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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Gershwin Piano Quartet
replaces Alice Sara Ott

Sunday, 13 August 2023, Gstaad Festival Tent

Today's Music

Sunday, 13 August 2023
6 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent

Here is a programme of rare intelligence! To better reveal the thousand and one subtleties of Chopin's 24 Preludes, the young German pianist Alice Sara Ott has decided to bring them into dialogue with works from all walks of life, from Mozart to Nino Rota, Takemitsu and Chilly Gonzales. With bonus commentary and video footage! If you are not yet familiar with the subtle art of this most precocious musician – who at the age of three, when she could barely speak, realised that “music is the language that goes beyond words” and decided to devote her life to it – go and take a look at her impressive discography, published since 2008 under the Deutsche Grammophon label.


Gershwin Piano Quartet replaces Alice Sara Ott

Due to illness, the pianist Alice Sara Ott has had to cancel her concert “Echoes of Life” on Sunday, 13thAugust. We wish her a fast recovery! Luckily, the ensemble Gershwin Paino Quartet, based in Switzerland, will be able to take her place. The four virtuoso pianists will be performing a diverse range of pieces by Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Gershwin.Previously bought tickets will remain valid. Tickets will be reimbursed if you do not wish to attend the replacement concert.

Sharing music with young people

Gershwin Piano Quartet
André Desponds, Piano
Stefan Wirth, Piano
Benjamin Engeli, Piano
Mischa Cheung, Piano

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) / arr. Benjamin Engeli 
Danse macabre, Op. 40 
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) 
Prélude, Op. 32 No. 9 in A Major 
(Soloist: Stefan Wirth) 
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / arr. Franz Liszt 
“Ständchen” D 957 
(Soloist: Benjamin Engeli) 
George Gershwin (1898-1937) / arr. André Desponds 
“Rhapsody in Blue” 
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) / arr. Mischa Cheung 
“Libertango” 
(Soloist: Mischa Cheung) 
Cole Porter (1891-1964) / arr. Gershwin Piano Quartet 
“Night 'N' Day” 
Joseph Kosma (1905-1969) 
“Autumn Leaves” (improvisation) 
(Soloist: André Desponds) 
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) 
Songs and Dances from “West Side Story”: 
Prologue / Scherzo (arr. Mischa Cheung) 
“A Boy Like That” / “I Have Love” (arr. Benjamin Engeli) 
Cha-cha / “Maria” (arr. Benjamin Engeli) 
“Tonight” (arr. Gershwin Piano Quartet) 
Mambo (arr. Mischa Cheung) 
  
CHF 125/105/65/40