Eight HarrisonParrott Artists at Verbier Festival 2024
16/7/2024
Eight HarrisonParrott artists perform at Verbier Festival 2024
Golda Schultz returns to the role of La Contessa in a concert performance of Le nozze di Figaro with Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Gábor Takács-Nagy on 20 July.
Nobuyuki Tsujii returns to the Verbier Festival on 21 July to perform a solo piano recital featuring works by Bach, Liszt, Ravel and Kapustin.
Violist Timothy Ridout plays concerts on 21 and 22 July at Verbier Festival. Programmes include Schubert’s Trout Quintet for piano and strings alongside Nobuyuki Tsujii, Daniel Lozakovich, Tsotne Zedginidze, Mischa Maisky and Brendan Kane as well as Fauré’s Quintet for piano and strings No.1 with Lucas Debargue, Yamen Saadi, Raphaëlle Moreau and Edgar Moreau.
Ksenija Sidorova performs at Verbier Festival with mandolinist Avi Avital on 30 July, presenting a programme of folk-inspired transcriptions at the Église de Verbier. The concert features Kreisler’s Prelude and Allegro in the style of Pugnani, Mozart’s Piano and Violin Sonata No.21, Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne from Pulcinella, and Bartók’s Six Romanian Folk Dances.
After the intermission, the performance continues with de Falla’s 6 Spanish Popular Songs, Villa-Lobos’ Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No.5, de Falla’s Spanish Dance from La Vida Breve, and Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.
Young Georgian pianist Tsotne Zedginidze joins James Gaffigan and Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra on 21 July for Bartók’s fierce Piano Concerto No.1, followed by Ravel’s orchestral transcription of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition.
On 30 July, Behzod Abduraimov presents a programme of works which all, in their own way, ran deep with their four keyboardist-composers, from the piano suite Prokofiev distilled from his ballet masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, to Florence Price’s Fantasie nègre No.1 fusing post-Romantic style with the melodies and harmonies of African American folksong via Franck’s Prélude, Fugue et variations and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
On 23 July, Sir Simon Rattle conducts Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in a memorable Beethoven triple feature with three of his fellow conductors, Klaus Mäkelä, Lahav Shani and Leonidas Kavakos respectively as the cello, piano and violin soloists. The Triple Concerto is set to be followed by the Eroica Symphony No.3.
Klaus Mäkelä also performs as conductor on 1 August with Verbier Festival Orchestra to present a pair of works by two of classical music’s most toweringly influential figures, French pianist David Fray joining them for Bach’s powerful Keyboard Concerto, after which they jump to the dawn of the 20th century for Mahler’s Symphony No.5.
