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Thursday, 10 August 2023, Gstaad Festival Tent

L'Heure Bleue – Concert for All

Thursday, 10 August 2023
5.30 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent

For the second of the three weeks of the Gstaad Conducting Academy, the 10 participants travel to this year's guest orchestra, the Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn.They will bring back to Gstaad a varied symphonic programme which they will perform with the orchestra on the stage of the Gstaad Festival Tent.

Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn
Gstaad Festival Orchestra
Participants of the Gstaad Conducting Academy

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) 
Overture to the opera “Oberon”, J. 306 
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) 
“Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune” 
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a 
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 
“Scheherazade”, symphonic suite, Op. 35 
 90'
Booking is mandatory – Free admission with a collection 

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