VERBIER FESTIVAL 2025 PART 2
The 32nd edition of the Verbier Festival came to a close on August 3, 2025, after 19 days of music at the summit. The quality and diversity of the 2025 program were unanimously praised by the many attendees. We invite you to revisit the highlights of this edition featuring Stenheim loudspeakers at the Verbier Festival 2025.
The Jukebox
Spectators’s view from the “Jukebox”
As part of its commitment to preserving and sharing its heritage, the Verbier Festival has launched the Jukebox this year: an immersive audiovisual space dedicated to its archival treasures, including audio, video, and photographs.
Integrated into the new Pavillon des Combins, it offered audiences a daily experience before concerts and during intermissions.
It allowed visitors to explore rare musical archives in a dedicated 30 m² space. Brought to life by Stenheim’s Alumine Two.Five loudspeakers, these recordings reveal their full depth and purity through true high-fidelity sound.
The Listening Room
The Academy is at the heart of the Verbier Festival’s identity, a laboratory where tomorrow’s talents are discovered and shaped. Its world-class programs set the standard for artistic and professional training for today’s emerging soloists, ensembles, singers and sound engineers.
The Academy's new Listening Room at Chalet Orny was a dedicated space for immersive and critical listening. Mark Willsher (Grammy-winning producer and sound engineer, he combines an international career in film and classical music with a strong commitment to teaching and immersive audio research) and Charlotte Gardner (journalist, broadcaster, critic and author of the Classical Choices Playlist for the Verbier Festival) offer an immersion into the world of recorded sound — its technical choices, artistic implications, and its impact on our perception. It offers students, faculty, and the public the chance to engage with great recordings of the past and present through high-end stereo and 7.1 immersive playback systems. Composed by seven Stenheim Alumine Two speakers, two Stenheim Alumine Subs with integrated amplifiers, paired with four Nagra Classic amplifiers, four dCS Lina Network DACs and a Vivaldi Master Clock, the system offered a profoundly moving, exciting and fascinating sound experience.
Seven Alumine Two loudspeakers paired with two Alumine Subs create this rare, immersive listening experience
UNLTD’s ‘Off the Record’ Sessions at The Experimental Chalet
Away from classical music, the dCS/Stenheim pairing shone at UNLTD’s late-night ‘Off the Record’ listening sessions at the Experimental Cocktail Club. Musicians and personalities explored their favorite non-classical albums, including Joni Mitchell and 1920s–30s German dance hall music.
Playback was powered by Stenheim Alumine Five SX speakers paired with dCS Varèse and a Mark Levinson stereo amplifier. Guests were captivated by the natural warmth, precision, and enveloping clarity of the sound—highlighting once again the ability of Stenheim speakers to bring music vividly to life.
Charlotte Gardner and the Alumine Five SX/dCS system.
Discover more in the full article from dCS.