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Aline Paley
30TH ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERT AT THE CINEMA DE VERBIER
Watch the live broadcast of the gala concert
Shindig, palooza, big bash, knees-up, pick your term, preface it with "Classical," and you’ve got what tonight is all about. For it’s party time, as we celebrate the Verbier Festival’s 30th anniversary by bringing together as many of our precious family of Verbier artists as we can possibly fit onstage, from new-generation talent to luminaries, and from Festival old-timers (many of whom first arrived here as promising Academy members) to more recent-blossomed relationships. Expect a festival atmosphere in every sense of the word, via a veritable smorgasbord of different musical works and artist constellations.
Programme
FIRST PART
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
10 Preludes Op. 23
– Prelude in F-sharp minor Op. 23 No. 1 (Largo) – Alexandre Kantorow
– Prelude in B-Flat Major Op. 23 No. 2 (Maestoso) – Evgeny Kissin
– Prelude in D Minor Op. 23 No. 3 (Tempo di minuetto) – Mao Fujita
– Prelude in D major Op. 23 No. 4 (Andante cantabile) – Mikhaïl Pletnev
– Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5 (Alla marcia) – Yefim Bronfman
– Prelude in E-flat Major Op. 23 No. 6 (Andante) – Kirill Gerstein
– Prelude in C minor Op. 23 No. 7 (Allegro) – Alexander Malofeev
– Prelude in A-flat major Op. 23 No. 8 (Allegro vivace) – Lucas Debargue
– Prelude in E-Flat Minor Op. 23 No. 9 (Presto) – Daniil Trifonov
– Prelude in G-Flat Major Op. 23 No. 10 (Largo) – Yuja Wang
Interval
SECOND PART
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Goldberg Variations transcr. by D. Sitkovetsky
(Altstaedt, Babayan, Baráti, Batiashvili, Bell, Benedetti, Blendulf, Bouchkov, G. Capuçon, R. Capuçon, Conunova, Debargue, Dovgan, Fröst, Goode, Grosz, Hadelich, Hardenberger, Herzog, Hope, Jansen, S. Kanneh-Mason, Kavakos, Lozakovich, Mäkelä, Maisky, Mehldau, Power, Quatuor Ebène, Repin, Shani, A. Sitkovetsky, D. Sitkovetsky, Tamestit, Teh Engstroem, Wulfson, Zedginidze)
Interval
THIRD PART
GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868)
Cat Duet
(Hampson, Terfel, Shani)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835 – 1921)
Carnaval des animaux Valaisans transcr. by M. Herzog
(VFCO, Herzog, Hendricks, Huppert, Keller, Debargue, Kantorow, R. Capuçon, Hope, G. Capuçon, Fröst)
Text : Antoine Jaccoud
Paintings and animated film: Sandra Albukrek
Staging: Elsa Rooke
CHRIS HAZELL (1948-)
Medley of 5 Folk songs
(VFCO, Eschenbach)
– Shenandoah, Traditional, arr. S. White and C. Hazell (Hampson)
– Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, F. Schubert, arr. A. Schmalcz (Goerne)
– Quand on a que l’amour, J. Brel, arr. G.-F. Leuenberger (Bernheim)
– All through the night, Traditional, arr. C. Hazell (Terfel)
– Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Traditional (Hendricks)
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825-1899)
Éljen a Magyar! Hungarian Polka Op. 332
(VFCO, Takács-Nagy)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)
Overture de Candide
(VFCO & Birthday Guests, Mäkelä)
Nicolas Altstaedt, Sergei Babayan, Kristóf Baráti, Lisa Batiashvili, Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti, Benjamin Bernheim, Marc Bouchkov, Yefim Bronfman, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Alexandra Conunova, Lucas Debargue, Alexandra Dovgan, Christoph Eschenbach, Martin Fröst, Mao Fujita, Kirill Gerstein, Matthias Goerne, Richard Goode, Amihai Grosz, Augustin Hadelich, Thomas Hampson, Håkan Hardenberger, Barbara Hendricks, Mathieu Herzog, Daniel Hope, Isabelle Huppert, Janine Jansen, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Alexandre Kantorow, Leonidas Kavakos, Marthe Keller, Evgeny Kissin, Daniel Lozakovich, Klaus Mäkelä, Mischa Maisky, Alexander Malofeev, Brad Mehldau, Mikhaïl Pletnev, Lawrence Power, Quatuor Ebène, Vadim Repin, Lahav Shani, Antoine Tamestit, Blythe Teh Engstroem, Bryn Terfel, Daniil Trifonov, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Yuja Wang, Eduard Wulfson, Tsotne Zedginidze, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra…
With the generous support of Aline Foriel-Destezet
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