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Speechless!

Victoria HallGeneva, 1204, Switzerland
Dates/times in Zurich time zone
Wednesday 03 June 202619:30
Thursday 04 June 202619:30

Created in 2015 in Paris by our guest Antoine Tamestit, the Viola Concerto by the German composer Jörg Widmann is very demanding since it asks the soloist to be an actor, dancer, conductor, and incidentally, to play the viola! Placed in the middle of the orchestra at the beginning of the piece, he fights against the community represented by the musicians. It's up to you to discover how his perilous adventure will end...

Reducing fourteen hours of music into just over an hour is another challenge taken up by conductor Lorin Maazel with his arrangement without vocals of Richard Wagner's Ring. The challenge was to string together the musical excerpts by giving them a sound coherence without juxtaposing a series of pieces. Listening to the Tetralogy like a great symphonic poem, forgetting the singing and the stage without drowning in the Rhine, is the crazy bet taken up this evening by Daniel Harding.

© Philippe Matsas
© Philippe Matsas
Auf Entdeckungsreise mit Widmanns Viola Concerto
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