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

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

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

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

Works by Stravinsky and Mozart launched this year’s Lucerne Festival, whose theme is “Childhood”.
An all-Strauss evening in Lucerne

Conductor Riccardo Chailly launched this year's Lucerne Festival with a riveting programme of three late 19th century works by the great orchestral explorer, Richard Strauss.
Bruckner Supreme: Haitink in Lucerne
Many think that Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony points to a kind of cosmic grandeur, and little else can match the power and excellence of its finest performance. The Lucerne concert proved them right.