Week 5

LSO, Gergiev, Kavakos, Mayer, Bartoli, Gstaad Vocal Academy…

The Menuhin Festival Gstaad has been up and running for a month already! And once again reigns promise of many unforgettable moments… “Local star” Reto Reichenbach will perform his traditional piano recital in Zweisimmen on Wednesday: a survey of three centuries of music from Bach to Messiaen. [...]
 

Gstaad Festival Orchestra

Triumphant Baptism of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra

There is always a certain amount of uncertainty with regard to a birth. The birth of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra was truly dazzling – the best omen for the concert tour in autumn that will take the orchestra to some of Germany’s most prestigious concert halls. Anyone who was lucky enough to be in the audience in the Festival Tent in Gstaad on Friday evening is sure still to be under the magical spell: almost three hours of music, but above all an incredible sense of passion – the most beautiful gift that can come from a concert. [...]
 

Week 6

Bartoli, Gstaad Vocal Academy, Hagen, Repin, Pletnev…

The Menuhin Festival Gstaad has scheduled once again seven days filled with stars and discoveries for its penultimate week. On Tuesday the brilliant Cecilia Bartoli will be celebrating Handel together with the kammerorchesterbasel in Saanen. On the following day the students who participated in the Gstaad Vocal Academy (which was led by Bartoli together with her mother Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli) will present the fruits of their work at the parish house in Gstaad. [...]
 

Week 7

Tout le Monde du Violon, Lakatos, Buniatishvili, Bach…

The last week – already! – of the 54th Menuhin Festival Gstaad. With a royal leading figure – the violin – and a strong predominance of colors from Eastern Europe. The “festival within the festival”, “Tout le Monde du Violon”, is in full swing from Tuesday to Saturday including the “grand gypsy finale” in the tent in Gstaad with Roby Lakatos that is sure to please lovers of the instrument as well as those of cultural crossovers. [...]