Bruce Liu, James Gaffigan & VFJO: Prokofiev & Orff

Streaming live from Verbier, James Gaffigan and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra go big with two bold, bracing scores from the interwar period. Bruce Liu brings his crystalline virtuosity to Prokofiev’s dazzling Third Piano Concerto, before the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble helps unleash the full force of Orff’s Carmina Burana. It is also a milestone for the orchestra: their first evening concert at the Salle des Combins, in a programme that moves from razor-sharp pianistic brilliance to one of the most overwhelming choral spectacles of the 20th century.