Marvel and fantasy as the Lucerne Festival begins

By Sarah Batschelet, 19 August 2018

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“Lang Lang... able to expand his senses of perception, to listen with the tips of his fingers”

Reviewed at Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Lucerne on 17 August 2018

Stravinsky, Concerto in E flat major for chamber orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks"

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 24 in C minor, K491

Stravinsky, The Firebird

Lang Lang, Piano

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly, Conductor

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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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.