Variations et Improvisations – Soloists and Conductors from Around the World
GALA Orchestral Concert
Saturday, 5 August 2017
7.30 pm, Saanen Church
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Classicism in all of its variations, the perfect terrain for the students of the Gstaad Conducting Academy: Mozart and two of his four horn concertos (inspired by the playing of his friend Joseph Ignatz Leitgeb, the horn soloist at the court chapel in Salzburg), Haydn and the most celebrated of his 104 symphonies (the twelfth and last of his “London” symphonies, a veritable summit of his art), and Mendelssohn, who despite his bond to the Romantic period turned back to the great traditions of the 18th century for his First Piano Concerto in which he created a kind of synthesis of the two. Here interpreted by a radiant and inspired pianist, Gabriela Montero.
Felix Klieser, Horn
Gabriela Montero, Piano
Gstaad Festival Chamber Orchestra
Conductors from the Conducting Academy
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | |
| Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 417 | 15' |
| Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) | |
| Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 | 20' |
| – Interval – | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | |
| Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, K. 447 | 15' |
| Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) | |
| Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London” | 30' |
| 120' | |
| CHF 160 / 135 / 95 / 40 |