The Église de Verbier hosts morning, afternoon and evening concerts. It is the Verbier Festival’s primary venue for solo, chamber music and vocal recitals.
Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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11 AM
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 11:00
Duration: 12h 15min
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Programme
Franz Schubert: Lieder: selection
Overview
Poetic songs of love and longing bring together German baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu for a recital of magnificent Lieder by Schubert.
Franz Schubert penned over 600 song settings before his death at 31. Stylistically, they combine melodies of often folk-like simplicity with accompaniments alive to poetic subtext. Emotionally, they span the gamut, with perhaps especial attention paid to Schubert’s personal preoccupations with loneliness and early death. Take the Winterreise song cycle to poems by Wilhelm Müller, charting a rejected lover’s bleak trudge through a nocturnal snowscape. Or the Die schöne Müllerin cycle, also to Müller texts, whose protagonist apparently drowns himself when rejected by a miller’s daughter. Still, for Friedrich Rückert’s Du bist die Rüh Schubert produced a transcendental, prayer-like love song, while Goethe settings include the supernatural horror of Erlkönig, in which the Elf King takes the life of a child even as it gallops towards shelter in the arms of its father.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 11:00
Duration: 12h 15min