In 2024, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra continued their acclaimed Rachmaninoff cycle with a concert spanning the composer’s lifetime: from the youthful freshness of the composer’s earliest works like the rarely performed “Youth Symphony” and his Piano Concerto No. 1, to the musical mastery and maturity of his last major work, the “Symphonic Dances”. Young piano prodigy Alexander Malofeev, in whose repertoire Rachmaninoff’s music occupies a special place, gave his much-lauded Lucerne Festival debut as the soloist of the evening with an electrifying performance.
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Scherzo in D minor
Symphonic Movement D minor (“Youth Symphony”)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Alexander Malofeev, piano
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
