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Maria João Pires gives a soporific, lacklustre performance of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, while the Festival Strings Lucerne transform Honegger’s Pastorale d'été into a riveting ambient moodscape and bring pristine clarity to the Pastoral Symphony. 

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. 

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.