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It is a wonderful concert. A concert like the Northern Lights

Sometimes everything is just right. At the first concert on Friday of the Swiss Alps Classics, this begins as soon as you enter. Large-scale projections of northern lights and flickering candles frame the stage. And when violinist ELDBJØRG HEMSING steps onto the stage, you feel completely transported to the magical North. Her bright hair, her sparkling dress and - above all - her music take you into the shadowy shimmering of that mystical world. A world where the night becomes a fabulous day.

Memories with sparkle and magic

This concert has it all. Emotions, colors and history. Together with the strings of the LUCERNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, the violinist tells of the romantic „Våren", of the last spring. Fragrant, dense and expansive, even seemingly endless, this composition by Edvard Grieg spreads over the audience like an undulating polar lights. Or in the meditations in the piece „Souvenir d'un lieu cher". A work that Pyotr Tchaikovsky composed in Switzerland, near Montreux. Longing memories of that time, brought to life by the artists with brilliance and magic. ELDBJØRG HEMSING with her strong, dense and warm tone and the LUCERNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with its sensitive accompaniment give us a profound concert experience.

Audiences and experts are enthusiastic

But time and time again, the show gets going. Especially in the second part of the evening, where the violinist is accompanied by her compatriot and pianist HÅVARD GIMSE. Thunderous applause accompanies the fiery „Norwegian Dances" by Johan Halvorsen. An escalating run that comes to a jubilant conclusion in the crowning finale - once again with Edvard Grieg and his 2nd Sonata. The audience is thrilled!

NUMA BISCHOF ULLMANN, Artistic Director of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, is also impressed by the concert: „Even in our musicians' first rehearsal with ELDBJØRG HEMSING, a special magic could be felt. A deep musicality, which the artists also brought to the stage in full at the concert."

THOMAS CHRISTEN, Andermatt's Director of Tourism, agrees with this statement: „When I hear violin sounds with all their highs and lows, I am always blown away, I love it. My anticipation of Grieg and Tchaikovsky, the Nordic sounds, was huge. The concert hall in Andermatt offers a wonderful variety of great musical treats in a wonderful atmosphere. The Swiss Alps Classics continue to enrich the destination of Andermatt with virtuoso contributions and will, I hope, do so for a long time to come."

A musical virtuosity that continues seamlessly at the subsequent The Nordic Sound Dinner & DJ-Party. In the bright and stylish ambience of the Cotton Club Andermatt, with delicacies from the kitchen and vineyard, the guests let the evening fade away and continue in lively conversation.

Tonight will be symphonic

The second concert of the Swiss Alps Classics presents the LUCERNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and their guest conductor, the young star EMMANUEL TJEKNAVORIAN, in the Andermatt Concert Hall this Saturday at 6.30 pm. In addition to Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, cello soloist ANASTASIA KOBEKINA will play Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. Tickets and information can be found at Swiss Alps Classics.

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