GSTAAD MENUHIN FESTIVAL
TRIUMPH AND CAMOUFLAGE
LUCAS & ARTHUR JUSSEN
We are delighted to invite you and your companions to the symphony concert of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra under the direction of Jaap van Zweden and the brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen entitled “Thriumph and Camouflage” as an official partner of this year’s Menuhin Festival in Gstaad. The evening begins with an aperitif at 18:00 in the Hotel Le Grand Bellevue to get us in the mood for the upcoming concert. Afterwards, our shuttle service will be ready to take you to the venue in the Festival Tent Gstaad.
After the concert, we cordially invite you to round off the evening at the bar of the Hotel Le Grand Bellevue.
We would be delighted to share this special musical and culinary experience with you.
Information about the concert:
“The creative response of a Soviet artist to justified criticism” – Shostakovich subtitled his Fifth Symphony with both irony and resignation. The composition was written immediately after the scandal surrounding his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was dismissed by Pravda – presumably with Stalin’s own pen – as “left-wing radical licentiousness” and accompanied by barely veiled threats: “They are playing with hermeticism – a game that could end badly.” In the midst of the gloomy atmosphere of Stalinist purges, Shostakovich, whose life was now under real threat, felt compelled to withdraw his Fourth Symphony, which was stylistically very close to opera. Instead, he devoted himself to a more classical work in 1937: the Fifth Symphony. Beneath the conventional façade, however, lies a profound outcry against tyranny – a “triumph of art”… and thus also a triumph of life! Jaap van Zweden and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra counter these fifty intense minutes of deeply moving music with an almost youthful light-heartedness: that of the fourteen-year-old Mendelssohn, who could already shine at the piano at such a young age. On August 16, the brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen, who are hardly any older and who, after two outstanding concerts, have already become indispensable for the festival and the audience, will shine!
Overview:
Saturday. August 16, 2025
18:00 Meeting point & aperitif at Le Grand Bellevue Gstaad
19.30 Concert Festival tent Gstaad
Symphony concert conducted by Jaap van Zweden, piano Lucas & Arthur Jussen
Followed by a drink at the bar of the Hotel Le Grand Bellevue
Return transfer from/to Hotel Le Grand Bellevue with shuttle buses