Video streams of DG artists at the Verbier Festival 2008



Following the success of our cooperation with the Verbier Festival and medici-arts.tv last year, we invite you again this year to enjoy full concert video streams of a selection of our artists' performances at the Verbier Festival 2008.

The artists include Measha Brueggergosman, Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich, Rafal Blechacz and Hélène Grimaud.

The streams are available until the end of August.



Sunday 3rd August
featuring Hélène Grimaud

Shchedrin (1932): La Tzigane Grusha (from the opera "Le Pèlerin enchanté")
(Kristina Kapustynska, mezzo-soprano)

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
(Hélène Grimaud, piano)

Mahler: Symphony no.5

UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra
Valery Gergiev

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Thursday 31st July
featuring Rafal Blechacz

Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 Vif

Liszt: 3 Etudes
(La Leggierezza S.144, Waldesrauschen S.145, Gnomenreigen S.146)

Debussy: Estampes

Chopin: 3 Mazurkas, op.50
(no.30 in G Op.50 No.1, no.31 in A flat Op.50 No.2, no.32 in C sharp minor Op.50 No.3)

Chopin: Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor op.58

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Tuesday 29th July
featuring, by kind permission of Idéale Audience, special guest Yuja Wang

Ligeti: Étude for piano no.4 (from book 1 "Fanfare")
Ligeti: Étude for piano no.10 (from book 2 "Der Zauberlehring")
Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S.178
Rachmaninov: Vocalise op.34, no.14 (arr. Alan Richardson)
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from "Songe d'une nuit d'été" (arr. Rachmaninov/ Geroges Cziffra)
Rimski-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Rachmaninov)
Scriabin: Sonata no.2 in G sharp minor, op.19 "Sonata-Fantasy"
Ravel: La Valse

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Tuesday 29th July
Carte blanche à Mischa Maisky

Shostakovich: Piano Trio no.1 op.8
(Mischa Maisky, Julian Rachlin, Lily Maisky)

Grieg: Sonata pour cello and piano in A minor, op.36
(Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich)

Shchedrin Rodion (1932): Bel canto à la mode Russe for cello and piano, (world première)
(Mischa Maisky, Rodion Shchedrin)

Villa-Lobos: Aria for soprano and 8 cellos from "Bachianas Brasileiras no.5)
(Measha Brueggergosman, Mischa Maisky, Lynn Harrell, Frans Helmerson, Jakob Koranyi, Maximilian Hornung, Marie-Stéphanie Janacek, Adam Krsueuowiec, Maxim Velichkin)

Tchaikovsky: Nocturne in D minor, op.19 no.4
(Mischa Maisky, Members of the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra)

Bruch: Kol Nidrei on popular jewish themes, op.47 (arranged for cello and string by T.Köstler)
(Mischa Maisky, Members of the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra)

Haydn: Concerto for cello and strings no.1 in C major, Hob VII:b
(Mischa Maisky, Members of the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra)

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Thursday 24th July
featuring Measha Brueggergosman

Berg: Wozzeck - three fragements for soprano and orchestra
(Measha Brueggergosman)

Sibelius: violin concerto
(Leonidas Kavakos, violin)

Beethoven: Symphony no.6, op.68 "Pastorale"

UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra
Manfred Honeck

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Excerpt from Tuesday 22nd July
featuring Martha Argerich & Mischa Maisky

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, op.57
(Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Henning Kraggerud, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky)

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