Once Upon a Time Subscription series concert

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:00 Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee Lawrence Power
Direction, Viola and Violin Further date Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:00

Purcell, Veress, Henze and others

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Programme

Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Ouverture from Dido und Aeneas

Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
From Fantasia for Strings VI Vivace / VII Epilog

Thomas Larcher (*1963)
Nucleus for viola, cello and bass

William Byrd (1543–1623)
Fantasia a 4 No. 1

Edmund Finnis (*1984)
Hymn (after Byrd) for strings

John Cage (1912–1992)
Story from Living Room Music

Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975)
Prelude and The City aus Psycho

Sally Beamish (*1956)
Under the Wing of the Rock, Viola Concerto No. 3

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016)
Farewell to Stromness from The Yellow Cake Revue op. 88

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Matthew Locke (1621–1677)
Curtain Tune from the semi-opera The Tempest

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
Allegro molto from the Symphony for Double Strings

Garth Knox (*1956)
Viola Concerto *
(World Premiere)

Sándor Veress (1907–1992)
Four Transsylvanian Dances for string orchestra

*Commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and CAMERATA BERN with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Programme with interval
Running time: approx. 1.5 hours

About the programme

Violist Lawrence Power presents his debut program for CAMERATA BERN as a “musical stream of consciousness.” A great story in two parts, told with the means of music. Part one takes us from the tragic fate of the Carthaginian queen Dido in Henry Purcell's music, to the Celtic songs in a viola concerto by Sally Beamish and Gertrude Stein’s surrealistic reminiscences of the “once round” world in John Cage's Living Room Music, and finally to the Scottish Orkney Islands, in a farewell to a fishing village from Peter Maxwell Davies.

In part two, the journey starts again in baroque England: with Matthew Locke's music to William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. The voyage continues, still driven by storms, in Elizabeth Maconchy's masterfully polyphonic Allegro, and finally to the (as yet) unknown shores of a new viola concerto by Irish violist and composer Garth Knox, inspired by a seafaring ballad.

Ticket pricing

This concert is also available as part of a subscription

Ticket pricing:
CHF 45.–/ 65.–/ 85.–
CHF 5.– for children and teenagers 18 and under

Discounts (for all categories):
20% for members of the Friends of CAMERATA BERN
50% for young adults aged 19 to 30
30% for KulturLegi cardholders
Kultur-GA: free admission for remaining same-day seats
Refugees (with ID): free admission for remaining same-day seats

On the day of the concert, our audience has the opportunity to purchase an entrance ticket to the exhibition of the Zentrum Paul Klee at a reduced price of CHF 10.- by presenting their concert ticket at the museum box office.

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Programme booklet

In-depth insights into the concert programme, with detailed descriptions of the works and biographies of participating artists. The evening programme booklet is available (in German only) as a PDF download starting approximately one week before the concert and is distributed free of charge at the concert.

The texts are produced in collaboration with the Institute for Musicology at the University of Bern.

Introductory podcast

Background information and context for the programmes, with musical sneak peeks and sound bites from the performers.

The podcast is available (in German only) from approximately 10 days before the concert.

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