Name: “Les Adieux” – Music for the Planet I – Gstaad Festival Orchestra I
Start: 2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gstaad Festival Tent

Organization

Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Conductor

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Instrumentalist

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Violin

Violinist

Set designer

Lani Tran-Duc

Video designer

Tabea Rothfuchs

Ruth Stofer

Lighting designer

Markus Güdel

Sound designer

KATHARINA PELOSI

Orchestra

Gstaad festival orchestra

“Les Adieux” – Music for the Planet I – Gstaad Festival Orchestra I

Saanen

Switzerland

Gstaad Festival Tent

Public

Symphony No. 6 in F Major, op.68 ("Pastoral")

Symphony No. 3

Geistervariationen ( Theme and Variations in E-flat major for piano, WoO 24)

Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77

Approved

Patricia Kopatchinskaja likes to say that fauna and flora were her first musical teachers. Seeing them threatened today is of great concern to her. With this programme and its evocative title – “farewell”, not “goodbye”! –, which brings together movements from Beethoven's “Eroica” and the “Pastoral” Symphony – one of the most beautiful renderings of the nature in the history of music –, Schumann's Violin Concerto and “Geistervariationen” – visionary works of a tightrope walker on the brink of the abyss –, and Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, combined with video projections, the Moldavian violinist, who lives in Bern, wishes to appeal to the public as ambassador of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival's “Music for the Planet” programme, by setting in motion a great musical lament symbolising the threat hanging over all of our heads. With a sense of gravity, but without lapsing into apocalyptic pessimism.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Crew

Ensemble