"Metamorphoses" in the factory
Following last year's success, the 2014 Brunnen Music Festival is organizing five concerts over two days under the motto "Metamorphoses". The focus will be on works by the bohemian Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the model citizen Richard Strauss. The 25 musicians will perform as soloists as well as in orchestral and chamber music formations.
According to the organizers' press release, this year's festival under the direction of Beni Santora, Adrian Meyer and Lisa Schatzmann will focus on "two composers who could not be more different: Richard Strauss, whose 150th birthday will be celebrated in 2014, and his great idol, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Although each represents a different era and a different style, there are an astonishing number of similarities in their biographies - but also stark contrasts resulting primarily from their characters. Mozart, unsteady and reckless, squandered great opportunities and died at barely 36 years of age, while Strauss, intent on security and conserving his strength, was able to reap a rich harvest in old age.
The festive Fronalpsaal at the Seehotel Waldstätterhof provides the ideal setting for the chamber music concerts on Sunday afternoon, while the wonderful acoustics of the old cement factory in Nova Brunnen will perhaps be heard for the last time on Friday evening. Although the brittle concrete building may look anything but a concert hall from the outside, you will be surprised by the warm sound of the hall from the very first note and perhaps be inspired to explore the upper floors."
Advance booking: 041 825 00 40 (Brunnen Tourismus)
Detailed information: www.musikfest-brunnen.ch
Program
Friday June 27, 2014
Old cement factory Brunnen
