“Les Adieux” – Music for the Planet I – Gstaad Festival Orchestra I
Symphony Concert
Saturday, 5 August 2023
7.30 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent
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.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violin & Concept
Abraham Cupeiro, Carnyx
Gstaad Festival Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor
Lani Tran-Duc, Stage Design
Tabea Rothfuchs, Ruth Stofer, Video
Markus Güdel, Lighting Design & Technical Direction
Katharina Pelosi, Sound Design
| Audiovisual performance | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| from the Symphony n° 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastorale”: | 30' |
| I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande [Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside] | |
| II. Szene am Bach [Scene by the brook] | |
| III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute [Merry gathering of country folk] | |
| “Marcia funebre” from the Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 “Eroica” | 15' |
| Robert Schumann (1810-1856) | |
| Theme of the “Geistervariationen” for Solo Piano in E-flat Major, WoO24 | 2' |
| “Langsam” of the Violin Concerto in D Minor, WoO23 | 6' |
| Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) | |
| “Passacaglia” of the Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 ---- Panel Discussion What can cultural practitioners achieve in the context of climate change? » Learn more | 10' 30' |
| 120' (inklusive Pause) | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |
