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Venue: Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Lucerne

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AddressLucerne
6005
Switzerland
Google maps47° 3' 1.152" N 8° 18' 42.592" E
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LucerneClassical Music for All: Open Air

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Various, Mozart, Davis, Oliva, Campo, Simons
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Sarah Willis; Unknown; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

LucerneOverture

© Priska Ketterer | Lucerne Festival
Gershwin, Reich, Bernstein
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

LucerneLucerne Festival Orchestra 1 - Opening Concert

© Manuela Jans | LucerneFestival
Reich, Gershwin, Ives
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Frank Dupree; Unknown; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

LucerneLucerne Festival Orchestra 2

© Patrick Hürlimann | LucerneFestival
Barber, Stravinsky
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Klaus Mäkelä; Augustin Hadelich

LucerneLucerne Festival Academy 1

© M. Borggreve
Rihm: Tutuguri, Poème dansé
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra; Jörg Widmann; Markus Güdel; Maxime Le Saux; Christoph Sietzen; Michael Engelhardt

LucerneWest Eastern Divan Orchestra

© Jason Bell
Dvořák, Mendelssohn
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim; Yo-Yo Ma

LucerneLucerne Festival Orchestra 3

© Julia Wesely
Scriabin, Rachmaninov
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Lukas Sternath

LucerneLucerne Festival Orchestra 4

© Patrick Huerlimann | Lucerne Festival
Beach, Gershwin, Barber, Bernstein
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Unknown
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Mirrors and echoes: Pierre Boulez celebrated at the Lucerne Festival

Liv Redpath, Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra © Patrick Hürlimann | Lucerne Festival
Liv Redpath and Bertrand Chamayou shine at the Lucerne Festival in this celebration of Pierre Boulez's legacy. 
****1
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Shimmering, disjointed: Poppe and Ligeti in Lucerne

Sarah Maria Sun © Manuela Jans | Lucerne Festival
Les Siècles make their Lucerne Festival debut with a slightly uneven Poppe-Ligeti programme, at the heart of which Isabelle Faust nevertheless shines
***11
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Martha Argerich returns with thrilling Schumann concerto in Lucerne

Martha Argerich © Philipp Schmidli
Returning to the concert platform after recent illness, Argerich demonstrates why she's still the reigning pianist in Lucerne's “Le Piano symphonique” festival. 
****1
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Scheherazade allures twice over at the Lucerne Festival

Sir Antonio Pappano, Véronique Gens and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia © Manuela Jans | Lucerne Festival
Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia give fine performances of works by Rossini, Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov. 
****1
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Hrůša steps in and strikes gold with an all-Mahler concert in Lucerne

Jakub Hrůša © Patrick Hürlimann | Lucerne Festival

The Czech conductor makes the short hop from Salzburg to replace Riccardo Chailly in an all-Mahler programme at the Lucerne Festival. 

*****
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Juan Diego Flórez enchants Lucerne Festival with an exciting recital

Sensational Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez and pianist Vincenzo Scalera present a programme of Lieder, salon pieces and operatic arias, for a very successful concert.

****1
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Les Arts Florissants dazzle in Handel’s Partenope in Lucerne

William Christie leads his legendary orchestra and a group of young singers in a successful performance of Handel’s semi-serious opera.

***11
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Cecilia Bartoli delivers in Italian Baroque at the Lucerne Festival

Les Musiciens du Prince confirm their status as one of the most interesting Baroque ensembles in a concert led by Gianluca Capuano, with soloists Cecilia Bartoli, Carlo Vistoli and Jean-Marc Goujon.
****1
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