Verbier Festival

Thursday 22 - Wednesday 28 July 2010

Verbier, a ski resort with stunning scenery in the Swiss Alps, hosts a prestigious international music festival each Summer.  There is a great atmosphere in the town with music and musicians everywhere! Most artists taking part in theVerbier Festival are international celebrities.Talented young musicians attend the "International Academie" where master classes with eminent musicians are open to the public, as are the daily concerts given by these extremely gifted young musicians and pre-concert talks given by Roderick Swanston. This year, the evening concertswill be given in the brand new Salle des Combins and the "Eglise"



6 concerts included in the package


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Measha Brueggergosman soprano Jeffrey Kahane piano
Benyounes Quartet
Songs by Debussy, Poulenc, Liszt, Duparc, Schubert, Wolf and Turina
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Verbier Festival Orchestra
Marc Minkowski conductor  Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo soprano
Fauré: Pelleas et Mélisande     Canteloube: Chants d'Auverne
Mozart: Symphony no39 K543
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Evgeny Kissin piano
Chopin: 3 Nocturnes in Fminor,G major and E major. 10 Muzurkas
Schumann: Fantasy in C major. Toccata in C major
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Yuri Bashmet viola  Kirill Gerstein piano
Beethoven: Nocturne   Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
Shostakovich: Sonata op147
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Verbier Festival Orchestra   Charles Dutoit conductor 
Leonidas Kavakos violin Yuri Bashmet viola  Mischa Maisky cello
Smetana: Ma Vlast
Bartok: Violin concerto no2 in D minor
Strauss: Don Quixote
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Nikolai Lugansky piano
Chopin: 2 Nocturnes op15 no1,op27 no2. Fantasy op49
Prelude op45. Scherzo op54
Rachmaninoff: Sonata no1 in D minor
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Joshua Bell and Henning Kraggerud violins
Lawrence Power viola  Andreas Brantelid cello
Grieg: String Quartet op27   Bartók:Violin Duos 
Mendelssohn: String quartet in F minor op80
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Daniel Hope, Vilde Frang, Mikhail Simonyan, Kirill Troussov violins
Yuri Bashmet, Blythe Teh Engstroem violas
Gautier Capucon, Mischa Maisky cellos Leigh Mesh double bass,
Christian Zacharias piano
Prokofiev: Overture on Jewish Themes op34
Mendelssohn: Octet
Schubert: Quintet in A major "The Trout"

The following optional concerts are not included in the package
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Elisabeth Leonskaya piano 3 late night concerts of Schubert Sonatas
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Vilde Frang violin Lynn Harrell cello Kit Armstrong piano
Piano Trios by Armstrong, Debussy and Beethoven
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Daniel Hope violin Nicholas Angelich piano
Sonatas by Schnittke, Schulhoff, Mendelssohn and Walton
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Misha Maisky cello  Lily Maisky piano
Works by Beethoven, Schumann, De Falla, Messiaen and Debussy
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Lera Auerbach piano Leonidas Kavakos violin Gautier Capuçon cello
Martha Keller narrator Zoryana Kushpler mezzo soprano. Works by Lera Auerbach
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David Kadouch piano works by Haydn, Schumann, Wagner-Liszt and Shostakovitch
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Ilya Gringolts violin Masaaki Suzuki harpsichord  Bach: Sonatas
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Kirill Troussev violin Gautier Capuçon cello Yuja Wang piano
Piano trios by Haydn and Brahms
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Sarah Chang violin Gautier Capuçon cello Ben Johnson piano Benyounes Quartet
Charlotte Bray: Festival Commission Pfitzner: Sextet op55 Saint-Saëns: Piano Quatet op41
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Ilya Gringolts violin  Masaaki Suzuki harpsichord
Bach: Sonatas
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Staying in the 3* Hôtel de Verbier, right in the centre of the town and close to everything. We will have a sightseeing trip, by coach.


 

Flights
 22 July BA1387 Manchester/LondonHeathrow 08.15/09.25    BA0730 LondonHeathrow/Geneva 11.40/14.25
 28 July BA0733 Geneva/LondonHeathrow 17.25/18.10     BA1404 LondonHeathrow/Manchester 20.20/21.20
(alternative flights may be possible)



Cost per person: £1675 (based on 2 people sharing a room)   Single room supplement £175
Double room for single occupancy £335


 

The cost of this holiday will cover the following:

  • >Return flight Manchester or London to Geneva
  • >6 nights B & B in Hotel
  • >Admission to 6 performances
  • >Sightseeing trip
  • >Coach transfers from airport to hotel
  • >3 Meals with wine
Travel insurance is not included

Details are correct at time of publishing (March 2010) but may be subject to change.

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