Bass-baritone Johan Reuter will perform Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, under the direction of Iranian conductor Hossein Pishkar, who is coming to Geneva to lend his energy to this intense and moving programme of vocal music.

In the first piece, spiritual and poignant, Haydn combines religious depth with musical inventiveness, setting to music the last words of Christ on the cross. A masterpiece of the classical period, imbued with contemplation and beauty. Interwoven with this is a deeply moving vocal cycle, in which Mahler explores the theme of grief and loss through poems by Friedrich Rückert, written after the death of his children.

An intense emotional journey, carried by masterful orchestration and sublime interpretation.