Name: VFO Mehta Wang: Ranchmaninoff & Berlioz
Start: 2023-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Eglise de Verbier

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Verbier Festival

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Zubin Mehta

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Yuja Wang

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Verbier Festival Orchestra

VFO / Mehta / Wang: Ranchmaninoff & Berlioz

Bagnes

Switzerland

Eglise de Verbier

VFO / Mehta / Wang: Ranchmaninoff & Berlioz: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op. 30 (+1 More)

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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D Minor op.30

Symphonie fantastique Op. 14

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A tour de force of lushly-scored romanticism and virtuosity, Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto was written in 1909, to perform on his first visit to the USA. Contrasting a restless, melancholic theme redolent of traditional Russian music with a more warmly rapturous second subject, its Allegro ma non tanto builds to a dramatic cadenza before concluding on a dark whisper. The central Intermezzo equally balances melancholy with romance, before a glittering Finale. Berlioz’s revolutionary Symphonie Fantastique of 1830 ditched the usual symphonic four movements of ‘pure’ music for five programmatic ones full of theatrical special effects, depicting a lovesick artist’s opium-fuelled dreams about the lady indifferent to his desire. She is represented throughout by a single recurring, constantly reimagined theme intoned first by smooth violins, and ultimately parodied in the climactic Witches Sabbath – following the artist’s execution for her murder – as church bells toll the Dies irae.

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VFO / Mehta / Wang: Ranchmaninoff & Berlioz by Rachmaninoff, Berlioz, From (2023/2023), Conductor Zubin Mehta, Eglise de Verbier, Bagnes, Switzerland

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