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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Sir András Schiff

Friday, 19 July 2019, Saanen Church

GALA Chamber Music

Friday, 19 July 2019
7.30 pm, Saanen Church

To launch the 5th edition of the Gstaad Piano Academy, which he will be directing in the Gstaad Kirchgemeindehaus from 20th to 24th July, Sir András Schiff chose a return to fundamentals, i.e. to Johann Sebastian Bach, whom he had so beautiful served during an evening concert in tribute to the founder of the Festival.

After the Goldberg Variations, the first book of Preludes and Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier, written – as noted at the top of the score – «zum Nutzen und Gebrauch der Lehr-Begierigen Musicalischen Jugend» («for the use and profit of young musicians»)… What better musical icon could there be, as a complement to the Master Classes?

Sir András Schiff, Piano

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
«The Well-Tempered Clavier», Book I (without interval)120'
  
CHF 160/135/95/40