“The Trout” – Music for the Planet II

Chamber Music

Thursday, 10 August 2023
7.30 pm, Saanen Church

To point out the existential threat posed by climate change to people like the Inuit, “ambassador” Patricia Kopatchinskaja turns creator. As a musical echo to her brand-new pages, a work that shares similar instrumental features: Franz Schubert's famous “Trout”, a piano quintet highlighted here by period readings, combining biographical elements and poetic subtext. The climax of the piece is the question raised by the reading of the lied from which it takes its name and spirit: just like the peaceful stream drawn by Beethoven in his “Pastoral”, will our children and grandchildren still know tomorrow what a trout tastes like, the fish whose trust the fisherman betrays – as Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart's text tells us – when he snags it at the end of his rod?

Exhibition - The life of Sedna
Accompanying the concert "The Trout", exhibits on the legend of Sedna will be on display in the St. Anna Chapel in Saanen. Provided by the Museum Cerny.contemporary circumpolar art.
Opening times: Thursday, 10th August 17:30-19:30 and after the concert.

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