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Divertimento

Sunday

08.10.2023

11:00 — Conservatoire de musique de Genève

Series Chamber music
Chambre music

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Programme

Caroline BaeriswylFlorin MoldoveanuCristian Zimmermanviolin

Emmanuel Morelviola

Léonard Frey-Maibachcello

Christian Chamorelpiano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F Major KV 138

Ernest Chausson
Concert for violin, piano and string quartet in D major Op. 21

The music

Premature death from a stupid bicycle accident, Ernest Chausson, intimate musician, close friend of Claude Debussy, leaves a small number of works bearing all the traces of his sensitive and passionate personality. Created in 1892, the Concert in D major (a title inspired by the old "concerts" of the French 17th century that Chausson particularly admired) summons a violin and a piano soloist in dialogue with a string quartet. Four movements representing as many moods oscillating between joy and tragedy. A centerpiece of French chamber music, it overwhelms the listener with its intense and poetic expression which naturally takes its place in the living room dreamed up by Marcel Proust in La Recherche. Mozart was 16 when he composed a triptych of string quartets which he called Divertimentos (KV 136, 137 and 138), marvelously combining the Italian style with that of his friend Michael Haydn with whom he was in the service of the prince- Archbishop Colloredo in Salzburg.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie N° 4 en si bémol majeur op. 60

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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JONATHAN NOTT

Conductor

Yvonne Naef

mezzo-soprano

György Ligeti
Poème symphonique, pour cent métronomes

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm süsser Tod (orchestration by Leopold Stokowski)

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Recorded on 21 January 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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