Name: Deceptive Glee – Gstaad Festival orchestra II – Great Symphonies
Start: 2023-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gstaad Festival Tent

Organization

Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Conductor

Jaap van Zweden

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Katia Labèque

Piano I

Marielle Labèque

Piano II

Orchestra

Gstaad festival orchestra

Deceptive Glee – Gstaad Festival orchestra II – Great Symphonies

Saanen

Switzerland

Gstaad Festival Tent

Public

Tristan and Isolde, Prelude

Concerto for two pianos No. 10 in E-flat Major, K. 365

Symphony No. 9 E-flat Major, op. 70

Approved

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Singer

Countertenor

Soprano

Mezzo-soprano

Tenor

Contralto

Baritone

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

With this second summer programme, the Gstaad Festival Gstaad continues its quest for symphonic masterpieces initiated at its launch in 2014. Conducted by Jaap van Zweden, it tackles one of Shostakovich's famous “war” symphonies, the Ninth, written in the turmoil of the collapse of the Third Reich and the celebrations of the most costly victory in Russian history. A work which, in the eyes of Comrade Stalin, should have taken the form of a gigantic monument to the victorious nation, but which finally is not even half an hour long, less than half that of the Seventh (which bears witness to the invasion of the country at the end of 1941) and the Eighth (evoking the siege of Leningrad in the midst of the horror). Much lighter in form and instrumentation than the previous two, it indeed chooses to evoke the relief of the people's soldier who can finally return home, rather than the heroism of the Red Army overcoming the Wehrmacht, a disguised – but no less courageous – way of condemning the omnipotence of Stalinist militarism.

English

Deceptive Glee – Gstaad Festival orchestra II – Great Symphonies by Wagner, Richard, Mozart, Shostakovich, From (2023/2023), Conductor Jaap van Zweden, Gstaad Festival Tent, Saanen, Switzerland

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues