A documentary on the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen during the composition of his Chinese inspired work «Tao».

Elliott Carter has lived in New York almost a century and describes his music as a reflection on modern democratic society, where people have to cooperate but keep their individuality. This revelatory portrait of the man widely considered to be the…

After Judaïsm and Oriental Christianity, the two first parts of our series “Chants of Heaven” this film allows us to discover the great musical diversity of Islam. From the extreme styles of Senegal to those of Egypt or India, via the more…

The Creation is one of Haydn’s masterpieces. Despite its biblical subject (the seven days of the creation of the world), it remains a secular work, written for a concert hall rather than a church. It also takes a few liberties with the libretto…

Each summer, for more than a quarter of a century, music lovers from around the world have come together in the majestic Swiss Alps to take part in a community of exchange between great masters of classical music and the most promising musicians of…

The evening begins with a rare treat: the Prelude from Glazunov’s 1902 orchestral suite From the Middle Ages. Evoking medieval Europe through orchestral music reminiscent of opera, the suite portrays a passionate young couple, blissfully ignorant of…

The third and final operatic event of the 2017 festival was Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Stanislav Kochanovsky leads the young musicians and singers of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Academy in Timothy Carroll’s semi…

Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (VFCO) since 2007, Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts three masterpieces of the classical orchestral repertoire: Mozart’s Symphony No. 35, Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor with Mikhail Pletnev as…

The Verbier Festival Orchestra, under the baton of one of the greatest Mahlerians of our time, Michael Tilson Thomas, perform the Austrian composer’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, an ode to nature. This concert, the climax of the 2016 Verbier Festival…

Hungarian pianist András Schiff, one of the titans in the contemporary piano scene, returns as both soloist and conductor to Verbier, performing music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The programme culminates in Beethoven’s masterpiece…