Name: VFCO Schiff
Start: 2022-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Salle des Combins

Organization

Verbier Festival

Pianist

András Schiff

Singer

Soprano

Ying Fang

Mezzo-soprano

Magdalena Kožená

Tenor

Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Bass

Alexandros Stavrakakis

Others

Münchener Bach-Chor

Orchestra

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

VFCO / Schiff

Bagnes

Switzerland

Salle des Combins

Beloved conductor and pianist András Schiff returns to the helm of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra alongside four fabulous vocal soloists and the Münchener Bach-Chor in a 100% Mozart program, live from the Salle des Combins at the 2022 Verbier Festival!

The evening's festivities are dedicated to the music of the Salzburg-born genius's final year of life, opening with the Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major performed by Schiff himself—something of a spiritual farewell testament to the piano, a masterwork of tonal clarity and glittering harmonies, suffused with a bittersweet tranquility unique to Mozart. The centerpiece of the program, though, is the fabled Requiem, uncontested high point of sacred music—a sublime mix of ecstatic devotion and musical invention, sung by four renowned soloists: soprano Ying Fang, mezzo Magdalena Kožená, tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac, and bass Alexandros Stavrakakis. The concert comes to a magnificent conclusion with the celebrated motet Ave verum for choir and strings, a perfect polyphonic synthesis of Mozart's art and a veritable gift for the human voice.

Credits

Photo: Sir András Schiff © Nadia-F. Romanini

VFCO / Schiff: Concert Various

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Concert

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