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Speechless!

Wednesday

03.06.2026

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series R
Swiss premiere

Thursday

04.06.2026

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series S
Swiss premiere

Programme

Daniel Hardingconductor

Antoine Tamestitviola

Jörg Widmann 
Concerto for viola and orchestra swiss premiere

Intermission

Richard Wagner
The Ring without words 
compilation of Lorin Maazel

Approximately 2h10 including a 20-minute intermission

The music

Created in 2015 in Paris by our guest Antoine Tamestit, the Viola Concerto by the German composer Jörg Widmann is very demanding since it asks the soloist to be an actor, dancer, conductor, and incidentally, to play the viola! Placed in the middle of the orchestra at the beginning of the piece, he fights against the community represented by the musicians. It's up to you to discover how his perilous adventure will end...

Reducing fourteen hours of music into just over an hour is another challenge taken up by conductor Lorin Maazel with his arrangement without vocals of Richard Wagner's Ring. The challenge was to string together the musical excerpts by giving them a sound coherence without juxtaposing a series of pieces. Listening to the Tetralogy like a great symphonic poem, forgetting the singing and the stage without drowning in the Rhine, is the crazy bet taken up this evening by Daniel Harding.

The venues

OSR Live

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Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 5

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 16 February 2022 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie N° 4 en si bémol majeur op. 60

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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