Pastorale Idylle – Beethoven 250
Renaud Capuçon, KOB & Sylvain Cambreling
GALA Orchestral Concert
Friday, 21 August 2020
7.30 pm, Saanen Church
Beethoven is at the heart of this concert. In his familiar figure as painter of the beauties of country life, but also in his much rarer guise as author of romances for violin: these two little gems with very different characters – dramatic for the first, more lyrical and melodious for the second – which, at the beginning of the 1800s, were a real gateway to the sublime Violin Concerto. Furthermore, in a composition by Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, Sylvain Cambreling and the Kammerorchester Basel are also offering a totally new look at the genius from Bonn, through a world premiere in the form of a double concerto for violin and contrabassoon (a contrabassoon reinvented by the Eppelsheim and Wolf makers) aptly christened «Was mir Beethoven erzählt» – «What Beethoven tells me».
Renaud Capuçon, Violin
Lorelei Dowling, Contraforte
Kammerorchester Basel
Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Violin Romance No. 1 in G Major, Op. 40 | 7' |
| Violin Romance No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50 | 9' |
| Georg Friedrich Haas (1953) | |
| «Was mir Beethoven erzählt», Double Concerto for Violin, Contraforte and Orchestra | 23' |
| (world premiere - work commissioned by the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2020 and financed by the Ernst Siemens Foundation – co-production with the Bonn Beethovenfest, Berlin Konzerthaus and Basel Chamber Orchestra) | |
| — interval — | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 «Pastorale» | 45' |
| 110' | |
| CHF 160/135/95/40 |