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.
Piano Recital Mao Fujita
Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 18:30
Duration: 2h
Cast
Programme
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces for piano, Op.43
Déodat de Séverac: Les Fêtes from Cerdaña
Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata no. 1 in F minor, Op.1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 12 Variations in C major on "Ah vous dirai-je, maman", K265 (K300e)
Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op.16
Overview
After last year’s highly acclaimed Beethoven violin sonata cycle with Marc Bouchkov, pianist Mao Fujita returns to Verbier with a recital putting a spotlight on the poetry and crystalline clarity of his playing.
Grieg’s six op 43 Lyric Pieces of 1866, short character works, consist of Butterfly, Lonely Wanderer, In My Native Land, Little Bird, Erotic, and To the Spring, the much-loved latter encasing a darkly impassioned central section within exquisitely delicate outer ends. There’s a similar delicacy to de Sévérac’s ‘Les Fetes’ from his 1911 Cerdaña suite depicting the Pyrenees area between France and Spain, while its modal and pentatonic harmonies carry shades of Ravel’s Mother Goose of 1910. Chopin’s 1846 Barcarolle took this popular genre evoking Venetian boat songs into new waters with its sophisticated, dissonant harmonies and powerful climax. Prokofiev’s single-movement Piano Sonata No. 1, a teenage work from 1906, was also progressive for its time with its complex, constantly changing textures, dynamics and tonality. Then, while it’s a gradual virtuosic build-up over Mozart’s variations on the simple French folk melody, ‘Ah mother, if I could tell you,’ Schumann’s emotionally wild and structurally unconventional eight-movement Kreisleriana is lavish-textured from the get-go.
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