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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Francesco Piemontesi

Sunday, 16 July 2023, Zweisimmen Church

Chamber Music

Sunday, 16 July 2023
6 pm, Zweisimmen Church

Francesco Piemontesi is representing Switzerland in all parts of the world. Hailed for the finesse of his interpretations of the great piano “classics”, this disciple of Alfred Brendel will showcase all the facets of his talent this summer during a four-concert residency, which will see him perform in turn as a soloist, in a duo (with Sol Gabetta – 25 July), in a trio (with Francesca Dego and Daniel Müller-Schott – 21 July) and in an orchestra concerto (Mozart with the Freiburger Barockorchester – 22 July). He will begin his journey in Zweisimmen with a gradient of styles and periods: the foundations of the keyboard with the great Bach (in the original version but also revisited by two giants of the following centuries), the dawn of Romanticism with Schubert's final sonata, and the prelude reinvented by Debussy, master of musical impressionism.

Francesco Piemontesi, Piano
Artist in Residence 2023

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude5'
“Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”, choral prelude, BWV 645 (arr. by Wilhelm Kempff)5'
“Nun komm der Heiden Heiland”, choral prelude, BWV 659 (arr. by Ferruccio Busoni)5'
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) 
Préludes, Livre II40'
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major, D 96040'
 100'
CHF 125/105/65