Performer: Lucerne Festival Orchestra

LucerneClassical Music for All: Open Air

Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Thu 13 Aug at 21:00

Various, Mozart, Davis, Oliva, Campo, Simons

Lucerne Festival Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Sarah Willis; Unknown; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Thu 13 Aug at 19:30

Gershwin, Reich, Bernstein

Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Fri 14 Aug at 18:30

Reich, Gershwin, Ives

Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Frank Dupree; Unknown; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

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Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Sat 15 Aug at 18:30

Barber, Stravinsky

Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Klaus Mäkelä; Augustin Hadelich

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Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Tue 18 Aug at 19:30

Scriabin, Rachmaninov

Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Lukas Sternath

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Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Wed 19 Aug at 19:30

Beach, Gershwin, Barber, Bernstein

Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Unknown

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Iván Fischer works his Mendelssohn magic in Lucerne

Iván Fischer conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra © Peter Fischli | Lucerne Festival

Sarah Batschelet, 31 Mar

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

*****

Jakub Hrůša © Patrick Hürlimann | Lucerne Festival

Sarah Batschelet, 17 Aug

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, 13 Aug

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, 22 Aug

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, 16 Aug

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.

*****