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Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – Dvořák | Debussy | Ravel | Schönberg

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra was founded in 2003 by Claudio Abbado and Michael Haefliger, establishing a link with the legendary “elite orchestra” for which Arturo Toscanini assembled acclaimed virtuosos of his time into a magnificent ensemble in 1938, the year of the Festival’s founding. In this spirit, the orchestra assembles the world’s most renowned musicians…

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 & Brahms: Symphony No. 4 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Järvi, Pires

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra celebrated an anniversary in 2023: It was 20 years ago, in the summer of 2003, that Claudio Abbado presented his new orchestra to the public for the first time. Since then, the ensemble has given the public countless unforgettable moments. In the 2023 edition of the festival, Portuguese pianist Maria João…

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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wiebe Lehmkuhl, Paavo Järvi

In its 20th season, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra opens the 2023 Summer Festival with Mahler’s Third. Unfortunately, music director Riccardo Chailly cannot conduct this momentous concert due to health issues. Paavo Järvi takes over on short notice and proves to be a more than worthy substitute. In Mahler’s Third, he leads orchestra, chorus, and soloist…

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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, Mao Fujita

For Riccardo Chailly, celebrating Rachmaninoff in Lucerne is something dear to his heart. In 2022, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and their music director devoted themselves to the Second Symphony and the Piano Concerto No. 2, the most famous of all four Rachmaninoff concertos. “The harmonic ideas are his special hallmark. One need only hear three…

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Chailly/Fujita/Lucerne Festival Orchestra – Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninov, who left Russia after the October Revolution in 1917 and toured the world as a piano virtuoso, found a new home at Lake Lucerne in the early 1930s. In Hertenstein, where he enjoyed the tranquility and the beauty of nature, he had a villa built in the latest Bauhaus style. Then World War…

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Mozart / Beethoven: Septets – Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Beethoven’s radiant and entertaining septet combines logic with catchiness and offers a spiritual musical conversation. And it is in this discipline that the soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, who are dedicated to making music in friendship, are masters. How did Ludwig van Beethoven become a great symphonist? A milestone on his way there is…

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Rachmaninoff – Denis Matsuev, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30 Études-Tableaux, op. 39/2 in A minor Vocalise op. 34, No. 14 (orchestral version) Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 44 Riccardo Chailly, conductor Denis Matsuev, piano Lucerne Festival Orchestra Exactly 80 years before the Opening Concert of the 2019 Lucerne Festival,…

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Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra – Bruckner 1 & 9

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 (“Vienna” version) Symphony No. 9 Lucerne Festival Orchestra Claudio Abbado

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Riccardo Chailly and Denis Matsuev with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Everything changed for Sergei Rachmaninoff after 1917. As a result of the October Revolution, power impinged directly on his life – and on his art.

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly – RAVEL

At the Lucerne Festival 2018, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra honored Maurice Ravel in a very special concert. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Valses nobles et sentimentales La Valse Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 1 Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 Boléro Lucerne Festival Orchestra Riccardo Chailly The inspiration and starting point for this program…

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