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.
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Simon Rattle, Leonidas Kavakos, Klaus Mäkelä and Lahav Shani
Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 18:30
Duration: 3h
Cast
Performers
Cello:
Klaus Mäkelä
Piano:
Lahav Shani
Violin:
Leonidas Kavakos
Conductor:
Sir Simon Rattle
Orchestra:
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Creators
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano in C major, Op.56
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Eroica", Op.55
Overview
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the VFCO in a Beethoven double-bill featuring two of his younger conductor colleagues, Klaus Mäkëla and Lahav Shani, as the cello and piano soloists in the Triple Concerto, with violinist Leonidas Kavakos; followed by the ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3.
Completed in 1804, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto is the only one in the repertoire whose ‘soloist’ is a piano trio – a chamber genre which at the time was hugely popular, meaning Beethoven was being both highly fashionable and entirely unique. It opens strikingly, on a tiptoe, with an ascending figure from which much of the movement’s ensuing march-like material will be drawn. A brief but expressive central Largo makes much of the cello’s upper registers, before tipping seamlessly into a flashy-yet-elegant finale built around a triple-time Polonaise dance and featuring the work’s only solo cadenza. Originally conceived in honour of Napoleon, Beethoven’s ‘Heroic’ Symphony No. 3 was of an unprecedented length for its 1803 time, and his first without a slow introduction. It opens instead on two choral explosions, then a forwards-pushing theme (with a ‘surprise’ final twist) which will appear throughout the work in various guises. Next come an extended funeral march, and a merrily bucolic Scherzo with a central trio of hunting horns. The finale opens on a shout, proceeds with a whisper – plucked strings with the bass-line of the theme Beethoven then turns into a set of variations – before dancing to a triumphant finish.
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: 3h