Travel with Us! A Sample Itinerary

Beyond concerts: patron tour participants enjoy getting the inside scoop from Chanticleer members.

Below is a sample Patron Tour itinerary, for the 2007 Verbier Festival trip. 

CHANTICLEER in VERBIER

20-21 to 25 July  2007

16 guests

PROGRAM

Friday 20- July– arrival at Geneva

Independent arrival of guests in Geneva.

Night at the Beau Rivage (optional).  Dinner on your own.

Saturday 21 July – Geneva / Verbier

Breakfast on your own.

A 13h30 (1.30pm) meet at the Hotel Beau Rivage for the transfer by bus to Verbier.  En route, we will stop to visit a legendary  library at a private Chateau.  Towards 17.30 (5.30pm) you will arrive in Verbier and settle in to your respective hotels.

Dinner on your own.

First concert : At 20.00(8pm) at the Eglise de Verbier, the Verbier Festival presents:

             LOVE’S MESSENGERS, concert by  CHANTICLEER

              - Finzi : My Spirit Sang All Day
              - da Palestrina : Veni sponsa Christi
              - Daniel-Lesur : Epithalame
              - Gesualdo : Itene ò miei sospiri ; Dolcissima mia vita
              - Poulenc : Extraits des sept chansons sur des textes de Paul Eluard
              - Messiaen : Très vif, extrait des Cinq rechants
              - Stockhausen : Die Nachtigal, extrait du Chöre für Doris
              - Brahms : Nachtwache No. 1, extrait des Funf Gesänge op. 104
              - Delius : To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water n° 1
              - Corigliano : L’Invitation au voyage (Charles Baudelaire)
              - Whitacre : This Marriage
              - Tavener : Village Wedding
              Folk songs, spirituals and popular songs TBA.

Sunday 22 July – Verbier

Breakfast on your own at the hotel.  Day at leisure. During the day, you have the option of attending  these free events :

- 09h30, Salle Médran : UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra, open rehearsal
- 10h00,  Chalet d’Adrien : Academy,  Master class in Chamber Music
- 14h00 ( 2pm), Chalet d’Adrien : Academy, Master class in Chamber Music
- 16h00 (4pm) Café Schubert : Discovery, “Stravinsky and English poetry” Ivan Nabokov

Second concert ; At 19h(7pm) in the Salle Medran, the Verbier Festival presents :

              UBS VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA – THE COLLEGIALE CHORALE

              Conductor : James Levine

              Soloists: Lang Lang, piano ; Renée Fleming, soprano ;  Anne-Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano ;  Kenneth Tarver, ténor ; René Pape, baryton-basse
              - Schubert : Erlafsee D 586 (Johann Baptist Mayrhofer) ; Die Männer sind Mechant D 866 n° 3 (Johann    Gabriel Seidl)  ; Die Junge Nonne D 828 (Jakob Nikolaus Craigher de Jachelutta) ; Du bist die Ruh D 776         (Friedrich Rückert) ; Rastlose Liebe D 138 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) (Fleming/Levine)
              - Brahms : Botschaft op. 47 n° 1 (Georg Friedrich Daumer) ; Das Mädchen Spricht op. 107 n° 3

              (Otto Friedrich Gruppe) ; Wir Wandelten op. 96 n° 2 (Georg Friedrich Daumer) ; Von ewige Liebe op. 43 n° 1

              (Josef Wenzig) ; Meine Liebe ist Grün op. 63 n° 5 (Félix Schumann) (Fleming/Levine)
              - Mozart : Sonate pour quatre mains en Fa majeur K 497 (Lang Lang/Levine)
              - Mozart : Requiem en ré mineur K 626

Monday 23 July– Verbier

At 8.30am, after breakfast, ascent by funicular to Chable.  From there, an hour and a half walk to Bruson,  a  small and charming  mountain village.  Around noon, a  narrated tasting of the  cheeses and wines of the corbeille d’Entremont. Visit to the cheese factory in the company of  Eddy Baillifard, one of the region’s most well-known cheese-makers and agriculturalists.

In the afternoon,  a guided visit to the village of Bruson, followed by an hour’s walk back to the funicular for the descent to Chable.   Return to Verbier in mid-afternoon.

In the evening, at 21h (9pm) gastronomic meal at the well-known restaurant Le Sonalon, in the company of the Chanticleer ensemble.

Tuesday 24 July– Verbier

Breakfast and lunch on your own.

During the day, you have the option of attending the following free events :

 12h30, T-Bar : Fest’Off, Lunch musical
14h00, Chalet d’Adrien : Academy, Master class in chamber music
14h00 ( 2pm), Eglise, sous-sol : Discovery, Peinture de Bach
16h00 ( 4pm), Café Schubert : Discovery, An hour with  Hélène Grimaud

Third concert: At  19h ( 7pm) , in  the Salle Médran, the Verbier Festival presents :

RENCONTRES INEDITES, de l’ensemble « Chanticleer »

              with Renaud Capuçon, Alexandra Soumm, violons ; Lars-Anders Tomter, alto; Danjulo Ishizaka, violoncelle ; Michael Collins, clarinette; Elena Bashkirova, piano; and René Pape, baryton-basse
              - Mozart : Quintette pour clarinette et cordes en La majeur K 581 «Stadler»               (Collins/Capuçon/Soumm/Tomter/Ishizaka)
              - Brahms : Vier Quartette op. 92 (Chanticleer/Bashkirova)
              - Schubert : Ständchen D 920 (Pape/Chanticleer/Bashkirova)
              - Chanticleer sings Broadway : Love for Sale (Cole Porter) ; Journey to Recife (Robert Worth) ;
              Tenderly (Nat King Cole)
              - René Pape chante Broadway with Chanticleer : So in love (Cole Porter) ; If ever I would leave you (Lerner & Loewe)

After the concert, we are invited  to a private chalet, for a reception and brief appearance by Chanticleer.

Wednesday 25 July – Verbier / Geneva

Breakfast at the hotel

10am departure by bus for Geneva.

En route, guided visit of the Fondation Gianadda at Martigny.

Arrival at Geneva at the Hotel Beau Rivage by 14h ( 2pm)

Independent departure from Geneva.