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.
Francesco Piemontesi, piano
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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8 PM
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 20:00
Duration: 1h 15min
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Programme
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata no. 19 in C minor, D.958
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178
Overview
Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi makes his first return to the Verbier Festival since 2017 for a recital of piano masterworks by Schubert and Liszt.
Schubert’s Piano Sonata No 19 in C minor is one of three he composed just two months before his death aged 31, and in its impassioned emotional range it sounds both like a fevered personal emotional outpouring, and a conscious uptake of the piano sonata mantle left by Beethoven, who had died the previous year; and in fact its opening Allegro contains echoes of Beethoven’s 32 Variations also in C minor. Similarly full of contrasting high passions is Liszt’s monumental Piano Sonata in B minor of 1853. Structured ground-breakingly as a three-movement sonata within a single extended sonata movement, it draws most of its material from three motivic cells heard in the first 17 bars: three dark syncopated Gs followed by a chromatic downwards snake; a short, defiant, forte shout; spikily rapping repeated Ds (described by Liszt as his “hammer-blow” theme).
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 20:00
Duration: 1h 15min