An Inconspicuous Rebel – Music for the Planet I – Inner Emigration II ID:
Chamber Music
Sunday, 03. August 2025
6 p.m., Church Saanen
For the third year in a row, Patricia Kopatchinskaja brings an unflinching look at the state of the world with her “Music for the Planet” series. Since 2023, she has been curating the concerts as the series’ ambassador. While the past two editions focused more on the power of images, the 2025 concerts of the series shift to the impact of words. In a powerful exchange, the poetry and prose of Swiss author Franz Hohler – read in German by Meret Matter – will be paired with two chamber masterpieces by Dmitri Shostakovich. As Shostakovich crafted an intricate strategy of “inner emigration” to survive the moral pressures of the Soviet regime, his music became a symbol of artistic resistance. Together with her long-time collaborators, cellist Sol Gabetta and pianist Francesco Piemontesi, Kopatchinskaja brings these works to life in a thrillingly new way.
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violin
Sol Gabetta, Cello
Francesco Piemontesi, Piano
Meret Matter, Reading
Rico Baumann, Percussion
| Franz Hohler (1943) | |
| “Wann wird das sein?” [When Will That Be?] (1973), text responding to the Club of Rome’s report “The Limits of Growth”, with an added reflection from 2025 – Reading | 5' |
| Claude Debussy (1862–1918) | |
| Cello Sonata, L. 135 | 12' |
| Franz Hohler (1943) | |
| “Die Schöpfung” [The Creation] (2003) – Reading | 5' |
| Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975) | |
| Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 | 25' |
| Franz Hohler (1943) | |
| “Die Göttin” [The Goddess] (1995) – Reading | 5' |
| Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975) | |
| Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67 | 30' |
| 90' | |