Emily Edmonds (soprano)
Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone)
Martin Frost (clarinet)
Kristof Barati (violin)
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Renaud Capucon (violin)
Alexandra Conunova (violin)
Vilde Frang (violin)
Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Daniel Lozakovich (violin)
Vadim Repin (violin)
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)
Kirill Troussov (violin)
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
Gerard Causse (viola)
Nobuko Imai (viola)
Blythe Teh Engstroem (viola)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Andrei Ionita (cello)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
Edgar Moreau (cello)
Brendan Kane (double bass)
Sergei Babayan (piano)
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Richard Goode (piano)
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Rodion Shchedrin (piano)
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Yuja Wang (piano)
RIAS Kammerchor
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

Conductors

Valery Gergiev
Gabor Takacs-Nagy

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G major, BVW1048
Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'

» Jesu bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man's desiring) (arr. Mikhail Pletnev)

Brahms, Johannes

Souvenir de la Russe

» no.2 Chansonette de Titoff

» no.3 Romance de Warlamoff

» no.4 Le Rossignol, de A. Alabieff

Dvorak, Antonin

Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83

» no.5 in A major

Slavonic Dances: Series II, op.72 B147

» no.2 in E minor

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56

» Hallelujah Chorus

Heidrich, Peter

Happy Birthday Variations

Lutoslawski, Witold

Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Ave verum corpus, K618

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Morceaux (6) for piano duet, op.11

» no.1 Barcarolle

Pieces (2) in A major for piano 6 hands

» no.2 Romance in A major

» Overture

Navarra Fantasy (arr. D Sitkovetsky)

Smetana, Bedrich

Sonata in E minor for 2 pianos eight hands

Strauss II, Johann

Die Fledermaus

» Champagne Medley (arr. S Koncz)

» Overture

Eljen a Magyar, op.332

Artists

Conductors

Valery Gergiev
Gabor Takacs-Nagy

About

The Verbier Festival is one of classical music’s greatest events. In celebration of the festival’s 25th anniversary, this unique concert brings together 36 classical stars in an unprecedented evening of ingenious programming and captivating performances. The line-up includes the world’s greatest violinists, violists, cellists and pianists as well as other leading performers conducted by Valery Gergiev and Gábor Takács-Nagy.

Filmed on 25 July 2018 at the Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland

Picture format: HD 16:9
Sound format: PCM stereo
Language: English
Region code: A, B, C
No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50)