Werner Bärtschi doesn't cease to think after the specific character and aesthetic of every composition. Therefore his interpretations impress with particular spontaneity and thrilling communicative power.

 

 

The repertoire of this musician, who was born in 1950 in Zurich, ranges broadly from late Renaissance to contemporary music. Composers like Cage, Klaus Huber, Riley, Scelsi, Schnebel and Vogel confided to him the first performance of important works. If he does have a preference for Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt, he also stands up for "outsiders" like Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Carl Nielsen, Erik Satie, Charles Ives and Giacinto Scelsi.

 

 

Program: 
1. Joseph Haydn: Finale aus dem Divertimento C-dur Hob XIV/4
2. Ludwig van Beethoven: Andante aus der Sonate G-dur op.14/2
3. Joseph Haydn: Adagio aus dem Concerto C-dur Hob XIV/13
4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata quasi una fantasia cis-moll op.27/2
Adagiosostenuto/Allegretto/Presto agitato
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne d-moll BWV 1004
Bearbeitet von Johannes Brahms als Studie V für Klavier

- Intermission -

 

6. Robert Schumann: Studie für das Pianoforte nach Paganini op.3/1
7. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne f-moll op.55/1
8. Gioacchino Rossini: Etüde La calumnia
9. W. Baertschi: Pensando
10. Frédéric Chopin: Etüde c-moll op. 10/12
11. Erik Satie: Gnossienne III
12. Franz Liszt: "La Campanella" - Grande Etude de Paganini