RIP Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)
Bernard Haitink has died. The 92-year-old conductor passed away peacefully at home, according to his representatives. I had the privilege of attending his very final concert, in the summer of 2019,...
View ArticleLucerne Festival Forward: Inaugural Edition
This weekend, Lucerne Festival will launch the first edition of its Forward Festival devoted to contemporary music. Members of the international Lucerne Festival Academy network have spearheaded this...
View ArticleMendelssohn Festival in Lucerne
Tonight in Lucerne, the festival year will be launched with a three-day Mendelssohn Festival — which is also the first in a new spring residency for the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly...
View Article2022 Summer Festival at Lucerne
Following several days of showcasing the young generation with performances by various youth orchestras, Lucerne Festival’s summer of music for 2022 officially launches tomorrow, 12 August. Riccardo...
View ArticleLucerne Festival Forward
Lucerne Festival’s three-day fall edition devoted to contemporary music starts today. The opening program of Forward takes place at the Swiss Museum of Transport planetarium and is centered around the...
View ArticleMendelssohn Spring Festival in Lucerne
Lucerne Festival launches its new year tonight with the first offering in a three-day spring celebration featuring the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Replacing the ailing Riccardo Chailly tonight is Iván...
View ArticlePiano Fest in Lucerne
This evening begins a new mini-spring festival presented by Lucerne Festival: lasting through Sunday, Piano Fest is curated by Igor Levit and features Levit along with his colleagues Fred Hersch and...
View ArticleMahler 3 Opens Lucerne’s 2023 Summer Festival
A performance of Mahler’s Third from 2007 by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Claudio Abbado Lucerne’s Summer Festival officially starts today with a performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony by the...
View ArticleRoche Young Commissions 2023
Saturday was the big day for the 2023 Roche Young Commissions. Two years after David Moliner and Hovik Sardaryan were announced as the selected composers, the project culminated in a concert in which...
View ArticleLucerne Festival Forward
The last of the festivals presented by Lucerne Festival in the calendar year, Forward is a fall weekend devoted exclusively to contemporary music and begins today. Designed and performed by the young...
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