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A look back at our Summer Festival 2024, where we explored "Curiosity", celebrated the 20th anniversary of the
#LucerneFestivalAcademy
, and welcomed classical music's biggest stars 💙
Main Sponsors
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@Roche
|
@UBS
| Vaillant |
@zurich_ch
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«Ich greife sehr ungern zu sehr grossen Worten, aber das war wirklich eine Sternstunde.»
– Christian Wildhagen at
@srfkultur
's critics' round table
@maofujita_piano
, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly interpreting Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
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Charming, intricate, and full of surprises, Mozart's Piano Sonata in B-flat major proved to be the perfect opening for
@maofujita_piano
's Lucerne Festival solo recital.
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Celebrating Rachmaninoff in Lucerne is a heartfelt undertaking for Riccardo Chailly. Together with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and
@maofujita_piano
, he dedicated himself to the Second Symphony and the Second Piano Concerto.
Photos © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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In Memoriam Claudio Abbado (1933 – 2014)
On the tenth anniversary of his passing, we remember the great Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. His unparalleled contributions to musical life and to our Festival in particular never cease to fill us with admiration and gratitude.
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A Lucerne Festival regular,
@maofujita_piano
demonstrated his versatility with a new program that combined rare and popular works, playfulness and highly virtuosic demands.
Photos © Peter Fischli / Lucerne Festival
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Lucerne Festival mourns pianist Maurizio Pollini who passed away today at the age of 82 years.
For more than forty years, our Festival has been blessed to regularly welcome Pollini with numerous solo recitals and concerts with both the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Academy.
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After wowing everyone with his
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
debut last summer,
@maofujita_piano
was immediately invited back to our festival. He more than met the high expectations in his 2023 recital, masterfully performing Chopin and Liszt.
Photos © Manuela Jans / Lucerne Festival
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#ValentineMichaud
winner of the
@CreditSuisse
Young Artist Award is also looking forward to a bright future. The exceptional saxophonist impressed with her stupendous virtuosity and enormous wealth of colors. 🎶🎷🎶
#CreditSuisse
@kklluzern
@CSschweiz
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Statement by Lucerne Festival Director Michael Haefliger concerning the disruption of the concert of the Bayerisches Staatsorchester:
(1/3)
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What a joy to welcome 1000 curious school children to our Festival!
@sarahwillis
and musicians of the
@BerlinPhil
introduced the young music lovers to the lowest instruments of the orchestra who don't usually get to play the melody.
Photos © Patrick Hürlimann/ Lucerne Festival
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Lucerne Festival joins music lovers worldwide in mourning the passing of conductor Seiji Ozawa (1935 – 2024).
Ever since his Lucerne debut with the Schweizerisches Festspielorchester in 1972, Ozawa had been a regular and most welcome guest at our Festival.
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Pianist Sir András Schiff dedicated yesterday's recital to the memory of Bernard Haitink, playing works by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.
Photos © Peter Fischli / Lucerne Festival
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Lucerne Festival has decided to cancel the concerts by the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev that were scheduled for 21 and 22 August.
Lucerne Festival will announce the new programs and performers for these two concerts at a later date.
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Yesterday
@igorpianist
launched his
@LucerneFestival
cycle of all 32 of the piano sonatas by Beethoven. This grand project continues at the 2019 Piano Festival, extending until 2020, when the music world will celebrate the composer’s 250th birthday.
#WaldsteinSonata
#LFpower
🎶🎹
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A very emotional evening! 90-year-old
#BernardHaitink
gave his last concert tonight
@Vienna_Phil
. After a 65 year conducting career, Haitink will take a sabbatical. Thanks for many special moments and unforgettable concert experiences!
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Happy Birthday, Claudio Abbado 💙
As we remember the great conductor, born
#otd
in 1933, we think about his admiration for the
#LucerneFestivalAcademy
which is celebrating its 20th anniversary: "What Boulez built with the Academy is the most important thing for the festival."
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Unfortunately, András Schiff has to withdraw from his performance with the
@ConcertgbOrkest
this Friday due to health reasons.
We are pleased to announce that
@SeongJinCho
will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in his place and we wish András Schiff a speedy recovery.
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Today, 26 June 2023, the charismatic Italian conductor Claudio Abbado would have celebrated his 90th birthday 🩵
Join us in remembering and honoring this most extraordinary musician who left an unparalleled mark on the musical life of today.
🎂
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Today we remember the incomparable Claudio Abbado who left us exactly nine years ago.
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
Abbado founded together with
@mhaefliger
. We are looking forward to celebrating and continuing his legacy this jubilee year.
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@igorpianist
ascended the "Mount Everest" of piano repertoire with Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata.
"It's really a borderline experience in terms of its manual, physical, and emotional demands," Levit explains. "Not a day goes by that I don't think about this sonata."
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Herbert Blomstedt and the
@Vienna_Phil
elicited a multitude of secrets from Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, ensuring that the typical Brucknerian ingredients – solemn string tremolos, chorales, and horn calls – build to an overwhelming apotheosis in the finale.
Magical.
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First Rehearsal for our upcoming Festival „Life is Live“: What a feeling, to be back on stage with friends of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and great conductor Herbert Blomstedt, hearing the first tones of Beethoven. Goose bumps and gratefulness! ❤️🙏
@kklluzern
@ilovelucerne
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What a great Opening of our Festival
#lifeislive
with conductor Herbert Blomstedt, pianist Martha Argerich and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Great to be back on stage! ❤️🎹❤️
#solidarityformusic
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What an honor to welcome
@MJPires
back to our festival. Playing Mozart's "Jenamy" Concerto, she captured the audience with her grandezza.
The
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
and
@paavo_jarvi
then crowned the evening with Brahms' Symphony No. 4.
Photos © Peter Fischli / Lucerne Festival
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Lucerne Festival is deeply saddened by the passing of Wolfgang Rihm, artistic director of the Lucerne Festival Academy. After a long illness, he passed away on 27 July at the age of 72.
Read our obituary at
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😌💕
❤️😢 The last performance of maestro Claudio Abbado recorded on film happened to be this one, in 2013 at his very dear
@LucerneFestival
. Take a moment to watch him conduct Beethoven's 3rd Symphony. ❤️😢
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"Mäkelä brachte das Orchester zum Singen."
–
@LuzernerZeitung
Enjoy an excerpt from Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture which opened
@klausmakela
's debut concert with the
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
.
@zurich_ch
– Main Sponsor
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What a lovely time we had, celebrating the
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
's 20th anniversary – here's to the next twenty years of our "Orchestra of friends" 🥰
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Hartelijk dank and 감사합니다 to the
@ConcertgbOrkest
, Myung-Whun Chung, and
@SeongJinCho
for yesterday's gripping concert with three history-making works by von Weber, Beethoven, and Brahms.
@Nestle
– Concert Sponsor
Photos © Manuela Jans / Lucerne Festival
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Lucerne Festival. Piano Paradise.
Over the course of our Summer Festival 2023 we got to welcome a host of wonderful pianists:
@MJPires
,
@YujaWang
, Igor Levit,
@maofujita_piano
, our "artiste étoile"
@daniil_trifonov
,
@BeatriceRana
, Sir András Schiff,
@VikingurMusic
, and many more.
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Shostakovich’s fulminant Symphony No. 4 was on program, when
@nezetseguin
made his debut with the
@lucernefestival
orchestra! Here a short excerpt from his concert 🎶🥳🎻 The Symphony will still be available on
@medicitv
! Tune in (again) 😉
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The power of music unleashed: In yesterday's concert,
@klausmakela
,
@YujaWang
, and the
@Filharmonien
delivered all the big emotions to Lucerne Festival.
Dr. Christoph M. Müller und Sibylla M. Müller – Main Sponsor
Photos © Manuela Jans / Lucerne Festival
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In our recollections and in our daily work he will always remain with us: "Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that." Claudio Abbado (1933 - 2014)
#inmemoriam
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#InMemoriam
In our recollections and in our daily work he will always remain with us: "Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that." Claudio Abbado (1933 - 2014)
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«Und es hallte das Weltall
Vom freudigen Rufe
Ich bin!»
The final apotheose from Alexander Scriabin's "Le Poème de l'Extase", performed by the
@Filharmonien
and
@klausmakela
on 25 August 🔥
Dr. Christoph M. Müller und Sibylla M. Müller – Main Sponsor
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Lucerne Festival is deeply saddened by the passing of the incomparable Bernard Haitink who was closely connected to the festival and shaped it over many decades.
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What a sad weekend. Just one day after losing Maurizio Pollini, we also have to say goodbye to Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös (1944–2024).
One of contemporary music's leading figures, Eötvös had been a regular guest at our Festival since 1987 both as a composer and as conductor.
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Today would have been Claudio Abbado's 86th Birthday. He will always have a place in our hearts. ❤️
What are your unforgettable moments and memories?
#claudioabbado
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In our recollections and daily work he will always remain with us: "Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that." Claudio Abbado (1933-2014)
#inmemoriam
#claudioabbado
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What a touching moment: As an encore,
@MJPires
, the
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
, and
@paavo
played the Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 as an hommage to Claudio Abbado, who would have celebrated his 90th birthday this year.
Video courtesy of
@accentusmusic
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"Mahler documents his crises in his symphonies, while Bruckner overcomes them."
– Herbert Blomstedt
We all felt ourselves very close to paradise when Blomstedt and the
@Gewandhaus
Leipzig performed Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.
@KPMG
– Concert Sponsor
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What a harmonic meeting! The
@DivanOrchestra
's Lucerne Festival concert marked only the second joint performance of
@DBarenboim
and Igor Levit. But it seems the two of them found a shared musical paradise – just listen to their interpretation of Beethoven's Piano concerto No. 1.
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🎂 Happy 200th birthday, Anton Bruckner 🎉
Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the 19th century most influential composers and you can join in!
👇
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Herbert Blomstedt proved once again that he deserves to be celebrated as a living legend: At 96 years old, he conducted an interpretation of the 7th Symphony with the
@Gewandhaus
that was second to none.
@KPMG
– Concert Sponsor
Photos © Patrick Hürlimann / Lucerne Festival
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Brahms' Second Piano Concerto is beautiful, no question, but incredibly difficult to play! Igor Levit however, showed no fear and rose to the challenge. With the
@Vienna_Phil
and conductor Jakub Hrůša he of course had two of the finest supporters in the world at his side.
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Lucerne Festival is deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Lars Vogt.
He has been a regular guest at our festival since 1999 and we will remember him as a great pianist and a most wonderful human being. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.
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Yesterday Sir András Schiff, tonight Grigory Sokolov at our Piano Festival 🎹🤩 A great pic after yesterday’s recital with Sir András Schiff 🎶👌
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What a special moment: The
@Gewandhaus
Orchestra Leipzig (the very orchestra which once gave Bruckner his major breakthrough) and
@andris_nelsons
play Anton Bruckner's Sixth Symphony on 4 September 2024 – exactly on Bruckner's 200th birthday.
@zurich_ch
– Main Sponsor
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"While writing it, I recalled Anne-Sophie's particular flair for an infections rhythmic swagger"
– John Williams on the Violin Concerto, he wrote for Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Here is an excerpt from the "Prologue", played by Mutter,
@andris_nelsons
, and the
@BostonSymphony
.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Bernard Haitink just turned 90 today. At the grand Easter Festival finale on 14th April we will celebrate two milestone anniversaries: Haitinks 90th birthday and the
@BRSO
, which was founded in 1949, marks its 70th birthday. 🎉👏🎶🎉
👉
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Congratulations!
@cellojuliahagen
has just won the prestigeous "Credit Suisse Young Artist Award" 2024.
Read more at
@CSschweiz
– Main Sponsor
Photo © Martina Draper / Lucerne Festival
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Artist étoile
@YujaWang
and concert masters Gregory Ahss and Raphael Christ took over the musical direction for yesterday's concert of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Photos © Priska Ketterer /
#LucerneFestival
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Opening the
@BerlinPhil
's second performance, Anna Vinnitskaya played the breath-taking D-flat major Piano Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev.
Kirill Petrenko then introduced us to Josef Suk's moving and deeply personal orchestral gem "A Summer’s Tale".
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When talking about his Seventh Symphony, Anton Bruckner recalled that some of the music occurred to him in a dream.
It certainly was a dream come true to hear the
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
and
@nezetseguin
perform this work at Lucerne Festival.
Vaillant – Main Sponsor
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This was an absolute world premiere! Tonight Cecilia
@BartoliOfficial
and Teodor Currentzis were performing together for the very first time. Both artists cleared their schedules and plans to made this encounter possible. But only and exclusively in Lucerne!
@musicAeternaTC
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Tonight,
@VikingurMusic
will inaugurate the KKL Luzern's brand new
@SteinwayAndSons
grand piano with the
@CleveOrchestra
and Franz Welser-Möst.
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Happy 150th birthday, Arnold Schoenberg!
What better way to celebrate the birthday of one of the 20th century's most influential composers than by playing his music? Join us this Sunday to hear Schoenberg's epic "Gurre Lieder":
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Only twice before has a work by Lili Boulanger been performed at Lucerne Festival. Not enough, said
@nezetseguin
and introduced the audience to Boulanger's "D'un soir triste" which he performed with the
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
.
Patrons' Concert of the Lucerne Festival Friends
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Happy Birthday, Maestro 💙
On what would have been his 89th birthday, we honor the great Claudio Abbado (1933 – 2014). Let's take a moment today to remember how he always said "Listening to one another is important in our life" ... and just listen.
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Conductor
@nezetseguin
has a special video-message for you! Join in tomorrow, 22 August, 8.45pm on
@medicitv
(for free) and watch a part of his debut with the
@lucernefestival
orchestra. On program: Shostakovich‘s Symphony No. 4. 🎥
@kklluzern
@DGclassics
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Two wonderful concerts with the
@BostonSymphony
orchestra and conductor
@andris_nelsons
. A short excerpt of the concert with violinist
@baibaskride
(Bernstein‘s „Serenade“, after Plato's Symposium, for solo violin, strings and percussion) 🎶👏🎶
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Today we are thinking of Pierre Boulez (1925-2016). He founded the Lucerne Festival Academy - a Master School for new music!
#inmemoriam
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra on prime time tv 📺
This Saturday at 20.15
@3sat
will broadcast
@accentusmusic
's recording from our Summer Festival 2022 with works by Rachmaninoff, featuring
@maofujita_piano
, Riccardo Chailly, and the
#LucerneFestivalOrchestra
.
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A special and emotional evening! The now-90-year-old
#BernardHaitink
conducted for the last time his favorite orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Mahler’s inexhaustible, unfathomable Fourth Symphony and Schubert‘s Fifth were on program. What a evening! 🙏🎶
#LFpower
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Remembering dear Claudio Abbado who died today, 2014.
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It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who passed away on Friday at the age of 70.
Her music has been heard at Lucerne Festival since 2005 and in 2009 Kaija Saariaho was our composer-in-residence.
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A very happy 80th birthday to Daniel Barenboim 🎂
For an incredible 56 years,
@DBarenboim
has shared a close association with Lucerne Festival. We have gathered phothos from the Festival archives and we look back on his debut concert in the summer of 1966:
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Today, Riccardo Chailly, Music Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, celebrates his 70th birthday.
🎂 Buon compleanno, Maestro! 🎂
Enjoy this excerpt from the Summer Festival 2022, courtesy of
@accentusmusic
. Full movement available at
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@BartoliOfficial
supports our aid campaign
#SolidarityForMusic
for musicians in Switzerland. She sings and gives a quick and straightforward explanation of how easy it is – and how important it is. Let's collect notes together! 👉 🎶🎶
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Conductor Vladimir Jurowski reacted calmly and constructively and gave the activists the opportunity to briefly express themselves. In order to avoid escalation, they were not forcibly removed from the hall. Thus, it was possible to continue the concert after four minutes."
(3/3)
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In Memoriam Pierre Boulez
On this day in 2016, we had to say goodbye to Pierre Boulez, founder and Honorary President of the Lucerne Festival Academy. With deepest gratitude we think back of how he touched and shaped our musical life.
Photo © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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What a great concert!
@HanniganBarbara
performed Hans Abrahamsen‘s „Let me tell you“ - composed for Barbara. Together with conductor
#SirSimonRattle
and the
@londonsymphony
Orchestra.
#LFpower
🎶🎻
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First part of the concert:
@Vienna_Phil
under the direction of
#BernardHaitink
, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 with
@EmanuelAx
🎹
#LFpower
@LucerneFestival
@kklluzern
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For his first Lucerne Festival appearance with the
@BRSO
, Sir Simon Rattle chose Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, the “Tragic”.
Visionary and harrowing, this symphony is full of riddles for the fearlessly curious.
Photos © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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In our recollections and in our daily work he will always remain with us: "Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And
#music
tells us how to do that."
#ClaudioAbbado
(1933 - 2014)
#inmemoriam
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🚨 TONIGHT: 22 August, 8.45pm - watch a part of
@nezetseguin
’s debut with the
@LucerneFestival
Orchestra LIVE on
@medicitv
(for free). On program: Shostakovich‘s Symphony No. 4. 🎥
@kklluzern
@DGclassics
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#September11
2001
"When words are inadequate, music can express the feelings that we all have. [...] Several of my colleagues have asked that we begin the concert tonight with the American National Anthem, and that is what we will do, for tonight we are all of us Americans."
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Final concert of our “artiste étoile”
@solgabetta
at our Summer Festival with Elgar’s Cello Concerto together with the
@LPOrchestra
under the direction of
@marinalsop
@kklluzern
🎶☀️👏
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🍾🎶🎁🎂🎉
Today,
#MarissJansons
celebrates his 75th
#birthday
. He performed around 56 concerts
@LucerneFestival
. We are very looking forward to his concert with the
@BRSO
at the upcoming Easter Festival. Enjoy some happy moments we shared over the last years 👏📸
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#News
Conductor Yannick
@nezetseguin
is in town consulting the
@LucerneFestival
Orchestra, but also members of the
@ChambOrchEurope
welcomes him!
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To mark the Bruckner anniversary, the
@BerlinPhil
and Kirill Petrenko took on the most ambiguous of Bruckner's symphonies, his Fifth. A marvel of a concert 💛
@ZugerKB_ch
– Concert Sponsor
Photos © Stephan Rabold / Berliner Philharmoniker and Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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Untrammeled passions was unleashed by
@nezetseguin
in yesterday's concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of his Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest
@rdamphil
👏😍🎶👍
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A special
#come2gether
- conductor
#sirsimonrattle
@londonsymphony
with composer
#wolfgangrihm
(artistic director of the
@lucernefestival
Academy) 🤩
#lucernefestival
#summerfestival2018
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Lahav Shani conducting the West-Eastern
@DivanOrchestra
with
@DBarenboim
taking on one of the greatest challenges in the pianistic repertoire, the Second Piano Concerto by Johannes
#Brahms
.
Photos © Priska Ketterer /
@LucerneFestival
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The
@Staatskapelle_B
under
@DBarenboim
presented two giants of the symphonic repertoire:
Beethoven's epoch-making "Sinfonia eroica" and Schubert's Symphony No. 5 full of graceful lyricism and playful agility.
@KPMG
– Concert Sponsor
Photos © Peter Fischli / Lucerne Festival
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A gem from the vault: Tonight,
@BBCRadio3
will rebroadcast Claudio Abbado's last concert in London with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra from 11 October 2011:
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Happy Birthday! 🎉 🎂 🎁 🎶
We wish Maestro
#RiccardoChailly
all the best to his 65th
#birthday
today. We look forward to his concert at the upcoming Easter Festival with the Filarmonica della Scala
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Opening of the Piano Festival: Pianist
#MarthaArgerich
performed Schumann‘s
#pianoconcerto
in A minor, Op. 54 with the
@DKAMbremen
under the baton of
#VladimirJurowski
🎶🎹🎉
@kklluzern
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Happy Birthday! 🎉 🎂 🎁 🎶 We wish Maestro Riccardo Chailly all the best to his 66th birthday today. We look forward to his concert at the Easter Festival with the
@FilarmoniScala
and to the concerts at the Summer Festival as Music Director of the
@LucerneFestival
Orchestra.
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Together with the Chinese keyboard titan
@lang_lang
,
@DBarenboim
and his West-Eastern
@DivanOrchestra
brought music inspired by Spanish influences to their second concert at this Summer Festival.
Viking – Concert sponsor
Photos © Peter Fischli / Lucerne Festival
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For the
@Vienna_Phil
's second concert, Jakub Hrůša conducted a suite from Janáček's opera "The Cunning Little Vixen", followed by Smetana’s indelible "Vltava". Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances" closed off a magnificent evening.
Photos © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Martha Argerich is turning 80 today.
@accentusmusic
,
@3sat
, we are celebrating this with broadcast of concert with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with conductor Herbert Blomstedt, Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Tune in, today at 20h15! 🥳
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60 seconds!! The last notes of Bruckner 7 with 90-year-old conductor Bernard Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker. After a 65 year conducting career, Haitink is taking a sabbatical. Thanks for…
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In Memoriam Pierre Boulez
We remember with deep gratitude Pierre Boulez, who left us on this day six years ago.
Boulez infinitely enriched and shaped Lucerne Festival. Through the Lucerne Festival Academy, his legacy will live on through future generations of musicians.
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