Pastorale Idyll – Beethoven 250
Gstaad Conducting Academy – Concert II
L'Heure Bleue – Concert for All
Sunday, 14 August 2022
5.30 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent
Beethoven is at the heart of this concert. In his familiar figure as painter of the beauties of country life, but also in his much rarer guise as author of romances for violin: these two little gems with very different characters – dramatic for the first, more lyrical and melodious for the second – which, at the beginning of the 1800s, were a real gateway to the sublime Violin Concerto. Furthermore, in a composition by Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, the students of the Gstaad Conducting Academy and the Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn are offering a totally new look at the genius from Bonn, through a first performance in the form of a concertant symphonic poem for violin, contraforte (a contrabassoon reinvented by the Eppelsheim and Wolf makers) an orchestra aptly christened “Was mir Beethoven erzählt” – “What Beethoven tells me”.
Helena Winkelman, Violin
Lorelei Dowling, Contraforte
Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn
Students of the Gstaad Conducting Academy
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Violin Romance No. 1 in G Major, Op. 40 | 7' |
| Violin Romance No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50 | 9' |
| Georg Friedrich Haas (1953) | |
| “Was mir Beethoven erzählt”, Concertant Symphonic Poem for Violin, Contraforte and Orchestra | 23' |
| (first performance – work commissioned by the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2020 and financed by the Ernst Siemens Foundation – co-production with the Bonn Beethovenfest, Berlin Konzerthaus and Basel Chamber Orchestra) | |
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| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastorale” | 45' |
| 100' (interval included) | |
| Booking is mandatory – Free admission with a collection |