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SJSO - Fall Tour 2025: Stories Without Words

Casino Bern, Great Hall, Bern, Switzerland
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Bern, Switzerland
Starts at: 17:00
Duration: 2h

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Conductor: Johannes Schlaefli
Piano: Benjamin Engeli
Orchestra: Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra
Creators
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Richard Strauss
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Programme
Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, op. 43
Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op.20
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op.28
Overview

Experience the SJSO with pianist Benjamin Engeli. Under the direction of Johannes Schlaefli, they will perform Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini" as well as works by Rossini and Strauss.

Richard Strauss was convinced that music can, indeed must, tell a story. What exactly it was telling, however, Strauss didn't want to explain: "Put into words, what I thought about the individual parts would sound damned funny," he wrote, "and offend many." For Strauss's music is not only highly virtuosic, but also at times crude, biting, and rude.

Among the musical-historical ancestors of Strauss's "tone poems" are opera overtures like the one Gioachino Rossini composed for his "Guillaume Tell." There, the music carries us halfway through the plot of William Tell before anyone even begins to sing.
Lake Lucerne is not only the setting for Rossini's opera. It was also here that Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Paganini Rhapsody in 1934. A kind of piano concerto, as virtuosic as it is thoughtful – and thus entirely in the tradition of narrative music that cannot be put into words.

Venue Info

Casino Bern - Bern
Location   Herrengasse 25 / Casinoplatz 1

One center for community, one point of contact, one concept: for the first time in the Casino’s history, the Burgergemeinde of Bern combine culture, culinary arts and events – and deliver “everything under one roof”. As the home of the Bern Symphony Orchestra and host to a variety of other concert events, the Casino Bern offers culture at its best.

Let yourself be moved, inspired and tempted in the newly renovated cultural venue – conveniently located in the center of Bern’s beautiful old town.

History meets modernity! The Burgergemeinde Bern and Director Ivo Adam have created the perfect place to come together – for the city, the region and beyond.

Since its opening in 1909, the Casino has been the cultural and social meeting place in the heart of Bern – and will remain so in the future. For over one hundred years it has radiated a unique atmosphere and grandeur; and the list of illustrious guests that has included Louis Armstrong, Grace Kelly and Herbert von Karajan will continue to grow. For the first time the casino owner, the Burgergemeinde, has assumed management of the culinary offerings, under the direction of Ivo Adam. Another premiere: the Casino Bern is proud to be organizing its own in-house cultural events.

The Burgergemeinde raised around 78 million francs to restore the late baroque classicist building which was reopened in September 2019. Following the motto “Back to the Future”, the renovation took care to follow the original designs from 1909 as closely as possible.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Bern, Switzerland
Starts at: 17:00
Duration: 2h
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