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Elements

Wednesday

20.05.2026

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series O

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Thursday

21.05.2026

20:15 — Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne

Series Lausanne

Great Patron

Great Patron

Artistic partner

Friday

22.05.2026

19:30 — KKL, Lucerne

Tour

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Programme

Mirga Gražinyte-Tylaconductor

Georgijs Osokinspiano

Frank Martin
Les Quatre Éléments, symphonic etudes

Frédéric Chopin
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Intermission

Claude Debussy
La Mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2

Approximately 2h10 including a 20-minute intermission

The music

This program, typical of the OSR’s DNA, begins with Les Quatre Éléments (The Four Elements) composed by Frank Martin in 1963 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of its founder Ernest Ansermet. The evocation of natural phenomena gave the Genevan composer the opportunity to express both his love of nature and his admiration for the indomitable energy of the conductor who had been the creator of a large part of his works at the podium of our orchestra.

Claude Debussy’s La Mer was the first disc recorded by the OSR for the Decca company. It was to be followed by three other versions as sound recording techniques progressed, each time winning great critical success.

The brilliant and wild second suite of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé has long been one’s hobbyhorse of our concerts with its fantastic final bacchanal which always produces a great effect thanks to its incantatory power and its dazzling orchestration.

OSR Live

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Jonathan Nott | Sergey Khachatryan

Concerto pour violon et orchestre

Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 5

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 16 February 2022 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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