season opening 2023/2024
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About The Programme
We’re a little early, it’s true! And yet it isn’t uncommon for winter to set in by late September in the Alps – thus at the opening of the new season for ANDERMATT MUSIC. We naturally have no influence on the weather, but our music is all set and ready for the first fall of snowflakes, in the shape of Hans Huber’s Second Serenade. Huber was born in Canton Solothurn and was one of the most significant composers of German-speaking Switzerland in the early 20th century. He composed this Serenade, entitled “Winter Nights”, when late-Romanticism was in its heyday. Its individual movements bear programmatic titles such as “Pastorale”, “Träumerei” (“Dreaming”) and “Carnival”. This work opens in Christmassy mood, with a delightful, swaying “Pastorale” – a cheerful idyll that exudes a cosy warmth before leaving us in the colourful hustle and bustle of carnival time. “Dreaming” is characterised by mellifluous melodic lines that glide soulfully between the different instruments and are then transfigured and ultimately spun into a shining golden thread in the “Spinning Song”.
Franz Liszt might have been the “father” of Romantic programme music, so to speak, but he is represented on our programme by a piano concerto, not a symphonic poem. Traditionally, a concerto would present the piano and orchestra as competing “rivals” for our attention, but Liszt here makes them equal partners – as he also indicated in his original title for this work, namely a “symphonic concerto”. This work is as popular as it is virtuosic, and the piano’s role in it is not as a counterpart to the orchestra; instead, it provides different sound colours for the contrasting moods of the music, which alternates poetic, spiritual passages with moments of well-nigh diabolical excess.
Gioachino Rossini’s Overture to his opera “William Tell” is also featured here – as a reminiscence of Andermatt’s 2nd “Goethe Days” that took place on 26 and 27 August 2023 under the motto “Goethe’s Tell and other Heroes”. The final work on our programme is Richard Wagner’s “Träume” (“Dreams”), which he composed as a study for his music drama “Tristan and Isolde”, and subsequently orchestrated for violin and orchestra.
Lineup
MAGDA AMARA, piano
SWISS ORCHESTRA
LENA-LISA WÜSTENDÖRFER, conductor
programme
GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792–1868)
Overture to «William Tell»
FRANZ LISZT (1811–1886)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major
RICHARDWAGNER (1813–1883)
«Dreams» WWV 91b
HANS HUBER (1852–1921)
Serenade Nr. 2 «Winter Nights» WoO
- 18:30Doors open
- 19:30Konzert (inkl. Pause)
- 21:30Approx. end time
concert hall
Andermatt
How to get there
Details on how to get there can be found on the ANDERMATT MUSIC website.
barrier-free access
The Andermatt concert hall is barrier-free. Wheelchair tickets are available via email at info@andermattmusic.ch or at Andermatt Alpine Apartments at +41 41 888 78 00.
Seating on the balcony is recommended for people with reduced mobility. Chamber music concerts and New Folk Music concerts usually do not have grandstand seating: Here, all seats are accessible without steps.
The Andermatt concert hall has an inductive listening system.
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evening ticket office
The box office opens 1 hour before the start of the concert.
Doors open / late entry
Admission to the concert hall is 30 minutes before the start of the concert. Late admission is only possible during applause between plays and on the guidance of the hall staff.
Discount
Discounts are available for children, students and members of the Gotthard MemberClub. Details about the benefits can be found here.
The pianist Magda Amara is both a soloist and one of the most sought-after chamber musicians. She has performed in renowned concert halls such as the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Barbican Hall in London, the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden and the Zurich Tonhalle. Her engagements have taken her to the most important concert halls in Europe and beyond, in Russia, Canada and the USA. Amara has given guest performances at international festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, the Dvořákova in Prague, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Sion Festival, the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, the Best of NRW, the Neuberger Cultural Days and the Attergauer Cultural Summer, and she has enjoyed successful collaborations with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the North Netherlands Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Brno and others.
Magda Amara has shared her passion for chamber music with outstanding partners such as Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Lozakovich and Baiba Skride, as well as with members of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics. She has enjoyed a particularly close musical partnership with the Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh, resulting in two CDs for the Austrian label Capriccio and one for Deutsche Grammophon. In 2018, she released a CD of Kabalevsky’s Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, accompanied by the German State Philharmonic Orchestra Rheinland-Pfalz conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens.
Magda Amara was born in Moscow and graduated from Sergei Dorensky’s class at the P. I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. She then furthered her studies in Vienna with Stefan Vladar at the University of Music and Performing Arts, and has won prizes in many national and international competitions.
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