3rd Concert for Peace: ‘The sun melts the clouds’

3rd Concert for Peace: ‘The sun melts the clouds’
Monday, 1 December 2025, 7 p.m.
Grande Société, Theaterplatz 7, Bern

The third Concert for Peace, “The sun melts the clouds,” was held with great success on Monday, December 1, 2025, at the Grande Société in Bern. It was organized by Ars Pace together with the Bern Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society, with the patronage of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Forum Bern.
The presentations by Ars Pace Vice President Monica Baldi and the President of the Ars Pace Scientific Committee, Anna Pompei Rüdeberg, who also spoke in her capacity as President of the Bern Committee, were particularly appreciated. Many distinguished participants and figures were present, including the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Switzerland, Raffaele Pentangelo, and the President of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Forum Bern, Werner Schmitt.
Every two years, the commitment to a path of peace is renewed through the engaging performance of a concert that invites intimate reflection.
Peace is born from humility and the overcoming of any presumed superiority. It takes perseverance and awareness to achieve inner and collective peace.
Peace is built every day, especially within ourselves, also through the extraordinary emotions sparked by art, harmony, and beauty.
Programme
Entrée Samuele Provenzi
P. I. Tchaikovsky – Andante cantabile for strings
F. Chopin – Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra
Allegro maestoso – Romanza: Larghetto – Finale: Rondo Vivace
S. Rachmaninov – Variation XVIII on a theme by Paganini
E. Morricone – The Legend of 1900 (piano solo)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
The Protagonists of Armoniae Aureae Ensemble:
Sebastiano Brusco – piano, conductor Pierfrancesco Fiordaliso and Leonardo Lombardi – violins Morian Taddei – viola Bernardino Penazzi – cello Camilo Calarco – double bass
With the participation of Samuele Provenzi on 19th-century guitar.
In conclusion,we celebrated the end of the year 2025 with a special toast.
It was an intimate evening, inspired by the musical salons of the nineteenth century, where music meant dialogue and sharing. From the lyricism of Chopin to the pathos of Rachmaninov, to the melancholy of Brahms, we relived the emotion and delicacy of a universal language: that of peace.