Three concerts and the magic mountain’s Sunday rest in Davos

By Sarah Batschelet, 06 August 2018

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“his Schubert put us just about as close to Heaven as any Swiss Alp can get”

Reviewed at Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Davos on 5 August 2018

Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time): L'Abime des Oiseaux

Scelsi, Ave Maria

Tabakova, Pirin, viola suite

Scelsi, Alleluja, for female voice

von Bingen, De Sancta Maria, for female voice

Bach, Violin partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

von Bingen, Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans

Barber, Adagio for Strings, Op.11

Mahler, Rückert-Lieder: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 21 in B flat major, D.960

Amaury Viduvier, Clarinet

Hana Hobiger, Viola

Davos Festival Ladies Chorus

Hugo Ticciati, Violin

Nadia Carania, Mezzo-soprano

Esther Kruger, Piano

Frederic Bager, Piano

Davos Festival Camerata

Fine talents at the Davos Festival – Young Artists in Concert

Sarah Batschelet, 4th August

Since its inception in 1986, the Davos Festival has given a platform to more than 2,080 young artists of promise. This 33rd festival year is no exception.

***11

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

Bonjour tristesse : Barbara Hannigan et ses amis au Festival de Pâques

Irma Foletti, 5th April

De Rameau à la composition contemporaine, le programme concocté par la soprano et cheffe d'orchestre fait la part belle au spleen et manque parfois d'éloquence.

***11

Heureux Août musical : Schumann, Bruch et Chopin complices à Deauville

Arthur Macé, 6th August

Heureuse soirée de musique de chambre dans le cadre du 18e Août musical de Deauville, avec les interprétations éveillées de Pierre Fouchenneret, Guillaume Bellom, Lise Berthaud, Amaury Viduvier, Ismaël Margain et Yan Levionnois.

*****

Brahms unpacked by Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt

Charlotte Gardner, 26th January

Soprano Cornelia Beskow and accordionist Leo Florin join O/Modernt for a night of gypsy vim and Viennese swing at Wigmore Hall.

*****

From the darkness, Karine Polwart and the SCO seek the light

David Smythe, 10th March

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra directed by Hugo Ticciati premiere Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy’s Seek the Light, performed as a thread with contemporary string works.

****1

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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.