Special Envoy in Gstaad (Switzerland)
For all French people, Gstaad in summer is the promise of a change of scenery. From Lausanne, the panoramic train that plunges into German-speaking Switzerland plunges into vast green expanses. A peaceful harmony, which enlivens the imagination of an old-fashioned mountain folklore with sometimes magical exterior. Christoph Müller, artistic director of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, has strived for almost twenty years to translate it into music. Transposing into acts and notes the quest for harmony between man and nature, the sociological ideal and contemplative metaphysics, which was that of Yehudi Menuhin, founder of the festival. Ambitious utopia. But which acts in these very special times like a comforting balm.
This is the feeling we had, this August 20, coming out of the exceptional concert (in half-gauge, as in all of Switzerland), which saw the reunion of Valery Gergiev and the French pianist Alexandre Kantorow, two years later. the victory of
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