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Lucerne Festival Orchestra launches its season with Riccardo Chailly on the podium

By Sarah Batschelet, 14 August 2021
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“In the Allegro moderato, the two fine flutes were featured almost as if in chatty dialogue”
Reviewed at Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Lucerne on 13 August 2021
Programme
Mozart, Don Giovanni, K527: Overture
Mozart, Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550
Schubert, Symphony no. 6 in C major, D.589
Performers
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, Conductor
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Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.