Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra Celebrating 20 Years (Live) Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): Serenade for Strings, Op. 48:
• 1 Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48: I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina. Andante non troppo – Allegro moderato (Live) 09:13
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981): Adagio for Strings (Live)
• 2 Barber: Adagio for Strings (Live) 08:30
• Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904): Symphony No. 8 in G Major, B. 163:
• 3 Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, B. 163: III. Allegretto grazioso – Molto vivace (Live) 05:59
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847): A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61:
• 4 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: No. 1, Scherzo (Live) 04:45
• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Symphony No. 94 in G Major, Hob. I:94 "Surprise":
• 5 Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major, Hob. I:94 "Surprise": IV. Finale. Allegro di molto (Live) 03:44
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492:
• 6 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Overture (Live) 04:15
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1:
• 7 Brahms: 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 5 in G Minor. Allegro (Live) 02:22
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica":
• 8 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica": III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace (Live) 05:48
• Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899): Eljen a Magyar, Polka, Op. 332 (Live)
• 9 Strauss II: Eljen a Magyar, Polka, Op. 332 (Live) 02:43
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish":
• 10 Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": I. Lebhaft (Live) 08:55
• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98:
• 11 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: II. Andante moderato (Live) 10:58
• Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61:
• 12 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace (Live) 06:32
• Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120:
• 13 Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120: I. Ziemlich langsam – Lebhaft (Live) 08:49
• John Cage (1912 - 1992): The Seasons: Summer (Live)
• 14 Cage: The Seasons: Summer (Live) 03:59
• Total Runtime 01:26:32

Info for Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra Celebrating 20 Years (Live)

Releasing on our shared label Verbier Festival Gold, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra announce an upcoming album released to celebrate their 20th anniversary.

The VFCO is not only a leading chamber orchestra, touring major concert halls and festivals worldwide, it is also a global ambassador of the Verbier Festival. Comprised of elite alumni of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, its members hold positions in top international ensembles. Led by Music Director Gábor Takács-Nagy, VFCO collaborates with renowned soloists such as Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, András Schiff, Joshua Bell, Daniil Trifonov, and Gautier Capuçon. The anniversary album presents the ensemble with renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, Maxim Vengerov, Kent Nagano, Michael Tilson Thomas and András Schiff.

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle,conductor
Antonio Pappano,conductor
Maxim Vengerov,conductor
Kent Nagano,conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
András Schiff,conductor
Gábor Takács-Nagy, musical director

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Founded in 2005 and considered one of the top chamber orchestras in the world, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra is made up of alumni of the Verbier Festival Orchestra training programme and who now hold positions in leading international ensembles. The extensive list of orchestras is impressive, and includes, among others, the Vienna, Berlin, and Israel Philharmonics, and the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Concertgebouw, Tonhalle, and London Symphony Orchestras. The VFCO is the resident chamber orchestra of the Verbier Festival, and the six concerts it performs at each summer’s Festival are led by both its acclaimed Music Director, Gábor Takács-Nagy, as well as other illustrious conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Daniel Harding. The orchestra is often joined by soloists such as András Schiff, Leonidas Kavakos, Joshua Bell, Pinchas Zukerman, Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, Daniil Trifonov and Gautier Capuçon. As an ambassador of the Verbier Festival, the orchestra’s celebrated tours have brought its electrifying energy to audiences at many of the world’s great concert halls and festivals. Its first recording was in 2006 with the violinist/conductor Maxim Vengerov, and was followed by a 22-concert tour in North America and Europe. Since then, the orchestra has toured regularly throughout the world and, since 2008, has taken up residence for a week each autumn at Schloss Elmau in Bavaria.

Gábor Takács-Nagy
Hungarian conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy was appointed Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in 2007. A founding member and principal violin (1975 to 1992) of the Takács Quartet, he performed with Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovitch, András Schiff, Mikhail Pletnev, Joshua Bell and Gidon Kremer. He founded the Takács Piano Trio in 1996 and the Mikrokosmos Quartet in 1998 (Excellencia Prize for the complete cycle of Bartók’s quartets). Since 2002 he has devoted himself entirely to orchestral conducting, when he founded the Camerata Bellerive. In 2011, he was appointed Music Director of the Manchester Camerata and, in 2012, Principal Guest Conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Takács became Principal Artistic Partner of the Irish Chamber Orchestra in 2013. He coaches string quartets at the Haute Ecole de Musique, Geneva, and is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (2012) and Artistic Advisor for the Verbier Festival Academy’s Chamber Music offerings.

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