Nostalgie française – Nostalgia I ID:
Chamber Music
Monday, 21. July 2025
7:30 p.m., Zweisimmen Church
After a year-long hiatus, “Menuhin’s Heritage Artist” Bomsori Kim makes her much-anticipated return, enchanting audiences with her refined and graceful artistry in two performances. Joined by the outstanding pianist Kit Armstrong, the South Korean virtuoso takes listeners on a deeply evocative journey – at times nostalgic, occasionally surprising, and not always French in character! For Tchaikovsky, the memories trace back to Madame von Meck’s idyllic estate in Brailiv, Ukraine, a place he musically immortalized in 1878 during his stay in Clarens on Lake Geneva. Szymanowski, composing in the turmoil of World War I, evokes the ghosts of a lost era before shifting to the radiant energy of his Notturno e Tarantella, inspired by a Mediterranean getaway. Debussy, confronting his own mortality, fills his Violin Sonata with a poignant mix of tenderness and restless tension. Closing the programme in dazzling fashion, Wieniawski’s Fantaisie Brillante reimagines the most exquisite themes from Gounod’s Faust, a sparkling tribute to 19th-century virtuosity at its finest!
FRIEND OF THE FESTIVAL
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Bomsori Kim, Violin
- Menuhin's Heritage Artist
Kit Armstrong, Piano
| Robert Schumann (1810–1856) | |
| Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105 | 20' |
| Peter Tschaikowsky (1840–1893) | |
| Méditation from “Souvenir d'un lieu cher”, Op. 42 No. 1 | 10' |
| Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937) | |
| Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28 | 10' |
| Claude Debussy (1862–1918) | |
| Violin Sonata, CD 148 | 15' |
| Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880) | |
| Fantaisie brillante for Violin and Piano on Themes from Gounod's “Faust”, Op. 20 | 20' |
| 80' | |