittering Fourth Piano Concerto, followed by Mahler’s much-loved Fifth Symphony.
Completed in 1926, Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto ended a prolonged compositional silence following his emigration to the United States upon the Russian Revolution. Blending his Romantic DNA with more modernist language, the work sits a tensely contemplative central Largo between two fierily restless Allegro vivaces, the second a virtuoso tour de force for the pianist. Mahler wrote his Fifth Symphony in the summers of 1901 and 1902, just after meeting his wife-to-be, Alma. Its first movement is a funeral march punctuated by two trio sections, one shrilly swirling, the other more sober; the first trio then forms the basis of the second movement, which builds to a triumphant brass chorale. Next come a Scherzo featuring folk and city waltzes, and a strings-and-harp-only Adagietto, conceived as a love declaration to Alma. The joyful Rondo-Finale then reimagines the Adagietto theme, before climaxing on the second movement chorale.
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
Duration: 2h 15min