Andermatt Music welcomes pianist Olga Scheps and the Swiss Orchestra under the direction of Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer to open the season. They will perform works by Verdi, Rachmaninov and Huber.
About the program:
"The power of fate" rumbles against the door in the very first six beats of the opera "La forza del destino": in brass and low bassoon, a menacing "e" is heard three times in succession, repeated after a short breath with the same weight of meaning. The strings then pour into the sound space: a dramatic, urgent motif, interrupted once again by fateful brass notes, transforms into melancholy, yearning melodies that foreshadow the content of the opera: Love, injustice, accident, escape, revenge and death. Already a great success at its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1862, the opera was performed there without the concise overture - Verdi only composed it for a new version a few years later: since the premiere at La Scala in Milan in 1869, the full musical drama of the opera unfolds in the very first bars.
It was less fate than the power of hypnosis that helped Sergei Rachmaninov to create his Second Piano Concerto: After his Symphony No. 1 had failed with audiences and critics alike in 1897, its sensitive author then barely put a note down on paper for almost three years. Salvation seemed to lie in the hypnotic abilities of a Moscow psychotherapist: "'You will write your concerto... You will work with great ease... The concerto will be of excellent quality...' It was always the same words, without interruption." the patient describes his sessions. And indeed: Rachmaninov completed his 2nd Piano Concerto in 1901 - a truly outstanding work, dedicated to the doctor, without whom, according to legend, this music would probably never have been written.
The power of love for his homeland must have been a constant motivation for the Swiss composer and music teacher Hans Huber: he helped Basel, where he had lived for many years, to gain recognition as an important music city through his work in the music school and singing society and by founding the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein and the Basel Conservatory. The fact that Huber also composed during his extensive commitment and created an archetype of Switzerland in sound with the "Tell Symphony" in 1880 is evidence of his true love of music and his homeland.
Andermatt Music is offering an aperitif during the interval to mark the start of the season.
Program:
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to "La forza del destino"
Sergei Rachmaninov
Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor op. 18
Hans Huber
Symphony No. 1 in D minor op. 63 ("Tell Symphony")
Olga Scheps, Piano
Swiss Orchestra
Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer, conductor
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
About the program:
"The power of fate" rumbles against the door in the very first six beats of the opera "La forza del destino": in brass and low bassoon, a menacing "e" is heard three times in succession, repeated after a short breath with the same weight of meaning. The strings then pour into the sound space: a dramatic, urgent motif, interrupted once again by fateful brass notes, transforms into melancholy, yearning melodies that foreshadow the content of the opera: Love, injustice, accident, escape, revenge and death. Already a great success at its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1862, the opera was performed there without the concise overture - Verdi only composed it for a new version a few years later: since the premiere at La Scala in Milan in 1869, the full musical drama of the opera unfolds in the very first bars.
It was less fate than the power of hypnosis that helped Sergei Rachmaninov to create his Second Piano Concerto: After his Symphony No. 1 had failed with audiences and critics alike in 1897, its sensitive author then barely put a note down on paper for almost three years. Salvation seemed to lie in the hypnotic abilities of a Moscow psychotherapist: "'You will write your concerto... You will work with great ease... The concerto will be of excellent quality...' It was always the same words, without interruption." the patient describes his sessions. And indeed: Rachmaninov completed his 2nd Piano Concerto in 1901 - a truly outstanding work, dedicated to the doctor, without whom, according to legend, this music would probably never have been written.
The power of love for his homeland must have been a constant motivation for the Swiss composer and music teacher Hans Huber: he helped Basel, where he had lived for many years, to gain recognition as an important music city through his work in the music school and singing society and by founding the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein and the Basel Conservatory. The fact that Huber also composed during his extensive commitment and created an archetype of Switzerland in sound with the "Tell Symphony" in 1880 is evidence of his true love of music and his homeland.
Andermatt Music is offering an aperitif during the interval to mark the start of the season.
Program:
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to "La forza del destino"
Sergei Rachmaninov
Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor op. 18
Hans Huber
Symphony No. 1 in D minor op. 63 ("Tell Symphony")
Olga Scheps, Piano
Swiss Orchestra
Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer, conductor
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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CHF 135.00 / 105.00 / 85.00 / 60.00 / 45.00
Children, pupils, apprentices and students (up to the age of 30) receive 50% off all regular tickets.
Children, pupils, apprentices and students (up to the age of 30) receive 50% off all regular tickets.
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