Schlichte Erhabenheit mit Franz Welser-Möst und Beethoven in Luzern

Franz Welser-Möst dirigiert das Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Franz Welser-Möst mit Solist*innen und dem Lucerne Festival Orchestra

By Phillip Richter, 15 April 2025

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“Welser-Möst entzündete wahrhaftig den Funken des Freiheitsideals im Sinne Beethovens und Schillers”

Reviewed at Culture and Congress Centre: Lucerne Hall, Lucerne on 13 April 2025

Beethoven, Symphony no. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op.125

Regula Mühlemann, Soprano

Marie-Claude Chappuis, Mezzo-soprano

Benjamin Bruns, Tenor

Markus Werba, Baritone

MDR Rundfunkchor

Howard Arman, Choirmaster / chorus director

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor

Iván Fischer works his Mendelssohn magic in Lucerne

Sarah Batschelet, 31st March

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra excels in a concert of works by youthful composers, with Rafał Blechacz playing Chopin.

*****

Hrůša steps in and strikes gold with an all-Mahler concert in Lucerne

Sarah Batschelet, 17th August

The Czech conductor makes the short hop from Salzburg to replace Riccardo Chailly in an all-Mahler programme at the Lucerne Festival.

*****

Lucerne Festival Orchestra launches its season with Riccardo Chailly

Sarah Batschelet, 13th August

After months of alerts, isolation and uncertainty, it was good to have the Lucerne Festival back, with effervescent performances of Mozart and Schubert.

*****

Nézet-Séguin and Kavakos: the stars come out in Lucerne

Sarah Batschelet, 22nd August

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s recent debut with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra was a dazzling Beethoven-Shostakovich programme that epitomised the “power of music”.

*****

A rich and powerful spectrum: Chailly conducts Rachmaninov in Lucerne

Sarah Batschelet, 16th August

In an all-Rachmaninov evening, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra open the 2019 festival with a brilliant exploration of the relation of music to power.

*****

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra debuts at La Scala

James Imam, 14th October

Fail to inject the composer's cathedral-sized symphonic structures with a sense of rapt wonder and they can sound dull.

***11

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Phillip Richter

Phillip fokussiert sich auf die Klassiker der Konzert- und Opernwerke aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum: Wagner, Beethoven, Strauss, Bruckner, Mozart und Schubert sind seine Obsession. Neben Live-Erfahrungen im Konzerthaus schätzt und sammelt er Musik-Einspielungen auch ganz klassisch auf CD.

Schlichte Erhabenheit mit Franz Welser-Möst und Beethovens Neunter beim Lucerne Festival