Überwältigende Klangmassen und lyrische Zartheit

By Christoph Wurzel, 16 August 2016

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“das Konzert wurde auf bewegende Art ein Dokument der Erinnerung und des Neuanfangs zugleich”

Reviewed at Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Lucerne on 13 August 2016

Mahler, Symphony no. 8 in E flat major "Symphony of a Thousand"

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Bavarian Radio Choir

Latvian Radio Choir

Orfeón Donostiarra

Tölzer Boys Choir

Riccardo Chailly, Conductor

Ricarda Merbeth, Soprano

Juliane Banse, Soprano

Anna Lucia Richter, Soprano

Sara Mingardo, Mezzo-soprano

Mihoko Fujimura, Mezzo-soprano

Andreas Schager, Tenor

Peter Mattei, Baritone

Samuel Youn, Bass-baritone

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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Christoph Wurzel

Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie und Musikwissenschaft war Christoph Wurzel lange im pädagogischen Bereich tätig. Er interessiert sich besonders für die gesellschaftlich relevanten Aspekte der Musik. Er lebt in Baden – Baden und schreibt für verschiedene Magazine in Deutschland.

Überwältigende Klangmassen und lyrische Zartheit bei der Eröffnung des Lucerne Festival