Verbier 2024: Gábor Takács-Nagy and Alexandra Dovgan

The Verbier Festival is a major classical music event held annually in the summer. Its primary mission is to foster the exchange of experience between great masters and young artists from across the globe.

At the 2024 festival, the distinguished Hungarian violinist and conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy led the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in performances of two symphonies: Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 1 and Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1. The program also featured one of Edvard Grieg’s most celebrated works—his Piano Concerto—performed alongside Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan.

PROGRAM:

J. Haydn: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 1;

J. Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68;

E. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16.

PERFORMERS:

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra,

Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy;

Alexandra Dovgan, piano.

Verbier, 2024