Festival Strings Lucerne bring sleek clarity and ambient stasis

Festival Strings Lucerne

Maria João Pires

Festival Strings Lucerne... plus feline assistant

Von Simon Cummings, 05 Juni 2024

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“the music didn’t so much progress as seem to slowly rotate on its axis”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Istanbul, am 31 Mai 2024

Honegger, Pastorale d'été (Summer pastorale), H31

Beethoven, Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 in c-Moll, Op.37

Beethoven, Symphonie Nr. 6 in F-Dur "Pastorale", Op.68

Maria João Pires, Klavier

Daniel Dodds, Direktor

Festival Strings Lucerne

Rudolf Buchbinder completes his Lucerne Beethoven journey

Sarah Batschelet, 17th November

Rudolf Buchbinder and the Lucerne Festival Strings recently performed Beethoven’s First and Fifth Piano Concertos in the last of the prestigious Piano festivals at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre.

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Romantic, serene, intense: Buchbinder brings Beethoven to Lucerne

Sarah Batschelet, 16th November

The highly decorated Austrian pianist, Rudolph Buchbinder, launched the Lucerne Piano Festival by playing and conducting the complete cycle of Beethoven’s five piano concertos.

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Haitink und Pires mit dem Tonhalle-Orchester

Rolf Kyburz, 20th December

Maria João Pires gestaltete Mozart mit Subtilität und feiner Agogik, schien sich aber trotzdem nicht optimal entfalten zu können. Dafür war Haitink in Bruckners Vierter ganz in seinem Element.

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Idyllische Helden-, Liebes- und Göttergesänge

Waltraut Anna Kautz, 12th January

Seit ein paar Tagen ist es in aller Munde – die Hamburger Elbphilharmonie, derzeit noch eine der prominentesten Baustellen der Republik, wird am 11. und 12. Januar 2017 definitiv eröffnet.

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Un rêve incarné : Dvořák par Iván Fischer et le Concertgebouw

Tristan Labouret, 17th December

L'orchestre néerlandais a livré une démonstration dans une Huitième Symphonie d’Antonín Dvořák d'anthologie, après un concert Concerto « Jeunehomme » de Mozart particulièrement éloquent sous les doigts de Maria João Pires.

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De rage et d’os : sublime Winterreise de Pires et Goerne à Gstaad

Romain Daroles, 6th August

Au milieu du déluge qui s'abattait sur le Gstaad Menuhin Festival, le baryton aux plus de deux cents Voyage d'hiver et sa partenaire ont livré une interprétation légendaire, totale, du chef-d'œuvre de Schubert.

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Simon Cummings

Simon Cummings is a composer, writer and researcher based in the Cotswolds. He composes instrumental and electronic music, exploring aspects of algorithmic composition, and has recently completed a Ph.D. in composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire under the supervision of Richard Causton and Howard Skempton. His musical tastes are ludicrously broad but are focused most on contemporary/avant-garde classical and electronic music. When not composing, he writes regularly about new music; Simon is the author of the contemporary music blog 5:4 (5against4.com), and regularly contributes articles for a variety of books, journals and websites. Follow him on Twitter @5against4.

Festival Strings Lucerne bring sleek clarity and ambient stasis to Beethoven and Honegger