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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Alexander Melnikov

Wednesday, 7 August 2019, Vers-l'Eglise Church

Chamber Music

Wednesday, 7 August 2019
7.30 pm, Vers-l'Eglise Church

Inspired by the preludes of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin’s 24 Preludes emerged during his disastrous stay in Valdemossa, on the island of Majorca, with George Sand. They are a pillar of the piano repertoire, to the same extent as Schubert’s formidable Wanderer-Fantasie and Brahms’s ultimate works, genuine meditations on ebbing life.

A magnificent recital programme imagined by Alexander Melnikov, whom the Festival has had the privilege to host on several occasions together with violinist Isabelle Faust, in particular in 2017 during a memorable cycle of Beethoven’s complete violin sonatas.

Alexander Melnikov, Piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
7 Fantasies, Op. 11625'
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 
«Wanderer Fantasy» in C Major, D 76022'
– Interval – 
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) 
24 Preludes, Op. 2840'
 110'
CHF 80/60/40