Salle des Combins is the Verbier Festival’s main concert hall. It normally seats 1,419. Each row is on a separate tier, which guarantees an excellent view of the stage. Improvements to the soundproofing and heat insulation make this a very high-quality non-permanent venue. All of the Festival’s symphonic concerts, operas, large world music, jazz, dance events and some recitals are presented here.
Charles Dutoit, Mao Fujita and Verbier Festival Orchestra
Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland
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6:30 PM
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 18:30
Duration: 2h
E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.
You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).
Cast
Creators
Composer:
Camille Saint-Saëns
Composer:
Ottorino Respighi
Programme
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano concerto no. 2 in G minor, Op.22
Ottorino Respighi: Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome)
Ottorino Respighi: Feste romane (Roman Festivals)
Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome)
Overview
Charles Dutoit conducts the VFO in a programme guaranteed to play the Festival out with a bang, Mao Fujita joining them as soloist in Saint-Saëns’s dramatic Second Piano Concerto, before an orchestral fireworks show in the shape of Respighi’s three Rome-themed tone poems.
Saint-Saëns was both a brilliant pianist and a brilliant organist, and his G minor Piano Concerto, composed within the space of three weeks in 1868, opens with a nod to both: solo piano with a dramatic pedal point, overlaid with initially spacious upper-register figuration which gradually accelerates into virtuosic cascades – after which the orchestra presents the first theme. The other two movements are then a playful, feather-light Scherzando and a racing tarantella. Respighi’s three Rome-themed tone poems, each in four movements, burst with the influence of his composition lessons with the great orchestral colourist, Rimsky Korsakov. Fountains of Rome (1916) first depicts the rural Valle Giula fountain at dawn, a pastoral oboe sounding through the early mist. Unconventional instrumentation in Pines of Rome (1924) includes the nocturne-like third movement’s closing taped nightingale song. Roman Festivals (1928) climaxes on La Befana, an orchestral showpiece of driving rhythms and dissonantly competing voices over which style and tempo turn on a dime, with a solo tenor trombone ‘playing’ a drunken merrymaker.
Venue Info
Salle des Combins - Verbier
Chemin de Plan Pra
Chemin de Plan Pra
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 18:30
Duration: 2h