Dance Apotheosis – Beethoven 250
Jan Lisiecki, Santa Cecilia & Antonio Pappano
Symphony Concert
Saturday, 5 September 2020
7.30 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent
“The Apotheosis of Dance”: Richard Wagner, with these now legendary words, could not have better described Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, whose four movements depict a succession of “dances”, colours and rhythms, with the highest power of enchantment. This masterpiece is interpreted by the orchestra of one of the oldest musical institutions on the planet, the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome, founded in 1585 by Pope Sixtus V, and its conductor since 2005, Sir Antonio Pappano. Artists who made their mark on the 2017 edition of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy with two high-flying evenings, together with Diana Damrau and Evgeny Kissin. They share the stage with Jan Lisiecki, a Canadian prodigy of Polish origin, literally “at home” in the performance of the Second Concerto of his most famous compatriot, Frédéric Chopin.
Jan Lisiecki, piano
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome)
Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Overture to “King Stephen”, Op. 117 | 10' |
| Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | |
| Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 | 35' |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 | 40' |
| 110' | |
| CHF 160/135/95/65 |