Swiss premiere of a Staempfli concerto
An unusual Swiss program: In addition to Dvořák's symphony "From the New World", the Bern Symphony Orchestra (BSO) presents Schoeck's Violin Concerto and the Swiss premiere of Edward Staempfli's Piano Concerto No. 2, written in 1933, in its 13th symphony concert.
With the BSO (conductor Mario Venzago), pianist Moritz Ernst, born in East Westphalia in 1986, will perform the piano concerto, which had to wait 80 years for its Swiss premiere. Schoeck's violin concerto will be interpreted by Bettina Boller.
The fact that the Bernese composer Edward Staempfli has fallen into oblivion has nothing to do with the quality of his works, but rather that he belongs to the wrong generation, writes the BSO: on the one hand too young to have already made a name for himself at the outbreak of the war, and on the other hand too old to be able to start again after the end of the war. One of his late discoverers was the young pianist Moritz Ernst.
Born in Bern, Edward Staempfli (1908 to 2002) was a national figure, particularly between 1939 and 1951. His ballets were performed in Bern and Basel. They were regularly on the program at the festive concerts of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein. World premieres were broadcast on the radio.
Info:
June 22 and 23, 2013, Kultur-Casino Bern.
Details: www.konzerttheaterbern.ch
