The Lucerne Festival Orchestra debuts at La Scala

By James Imam, 17 October 2018

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“Wagner's brightly coloured score sparkled in Chailly's hands”

Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 14 October 2018

Wagner, Rienzi, der Letze der Tribunen: Overture

Bruckner, Symphony no. 7 in E major, WAB 107

Riccardo Chailly, Conductor

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

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.

*****

Marvel and fantasy as the Lucerne Festival begins

Sarah Batschelet, 17th August

Works by Stravinsky and Mozart launched this year’s Lucerne Festival, whose theme is “Childhood”.

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James Imam

James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.