We presented our first concert at Auditorium Sacré-Cœur in Geneva with The Four Seasons Reimagined. From Richter to Vivaldi by Quartet Sinfonietta Bern — a programme where two centuries seemed to listen to each other in real time.
Set inside the newly renovated Sacré-Cœur church building, the evening had the feeling of a rediscovery. The venue did not act as a neutral background: its architecture, silence and resonance became part of the dialogue between Antonio Vivaldi and Max Richter.
This programme does not simply retell The Four Seasons. It lets them shift, answer and transform. Vivaldi’s vivid Baroque nature met Richter’s contemporary pulse; the handwritten met the cinematic; familiar seasons returned with new air around them.
Performed by Quartet Sinfonietta Bern, the music moved from clarity to atmosphere, from sharp rhythmic energy to suspended, almost weightless sound. Each movement opened a different landscape — not only spring, summer, autumn and winter, but memory, time and renewal.
Our first concert at Auditorium Sacré-Cœur became a fitting beginning for this new venue in our concert map: refined, thoughtful and full of the quiet intensity that appears when history and contemporary sound finally meet.
