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Samuel Niederhauser & Denis Linnik

Tuesday, 27 August 2024, Gsteig Church

Chamber Music

Tuesday, 27 August 2024
7.30 pm, Gsteig Church

Last year, the “Jeunes Etoiles” online voting honoured two (!) artists – cellist Samuel Niederhauser from Bern and the Belarusian pianist Denis Linnik. This summer, they are back in Gstaad with an entirely new programme: at times in duet, as in Brahms’ romantically reverie-inducing Sonata No. 1, but also solo, as in Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes or when performing three rather new compositions for solo cello, including EFEU by the Bernese composer Thomas Demenga and the remarkable Sonata for Solo Cello by György Ligeti. By the choice of music for their programme, both artists illuminate the 2024 Festival motto (“Transformation”), expressed here through Brahms and, even more notably, by the variation form we find in Schumann’s Etudes.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This concert will now take place on Tuesday, 27 August 2024 instead of Wednesday, 28 August 2024 at 7.30 pm, with the same programme at the church in Gsteig.

Samuel Niederhauser, Cello
Denis Linnik, Piano
Winners of the 2023 Jeunes Etoiles Voting

Thomas Demenga (1954) 
“EFEU” for solo cello9'
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 3825'
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) 
Suite for Solo Cello – I. Preludio4'
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 
Symphonic Studies for Piano, Op. 1325'
György Ligeti (1923-2006) 
Sonata for Solo Cello8'
 75'
CHF 85/60/40 

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