Wednesday 03 June 2026 | 19:30 |
Thursday 04 June 2026 | 19:30 |
Widmann, Jörg (b. 1973) | Viola Concerto (Swiss premiere) | |
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) | The Ring without Words (arr. Lorin Maazel) |
Daniel Harding | Conductor |
Antoine Tamestit | Viola |
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
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.

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