Les Rencontres Musicales de Champéry welcomes tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Saskia Giorgini for an evening dedicated to Robert Schumann, focusing on the poet's Amours. A great moment of Romanticism, between intensity and finesse.
Musicians:
> Ian Bostridge, tenor
> Saskia Giorgini, piano
Program:
> Robert Schumann
Andersen Lieder op. 40
Liederkreis op. 39
Dichterliebe op.48
“Les amours du poète”
Les Rencontres Musicales de Champéry are honored to welcome tenor Ian Bostridge, considered one of the greatest Lied interpreters of our time, alongside pianist Saskia Giorgini, for an evening dedicated to Robert Schumann.
At the heart of the program is Les Amours du poète (Dichterliebe), a cycle composed in 1840 to poems by Heinrich Heine. An emblematic work of German Romanticism, it explores the surges and wounds of love in a dialogue of rare intensity between voice and piano.
An exceptional performer on the world’s greatest stages, Ian Bostridge stands out for the intellectual depth and expressive precision of his art. At his side, Saskia Giorgini makes the piano a fully committed partner in the musical narrative. In the elegant setting of the church, this evening promises a moment of remarkable intensity and artistic rigor.
Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge CBE’s extraordinary international career has taken him to the world’s greatest concert halls, orchestras and opera houses. Synonymous with the works of Schubert and Britten, his career as a recitalist has taken him to the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade festivals, as well as to the main stages of Carnegie Hall, Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie and Teatro alla Scala. In opera, Ian has won particular acclaim for his performances of Aschenbach (Death in Venice) at Deutsche Oper and Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw) at Teatro alla Scala. His recordings have won all the major international prizes and have been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards.
Highlights of the 25/26 season include Peter Quint in Le Tour d’écrou at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; stage performances of Schubert’s Winterreise directed by Deborah Warner at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, Paris; Britten’s War Requiem with the Orchestre symphonique de Saint-Louis conducted by Stéphane Denève; stage performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion directed by Romeo Castellucci at the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Kent Nagano; and Britten’s Nocturne and Serenade with the Munich Rundfunkorchester. He performs in recital with chamber ensembles such as the Oberon Trio, Fretwork and Europa Galante.
Ian has been artist-in-residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, the Barbican, the Philharmonie du Luxembourg, the Wigmore Hall and Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle. Ian has also taken part in a Carte-Blanche series with Thomas Quasthoff at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall and the first artistic residency with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Ian has worked with the Berlin, Vienna, Chicago, Boston, London and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, the London, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding and Donald Runnicles.
A prolific artist, Ian recently recorded Schubert’s Winterreise with Thomas Adès for Pentatone, which won Best Vocal Recording of the Year 2020 at the International Classical Music Awards. Other recordings include Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Graham Johnson (Gramophone Award 1996), Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress with Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Grammy Award, 1999) and Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail with William Christie.
An internationally acclaimed author and academic, Ian Bostridge published Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession with Faber and Faber in the UK and Knopf in the USA in 2014, and his latest book, Song and Self, was published in 2023. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the 2004 New Year’s Honours.
Saskia Giorgini
“She is in sound and in form, in color and in drawing, in the instant and in the infinite.Saskia Giorgini sings, dreams and abolishes time.” Alain Lompech. Saskia Giorgini is an Italian pianist whose recordings and performances have been widely acclaimed by international critics. Her latest albums for Pentatone: Images (Debussy), Consolations (Liszt) and Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Liszt) have been awarded two Diapason d’Or, a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, two Gramophone Critics’ Choice (2024), BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice of the Month and International Piano Recording of the Month :
“A superb recording… a miraculous experience… a major voice in the world of Liszt.”
– International Piano
“Nobility incarnate… the great modern version of these Lisztian collections.”
– Diapason
Her discography also includes a piano album devoted to Enescu and a recording of Szymanowski with violinist Francesca Bonaita (Brilliant Classics). For Pentatone, she has recorded Die schöne Müllerin (2020), Respighi Songs (2021) and Schumann Songs (2025) with tenor Ian Bostridge. Her latest project, concertos by Mozart and Shostakovich with the Trondheim Soloists and Per Ivarsson, will be released in November 2025. Winner of the Salzburg International Mozart Competition (2016), she performs regularly in recital and on radio in major venues such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Warsaw Philharmonic, Venice’s Teatro La Fenice and MiTo Settembre Musica. She has performed with orchestras such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra, collaborating with conductors including Eliahu Inbal, Antonello Manacorda, Mario Bernardi, Andrea Battistoni, Massimiliano Caldi, Simon Gaudenz and Hannu Lintu. A passionate chamber musician, she regularly collaborates with artists such as Ian Bostridge, Julian Prégardien, Vilde Frang, Martin Fröst, Janine Jansen, Gilles Apap, Mario Brunello and Thomas Demenga.
Recent and upcoming projects include a residency at the Auditori de Barcelona (2026/27); appearances at the Enescu Festival with the Athens State Orchestra and Stefanos Tsialis; Mozart concertos with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra; Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Orchestra of Teatro Regio Torino; Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra; and solo recitals at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Vienna’s Konzerthaus.
Saskia Giorgini studied with Leonid Margarius, Enrico Pace, Elisso Virsaladze and Pavel Gililov. She is a regular jury member at major international piano competitions, including the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and the Liszt Competition in Utrecht. She is a Bösendorfer artist and, since 2023, has been professor of piano at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, Austria.
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7:00 pm: concert begins.
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