Spectacular views and musical serenades at the Davos Festival

By Sarah Batschelet, 08 August 2020

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“the sound expanded almost to a breaking point before dissolving into a whisper”

Reviewed at Bahnhof Davos Wiesen, Davos on 7 August 2020

Programme to include:

Strauss R., Sonata for violin and piano in E flat major, Op.18

Oliver, from the noise

Andreas Felber, Choirmaster / chorus director

Fabian Ziegler, Percussion

SIBJA Saxophone Quartet, Saxophone ensemble

Davos Festival Kammerchor

Chiara Opalio, Piano

Eoin Ducrot, Violin

Take Me to Church: Tiefsinn at the Davos Festival

Sarah Batschelet, 5th August

Staged in the town’s quaint St Johann Church, the Davos Festival’s “Tiefsinn” concert featured a fine choir and soloists, saxophone quartet, chamber orchestra and a dauntless solo cellist.

****1

Take Me to Church: Tiefsinn at the Davos Festival

Sarah Batschelet, 5th August

Staged in the town’s quaint St Johann Church, the Davos Festival’s “Tiefsinn” concert featured a fine choir and soloists, saxophone quartet, chamber orchestra and a dauntless solo cellist.

****1

Davos Festival celebrates the senses

Sarah Batschelet, 3rd August

The annual Davos Festival offers a platform to gifted young musicians from around the world to explore and exchange musical genres in a stellar alpine landscape.

****1

Take Me to Church: Tiefsinn at the Davos Festival

Sarah Batschelet, 5th August

Staged in the town’s quaint St Johann Church, the Davos Festival’s “Tiefsinn” concert featured a fine choir and soloists, saxophone quartet, chamber orchestra and a dauntless solo cellist.

****1

Ein glanzvoller Abend mit der Sing-Akademie und dem Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Rolf Kyburz, 5th May

Was die von Andreas Felber einstudierte Zürcher Sing-Akademie bot, war überwältigend: sehr eindrücklicher, homogener Chorklang, virtuos und flexibel in den polyphonen Partien, ausgezeichnete dynamische Kontrolle und Stimmausgleich: besser geht's nicht!

****1

Brahms' Ballades the highlight of Chiara Opalio's Gstaad recital

Edward Sava-Segal, 19th July

The Italian pianist's recital included Schubert Impromptus and rarely heard works by Beethoven and CPE Bach.

**111

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Sarah Batschelet

Sarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.