Memory – Recital Hélène Grimaud - canceled

Chamber music

Tuesday 10 August 2021
(1) 6 pm | (2) 8.30 pm, Saanen Church

Unfortunately, because of a lengthy procedure for obtaining permission to stay in the United States due to the pandemic and the resulting problems with entering and leaving the country, Hélène Grimaud has had to cancel her concert at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy on August 8. For the orchestral concert on August 8 and the performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor K. 466 with the Kammerorchester Basel, we have been able to secure the services of the excellent young Canadian-Polish pianist Jan Lisiecki. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, Jan Lisiecki has already replaced Hélène Grimaud in concerts at the German Schleswig-Holstein Festival in July, including the opening concert which was broadcast throughout Europe by 3Sat.

She has been a regular guest of the Saanenland summers for almost twenty years. After the repertoire performed two nights before, Hélène Grimaud invites us to a “tête-à-tête” at the Saanen church, in a programme based on “memory”, created in 2018 for his penultimate Deutsche Grammophon album: an extremely subtle journey, combining reflection and pure emotion, in which the notes of Satie intertwine with those of Chopin, who in part generated them, in that fundamental relationship that is heritage – memory – without which music would simply not exist.