Transfiguration – Trans-cendence III – Julia Fischer III

Chamber Music

Thursday, 18 July 2024
7.30 pm, Saanen Church

By her playing, masterpieces come to life, each one with its very own flavour. As being our Artist in Residence 2024, Julia Fischer performs a series of concerts throughout this year’s Festival edition. Following the opening of her residency in a duet and a performance with orchestral backing, a chamber music extravaganza awaits the audience right here: Julia Fischer standing shoulder to shoulder with five of her friends, all coming together to revel in creative freedom. The programme is a dedication to absolute gems from the repertoire written for the string sextet. On one hand, we’ll be swept away by Tchaikovsky’s passionate, luminous reflections on a romantic escapade in Tuscany. Alongside this musical keepsake, Arnold Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht takes center stage. The sextet was composed before the composer was seized by the idea of the twelve-tone compositional technique and is based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, capturing the unexpected transformation of a tragic moment: a couple embarks on a nighttime stroll, during which the woman reveals she’s expecting a child from another man. Thus, the narrative encapsulates the strength of love as the lover underscores the importance of motherhood and pledges his readiness to embrace the child as his own.