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.
Johan Dalene and Julien Quentin
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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4 PM
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 16:00
Duration: 1h 15min
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Programme
Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata no. 2 in G major
Kaan Bulak: Violin Sonata No. 1
Jean Sibelius: Six Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 79: No. 1 Souvenir
Jean Sibelius: Six Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 79: No. 5 Tanz-Idylle
Jean Sibelius: Six Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 79: No. 6 Berceuse
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Sonata no. 2 in D major, Op.94a
Overview
Johan Dalene (VF Academy 2016) performs an assortment of violin repertoire with collaborator Julien Quentin, including the world premiere of Kaan Bulak’s Sonata for violin and piano No. 1, written especially for him.
Ravel’s Violin Sonata of 1927 strikes for its non-idiomatic demands on the violin: to sound coolly indifferent through the first movement’s flowing theme; pizzicato strums and Blues wails in the second; mechanised circling figures for the concluding Perpetuum mobile. Equally non-traditional is Kaan Bulak’s Violin Sonata, opening with an Agitato in which the violin questions the piano’s restless fluidity. After a dark Cantabile sonoro ‘deconstructing reality with a melody’, a concluding Adagio finds fulfillment. The three Sibelius pieces also feel non-traditional thanks to the violin’s frequent independence from the piano. Prokofiev’s four-movement Violin Sonata No. 2 of 1944 meanwhile began life in 1943 as the Flute Sonata Op. 94, before David Oistrakh—also the dedicatee of his much darker Violin Sonata No. 1—persuaded him to transfer it to violin.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 16:00
Duration: 1h 15min