Mozart At Badrutt's - A New Music Festival

The new music festival is a collaboration between the legendary Grand Hotel in St. Moritz, the Sinfonia Amadei Chamber Orchestra and conductor Lukas Christian Reinitzer. In the future, the Sinfonia Amadei will hold its three-day-long festival twice a year in the Embassy Ballroom at Badrutt’s Palace Hotel. The concerts are also open to members of the public.

The musical style of Sinfonia Amadei is unquestionably classical. The premiere of the new festival is dedicated to the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with three programs. The performance includes his dreamy Clarinet Concerto, the lively Piano Concerto in F Major K 459 as well as his famous Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.

Sinfonia Amadei plays original instruments from the time of Viennese Classicism, so the sound of the orchestra is very close to how Mozart himself and his contemporaries heard the masterpieces: dynamic, lively, very expressive and emotionally intense. All members of the orchestra are graduates of studies in modern as well as historical instruments.

“The development of the music, the instruments and also the mastery of playing from the time of Monteverdi through the baroque period to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is tremendous,” says conductor Lukas Christian Reinitzer. “Sinfonia Amadei differs considerably from baroque orchestras and most other ensembles for ‘old’ music as the orchestra sees itself as historically authentic. This concerns details of the instruments played just as much as the mastery of playing which are true to the period of the 18th century, and also immersing oneself in and empathising with the composer, his work and his time.”

The public can enjoy the intensity and charm of this style of playing with Das Musikfestival Badrutt’s Palace taking place twice a year in St. Moritz. “We are very happy to be able to offer this first class orchestra a home with the new Music Festival, and we are certainly giving our hotel and concert guests an extraordinary musical offering,” says Yves Gardiol, General Manager of Badrutt’s Palace Hotel.

The focus of the second festival from January 23-25, 2015 will be on the works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Das Musikfestival Badrutt’s Palace
Sinfonia Amadei
Lukas Christian Reinitzer, conductor
Hardy Rittner, fortepiano
Etele Dósa, Bassett clarinet

Friday September 9, 2014: 7.30 pm – Opening concert
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Symphony No. 24 in B-flat Major K 182
Piano Concerto in F Major K 459
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor K 550

Saturday, September 6, 2014: 6.30 pm – Gala concert
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Symphony No. 29 in A Major K 201
Clarinet Concerto in A Major K 622
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor K 550

Sunday, September 7, 2014: 3.00 pm – Family concert
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Symphony No. 24 in B-flat Major K 182
Piano Concerto in F Major K 459
Clarinet Concerto in A Major K 622
Symphony No. 29 in A Major K 201

Tickets: September 5 and 6, 2014
Category I: $ 88.00 US (CHF 80.00)
Category II: $ 66.00 US (CHF 60.00)
Three-course-Dinner in Le Restaurant for $ 132.00 US (CHF 120.00 per person excl. drinks)

Tickets: September 7, 2014
Category I: $ 55.00 US (SF 50.00), reduced entry $ 44.00 US (CHF 40.00)
Category II: $ $33.00 US (SF 33.00), reduced entry $ 22.00 US (CHF 20.00)

Duration of each concert around two hours
Dresscode: elegant (jacket for men required)

For further information and tickets please contact fb@badruttspalace.com or
+41 (0)81 837 2661.