LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Summer Festival 2019

POWER Summer Festival 16 August – 15 September 2019 Program

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Dear Music Lovers,

T Michael Haefliger Executive and Artistic Director LUCERNE FESTIVAL

his summer we address the theme of “Power” – a topic that affects and concerns all of us. It takes just a few people to gather together for power structures to start emerging: who has the floor, who sets the agenda, who gets to decide? No society is conceivable without the exercise of power. Even art is intertwined with power in many ways. Art can be made to order, pay homage to or rebel against the powers that be, and even, through its own power, agitate on behalf of a cause and manipulate the audience. Music in particular can have an enormous impact. It is able both to console and to invigorate. A number of myths illustrate this. Think of the story of Orpheus, who soothed the wrathful Furies and tamed wild beasts through his wonderful singing.

In our concerts, we will trace a wide range of issues relating to power. How has politics exploited music? How have the dominant powers controlled and influenced the fates of composers? What has access to power meant for how composers saw themselves – whether those who, like Ludwig van Beethoven, believed they were prophets or those who, like Richard Wagner, built temples for their own art?

The three operas written by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart to libretti

by Lorenzo Da Ponte are classic examples of this theme of power and music. Le nozze di Figaro involves the hubris of political power; in Don Giovanni, the seductive power of Eros clashes with the supremacy of the divine order; and the whole of Così fan tutte revolves around the whim of a psychological experiment. Teodor Currentzis and the musicAeterna ensemble will perform this trilogy with such star singers as Cecilia Bartoli.

But there’s more. With the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, numerous world-class orchestras, and prominent soloists, you can look forward to a great summer full of musical promises. The power of music will cast its spell over us as well.

Yours,

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LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

16 August | 18.30 Opening Concert KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly conductor | Denis Matsuev piano

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 | Vocalise, Op. 34, no. 14 (orchestral version) | Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 17 August | 18.30 Symphony Concert 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly conductor | Denis Matsuev piano

“This summer we are breaking new ground with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. Maestro Riccardo Chailly will lead three concerts as Music Director, which will feature works by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. But for a fourth program by the Orchestra we have invited a guest to the podium: the Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who will conduct Beethoven and Shostakovich. For we want to offer you a variety of musical perspectives. The art of interpretation is boundless.”

Michael Haefliger

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 | Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 22 August | 19.30 Symphony Concert 4 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor | Leonidas Kavakos violin

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 | Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 24 August | 18.30 Symphony Concert 6 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly conductor

Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor

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19 – 23 August Composer Seminar Daily at 10.00 and 12.00 KKL Luzern, Clubraum 8 with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann, Sir George Benjamin, and Thomas Kessler 24 August | 21.00 Late Night 2 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Mivos Quartet | David Fulmer and Ruth Reinhardt conductors | Saul Williams speaker

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY & ALUMNI

Kessler Utopia III for orchestra (in five groups) and multiple live electronics | … said the shotgun to the head for slammer, slam choir, and orchestra 25 August | 15.00 Modern 2 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Sir George Benjamin conductor Benjamin At First Light | Rihm Jagden und Formen

1 September | 10.15 Opening Special Event Day In and around the KKL Luzern

Robyn Schulkowsky | Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY 1 September | 14.00 Family Concert KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI et al.

Stravinsky The Soldierʼs Tale

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1 September | 19.30 Symphony Concert 14 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Sir George Benjamin, David Fulmer and Ruth Reinhardt conductors | Reinhold Friedrich trumpet | Robyn Schulkowsky percussion new works by Marianna Liik and Josep Planells Schiaffino (“Roche Young Commissions”) | Rihm Marsyas | Benjamin Palimpsests | Ammann glut 7 September | 22.00 Late Night 4 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Mariano Chiacchiarini conductor | Michael Zisman bandoneon

works by Astor Piazzolla 8 September | 18.30 Symphony Concert 21 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Riccardo Chailly conductor | Jacques Zoon flute | Lucas Macías Navarro oboe

Mosolov The Iron Foundry, Op. 19 | Maderna Grande Aulodia for solo flute and oboe with orchestra | Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 | Rihm Dis-Kontur for large orchestra

“At the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY I encounter a generation characterized by individuals and not by uniformity. This is something very gratifying. When I teach, it’s always about imparting to them the importance for the individual to individuate and not to submit to a dictation. In other words, not to leave aesthetic norms and conventions unquestioned. That beautiful old proposition – ‘Become who you are’ – is my pedagogical ideal.”

Wolfgang Rihm

19 August | 19.30 Recital 1 – Violin KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Leonidas Kavakos violin | Yuja Wang piano

Mozart Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454 | Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 | Bartók Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Sz 86 | Strauss Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18 22 August | 19.30 Symphony Concert 4 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Leonidas Kavakos “artiste étoile” “It was 20 years ago that I performed for the first time at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. For this anniversary year, being named ‘artiste étoile’ is a great honor. I would like to present music that is especially close to my heart over the course of four concerts: not only a classic – Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – but also such less-familiar works as the sumptuous Korngold Concerto and shorter pieces by Sibelius and Chausson. And it will naturally be a pleasure to perform a recital with Yuja Wang.”

Leonidas Kavakos

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor | Leonidas Kavakos violin

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 | Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 31 August | 18.30 Symphony Concert 13 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev conductor | Leonidas Kavakos violin

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune | Sibelius Serenade in G minor, Op. 69, no. 2 | Chausson Poème, Op. 25 | Ravel Tzigane | Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 5 September | 19.30 Symphony Concert 18 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Vienna Philharmonic | Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor | Leonidas Kavakos violin

Dvořák The Noonday Witch, Op. 108 | Korngold Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 | Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World

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17 August | 21.00 Late Night 1 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Mivos Quartet | Saul Williams speaker | Thomas Kessler sound design Kessler String Quartet with live electronics | NGH WHT for speaker and string quartet | Williams solo performance 23 August | 18.20 40min KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Saul Williams speaker | Thomas Kessler “Speech-Music: Spoken Words with New Sounds” 24 August | 15.00 Modern 1 Lukaskirche

Heinz Holliger oboe | Jon Roskilly trombone | Gilles Grimaître piano | Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik Kessler Control Cycle. Works for solo instruments with live-electronics

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24 August | 21.00 Late Night 2 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Mivos Quartet | David Fulmer and Ruth Reinhardt conductors | Saul Williams speaker

Kessler Utopia III for orchestra (in five groups) and multiple live electronics | … said the shotgun to the head for slammer, slam choir, and orchestra 31 August | 11.00 Modern 3 Lukaskirche

Yuko Kakuta soprano | Yukiko Sugawara piano

Lachenmann Got Lost. Music for high soprano and piano | Andre and Kessler new works for soprano and piano (world premieres) 11 September | 18.20 40min KKL, Lucerne Hall

Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Ruth Reinhardt conductor | Daniela Argentino soprano Kessler Shifted Vibrations | Flüchtige Gesänge for soprano and ensemble

Thomas Kessler composerin-residence “I am delighted to have the opportunity in Lucerne to present an overview of my oeuvre that will also focus on more recent works, including my collaboration with slam poet Saul Williams and, of course, my vision of music with multiple live electronics that can be realized by the instrumentalists of an entire orchestra themselves – and in a very uncomplicated way with iPads, microphones, and loudspeakers.”

Thomas Kessler

MozartDa Ponte Cycle with Teodor Currentzis 12 September | 18.30 Symphony Concert 25 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis conductor

with Andrei Bondarenko, Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Alex Esposito, Olga Kulchynska, and additional soloists Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 14 September | 18.30 Symphony Concert 27 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 2 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis conductor with Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Nadezhda Pavlova, Dimitris Tiliakos, Christina Gansch, Robert Lloyd, Kenneth Tarver, and additional soloists Mozart Don Giovanni, K. 527 15 September | 16.00 Symphony Concert 28 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 3 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Wolfgang Amadé Mozart was the greatest musician who ever lived. Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così represent the highest of which his genius was capable. This music shows us the way to truth, and at the same time it tells us what we have to let go of in order to reach our goal. Mozart’s music shifts our perspective from the human to the divine. And thus we recognize our dualistic nature, sensing how the transition from the physical to the spiritual begins.”

Teodor Currentzis

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis conductor with Nadezhda Pavlova, Paula Murrihy, Konstantin Suchkov, TBA, Cecilia Bartoli, and Konstantin Wolff Mozart Così fan tutte, K. 588

Plus: 13 September | 19.30 Symphony Concert 26 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

musicAeterna orchestra of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis conductor | Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano

Mozart Selected arias from La clemenza di Tito, K. 621, along with arias and orchestral pieces from other works

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Beethovenʼs 32 Piano Sonatas with Igor Levit

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Launching the Beethoven Cycle 21 August | 19.30 Recital 2 – Piano KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Igor Levit piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 79 | Piano Sonata in A-flat major, Op. 26 | Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, no. 1 | Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 53 Waldstein Sonata 25 August | 11.00 Recital 3 – Piano KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Igor Levit Piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78 | Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 7 | Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 14, no. 1 | Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 14, no. 2 | Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 81a Les Adieux The cycle continues: by the end of the Beethoven Year 2020, Igor Levit will have performed all 32 piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven at the Lucerne Summer and Piano Festivals.

“Beethoven is not an inaccessible god. He was a man who translated human matters into music. Yet he was so immensely free – incomparably formless as well as perfect in form.

Beethoven is a person full of surprises, of things that overpower us: quiet, quiet, quiet, loud! And all of this can be so amusing, funny in a graceful or wicked way. His piano sonatas are our music, composed for us. And whether we perform or listen to him, we are interpreters. This mutuality is what defines the concert.”

Igor Levit

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18.30 | KS Opening Concert

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

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Public Viewing

Live Streaming of the Opening Concert

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11.00 | KS

Family Concert Music Camp

Chorus and Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL Music Camp | Gerald Wirth | Hugo Carrio

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Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 1

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

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21.00 | LS

Mivos Quartet | Saul Williams

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14.30 | KS Afternoon Concert

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds | Dominik Fischer | Sylvia Zucker

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with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 2

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Anne-Sophie Mutter

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10/12 | CR Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

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19.30 | KS Recital 1 – Violin

Leonidas Kavakos | Yuja Wang

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10/12 | CR Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

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with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 3

Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Bernard Haitink | Anna Lucia Richter

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10/12 | CR Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

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19.30 | KS Recital 2 – Piano

Igor Levit

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10/12 | CR Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

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12.15 | LK

Debut 1

Marianna Bednarska

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18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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Symphony Concert 4

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Leonidas Kavakos

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10/12 | CR Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

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18.20 | LS

“Speech-Music: Spoken Words with New Sounds”

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Shanghai Symphony Orchestra | Long Yu | Frank Peter Zimmermann

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19.30 | KS

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Concert Introduction

Concert Introduction

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 5

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15.00 | LK Modern 1

Heinz Holliger | Jon Roskilly | Gilles Grimaître | Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Thomas Kessler

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At the Buvette

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

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17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 6

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

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21.00 | LS

Late Night 2

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Mivos Quartet | David Fulmer | Ruth Reinhardt | Saul Williams

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11.00 | KS

Recital 3 – Piano

Igor Levit

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15.00 | A

Panel Discussion

“Music and Politics” (in German)

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15.00 | LS

Modern 2

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Sir George Benjamin

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17.00 | JK

Liturgical Service for the Church Consecration

Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum Luzern | Pascal Mayer | soloists

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Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 7

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Andris Nelsons

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18.20 | LS

“Time for Romanticism – with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 8

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Andris Nelsons | Sir András Schiff

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12.15 | LK

Debut 2

Jess Gillam | Zeynep Özsuca

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17.30 | E

In the Streets – Opening Concert

Music groups from all over the world

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18.20 | LS

40min

“Surprise! Discoveries with the Orchestra”

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19.00 | AS In the Streets

Music groups from all over the world

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 9

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša | Emmanuel Pahud

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18.00 | AS “In the Streets”

Music groups from all over the world

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with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 10

Berlin Philharmonic| Berlin Radio Choir | Kirill Petrenko | soloists

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12.15 | LK

Trio Eclipse

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18.00 | AS “In the Streets”

Music groups from all over the world

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18.20 | LS

“Many Many Oboes: Musette, Lupophon, etc.”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 11

Berlin Philharmonic | Kirill Petrenko | Patricia Kopatchinskaja

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18.00 | AS “In the Streets”

Music groups from all over the world

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“Music and Power”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 12

Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev | Behzod Abduraimov

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10.00 | SP “In the Streets”

Music groups from all over the world

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11.00 | LK

Modern 3

Yuko Kakuta | Yukiko Sugawara

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14/16 | E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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17.00 | I

At the Buvette

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

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18.00 | AS “In the Streets”

Music groups from all over the world

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18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 13

Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev | Leonidas Kavakos

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19.30 | LT

Performance

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

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21.00 | LS

Late Night 3

JACK Quartet | Jojo Mayer | Travis Laplante

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with Eva Brandin, Florian Flohr, and

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with Wolfgang Rihm, Ruth Reinhardt, David Fulmer and the Orchestra of the

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Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Ruth Reinhardt | David Fulmer | Sir George Benjamin | Reinhold Friedrich | Robin Schulkowsky

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Concert Introduction

Debut 3 40min

Film

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10.00 | MK Worship Service Related to the Summer Theme 18.30 | KS Concert Introduction

Stephen Smith

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY 19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 14

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Special Event Day

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Opening

Robyn Schulkowsky | Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

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11.00 | KS

Request Concert

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds

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11.00 | LS

Pillow Concert 1

“Pizz’n’Zip”

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In the Streets

Music groups from all over the world

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13.00 | KM Museum Concert 1

JACK Quartet | Mivos Quartet

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14.00 | KS Family Concert

“The Soldier’s Tale” (in German)

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15.00 | E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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15.30 | LS

Pillow Concert 2

“Pizz’n’Zip”

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16.00 | KM Museum Concert 2

JACK Quartet | Mivos Quartet

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In the Streets

Music groups from all over the world

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17.00 | A

NZZ Podium

“Play and Terror” (in German)

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18.30 | E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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20.30 | E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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12.15/ 15/17| E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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17.00 | UL Panel Discussion

“The Power of Music” (in German)

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 15

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Zubin Mehta

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12.15 | LK

Debut 4

Daniel Lebhardt

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14/16/ 18.30 | E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam | Tugan Sokhiev | Tabea Zimmermann

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Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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18.20 | LS

40min

“Spotlight on: Wolfgang Rihm’s Dis-Kontur”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 17

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam | Daniel Harding | soloists

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19.30 | LT

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 16

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Debut 5

Pablo Ferrández | Luis del Valle

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Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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18.20 | LS

40min

“Spotlight on: Schoenbergʼs Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 18

Vienna Philharmonic | Andrés OrozcoEstrada | Leonidas Kavakos

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19.30 | LT

Performance

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

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12.15/ 15/17 | E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 19

Vienna Philharmonic | Bernard Haitink | Murray Perahia

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19.30 | LT

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

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11/14/21 | E Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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16.00 | S

Modern 4

Heinz Holliger | Marie-Lise Schüpbach | Susanne Elmark | JACK Quartet

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17.00 | I

At the Buvette

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

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18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 20

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Lahav Shani | Vilde Frang

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22.00 | LS Late Night 4

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Mariano Chiacchiarini | Michael Zisman

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11.00 | KS

Recital 4 – Piano

Maurizio Pollini

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14/16 | LS

Family Concert Quatuor Beat 1 & 2

“Kromoritmos”

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14/16 | E

Music Theater 1

“Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b)”

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17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Wolfgang Rihm and Mark Sattler (in German)

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18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 21

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Riccardo Chailly | Jacques Zoon | Lucas Macías Navarro

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19.30 | LT

Performance

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

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Concert Introduction

with Hans Abrahamsen and Mark Sattler (in English)

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London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle | Barbara Hannigan

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Performance

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 22 – räsonanz Donor Concert

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Debut 6

Bomsori Kim | Michail Lifits

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18.20 | LS

40min

“Sergei and the Wolf”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 23

London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle

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11.09.

18.20 | LS

“Portrait of Thomas Kessler”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 24

Orchestre National de France | Emmanuel Krivine | Evgeny Kissin

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12.15 | LK

Debut 7

Esmé Quartet

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17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

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18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 25 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 1

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis | soloists

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19.30 | LT

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

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19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 26

musicAeterna orchestra of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis | Cecilia Bartoli

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19.30 | LT

Performance

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

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11/14 | LS

Family Concert Sonus Brass 1 & 2

“The Brassworkers”

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15.00 | S

Concert Introduction

with Martin Smolka, Jiří Adámek, and Mark Sattler (in English)

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16.00 | S

Music Theater 2

Ensemble ascolta

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17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 81

18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 27 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 2

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis | soloists

p. 81

15.00 | A

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 82

16.00 | KS Symphony Concert 28 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 3

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis | soloists

p. 82

19.30 | LT

“Ouverture dans la nuit”

p. 48

Wed

Thu

Fri

13.09.

Sat

14.09.

Sun

15.09.

40min

Performance

Concert Introduction

Performance

Venues: KKL Luzern: A Auditorium | CR Clubraum 8 | E Europaplatz | KM Kunstmuseum | KS Concert Hall | LS Lucerne Hall Additional venues: AS Old City | I Inseli | JK Jesuitenkirche | LK Lukaskirche | LT Luzerner Theater | MK Matthäuskirche | S Südpol | SP Lake Promenade | UL University of Lucerne | WM Richard Wagner Museum

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TAKE A 40-MINUTE BREAK TO ENJOY MUSIC! You don’t have to worry about dress codes or prior knowledge: The “40min” series offers hosted programs for beginners, connoisseurs, and explorers alike. Unconventional and full of variety!

With Riccardo Chailly, Mariano Chiacchiarini, David Fulmer, Heinz Holliger, Jakub Hrůša, Thomas Kessler, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Many Many Oboes, the Mivos Quartet, the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI, Ruth Reinhardt, Wolfgang Rihm, Saul Williams, and much more

Free admission

8 Concerts | always start at 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd – Partner 40min

Info: lucernefestival.ch/40min

LUCERNE FESTIVAL thanks its Partners for their valued commitment to the 2019 Summer Festival.

Main Sponsors

Theme Sponsor

Concert Sponsors

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Foundations

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Arts Council Korea | Bernard van Leer Foundation Lucerne | Cleven Foundation | Egon Zehnder | Else v. Sick Stiftung | Ernst Göhner Foundation | Fondation Suisa | Geert and Lore Blanken-Schlemper Foundation | Karitative Stiftung Dr. Gerber-ten Bosch | Kuehne Foundation | Federal Cultural Foundation | Landis & Gyr Foundation | Max Kohler Stiftung | Paul Sacher Foundation | Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council | René und Susanne Braginsky Stiftung | RHL Foundation | Foundation Melinda Esterházy de Galantha Zurich | Stiftung Musikpädagogisches Forschungszentrum Vitznau | Strebi-Stiftung Luzern | Thomas Abegg Foundation

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A very special thanks is owed as well to the Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, which is an indispensable parter in implementing our program.

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Organization Honorary Board

Ueli Maurer, President of the Swiss Confederation | Dr. Othmar Frei, Provost | Robert Küng, President of the Government of the Canton of Lucerne | Beat Züsli, Mayor of the City of Lucerne

Board of Trustees of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Dr. Hubert Achermann, Chairman | Otto Wyss, Treasurer✣ | Peter Eckert✣ | Markus Hongler✣ | Isabelle Welton✣ | Christian Casal | Dr. Rolf Dörig✣ | Dr. Christoph Franz | Mario Greco | Alexandre Jetzer | Dr. Ursula Jones-Strebi | Walter B. Kielholz✣ | Prof. Dr. Alois Koch | Dr. Hariolf Kottmann | Urs Rohner | Prof. Klaus Schwab | Reto Wyss | Beat Züsli ✣ committee member

Honorary Chairman Jürg R. Reinshagen

Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Board of Trustees Dr. Hubert Achermann, Chairman | Otto Wyss, Treasurer | Elisabeth Oltramare | Dr. Michel Stadlin | Corinna von Schönau-Riedweg 18

Team Valentina Rota, Executive Director | Sarah Amstad, Assistant to the Executive Director | Claudia Cavallari Hemmeter, Administration and Individual Support | Marina Cavallari, Director of Young Friends International Advisory Committee of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Albert Behler (Switzerland/USA) | Mag. Klaus Buchleitner (Austria) | Alan W. Fang (China) | Peter Greither (Germany) | David Kershaw (Great Britain) | Dr. Christoph M. Müller (Switzerland) | Makoto Nakao (Japan) | Paloma O’Shea (Spain) | Lutz Peters (Germany) | Sara Sela (Israel) | Kazuko Shiomi (Japan) | Alan B. Vickery (USA) American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Alan B. Vickery, Chairman | Richard Matlaga, Treasurer & Secretary | Dr. Hubert Achermann | Stanley M. Bergman | Yefim Bronfman | Michael Haefliger Valentina Rota, Director of Development

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Christiane Weber*, Director, Management of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA and LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG | Katharina Christen | Silvia Rösselet | Monika Widler LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Dominik Deuber, Director | Lea Hinden Modern Music & Dramaturgy Mark Sattler, Director and Dramaturge Editorial & Dramaturgy Susanne Stähr, Director and Dramaturge | Denise Fankhauser | Malte Lohmann

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C O N C E R T S A N D E V E N T S

Friday, 16 August Opening Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Composing is as essential to me as breathing and eating” Sergei Rachmaninoff

Ticket prices CHF 350/300/240/170/100/50 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19301

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Denis Matsuev piano Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 ca. 42’

Vocalise, Op. 34, no. 14 Orchestral version ca. 6’

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 ca. 40’

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Live Streaming of the Opening Concert on the Big Screen 18.30 Inseli Park Free admission

Everything changed for Sergei Rachmaninoff after 1917. As a result of the October Revolution, power impinged directly on his life – and on his art. The new political conditions forced him to leave his Russian homeland and flee into exile in the West. In order to earn a living, he had to perform for the most part as a piano virtuoso, constantly touring Europe and America. Which meant he had hardly any time left over to compose. The program with which Riccardo Chailly and his LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA will open the 2019 Summer Festival orbits around this turning point in Rachmaninoff ’s life, pairing the legendary Third Piano Concerto, written in Russia in 1909, with the melancholy Third Symphony, which he created as an émigré in Hertenstein near Lucerne in 1935-36. In both works, Rachmaninoff inspires listeners with his gift for melody, but, as Riccardo Chailly also remarks: “In fact his real hallmark is his harmonic thinking. You need only hear three chords and at once you can recognize his creative genius.”

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“Choral singing and orchestral playing are an unsurpassable school for life” José Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema

Saturday, 17 August Family Concert Music Camp 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event no. 19303

Chorus and Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL Music Camp Gerald Wirth and Hugo Carrio conductors “Superar Suisse and Friends” Traditional music from the Alps and the Andes for chorus and orchestra in cooperation with Superar Suisse For listeners ages 7 and up This concert has no intermission | ends at approx. 12.00 pm

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Encouraging children and young people and equipping them with such values as solidarity, harmony, and mutual responsibility: this is the approach of Superar Suisse, which has been inspired by El Sistema’s founder José Abreu.

For the second year in a row, we will present an extraordinary project as part of the Summer Festival. Some 80 participants from Superar Suisse and from its Peruvian partner program “Sinfonía por el Perú,” which was founded by tenor Juan Diego Flórez, will form an international orchestral community in Lucerne.

And more than that: they will also meet members of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA and perform during the opening weekend in the grand KKL Luzern Concert Hall – a unique, motivating experience. In 2019 the Music Camp is being expanded to include a large choir by Superar Suisse and Superar Austria.

Gerald Wirth, artistic director of the Vienna Boys’ Choir, and his Peruvian colleague Hugo Carrio will work with these young instrumentalists and singers to prepare a matinee concert that brings two mountain regions into dialogue – with traditional music from the Alps and the Andes.

Hilti Foundation – Partner Music Camp

“A musical confession of the soul”

Saturday, 17 August Symphony Concert 1 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Tchaikovsky on composing

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19305

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Denis Matsuev piano Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 ca. 42’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 ca. 45’

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Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

When it comes to the piano music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Denis Matsuev is the go-to artist. The composer’s grandson, Alexander Rachmaninoff, was of the same opinion when he invited the Russian pianist to record the master’s works on the same grand piano used by Rachmaninoff himself: an unusually long, large Steinway, which is still housed in Rachmaninoff ’s former home on Lake Lucerne (known as “Villa Senar”). With the Third Piano Concerto, Matsuev has taken up the weightiest challenge in the Rachmaninoff repertoire. In no other work of this genre is the performer required to play more notes per second than in this notorious “concerto for elephants,” to borrow the composer’s own phrase.

Following intermission, the focus turns to the power of fate in Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. The composer believed that fate alone was responsible for the direction of our lives. His personal fate was same-sex attraction, which was criminalized in Tsarist Russia, causing him to fear for his middle-class existence.

In the Fourth, the idea of fate is represented by a martial, blaring brass fanfare, which opens the work and comes back several times in the course of the work.

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“Saul’s poems need not only to be read but to be heard” Thomas Kessler on Saul Williams

Saturday, 17 August Late Night 1 21.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19723

Mivos Quartet: Olivia de Prato and Lauren Cauley violin Victor Lowrie Tafoya viola Tyler J. Borden cello Saul Williams speaker Thomas Kessler sound design Thomas Kessler String Quartet with live electronics Saul Williams Solo performance Thomas Kessler NGH WHT for speaker and string quartet This concert has no intermission | ends at approx. 22.15

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At the beginning of the new millennium, when he was in his mid-60s, composer-in-residence Thomas Kessler dared to try something completely new: he fused rap and contemporary music. The starting point was his encounter with the U.S. poet Saul Williams, one of the founding fathers of the spoken-word movement. NGH WHT is their second collaboration. Kessler chose an unconventional way in which to set Williams’s text, which the poet describes as “a piece that speaks to the origins of hip hop, the essence of resistance.” Kessler “translated” Williams’s speech staccato directly into music: “The string quartet follows its breathless recitation like a synchronous track,” explains the composer, “at a tempo at which it would be very difficult to read the text.” The American Mivos Quartet will open this Late Night concert with Kessler’s String Quartet from 2013. All four musicians will be equipped with a live-electronic setup, allowing them to control their own sound via laptop. In parts, they sound like “four large symphony orchestras that are not on the stage but actually right there, filling up the space.”

The “Thomas Kessler Package” 20% discount when purchasing tickets to at least three different concerts with the music of composerin-residence Thomas Kessler: lucernefestival.ch/kessler

“How sweet a certain freedom tastes!”

Sunday, 18 August Afternoon Concert 14.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Joseph Haydn

Tickets may be purchased from 5 to 16 August 2019 exclusively at the Stadthaus Luzern (Hirschgraben 17, at the main entrance counter)

Festival Strings Lucerne Daniel Dodds violin, conductor, and host Dominik Fischer and Sylvia Zucker viola Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto in B-flat major, BWV 1051 ca. 16’

Dmitri Shostakovich Prelude in C major, Op. 87, no. 1 version for string orchestra by Rudolf Baumgartner ca. 3’

Joseph Haydn Symphony in F-sharp minor, Hob. I:45 Farewell Symphony ca. 27’

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Joseph Haydn knew how to make those with power relent. As kapellmeister for the family of Prince Esterházy, he spent many months every year in the wasteland of the Hungarian swamps – in Fertőd, south of Lake Neusiedl, where Nicholas I, known as the “lover of splendor,” had built his dream castle. Unlike his servants, the Prince wanted to spend the winter months there as well – but after the long summer season, his musicians wanted finally to be able to see their families again in Vienna or Eisenstadt. In the Farewell Symphony, Haydn expressed this wish through a kind of “staging.” That is, in the finale he had one musician after the other finish their parts prematurely, extinguish the candles at their stands, and walk with their instruments off the stage, until Nicholas and his court remained alone in the dark hall. The Prince got the message – and ordered them to be allowed to depart the next day. The Festival Strings Lucerne will repeat this rebellious joke in their concert. And they will delight us with festive Baroque and neo-Baroque music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Dmitri Shostakovich, respectively.

“The power of music exceeds the power of words” Daniel Barenboim

Sunday, 18 August Symphony Concert 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19309

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Jean Sibelius Selections from Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 46 ca. 12’

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

ca. 34’

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

ca. 37’

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The French Revolution resounds in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. This score’s stirring rhythms and fanfares, along with the rousing musical euphoria that ultimately seems to intensify into a rage: all of this seems to reflect the image of the unleashed masses of people who rebelled against the power of the nobility. No wonder that for the writer Bettina von Arnim, this Symphony’s sound world even gave her the impression that she should be waving banners to lead a multitude assembled in protest. But for Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Beethoven’s Seventh has another meaning. This was the first work that they rehearsed in 1999, immediately after this utopian orchestral project that unites religions, cultures, and nations was founded. To mark its 20th anniversary in the summer of 2019, the Seventh will therefore be back on the program. And with the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, an eminent well-wisher will also join in. She will play the ravishing Violin Concerto by the Finn Jean Sibelius, a work that seems to conjure up ancient rituals with its spellbinding, crystalline sounds and its pounding rhythms.

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Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

“I have no wish to found a school”

Monday, 19 August – Friday, 23 August Composer Seminar always 10.00–11.30 and 12.00–13.30 KKL Luzern, Clubraum 8 Ticket price for auditors CHF 30/120 (all-day pass/course pass) Event no. 19711–19715/19710

Wolfgang Rihm

Participants in the Composer Seminar Wolfgang Rihm director Dieter Ammann, Sir George Benjamin, and Thomas Kessler guest docents Discussion of the selected works

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Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann

Closing Concert of the Composer Seminar 1 September | 13.00 and 16.00 Kunstmuseum Luzern JACK Quartet | Mivos Quartet

“One always hears it asserted: ‘Young composers all do the same thing.’ On the other hand, my experience is of different worlds, as if they came from different planets,” says Wolfgang Rihm, describing his impression of the next generation of composers. This variety of voices likewise characterizes the Composer Seminar. Rihm has no desire to prescribe aesthetic dogmas but wants to promote “the articulation of one’s own.” Which is why he consciously chooses “composers from different states of development and consciousness.” He adds: “I gather people together from whom, I believe, a kind of conversation can emerge – a discourse based on different aesthetic and cultural preconditions.” Over five days that are also open to the public, the participants will discuss their works with Rihm and his co-mentor Dieter Ammann; Sir George Benjamin and composer-in-residence Thomas Kessler will join them as guests. Subsequently, the JACK and the Mivos Quartets will rehearse the scores – this summer, works for strings – and present them on 1 September as part of the Special Event Day.

“Art means forming the soul” Leonidas Kavakos

Monday, 19 August Recital 1 – Violin 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 90/60/30 Seating map 5, p. 96 | Event no. 19307

Leonidas Kavakos violin Yuja Wang piano Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454 ca. 22’

Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 ca. 28’

Béla Bartók Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Sz 86 ca. 10’

Richard Strauss Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18 ca. 30’

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The Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is an exceptional artist. He masters the most difficult passages on his instrument effortlessly and can elicit enchanting sounds from its four strings. But even more, Kavakos is special because he subverts expectations. He has patiently taken his time developing his career and, having now reached his early 50s, is able all the more to enjoy reaching the zenith. With no use for the vapid surface appeal of showoff violinists, he has his own definition of virtuosity: “The word comes from ‘virtus’ and means virtue. Virtuosity has nothing to do with very fast playing. It means presenting the music in such a way that the audience forgets time and space.” It is therefore fitting that Kavakos will start his Lucerne residency as “artiste étoile” not with a grand orchestra and one of the great warhorses of the repertoire but with a chamber concert. His piano partner is the flamboyantly extroverted pianist Yuja Wang – fire and water, you might think. But Kavakos plays down such contrasts.

Everything turns out to be a matter of chemistry: “It is a real pleasure to make music with her.”

Tuesday, 20 August Symphony Concert 3 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Less is more”

Bernard Haitink on the art of conducting

Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19311

Chamber Orchestra of Europe Bernard Haitink conductor Anna Lucia Richter soprano Franz Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D 485 ca. 30’

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major ca. 60’

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Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

“He’s more and more like the patriarch Jacob, and all of these others, these young conductor jet-setters who are not even 60 or 70 years old, sit at his feet like sons,” wrote Christian Wildhagen in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung when Bernard Haitink conducted Mahler’s Ninth Symphony last summer. Wildhagen admitted that there was “a genuine reason for being a bit effusive.” That’s because, he argued, Haitink had achieved a milestone in Mahlerian reception, elevating it to a new level with his maturity and the serenity of his age. This positive experience demands a continuation. In this concert leading his favorite orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the now-90-year-old Haitink will once again probe Mahler’s inexhaustible, unfathomable Fourth Symphony, a work that culminates with a vision of Paradise. And with Schubert’s Fifth Symphony, we will already get a foretaste of heaven in the first part of the concert. This animated work of youth is the cure for melancholy, evoking an ideal of luminous beauty.

“Beethoven is an absolutely contemporary composer” Igor Levit

Wednesday, 21 August Recital 2 – Piano 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 95 | Event no. 19312

Igor Levit piano Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, no. 1 ca. 18’ Piano Sonata in A-flat major, Op. 26 ca. 22’

Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 79

ca. 10’

Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 53 Waldstein Sonata ca. 27’

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Some events are big enough to cast shadows of anticipation. With this recital, Igor Levit, a figure known to be provocative both musically and politically, launches his Lucerne cycle of all 32 of the piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven. This grand project continues at the 2019 Piano Festival, extending until 2020, when the music world will celebrate the composer’s 250th birthday.

For Levit, Beethoven is more than a purely historical great figure – he is very much of today; after all, he asked himself the very same questions that we pose to ourselves. “This was not an inaccessible god whom we must dare not approach,” says Levit. “Beethoven was a human who translated human matters into music.” The pianist, who was born in Russia in 1987 and moved to Germany with his family at the age of eight, will play one of his favorites: the Waldstein Sonata. In its opening, he senses a force of nature, noting that “it shakes, like an earthquake. 300 heartbeats/minute. It’s pure life.” It also entails a paradox, he adds, since, all of a sudden, the piano, which has no vibrato, can seem as if it is producing one.

Thursday, 22 August Debut 1 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 19313

“Highly virtuosic and highly musical”

Deutschlandfunk on Marianna Bednarska

Marianna Bednarska percussion (winner of the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes Award) Iannis Xenakis Rebonds B for percussion | ca. 6’ Philippe Hurel Loops II for vibraphone | ca. 9’ Georges Aperghis Le corps à corps | ca. 10’ Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude from the Suite in D major, BWV 1012, arr. for marimba | ca. 8’ Andrew Thomas Merlin for marimba | ca. 12’ Bruno Mantovani Moi, Jeu … for marimba | ca. 9’ Mayke Nas Cinderella for high heels | ca. 6’ 30

Jesús Torres Proteus for percussion | ca. 11’ This concert has no intermission

Every two years, LUCERNE FESTIVAL, the Conference of Swiss Universities of Music (KMHS), and the Credit Suisse Foundation award the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes, which comes with a cash award of CHF 25,000, to highly talented musicians studying in Switzerland. The eventual winners are selected over the course of several rounds that culminate in a final round in which the contestants must present themselves to a jury of experts. The competition for 2019 has chosen Marianna Bednarska as the winner. Born in 1993, the Polish percussionist is currently completing her training in Philippe Spiesser’s class at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. When she played works by Iannis Xenakis, Michael Jarrell, and Johann Sebastian Bach at her audition, she immediately won the jury over. Her international career is already well under way: Bednarska has previously won 21 competitions and has concertized throughout Europe and, with the International Chamber Orchestra of Washington, in the U.S. She has also released recordings, including of her account of all four marimba concertos by Anders Koppel.

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“And even if they cut off both of my hands, I will continue writing music” Dmitri Shostakovich

Thursday, 22 August Symphony Concert 4 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19315

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 ca. 45’

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 ca. 65’

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When Dmitri Shostakovich opened up the Soviet newspaper Pravda on 28 January 1936, he could hardly believe his eyes. On page 3 he found a scathing review of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk claiming that he had insulted his listeners with “rumbling and shrieking” and that, instead of “beautiful songs,” he had written a neurotic, cacophonous score. The article changed his whole life, for from this point forward he had to fear being arrested, kidnapped, or even murdered: Shostakovich became the plaything of those in power. Because of its progressive musical language, he had to withdraw his Fourth Symphony, which he was composing at precisely this time. Not until 1961, a quarter of a century later, was it premiered. Beethoven’s Violin Concerto likewise took a long time, about 40 years, to become established in the repertoire. Contemporaries considered it too long, too muddled, and too lacking in glamour. For his LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA debut, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the charismatic music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, will conduct these two masterpieces that suffered unjust neglect for such a long time.

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Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Friday, 23 August Symphony Concert 5 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 3, p. 95 | Event no. 19314

“A piece that seems to have come from heaven” Frank Peter Zimmermann on Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Long Yu conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin Qigang Chen Wu Xing (The Five Elements) ca. 11’

Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 ca. 21’

Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 ca. 38’

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40min “Speech-Music: Spoken Words with New Sounds” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Mivos Quartet | Saul Williams | Thomas Kessler

The First Violin Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev opened the door to the violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann’s remarkable career. Even at the age of 10, it was his favorite concerto, and he listened to David Oistrakh’s recording over and over. He later began performing this work in the leading international concert halls, recording it himself with Lorin Maazel in 1987. “Strangely enough, it was then completely absent from my life for two decades, when other things became more important,” says Zimmermann, “but now I’ve returned to it and am overjoyed to be playing it again.” In Lucerne he will perform the Prokofiev concerto with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under Long Yu, who made their acclaimed debut at the Festival two years ago. They will also take on a highly virtuosic, captivating orchestral work when they play Sergei Rachmaninoff ’s Symphonic Dances. Written against the backdrop of the Second World War, Rachmaninoff ’s score quotes the melody of the Dies irae (invoking the Last Judgment) as well as Russian Orthodox liturgy, reminding us that there are powers even higher than the profane.

“I’ve always liked what is unpredictable in music” Thomas Kessler

Saturday, 24 August Modern 1 15.00 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19316

Heinz Holliger oboe Jon Roskilly tombone Gilles Grimaître piano Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik: Corentin Marillier percussion and voice Luca Marty guitar Alice Hohberger and Magdalena Irmann voice Thomas Kessler sound design Thomas Kessler Control Cycle works for solo instruments with live electronics in collaboration with the Studio for Contemporary Music of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik Introduction to the Control Cycle with Thomas Kessler in concert (in German) | concert ends at approx. 17.15

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Thomas Kessler

Much as the use of steel and concrete fundamentally transformed architecture, electronic music has opened up completely new possibilities for composing.

The Swiss artist Thomas Kessler was one of its pioneers. At the end of the 1960s, he headed the legendary Electronic Beat Studio in Berlin, and later he established the Studio for Electronic Music in Basel. In his series of works titled Control, which he began writing in 1974, Kessler explores the interplay of a wide variety of solo instruments with synthesizers, samplers, and computers. The soloists themselves control the electronic sound transformation of their playing by transmitting “their playing technique and reactivity to the electronic instruments without the help of an additional assistant.” Kessler’s groundbreaking Control Cycle is naturally an integral part of his retrospective as composer-in-residence. He will prepare it with students from the Hochschule Luzern – Musik and with such soloists as Heinz Holliger and Jon Roskilly. With the latter, he will develop new versions of Oboe Control and Trombone Control that will be presented at LUCERNE FESTIVAL.

The “Thomas Kessler Package” 20% discount when purchasing tickets to at least three different concerts with the music of composerin-residence Thomas Kessler: lucernefestival.ch/kessler

Saturday, 24 August Symphony Concert 6 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19319

“The first hammer blow is truly terrifying” Riccardo Chailly on Mahler’s Sixth Symphony

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor ca. 85’

This concert has no intermission

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At the Buvette 17.00 Inseli Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

With his Sixth Symphony, Gustav Mahler created a powerfully prophetic work.

The composer’s widow Alma firmly believed this, claiming that here he had “made music ‘anticipando.’” In the finale, Mahler originally wanted to have a gigantic hammer strike three times. For Alma, this was a symbol of the three blows of fate that would soon befall him: the loss of his job as director of the Vienna Hofoper, the death of his little daughter Maria, and the diagnosis of his fatal heart condition. Although the superstitious Mahler later erased the hammer’s third blow, the message remains apocalyptic: does this music anticipate the tragedies of the 20th century, its wars, the Holocaust? Or does it conjure up the destruction of the classical world of musical forms? For Riccardo Chailly, Mahler’s Symphony touches on “the widest range of emotional worlds: with its gloom and its visionary aspect, with the rhythm of funeral marches and with lyrical ecstasy. Mahler simply gives everyone the opportunity to empathize with these musical worlds and to join him in experiencing them.”

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“For this utopia I need 80 sockets, that’s all” Thomas Kessler on Utopia III

Saturday, 24 August Late Night 2 21.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19320

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Mivos Quartet Slam Chorus David Fulmer conductor (Utopia III) Joachim Haas (SWR Experimentalstudio) sound director for Utopia III rehearsal Ruth Reinhardt conductor (… said the shotgun to the head) Saul Williams speaker Thomas Kessler Utopia III for large orchestra and multiple live electronics ca. 25’

… said the shotgun to the head for slammer, slam chorus, and orchestra ca. 30’

Introduction to Utopia III with Thomas Kessler at the beginning of the concert (in German)

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Ruth Reinhardt

In his major orchestral piece Utopia III from 2016, Thomas Kessler subverts the usual balance of power. He makes do without having a sound engineer in charge who controls everything but instead hands responsibility for the live electronic modulation directly over to the musicians, all of whom he equips with iPads, microphones, and loudspeakers. The result is an “unprecedented total sound.”

Utopia III is Kessler’s third work in which he examines this new orchestral concept, and here he extends it to spatial music: the musicians are distributed in five groups throughout the concert hall. Kessler began his collaboration with the American slam poet Saul Williams in 2003 with the piece … said the shotgun to the head: “Saul narrated by memory about half of the 30-minute text in his unmistakable style on a recording device. I derived almost the entire composition from the speech melody and rhythm of his voice, some of which I analyzed with the help of computer programs,” says Kessler. Selected Swiss slam poets will join together to form a chorus that will assist Saul Williams.

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Sunday, 25. August Recital 3 – Piano 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“It’s relevant for us today!”

Igor Levit on Beethoven’s music

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 95 | Event no. 19321

Igor Levit piano Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78 ca. 11’

Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 7 ca. 30’

Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 14, no. 1 ca. 14’

Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 14, no. 2 ca. 15’

Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 81a Les Adieux ca. 17’

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Panel Discussion “Music and Politics” (in German) 15.00 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium On the 30th anniversary of suisseculture

Liturgical Service for the Church Consecration 17.00 | Jesuitenkirche Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum Luzern | Pascal Mayer | soloists Haydn Missa in angustiis Hob. XXII.11 Lord Nelson Mass

Ludwig van Beethoven composed 32 piano sonatas, but by no means are all of them regularly performed in the Concert Hall. The complete Beethoven cycle that Igor Levit will traverse at LUCERNE FESTIVAL in 2019 and 2020 thus offers a unique opportunity to hear sonatas that have been undeservedly eclipsed by the more famous ones. And there is so much to discover! Take Beethoven’s Opus 78, which he dedicated to his former pupil and favorite Therese von Brunsvik. Levit finds it to be a “tremendous work,” adding: “F-sharp major, what a comic key. Who writes a piece in F-sharp major? The Sonata is in part genuine Schubert. It is incredibly beastly to play, really difficult,” he admits, with reference to the “defiant, immodest” second movement and its constant alternation between major and minor. How Beethoven became what he is, Levit believes, can be seen above all in the great Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 7, where, for the first time, the “drive of one’s own self ” is fully expressed, resulting in “a new sound, a new time, a new sense of time, a new intensity.”

“A celebration of the colors and noises of daybreak” Sir George Benjamin on At First Light

Sunday, 25 August Modern 2 15.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19722

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Sir George Benjamin conductor George Benjamin At First Light for chamber orchestra ca. 20’

Wolfgang Rihm Jagden und Formen for orchestra 2008 version ca. 60’

Introduction by Sir George Benjamin and Wolfgang Rihm during the concert (in English and German)

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The best thing to do before or after this concert is to make sure to visit the Turner exhibition The Sea and the Alps at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Sir George Benjamin made his international breakthrough in 1982 with his ensemble piece At First Light, inspired by William Turner. In Turner’s painting Norham Castle, Sunrise, “solid objects virtually appear to have melted under the intense sunlight. It is as if the paint were still wet. Abstractly, this observation has been important to the way I have composed the piece. A ‘solid object’ can be formed as a punctuated, clearly defined musical phrase. This can be ‘melted’ into a flowing, nebulous continuum of sound.” Benjamin will introduce the audience to his fascinating sound world during the concert and talk about the interaction between the arts. The young musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY will then focus on Jagden und Formen, a major “work-in-progress” by their artistic director, Wolfgang Rihm, that has grown over the years. It begins as a mating dance of two violins and intensifies into a breathlessly irresistible music: virtuoso, intoxicating, and brimming with ideas.

Exhibition 6 July – 13 October 2019 Kunstmuseum Luzern Turner: The Sea and the Alps Information at kunstmuseumluzern.ch

Sunday, 25 August Symphony Concert 7 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Bruckner’s music elevates the soul” Andris Nelsons

Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19323

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Andris Nelsons conductor Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 (Robert Haas edition) ca. 85’

This concert has no intermission

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Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Anton Bruckner knew that he owed everything solely to the power of God. “Among thousands, God has granted me this grace and given this talent to me, only me,” he declared. “Some day I will have to be accountable to him.” His Eighth Symphony fulfills this purpose with the bloodcurdling, violent power of its themes and dramatic climaxes, its chorale-like hymns, and also the supernatural beauty of immaterial sounds, spanning an arc from deep despair to religious ecstasy. “Bruckner occupied himself with the same existential questions and doubts as all of us – and that is why his music has so much to tell us today,” according to Andris Nelsons, who compares the result to a pilgrimage.

“He invites us to accompany him and to continue with him on our path of life in search of humanity, love, and compassion. Bruckner’s music is not aimed at a particular age group or religion but speaks to all people, giving us a glimpse into the universe. And I feel how it brings me closer to God.”

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“Where politics begins, there art ends” Béla Bartók

Monday, 26 August Symphony Concert 8 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19324

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Andris Nelsons conductor Sir András Schiff piano Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz 119 ca. 25’

Claude Debussy La Mer ca. 25’

Igor Stravinsky Concert Suite from the fairy-tale ballet The Firebird (1919 version) ca. 25’

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For their second Lucerne program together, Andris Nelsons and his fabulous Gewandhaus Orchestra present three classics from the first half of the 20th century. And in the process, they will prove how diverse, sensual, and beguilingly beautiful the music of this epoch can be. Stravinsky’s first international success, The Firebird, enriches its melodic ear worms with Russian folk music, dressing them up in the most dazzling orchestral sounds. Debussy’s La Mer vividly reflects the rushing waves, the foam of the spray, and the oscillating colors of water, with infinite variations of motifs, because no one wave is like the other. Béla Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, however, which the composer wrote in 1945, in a race against death, so to speak, contains a moving middle movement, “Adagio religioso,” in which the composer conjures the magic of untouched nature that Bartók so painfully missed during his New York exile, so far from his Hungarian homeland. Sir András Schiff will explore this compositional legacy in all of its facets, thus paying homage to his great compatriot and idol.

40min “Time for Romanticism – with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša

Tuesday, 27 August Debut 2 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 19325

“I have never heard anything more beautiful”

Gioachino Rossini on the saxophone

Jess Gillam saxophone Zeynep Özsuca piano Anna Clyne New work | ca. 2’ Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Sz 56 | ca. 6’ Alessandro Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor, arranged for saxophone and piano ca. 10’

Rudy Wiedoeft Valse Vanité | ca. 4’ Benjamin Britten Temporal Variations | ca. 14’ Darius Milhaud Scaramouche, Op. 165b | ca. 9’ Francis Poulenc Sonata, Op. 185 | ca. 13’ 40

Kurt Weill Je ne t’aime pas | ca. 4’ John Harle RANT! | ca. 6’ She was expected to play only a supporting role at the famous Last Night of the Proms in September 2018, with the limelight going to the star guest, the baritone Gerald Finley. But Jess Gillam came, played, and conquered. “A saxophonist steals the show from everyone,” was the BBC News headline. “She may only be 20 years old, but Jess Gillam was the undisputed highlight of the evening.” This performance, watched by an international audience of millions on television, may have been her most spectacular success, but it wasn’t her first.

As early as 2016, Jess Gillam won the Woodwind Competition at the BBC Young Musician of the Year, subsequently appearing with several BBC orchestras and performing as a soloist with the Gothenburg Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and, in Switzerland, Argovia Philharmonic. The record label Decca signed Gillam exclusively, and in 2018 she was also awarded the Classical Brit Award. She is making her debut in Lucerne with a varied program ranging from a Baroque concerto to chanson.

“The magical wand that transforms the inner world” Jean Paul on the flute

Tuesday, 27 August Symphony Concert 9 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 3, p. 95 | Event no. 19326

Mahler Chamber Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor Emmanuel Pahud flute Felix Mendelssohn The Hebrides or Fingal’s Cave Concert Overture, Op. 26 ca. 10’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Flute Concerto in G major, K. 313 (285c) ca. 25’

Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 ca. 36’

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In the mid-1840s, the gloomy powers of the psyche weighed heavily on Robert Schumann: he doubted himself, was plagued by hallucinations and neurotic fears, and suffered from being in the shadow of his wife Clara, the celebrated pianist. He found that he was able to free himself from this crisis by composing his Second Symphony, a work “from a dark time” that ultimately arrives at a happy conclusion. Wolfgang Amadé Mozart also showed how to overcome inner resistance and defy the power of reluctance with his concertos for the flute, an instrument he could not bear. But it is precisely the G major concerto, K. 313, that hides this disinclination in every measure – and most certainly when it is played by such a master of his trade as the Swiss musician Emmanuel Pahud, the principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic. The Czech Jakub Hrůša, a student of Jiří Bĕlohlávek and head of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, has become an international sensation and is acclaimed as one of the finest conductors of the young generation. He makes his Festival debut leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Opening Concert “In the Streets” 17.30 | Europaplatz Music groups from all over the world 40min “Surprise! Discoveries with the Orchestra” 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | David Fulmer | Ruth Reinhardt

Wednesday, 28 August Symphony Concert 10 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Be embraced, o ye millions!”

Friedrich Schiller

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19327

Berlin Philharmonic Berlin Radio Choir (Gijs Leenaars chorus master) Kirill Petrenko conductor Marlis Petersen soprano Elisabeth Kulman alto Benjamin Bruns tenor Kwangchul Youn bass Alban Berg Symphonic Pieces from the opera Lulu ca. 35’

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ca. 70’

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“In the Streets” 18.00–22.00 Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all over the world Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

“All humanity will become brothers”: Hardly any other work declares such a resolute political vision as Beethoven’s Ninth, which sets to music Schiller’s poem An die Freude. But this symphony also stands apart from any other in terms of being appropriated for the purposes of power – from many different sides. The Socialists made it resound as a triumphal song for the struggling working class, the Nazis used it as a screen on which to project the obsession of “Germanness” with victory, the EU chose the final melody as an anthem to celebrate united Europe. For the Berlin Philharmonic as well, the Ninth will be connected to a special occasion this summer, as Kirill Petrenko officially inaugurates his tenure as new chief conductor with it – on the Spree as well as on Lake Lucerne.

Before the Ninth we will hear a “medley” from Alban Berg’s opera Lulu as an equally fitting contribution to the Festival theme of “Power.” The title heroine is a dominatrix, a kind of female Don Juan, who attracts whoever approaches her like a magnet and rips them apart, leading to their ruin: Lulu, “the true, the wild, beautiful animal,” as the libretto puts it.

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“There is no serious or popular music. There is only good or bad music” Leonard Bernstein

Thursday, 29 August Debut 3 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 19328

Trio Eclipse: Lionel Andrey clarinet Sebastian Braun cello Benedek Horváth piano Ludwig van Beethoven Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in B-flat major, Op. 11 Gassenhauer Trio

ca. 22’

Johannes Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 ca. 25’

Thomas Demenga summer breeze II world premiere ca. 10’

George Gershwin An American in Paris Arrangement for piano, clarinet, and cello by Stefan Schröter ca. 20’

This concert has no intermission

Give all the credit to Ludwig van Beethoven. If he had not composed a work for the unusual instrumental configuration of clarinet, cello, and piano in 1797, his popular Gassenhauer Trio, then the Trio Eclipse would probably not exist. These three young soloists joined forces at the Basel Music Academy to form an ensemble dedicated entirely to the charming triad made from these instruments: Lionel Andrey from Lausanne, Sebastian Braun from Winterthur, and Benedek Horváth from Budapest. The result was quite impressive. The three musicians quickly garnered all kinds of awards, for example at the Orpheus Chamber Music Competition in 2016 and the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, performing at many renowned festivals. Now it’s Lucerne’s turn.

In addition to the two famous original works that Beethoven and Brahms composed for this formation, the Trio Eclipse also presents a novelty by Thomas Demenga, with whom the three musicians studied. And as their closing number, they will play a clever arrangement of Gershwin’s swinging An American in Paris.

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Thursday, 29 August Symphony Concert 11 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19329

“What I did was neither revolution, nor did it fall into anarchy” Arnold Schoenberg

Berlin Philharmonic Kirill Petrenko conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Arnold Schoenberg Violin Concerto, Op. 36 ca. 33’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 ca. 50’

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“In the Streets” 18.00–22.00 | Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all over the world 40min “Many, Many Oboes: Musette, Lupophon, etc.”

18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Matthias Arter | Martin Bliggenstorfer | Valentine Collet | Heinz Holliger | Béatrice Laplante | Béatrice Zawodnik

At the beginning of the 1920s, Arnold Schoenberg invented his twelve-tone system, convinced that he had thus “ensured the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years.” But the Germans showed poor gratitude in return.

When the Nazis seized power in 1933, they drove the Viennese composer, who was at the time a professor teaching in Berlin, into American exile. He wrote his Violin Concerto there, following the rules of twelve-tone technique, but that was not so important to Schoenberg. The composer was more interested in profound feelings, in the “circulatory and nervous systems” of his music.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Kirill Petrenko take him at his word. They perform a “sparkling and seductive” Schoenberg, as the Süddeutsche Zeitung put it, such that the piece “becomes a relative of the palatable Tchaikovsky Concerto.” In the second part, the Berlin Philharmonic offers Tchaikovsky himself, in the form of the Fifth Symphony, which once again finds the composer struggling against the power of fate – this time, even with a happy ending. But Tchaikovsky had not yet spoken his final word as a symphonist …

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“But that is a Requiem!”

Grand Prince Constantine on Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique

Friday, 30 August Symphony Concert 12 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19330

Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor Behzod Abduraimov piano Rodion Shchedrin Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 Naughty Limericks ca. 9’

Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

ca. 36’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique ca. 50’

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Without Dr. Nikolai Dahl, there would have been no “Rach 2,” Rachmaninoff ’s legendary Second Piano Concerto. Dahl understood the power of the subconscious and hypnotized the composer, who was at the time suffering from a creative block: “You will begin writing your concerto … You will work with playful ease …” Indeed, Rachmaninoff managed to complete the work within one year.

With its sumptuous melodies and reminiscences of songs from the Orthodox Church and of Russian folk tunes, it became an international success – and a warhorse for every keyboard virtuoso. Born in Uzbekistan in 1990, Behzod Abduraimov made his debut two years ago at Valery Gergiev’s Prokofiev Marathon in Lucerne. He will demonstrate with dexterity and power why he ranks among the best of his trade. Gergiev will then conduct the definitive Tchaikovsky classic, the Pathétique. With its soulful melody, euphoric highs, and crashes into profound despair, it contains everything that sets Russian music apart – even if, in the end, the tragic hero is not able to overpower his fate.

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“In the Streets” 18.00–22.00 Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all over the world Film 18.00 | Free admission KKL Luzern, Auditorium Music and Power. Documentary

by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger (in German/56’)

Saturday, 31 August Modern 3 11.00 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19331

“The voice and the piano together form a new instrument” Helmut Lachenmann on Got Lost

Yuko Kakuta soprano Yukiko Sugawara piano Thomas Kessler new work for soprano and piano world premiere | commissioned

by LUCERNE FESTIVAL ca. 15’

Mark Andre new work for soprano and piano world premiere | commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL, Wien Modern, and Musik der Jahrhunderte ca. 20’

Helmut Lachenmann Got Lost. Music for high soprano and piano ca. 28’

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The “Thomas Kessler Package” 20% discount when purchasing tickets to at least three different concerts with the music of composerin-residence Thomas Kessler: lucernefestival.ch/kessler Music Theater 1 14.00 and 16.00 | Europaplatz Häusermann Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b) world premiere

See p. 56 for detailed information

Introduction by Mark Andre and Thomas Kessler during the concert (in German) | concert ends at approx. 13.00

“I have always as it were ‘forbidden’ my students to write songs based on texts

by Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Celan, or Beckett, whose tremendous poetic and phonetic intensity would be totally watered down and veiled when sung,” Helmut Lachenmann, the magician of noise as music, once explained. In order to take on the tradition of the art song in his distinctive way in his 2007-08 work Got Lost, he approached his three selected texts – poems by Nietzsche and Pessoa, plus a succinct notice of the loss of a laundry basket, the source of the title – as musical materials, broke them down into their components, threw them together again, and thus “stripped away their pathetic, poetic, profane diction.” The soprano mutates into a vocal acrobat: she sings and hums, moans and clicks. Yuko Kakuta and Yukiko Sugawara will juxtapose Got Lost with new works by Mark Andre and composer-in-residence Thomas Kessler, who has set texts by Eugen Gomringer to music, including the highly controversial poem avenidas. In this matinee, you can become acquainted with three remarkably different takes on the contemporary art song.

“Searching and restlessness: that is the art of the classics” Dmitri Shostakovich

Saturday, 31 August Symphony Concert 13 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19333

Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune ca. 10’

Jean Sibelius Serenade in G minor, Op. 69, no. 2 ca. 8’

Ernest Chausson Poème, Op. 25

ca. 16’

Maurice Ravel Tzigane ca. 10’

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 ca. 55’

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“Artiste étoile” Leonidas Kavakos is a man who likes to take on unusual projects. That’s why instead of playing any of the major violin concertos in his concert with the Mariinsky Orchestra, he has chosen three enchanting shorter pieces: a Nordically tinted Sibelius serenade, Chausson’s lush Poème, and Ravel’s erratically capricious Tzigane. Composers have always had to live with the mutable temperaments of their superiors. In the murderous 20th century, however, that meant that they could be persecuted, arrested, or even sentenced to death for their art. Dmitri Shostakovich understood how to commemorate this after he was targeted by the Communist rulers in 1936: “Waiting for execution is one of the themes that have tortured me throughout my life,” Shostakovich explained. “Many pages of my music speak of it.” But his Tenth Symphony, written in 1953 – immediately after the death of Joseph Stalin – is a reckoning with the dictator, whom Shostakovich even “portrays” in the second movement: a musical pandemonium whose drumbeats resemble volleys of gunfire.

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“In the Streets” 10.00–12.00 and 18.00–22.00 Lake Promenade/Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all over the world At the Buvette 17.00 Inseli Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

Saturday, 31 August Performance 19.30 Luzerner Theater Ticket prices CHF 60/30 (discount) Ticket information at lucernefestival.ch or (starting on 14 May) at luzernertheater.ch

“Nature always gives us laws much better than those we invent” Michel de Montaigne

Karin Arnold and Jessica Huber (mercimax) idea and conception Christian Garcia-Gaucher composition Alexander Sinan Binder conductor Actors from the Luzerner Theater Ensemble Lucerne Symphony Orchestra “Ouverture dans la nuit” A Forest Symphony premiere Co-production of the Luzerner Theater and LUCERNE FESTIVAL This event lasts approx. 2 hours and will take place regardless of weather.

Bring good shoes and weather-proof clothing!

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Additional performances from 4 through 6 as well as on 8, 12, 13, and 15 September Detailed information at lucernefestival.ch

For the opening of its season, the Luzerner Theater will be searching for new concert halls in the city (see Tonhalle on page 54), away from usual venues. The Zurich performance collective mercimax and the actors of the Luzerner Theater invite you to a new concert format in the forest: on a late summer hike from the city into nature, from day into night, the audience will listen to the sounds of the street, the river, and the forest, to footsteps, leaves, and birds. They will hearken to the crackling and roaring of fire, to the sounds of the cello, of wind instruments, of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. Together with the composer Christian GarciaGaucher from western Switzerland, who is writing a new work for this Lucerne “Forest Symphony,” mercimax will turn nature into a concert hall, seducing us to listen closely. Ouverture dans la nuit is a play of the senses that creates unusual encounters between musicians, spectators, and nature. The sounds of culture and nature flow into each other and merge powerfully into a new whole.

“The go-to quartet for contemporary music” The Washington Post on the JACK Quartet

Saturday, 31 August Late Night 3 21.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19332

JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violin John Pickford Richards viola Jay Campbell cello Jojo Mayer percussion Travis Laplante saxophone Travis Laplante new work for string quartet and saxophone world premiere | commissioned

by LUCERNE FESTIVAL Don Li new work for string quartet and percussion world premiere | commissioned

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“Superheroes of New Music” is what the Boston Globe has called them. No doubt about it: the American JACK Quartet has long since become one of the leading ensembles for contemporary music, heir to the throne of the legendary Arditti Quartet. Closely associated with LUCERNE FESTIVAL, the four musicians, who met during their studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, all took part in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and have since returned regularly to Lucerne to give numerous world premieres and offer master classes for the next generation of Academy students. In the summer of 2019, the Fab Four from New York will, of course, also be bringing brand-new material with them. In a Late Night program, they will present premieres by Travis Laplante and Don Li, each calling for an unusual formation: the JACKs will team up with percussionist Jojo Mayer and will also be joined by Laplante as a fifth musician, performing on his saxophone. It goes without saying that they will coax the wildest sounds from their instruments.

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Special Event Day | 1 September Opening

10.15–10.45 In and around the KKL Luzern Free admission

Robyn Schulkowsky percussion Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

This music will invoke an adventurous Special Event Day, with fanfares resounding in front of and from within the KKL Luzern, on the Europaplatz, and even from the roof terrace, the balustrades, and balconies. The American percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, who has become an international sensation at gatherings of fellow musicians and open-air projects, has put together a sonic spectacular for this opening event. She will present it together with the young musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, who have a built-in weakness for unusual venues and ways of playing.

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Also around the KKL Luzern: “In the Streets” 12.00–14.45 and 16.00–18.00 Music groups from all over the world will make the Europaplatz resound

The Special Event Day for Young Listeners Children and primary, secondary, vocational, and university students up to and including 29 years of age can purchase discounted tickets for the Special Event Day.

Der Erlebnistag Special Event Day Ein Tag voller Musik rund um das Festivalthema

A day full«Macht» of music– based the Festival theme im undon vor dem KKL Luzern “Power” − in and around the KKL Luzern Partner Special Event Day Dr. Christoph M. Müller Partner Erlebnistag and Sibylla M. Müller Dr. Christoph M. Müller und Sibylla M. Müller

Special Event Day | 1 September Request Concert

11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

If you have the vote …

Ticket prices CHF 50/10 (discount) Event no. 19401

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Festival Strings Lucerne Daniel Dodds violin and musical direction Soloist from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Eva Oertle host “Request Concert” A program to suit your taste ca. 60’

For listeners ages 8 and up

The issue of power is cleared up at this concert: You get to decide for yourself what the Festival Strings Lucerne and Daniel Dodds will play! You can choose from 20 short, entertaining orchestral pieces in five categories, from Mozart to Piazzolla, which you can listen to beforehand by clicking on this link: lucernefestival.ch/request-concert. You will also have the opportunity to cast a vote there and see which composer and which work are currently in the lead. The Top Five will then be performed on the Special Event Day. Through this project we hope to inject a little basic democracy into musical life – keeping true to the motto: All power comes from the audience. And since every good democracy also includes the protection of minorities, the musicians will be given a “carte blanche” onstage and will proceed to present their wild card. Sometimes the surprises are the loveliest pieces.

Special Event Day | 1 September

Up close to the action – on pillows

Pillow Concerts 1 and 2 11.00 and 15.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (discount) Event no. 19403/19405

Eleonora Savini violin, movement, and vocals Federica Vecchio cello, movement, and vocals Pietro Gaudioso artistic director Dan Tanson artistic consulting Rosamaria Francucci costumes and equipment “Pizz’n’Zip” A theatrical concert featuring music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Gabriel Fauré, Reinhold Glière, and Mathias Spahlinger, arranged by Eleonora Savini premiere ca. 40’

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At first glance, they are not so easy to tell apart: Eleonora and Federica look quite similar, and both not only play an instrument onstage but also dance and sing. However, Eleonora is a violinist, while Federica’s love is for the cello. In the meantime, the two young musicians swap instruments, which makes things even more complicated. But thanks to the magic of the music and the theater, they gradually reveal their own personalities, showing how they are different from each other while coming together again at the end… This pillow concert for all of our little guests at the Special Event Day is aimed not only at the ears but at the eyes as well. Together with their fellow Italian, the choreographer and director Pietro Gaudioso, Eleonora Savini and Federica Vecchio have developed an imaginative stage show in which everything becomes music and scenic action.

Even violin and cello cases are transformed into instruments through the sounds made by their buttons and zippers or their lids being opened and closed.

Worship Service Related to the Summer Theme 10.00 Matthäuskirche Ecumenical liturgical service on the Festival theme of “Power” with Eva Brandin and Florian Flohr Musical direction: Stephen Smith

Special Event Day | 1 September Museum Concerts 1 & 2 13.00 and 16.00 Kunstmuseum Luzern admission included with purchase of a museum ticket

“You must learn composing through praxis” Wolfgang Rihm

JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violin John Pickford Richards viola Jay Campbell cello Mivos Quartet: Olivia de Prato and Lauren Cauley violin Victor Lowrie Tafoya viola Tyler J. Borden cello Composer Seminar Performance always ca. 45’

Wolfgang Rihm introduces the participants of the Composer Seminar and their works during the course of these concerts (in German)

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JACK Quartet

If a composer wants to present a new work today, these two young American ensembles are among the first people to contact: the JACK Quartet and the Mivos Quartet. Both formations have received definitive inspiration from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and are now returning to perform the final concerts of this year’s Composer Seminar. This was a stroke of luck, because when Wolfgang Rihm created this wonderful offering for young composers four years ago, he saw it as a great opportunity to have the participants not only discuss their works as ideas on paper but also to try them out immediately – and with performers who are well-versed in the music of our time and eager to collaborate with living composers. The JACKs and the Mivos Quartet have spent a week rehearsing the scores – from solo pieces to complete quartets – and will now present them to the Festival audience, offering a panorama of contemporary composition and, at the same time, a glimpse into the future.

Special Event Day | 1 September

“You can’t have everything” Charles Ramuz in The Soldier’s Tale

Family Concert 14.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 50/10 (discount) Event no. 19404

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Maria Ursprung staging Lani Tran-Duc scenery Markus Güdel lighting Julian Greis The Soldier Isabelle Menke The Devil TBA The Princess “The Soldier’s Tale” A tale of money and power, music, and the soul (in German) ca. 60’

For listeners ages 8 and up

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by René Auberjonois)

A poor soldier who wants to return to his homeland after three years in the regiment meets a peculiar stranger – the devil, who suggests striking a bargain.

If the soldier will hand over his violin, the devil will give him a magic book containing the key to immeasurable wealth. The soldier cannot resist this temptation (or the tempter) and agrees to the deal. But when he arrives at home, suddenly everything is different. No one knows him anymore, and his bride has long since married someone else. He does indeed become a wealthy merchant, but he is not happy, because he has also sold his soul along with the violin …

Three actors and an ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI will recount The Soldier’s Tale. Igor Stravinsky composed a burlesque score to this old Russian fairy tale, which was fashioned into a libretto by the Swiss poet Charles Ramuz.

He uses folk songs, chorales, and such dances as the waltz, tango, ragtime, and the paso doble. The result is a diverse and meaningful musical pleasure.

Special Event Day | 1 September Music Theater 1 15.00, 18.30, and 20.30 Europaplatz Ticket prices CHF 50/25 (discount) Ticket information at lucernefestival.ch or (starting on 14 May) at luzernertheater.ch

“For once, a different side of the normally very serious world of the avant-garde” Süddeutsche Zeitung

Ruedi Häusermann composition and staging Henosode Quartet: Sara Hubrich and Josa Gerhard violin Benedikt Bindewald viola Christoph Hampe cello Thomas Douglas actor Giuseppe Reichmuth architecture Sabine Hilscher costumes Judith Gerstenberg dramaturgy Ruedi Häusermann Tonhalle (Luzern, Europaplatz 1b) A music-theater assertion of self A production of the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre with the Festival Rümlingen and the KlangKunstBühne of the Berlin University of the Arts The new version of Tonhalle in Lucerne is a coproduction by LUCERNE FESTIVAL with the Luzerner Theater 56

Composite photograph LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Additional performances: 31 August (premiere) and from 2 through 8 September (always two to three times daily) Detailed information at lucernefestival.ch

The performance lasts approx.

45 minutes; including entrance and exit, max. of 1 hour

Lucerne – a city in search of the best of all possible venues! With the KKL, new standards for concert halls were set 20 years ago. The Theaterhaus is meanwhile the site of new planning for a theater building for the Luzerner Theater, which will expand out into a natural setting at the beginning of its season (see Ouverture dans la nuit on page 48), as well as right in front of the KKL. Here, the Henosode Quartet has built its own “Tonhalle” (“concert hall”), 2.75 x 5.25 x 2 meters, no bigger, no smaller. The available space is indeed limited, but these four musicians do not want to stay confined to a marginalized status that is enjoyed only by connoisseurs. Under the direction of the actor Thomas Douglas, they have screwed up their courage and brought their tender musical world into contact with raw reality.

Douglas teaches the members of the Quartet to transform every disturbance of the uncontrollable outside world into an advantage by turning it into their own musical expression. At the end, the small group of listeners will leave the little house in an unforeseeably cheerful state of ambivalence, liberated from what is expedient and fortified against the unexpected.

Special Event Day | 1 September

“Power is the best aphrodisiac”

NZZ Podium 17.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium

Henry A. Kissinger

Ticket prices CHF 30/10 (discount) Event no. 19317

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Carl Theodor von Piloty, The Assassination of Caesar

Power is a principle that structures every human community. Power has always been revered and feared. What began in prehistory with the superiority of those who were stronger and smarter continued as the reign of groups able to sustainably transform the resource of power into a power resource. A social pyramid was formed; nobility and clergy shared power until revolutions put an end to this monopoly. Nevertheless, a long time had to pass before the era of power controlled and shared by the people in which we live today began. Democracy and meritocracy have differentiated and disarmed the play of power. To be able to act, societies need elites, but at the same time these elites remain integrated into a functional system that limits their power. Today, power always borders on powerlessness: those who climb high can also fall low. Micheline Calmy-Rey, Igor Levit, Rainer Hank, and Festival Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger will discuss this summer’s theme of “Power” with Martin Meyer.

“Play and Terror”

Panel discussion (in German) with Micheline Calmy-Rey former Swiss Foreign Minister Igor Levit pianist Rainer Hank business journalist Michael Haefliger Director of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Host: Martin Meyer Director of the NZZ Podium

ca. 90’

Sunday, 1 September Symphony Concert 14 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Creating a new piece is like discovering an unknown world”

Marianna Liik

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 95 | Event no. 19721

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Sir George Benjamin, David Fulmer (Planells Schiaffino) and Ruth Reinhardt (Liik) conductors Reinhold Friedrich trumpet Robyn Schulkowsky percussion Marianna Liik Kurzschluss for orchestra | world premiere “Roche Young Commissions” | ca. 15’ Josep Planells Schiaffino Torna for orchestra | world premiere “Roche Young Commissions” ca. 17’

Wolfgang Rihm Marsyas. Rhapsody for trumpet with percussion and orchestra ca. 16’

George Benjamin Palimpsests for orchestra | ca. 21’

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Dieter Ammann glut for orchestra | ca. 17’

Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall with Wolfgang Rihm, Ruth Reinhardt, David Fulmer, and the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY (in German and English)

Two novelties and three masterpieces from the recent past await us in this second orchestral concert by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY. Palimpsest is the term used to describe old documents in which the original text has been erased and overwritten several times, without completely disappearing. Sir George Benjamin has taken up this principle in Palimpsests, in which he superimposes a cantilena of clarinets with new layers of music. Wolfgang Rihm, for his part, was inspired by Greek myth to create a virtuoso trumpet concerto. The myth tells of the satyr Marsyas: he challenges Apollo, the god of the Muses, to a musical competition, is defeated, and is then skinned alive as punishment for his hubris. And in glut (2016), the Swiss composer Dieter Ammann makes musical abundance (a “glut”) come to a glow (German Glut). What all three composers have in common is their feeling for brilliant timbres and discernible structures, as well as their thoughtful connection to musical tradition. And we are eager to see which paths the Estonian Marianna Liik and the Spaniard Josef Planells Schiaffino will take in their respective new orchestral works.

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“A genius or a musical adventurer?”

Robert Schumann on Hector Berlioz

Monday, 2 September Symphony Concert 15 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19336

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta conductor Ödön Pártos Concertino for Strings ca. 8’

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D major, D 200 ca. 26’

Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

ca. 58’

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In the Symphonie fantastique, Hector Berlioz came to terms with his own unhappy love for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson – and in the process conjured up the Higher Powers that the mind cannot control, in the form of dreams and delusions, unrestrained passion and opium fever. Berlioz translates these powers of the subconscious into a feverish, debauched, and intoxicating music that drastically reflects his mad passion – and indeed shows all the traits of the “fantastic.” Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will contrast this nocturnal piece of Romanticism with Franz Schubert’s sunny Third Symphony: a youthful work by the 18-year-old that contains much brio and Italianità and, in the finale, culminates in a tarantella, an unbridled Neapolitan dance. The evening opens with music by the Hungarian-Israeli composer and Kodály student Ödön Pártos, who died in 1977 and began his career in 1925 as concertmaster of the Lucerne City Orchestra. His Concertino is a lullaby for the folk music of his Hungarian homeland.

“The Power of Music” 17.15 University of Lucerne (main building, Frohburgstrasse 3) Wolfgang Rihm and Ulrich Konrad discuss music and theology (in German)

Theology Department, Ecumenical Institute of the University of Lucerne in collaboration with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne

Tuesday, 3 September Debut 4 12.15 Lukaskirche

“Never force anything” Daniel Lebhardt

Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 19337

Daniel Lebhardt piano Johann Sebastian Bach Partita in E minor, BWV 830 ca. 30’

Béla Bartók Out of Doors, Sz 81 ca. 15’

Johannes Brahms Piano Pieces, Op. 119 ca. 16’

This concert has no intermission

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When he was living with his family in Hungary, it was never really quiet, says Daniel Lebhardt. His father loved rock and heavy metal, his mother preferred classical concerts, and then there was piano with his grandparents. So, at the age of six, Daniel began his first attempts at the keyboard, and following studies at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and at master classes with Alfred Brendel and Stephen Hough, he is now one of the most highly regarded young stars of the piano scene. The then22-year-old won the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York and Paris in 2014, released his debut CD with Decca in 2015, and, in 2016, was awarded the Most Promising Pianist prize at the Sydney International Competition. He has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., London’s Wigmore Hall, the Louvre in Paris, and Merkin Hall in New York, where his “power, poetry, and formidable technique” was praised by the New York Times. Daniel Lebhardt himself cites a paradox as the most important advice of his career: “Be yourself, and forget about yourself.”

“A sin of my sweet youth” Tchaikovsky on his Winter Dreams

Tuesday, 3 September Symphony Concert 16 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 3, p. 95 | Event no. 19338

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Tugan Sokhiev conductor Tabea Zimmermann viola

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Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a ca. 20’

Béla Bartók Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Sz 120 ca. 22’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 Winter Dreams ca. 45’

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The Fascists had driven him into exile. In America, the country of refuge, his music was hardly performed. And then he became ill with leukemia. But Béla Bartók did not give up. He continued to compose untiringly, almost to his last breath. Nevertheless, he was not able to finish his Viola Concerto. After his death, it was completed by a third party, expanded, and changed in substance.

Still, Tabea Zimmermann studied the autograph sketches to explore Bartók’s original intentions. In Lucerne, she will play the work in this form, presenting Bartók’s “last will.” In the second part, Tugan Sokhiev, the head of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, will show that music is also an art of perfect illusion with the famous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. With Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, he will let us hear a horse-drawn sleigh glide across the snow-covered tundra, a samovar as it boils, and ice flowers that blossom on windows. A Russian winter dream, garnished with the loveliest folk melodies. Will anyone still believe that it is summer?

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Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Wednesday, 4 September Symphony Concert 17 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 3, p. 95 | Event no. 19339

“O child! This Tristan will be something terrible!”

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Daniel Harding conductor Stuart Skelton Tristan Christine Goerke Isolde Jamie Barton Brangäne Mark Omvlee Melot Stefan Astakhov Kurwenal Matthias Goerne King Marke Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde Concert performance of the 2nd act ca. 80’

This concert has no intermission

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Concert Introductions 11.00 and 14.00 Richard Wagner Museum with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Only with advance registration at lucernefestival.ch/wagner-museum.

Free admission with a concert ticket.

40min “Spotlight On: Rihm’s Dis-Kontur” 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Mariano Chiacchiarini

“O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe”: Hardly any other work manifests the power of music as strongly as Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, whose second act includes these words (“Descend, o night of love”) in its love duet between the two protagonists, weaving an almost narcotic spell with its ecstatic waves of sound. This is music whose effect on the subconscious is immediate, drawing the listener in with intoxicating power. Resistance is futile. And it was inspired by an unfulfilled relationship. When a rapturous letter from the composer to the charming Mathilde Wesendonck, wife of his Zurich patron, was intercepted by Wagner’s jealous wife Minna, it brought an abrupt end to the affair before they could give in to their passion. But Wagner fulfilled his dream of love in music. And he had an inkling about what it was he had succeeded in creating: “I fear the opera will be forbidden,” he wrote to Mathilde. “Only mediocre performances can save me! Completely good ones will drive people to insanity.” So be prepared for everything when Daniel Harding lifts up his baton …

“A true musician!”

Anne-Sophie Mutter on Pablo Ferrández

Thursday, 5 September Debut 5 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 19340

Pablo Ferrández cello Luis del Valle piano Max Bruch Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 ca. 10’

Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 ca. 30’

César Franck Sonata in A major, version for cello and piano

ca. 30’

This concert has no intermission

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When Pablo Ferrández recently made his debut with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christoph Eschenbach couldn’t get over his enthusiasm: “He is the top young cellist and simply has everything: brilliant technique, deep musicality, and overwhelming charisma.” Anne-Sophie Mutter, who performed Brahms’s Double Concerto with the young Spaniard, likewise praises his large sound, cultivated vibrato, and flawless fingering technique. Born in Madrid in 1991, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in his hometown and with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy. He has been a prize winner at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the Paulo Cello Competition; in 2016 he was named Young Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards. Ferrández has worked with the London and Israel Philharmonics, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and with the conductors Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, Zubin Mehta, and Yuri Temirkanov. And now, with his debut at LUCERNE FESTIVAL, the next step in his career awaits him.

Thursday, 5 September Symphony Concert 18 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19341

“The melodies simply poured out of him”

Leonidas Kavakos on Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Vienna Philharmonic Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Antonín Dvořák The Noonday Witch, Op. 108 ca. 15’

Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 ca. 25’

Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World ca. 48’

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40min “Spotlight on: Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Riccardo Chailly

This is a work particularly dear to Leonidas Kavakos’s heart: the Violin Concerto by the Austrian Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who was acclaimed early on as a child prodigy and later became a sensational success in Hollywood as a film composer. The latter role saved his life, because when the Nazis invaded his homeland in 1938, he was in California and thus was able to escape the treatment that awaited him as a Jew. In his Violin Concerto, written in 1945, Korngold also draws on tunes from his film scores, embedding them in a sumptuously late-Romantic orchestral setting. “Music remains music,” Kavakos observes. “The fact that Korngold wrote film music does not make him an inferior composer.” In his legendary Symphony from the New World, Antonín Dvořák was inspired by African American spirituals and Native American melodies. The Vienna Philharmonic has invited the 41-year-old Colombian conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada to the podium for this concert. He is a charismatic maestro and brilliant communicator who has long set standards as head of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

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“You shouldn’t think too much about your age” Bernard Haitink

Friday, 6 September Symphony Concert 19 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19342

Vienna Philharmonic Bernard Haitink conductor Murray Perahia piano Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

ca. 35’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 ca. 65’

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Anyone who attends this concert will later be privileged to be able to say: “I was there.” Because this event will involve an extraordinary and truly indelible meeting of minds. The 90-year-old Bernard Haitink, who embodies the knowledge and wisdom of the great art of conducting like no one else, will once again do the honors – here, leading the Vienna Philharmonic, an ensemble whose sound has remained unmistakable and unique to this day. Haitink has chosen to focus on Anton Bruckner, a composer who has shaped his life ever since he first heard one of his symphonies at the age of eight: “Bruckner was simply always there,” the Dutch maestro says, discussing the Austrian symphonist’s significance for him. With the Seventh in E major, he will devote his attention to perhaps the most popular and melodically enticing of the Bruckner symphonies. Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, a parable about the power of music, makes for a perfect complement. Especially since Murray Perahia, a musical poet and philosopher, will play the solo part.

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Saturday, 7 September Modern 4 16.00 Südpol

Happy Birthday, Heinz Holliger!

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19343

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In cooperation with the Paul Sacher Foundation Concert ends at approx. 17.30

Heinz Holliger has been closely associated with LUCERNE FESTIVAL for almost six decades: as a composer, oboist, and conductor. He was a member of the former Swiss Festival Orchestra, shaped the program as composer-in-residence in 1998, and has also collaborated with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY on several occasions. Holliger thus is part of the family. In May he will turn 80 – and we will celebrate this anniversary later with a chamber concert. The honoree himself will perform pieces that Rudolf Kelterborn and György Kurtág wrote for him. Kurtág, Younghi Pagh-Pan, and Roland Moser have created new works in Holliger’s honor. The program also presents important works by Holliger, including the Second String Quartet, which violinist Thomas Zehetmair once described as an “explosion of color,” and Not I, a monodrama based on Samuel Beckett. Holliger has characterized this piece for soprano as a “Verstummung” (“being silenced”), since the soloist’s stream of words is electronically multiplied and defamiliarized live, becoming increasingly blurred before, in the end, it is completely extinguished.

“She bewitched within seconds” The Times on Vilde Frang

Saturday, 7 September Symphony Concert 20 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19344

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Lahav Shani conductor Vilde Frang violin Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 ca. 25’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, WAB 105 ca. 75’

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It seemed like a symbolic act: when Daniel Barenboim had the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra play a second encore at the 2015 Summer Festival, he ceded his place and asked his assistant – Lahav Shani – to step up to the podium.

The passing of the baton between generations, which was then a foregone conclusion, has now taken place. Born in 1989, Shani has led the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra since the autumn of 2018, and he now performs with this ensemble for the first time in Lucerne; in 2020 he will succeed Zubin Mehta as head of the Israel Philharmonic. This young maestro, whose “soft, flowing, elegant, almost dance-like baton technique” is praised by the press, should not be missed – the future belongs to him. With the monumental Fifth by Anton Bruckner, he has chosen for his debut a work that demands everything, from powerful climactic build-ups and complex polyphony to mystical inwardness.

Before that, the young Norwegian Vilde Frang will perform Max Bruch’s highly Romantic First Violin Concerto: the art of the violin at its finest, music to indulge in.

This concert is under the auspices of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

At the Buvette 17.00 Inseli Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

Saturday, 7 September Late Night 4 22.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

“I don’t paint the tango with pastel sounds” Astor Piazzolla

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19735

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Mariano Chiacchiarini conductor Michael Zisman bandoneon Astor Piazzolla Decarísimo ca. 3’

Concerto for Bandoneon, Strings, and Percussion ca. 20’

Oblivion ca. 5’

Tangazo for Chamber Orchestra ca. 15’

Adiós Nonino ca. 7’

Libertango ca. 4’

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Michael Zisman

In the summer of 2015, when the Argentine conductor Mariano Chiacchiarini appeared in Lucerne as a guest at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, he turned out to be a gifted tango dancer away from the concert stage. Now he can give vent to this passion on the podium. Together with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI, he will create a thrilling tango night with music by his legendary compatriot Astor Piazzolla. Using influences from jazz and classical music, refined harmonies, and new playing techniques, Piazzolla expanded the traditional tango argentino, making music that took it out of the nightclubs and into the concert hall. And he composed such works for orchestra as the “grand tango” Tangazo and his powerfully blazing Bandoneon Concerto. Michael Zisman, the Swiss bandoneon virtuoso with Argentinean roots, will perform this piece with a feeling for its rhythmic drive as well as for the thoughtful moments of this score. In addition, there will be such evergreen Piazzolla hits as Oblivion, Adiós Nonino, and Libertango, likely his best-known work.

“I cannot abide nationalism” Maurizio Pollini

Sunday, 8 September Recital 4 – Piano 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 4, p. 95 | Event no. 19345

Maurizio Pollini piano André Richard sound design (Nono) Johannes Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 ca. 17’

Luigi Nono … sofferte onde serene … for piano and tape ca. 14’

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 106 Hammerklavier Sonata

ca. 44’

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As a concert pianist, Maurizio Pollini explains, you have to play the same pieces over and over again. What are the consequences as far as he is concerned?

“That’s why I have preferred to play only music that I was certain would never bore me.” The program Pollini has put together for this recital is a prime example. At the age of 77, the Italian grand seigneur of the art of the keyboard can empathize better than ever with the soul of late-period Johannes Brahms, who began his last piano works as the monologues of a lonely man at the instrument. Beethoven, on the other hand, has been a constant companion for Pollini throughout his life. With the Hammerklavier Sonata, he ascends the formidable Mount Everest of the 32 Beethoven sonatas. And Pollini wouldn’t be Pollini if he had not been so passionate about contemporary music. Which is why he will play his compatriot Luigi Nono’s … sofferte onde serene … for piano and tape, a piece that reflects the experience of grieving. Nono uses the oscillation and fading of notes and chords, in the process responding to the bell sounds of his native Venice as they echo across the lagoon.

Sunday, 8 September Family Concert Quatuor Beat 1 & 2 14.00 and 16.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Four explorers on drums can stir up a lot of excitement

Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event no. 19358/19359

Quatuor Beat: Gabriel Benlolo, Adrien Pineau, Laurent Fraiche, and Jérome Guicherd percussion Pierre-Jean Carrus staging Moïse Hill lighting design “Kromoritmos” A rhythm spectacle with music by composers including Leonard Bernstein, Goran Bregović, and Astor Piazzolla ca. 45’

For listeners ages 5 and up This performance has no intermission

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No, Quatuor Beat does not pay homage to the Swiss male first name “Beat.”

These four drummers from France have the English word in mind as part of their name since it characterizes what they do on stage quite well: they drum and groove for all they’re worth! With their award-winning production Drumblebee, they inspired tremendous enthusiasm in Lucerne a few years ago. Now the Quatuor Beat returns to Lake Lucerne with Kromoritmos to guide young (and young-at-heart) listeners through contemporary and popular music in a survey as full of energy as it is witty: from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story to Astor Piazzolla, from Witold Lutosławski to Goran Bregović. The four musicians alternate between marimba and vibraphone, cymbals and bongos: a percussive universe full of different timbral colors (chromos) and rhythms (ritmos), populated by instruments made of wood, fur, or metal that can be beaten, stroked, scratched, and shaken.

“I want to move and be moved” Wolfgang Rihm

Sunday, 8 September Symphony Concert 21 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 95 | Event no. 19346

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Riccardo Chailly conductor Jacques Zoon flute Lucas Macías Navarro oboe Alexander Mosolov The Iron Foundry, Op. 19

ca. 4’

Bruno Maderna Grande Aulodia for solo flute and oboe with orchestra Swiss premiere ca. 35’

Arnold Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 version for large orchestra from 1909 ca. 17’

Wolfgang Rihm Dis-Kontur for large orchestra Swiss premiere

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This marks the first time that Riccardo Chailly is conducting the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI, which brings together selected former participants of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY. The theme of Chailly’s program might be “Departure.” In 1909 Arnold Schoenberg ventured to take the leap into free atonality with an extremely condensed, expressive music in his Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16. Alexander Mosolov, who was later sentenced to forced labor in the gulag under Stalin, represents the Soviet musical avant-garde of the 1920s: his famous The Iron Foundry transforms the orchestra into a gigantic, rhythmically pounding machine and the concert hall into a factory. In addition, there will be two belated Swiss premieres. With works such as Dis-Kontur, Wolfgang Rihm showed that it was still possible to initiate a revolution in the 1970s, when his direct, emotional musical language met with outraged rejection from the dogmatists of new music. Finally, Chailly’s compatriot Bruno Maderna will evoke the sound of the ancient Greek aulos with the free-flowing melody of his double concerto.

Swiss Re – Partner LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI

Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Wolfgang Rihm in conversation with Mark Sattler (in German) Guest Performance 9 September | 20.00 Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Riccardo Chailly | Jacques Zoon | Lucas Macías Navarro

Monday, 9 September Symphony Concert 22 – räsonanz Donor Concert 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 95 | Event no. 19350

“What a wonderful voice, with so many colors”

Hans Abrahamsen on Barbara Hannigan London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor Barbara Hannigan soprano Hans Abrahamsen let me tell you for soprano and orchestra ca. 30’

Olivier Messiaen Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà … for large orchestra ca. 60’

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Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Hans Abrahamsen in conversation with Mark Sattler (in English)

“Let me tell you what it was like”: Ophelia, the plaything in the power struggles at the Danish royal court, gets a voice. The Welsh writer Paul Griffiths has combined her words from Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet to create a large monologue, from which the Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen has built a moving cycle of orchestral songs. He sensitively sketches the musical psychogram of a young woman who remembers her love and hopes, recounting her emotional distress and existential despair. The fact that let me tell you has been a sensational international success since its premiere in 2013 is in no small part attributable to the exceptional soprano Barbara Hannigan, for whom Abrahamsen composed the work. Hannigan’s stupendous vocal art led Figaro to speculate whether she comes from “another planet.” Olivier Messiaen’s great orchestral work Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà ..., his final work, likewise seems to be something no longer of this world. In eleven movements, it directs our gaze toward eternity through powerful wind writing, bird call polyphony, and transfigured string melodies.

räsonanz Donor Concert. An initiative of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, in cooperation with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and Bavarian Radio’s musica viva

“We need the audience, they give meaning to what we do” Bomsori Kim

Tuesday, 10 September Debut 6 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 19349

Bomsori Kim violin Michail Lifits piano Robert Schumann Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 105 ca. 17’

Jean Sibelius Selection from Six Pieces, Op. 79 ca. 11’

Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94b ca. 25’

Franz Waxman Carmen Fantasie ca. 11’

This concert has no intermission

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Kim, which means “gold,” is the most common surname in Korea; about 22% of the population shares it. Bomsori Kim, however, is a genuinely unique specimen, and the name’s significance is quite appropriate for her. The violinist, who was born in 1989 and trained in Seoul and at the Juilliard School in New York, makes music sparkle with her playing. A prize winner at the Moscow Tchaikovsky and ARD Music Competitions, as well as the Concours Reine Elisabeth and the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, she has already been a guest artist at the Musikverein in Vienna, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, the Berlin Philharmonie, and Carnegie Hall in New York. And just recently, in February 2019, she made her debut with the esteemed New York Philharmonic. For her Lucerne debut, Bomsori Kim has let herself be inspired by the Festival theme of “Power” – for example, with Prokofiev’s Second Violin Sonata, which juxtaposes the hardships of war and Stalinist repression with the ideal of weightless beauty. And at the end the violinist will slip into the role of Carmen, the powerful seductress par excellence.

Tuesday, 10 September Symphony Concert 23 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“I write music for human beings” Benjamin Britten

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19351

London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor Joseph Haydn Symphony in D major, Hob. I:86 ca. 25’

Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 ca. 17’

Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 ca. 60’

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40min “Sergei and the Wolf” Prokofiev: A Life in the Shadow of Power 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Susanne Stähr

The second program that he has designed with his London Symphony Orchestra is entirely to the taste of Sir Simon Rattle. First, there’s Haydn, of whose striking ideas and musical surprises Rattle can’t get enough. “I’m crazy about him,” he once confessed. With his compatriot Benjamin Britten and The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Rattle will then present an educational project in the symphonic art. Britten takes the magnificent Baroque rondeau from Henry Purcell’s Abdelazar on a tour through the orchestra’s various instruments, demonstrating the many varieties of musical costuming that instrumentation and arrangement make possible – a delightful pleasure for young and old alike.

In the second part of the program, Rattle will open up the magic box of the late-Romantic orchestra as he focuses on Rachmaninoff ’s Second Symphony, written in Dresden in 1906 and 1907: music that is inspired by the almost infinite melodies it breathes. This work becomes a demonstration of the power and splendor of musical fantasy, even though its elegiac tone never diminishes.

“How privileged we are to live in democracy and freedom!”

Evgeny Kissin

Wednesday, 11 September Symphony Concert 24 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19348

Orchestre National de France Emmanuel Krivine conductor Evgeny Kissin piano Franz Liszt Mazeppa, S 100 ca. 16’

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S 125 ca. 23’

Modest Mussorgsky/ Maurice Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition ca. 35’

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He was regarded as a Russian prodigy, performed piano concertos at the age of 10, and was 17 when he celebrated his breakthrough – as a soloist at the New Year’s Eve concert of the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan. Evgeny Kissin’s star has been shining brightly in the firmament of the international piano scene for three decades now. But this musician, who was once so shy and who now lives in Prague as a British and Israeli citizen, has come out of his shell in recent years. He seems more open, more accessible, more willingly showing his colors.

This has done no harm to his art: when Kissin plays Liszt, as in this concert, piano fans get their money’s worth. For this is a pianist who masters the whole spectrum, from ethereal, dreamy sounds to rich, hall-filling fortes. His musical partners in Lucerne are the Orchestre National de France and its principal conductor Emmanuel Krivine, who, after the break, play Ravel’s ideally matched orchestral version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition – a work that proves what is possible through the power of music: during this imaginary tour of a museum, we even begin to see with our ears. marmite verlags AG – Concert Sponsor

40min “Portrait of Thomas Kessler” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Ruth Reinhardt | Daniela Argentino Kessler Shifted Vibrations | Flüchtige Gesänge for soprano and ensemble

Thursday, 12 September Debut 7 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 19352

“Emotional contrasts that are symphonic in scope” Wonhee Bae on Schubert’s G major Quartet

Esmé Quartet: Wonhee Bae 1st violin Yuna Ha 2nd violin Jiwon Kim viola Ye-eun Heo cello Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 ca. 25’

Franz Schubert String Quartet in G major, D 887 ca. 50’

This concert has no intermission

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A string quartet composed of four women is still a rarity on international concert stages. And when this German-based quartet is also made up of four Korean women, the rarity factor increases. The ensemble has also won a number of prizes at the major competitions, which means we can rightly speak of a novelty. The Esmé Quartet, which earned acclaim at the Trondheim Chamber Music Competition in 2017, won London’s Wigmore Hall Competition in 2018, and was honored at the Académie du Festival d’Aix, is currently studying at the Lübeck Music Academy with Heime Müller, the former violinist of the Artemis Quartet. And if you notice names such as Günther Pichler, Eberhard Feltz, or András Keller, with whom these four musicians completed master classes, then you will understand that they are well-versed in all the tricks of the trade when it comes to the art of performance. In Lucerne, the Esmé Quartet will introduce itself by performing the last quartets by Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert – works that point ahead into the future in remarkable ways. Schubert’s G major Quartet in particular at times sounds almost like Bruckner.

“Should I see a servant enjoy happiness?”

Count Almaviva

Thursday, 12 September Symphony Concert 25 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 1 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19353

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera Teodor Currentzis conductor Andrei Bondarenko Il Conte di Almaviva Ekaterina Scherbachenko La Contessa di Almaviva Alex Esposito Figaro Olga Kulchynska Susanna Paula Murrihy Cherubino Evgeny Stavinsky Bartolo Sergey Godin Don Curzio Krystian Adam Don Basilio Garry Agadzhanyan Antonio and other soloists Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 Opera buffa in four acts Concert performance Performance ends at approx. 22.00 77

The French King Louis XVI was beside himself: “This is horrible, it will never be performed!” he exclaimed when he encountered Beaumarchais’ comedy Le mariage de Figaro. The premiere, which took place at the Comédie française in 1784, was all the more sensational. The aura of an overthrow (to which the King actually fell victim at the guillotine nine years later) was in the air and ensured that the piece spread like wildfire. In Vienna, however, where the play had initially been banned by censorship, it was staged as an opera in 1786, in the version by Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: “What is not allowed to be said in our times is sung,” the Wiener Realzeitung commented in its report on Le nozze di Figaro. Here, a critique of the privileges of the nobility sets in motion a turbulent plot of intrigue in which the servant couple Figaro and Susanna eventually triumph over the autocratic potentate. Mozart’s subversive Figaro is one of the wittiest operas in the entire repertoire – and enchants with its wonderful music. The ideal kickoff for the Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle by Teodor Currentzis!

In memory of Karl and Karin Megerle

Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Friday, 13 September Symphony Concert 26 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Curiosity is in my genes” Cecilia Bartoli

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 1, p. 94 | Event no. 19354

musicAeterna orchestra of Perm Opera Teodor Currentzis conductor Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Selected arias from La clemenza di Tito, K. 621, along with arias and orchestral pieces from other works Concert ends at approx. 21.45

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This is an absolute world premiere! Cecilia Bartoli and Teodor Currentzis are performing together for the very first time. The spirited Italian mezzo-soprano, who captivates her audiences from the first note she sings and from the first step she takes onstage, will join the mysterious guru among today’s conductors. And both remark that a dream that they had been hoping to realize for a long time is now coming true. Which is why both artists cleared their schedules and plans to make this encounter possible. Currentzis, who actually makes it his principle never to give concerts more than three days in a row, will break this iron rule for Bartoli; and for her part, the singer immediately agreed to take on the role of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte for Currentzis’s festival finale (see page 82). But only and exclusively in Lucerne! The new “dream couple” begins its collaboration with an all-Mozart evening made up of selected arias and orchestral pieces from the cornucopia of his rich oeuvre.

KPMG AG – Concert Sponsor

“Their joyful playing becomes infectious within seconds” Rheinische Post

Saturday, 14 September Family Concert Sonus Brass 1 & 2 11.00 and 14.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event no. 19360/19361

Sonus Brass Ensemble: Stefan Dünser trumpet, idea, and concept Attila Krako trumpet Andreas Schuchter horn Wolfgang Bilgeri trombone Harald Schele tuba Markus Kupferblum staging Pascale Chevroton choreography “The Brassworkers” or: Five Unemployed Men Do Away with the Blues A staged music performance featuring works by Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar, Duke Ellington, and Nino Rota ca. 45’

A production of Jeunesse Wien and the Sonus Brass Ensemble For listeners ages 6 and up This performance has no intermission

By chance, five men run into each other. They have all just lost their jobs and are worried about how things will go on with their lives, their families. Out of boredom, they rummage around in a pile of scrap metal. What was supposedly mere junk starts to make sounds of clattering and pinging. Entire musical instruments can even be built from this metal scrap. The first notes are elicited from the “stove pipes” with the help of the young audience. How could these five working men know how to do this? But as soon as they can play a piece of music, they discover that each instrument has its own unique sound. And so they introduce their respective instruments with a solo. And then it happens: they suddenly play together, off each other – a whole new experience that inspires everyone! The five decide to perform as a band in the future. And because they all had something to do with brass metal in their former professions, they quickly come up with a name for their formation: the Brassworkers! So begins a musical career, and the first piece of their own is the cool “Brassworker Rap.”

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Saturday, 14 September Music Theater 2 16.00 Südpol Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 19355

“All is grown together – word and tone, instrument and gesture, sound and sense” Martin Smolka on Vor dem Gesetz Ensemble ascolta Ivana Kanhauser lighting Jiří Adámek staging and sets Martin Smolka Vor dem Gesetz (“Before the Law”) for speaking musicians with side instruments Libretto by Jiří Adámek, based on texts by Franz Kafka Swiss premiere ca. 60’

A production of Ensemble ascolta, LUCERNE FESTIVAL, and WDR/Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik This performance has no intermission

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Martin Smolka

Concert Introduction 15.00 Südpol Martin Smolka and Jiří Adámek in conversation with Mark Sattler (in English)

No videos, no additional actors or narrator: only the seven musicians from Ensemble ascolta are onstage. In close cooperation with them, the Czech composer Martin Smolka and his compatriot, librettist and director Jiří Adámek, have developed a stage format that is situated between concert, theater, and instrumental opera. Their aim is to bring about a “deeper encounter between language and music” through a reduction in external trappings, to understand “music as speech” and “speech as music.” As Smolka explains: “Members of Ensemble ascolta not only play their instruments, but speak, sing (and a lot in between), and play various side instruments. Some of the texts will sound, others are hidden in the specific concretion of musical and theatrical elements.

Let us ask, like John Cage: ‘Is the word “music” music?’” In order to keep big, abstract ideas from being imposed on the sounds through language, Smolka and Adámek chose texts by Franz Kafka, a master of precise observation and concrete metaphor.

“Viva la libertà!”

Don Giovanni

Saturday, 14 September Symphony Concert 27 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 2 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19356

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera Teodor Currentzis conductor Dimitris Tiliakos Don Giovanni Robert Lloyd Commendatore Nadezhda Pavlova Donna Anna Kenneth Tarver Don Ottavio Ekaterina Scherbachenko Donna Elvira TBA Leporello TBA Masetto Christina Gansch Zerlina Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Don Giovanni, K. 527 Dramma giocoso in two acts Concert performance Performance ends at approximately 22.00

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Don Giovanni, the pleasure seeker and libertine, seduces women by the dozen: peasants and baronesses, blonde and brown, thin and fat, young and old: 231 in Germany, 640 in Italy, and, in Spain, no fewer than 1,003, as Leporello, his servant, recounts with relish in the “Catalogue Aria.” Don Giovanni embodies the power of Eros, and it is no coincidence that “long live freedom” is his motto.

In the end, however, he must surrender to a higher power and pay the price for his excessive lifestyle. In Mozart’s opera, the threat of the Last Judgment and the vision of damnation lurks over the hero’s fate from the very first bar of the Overture. But there is so much else to experience: the sparking “Champagne Aria,” the ingratiating balcony serenade, the erotic duet “Là ci darem la mano,” the stunning journey through hell … And above all, the unbelievable mood changes in which Mozart, within the span of a few bars, shifts from euphoric exuberance to abysmal sorrow. For such transitions, Richard Strauss once admitted, he would have gladly given away three of his operas.

Viking – Concert Sponsor

Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Sunday, 15 September Symphony Concert 28 – Mozart-Da Ponte Cycle 3 16.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 94 | Event no. 19357

“There’s no game more amusing in the whole world” Guglielmo and Ferrando

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera Teodor Currentzis conductor Nadezhda Pavlova Fiordiligi Paula Murrihy Dorabella Konstantin Suchkov Guglielmo TBA Ferrando Cecilia Bartoli Despina Konstantin Wolff Don Alfonso Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Così fan tutte, K. 588 Opera in two acts Concert performance

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Concert Introduction 15.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

We are in the laboratory of emotions. In Mozart’s Così fan tutte, the philosopher Don Alfonso is performing a perfidious soul experiment with two young couples. He wants to prove to the two men that not a single woman can be faithful. Therefore, he has them called up for military service, but immediately has them disguised as Middle Eastern aristocrats and sends them back to their lovers with the risqué task of courting and seducing each other’s brides. The arranged experiment turns out to be a success, but these young people become the playthings in Alfonso’s intrigue – and in the end are all cheated: not only the women, who fan tutte così (“all do it this way”), but also the men, who have willingly agreed to all this. Così fan tutte dismantles prevailing morality. This is an opera that debunks the idea of unbreakable vows of loyalty and heroic virtues. In our fragility, our delusions, our vulnerability, we are all equal: that is the bottom line. A joyful message? In any case, Mozart’s heavenly music is beyond all doubt, as Teodor Currentzis and his six soloists, including Cecilia Bartoli, will prove.

Art

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At Roche we embrace science and art. Both energise our imaginations and inspire inventions - making our world better.

The Partners of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Main Sponsors Developing associated, content-rich projects in collaboration with leading partners from the business world is a special goal of LUCERNE FESTIVAL. As Main Sponsors, these companies enter into a long-term partnership with the Festival in order to promote the development and implementation of individual artistic concepts.

Credit Suisse makes the annual orchestral residency of the Vienna Philharmonic possible. In addition, the Credit Suisse Foundation is dedicated to supporting emerging artists through two awards devoted to the next generation. These are granted annually on an al-

ternating basis: the “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes” and the “Credit Suisse Young Artist Award.”

Nestlé S.A. is committed to the ambitious idea of a unique Festival orchestra and makes the annual residency of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA possible through its contributions.

Roche is a committed partner of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and grants composition commissions in alternating years as part of the “Roche Commissions” and the “Roche Young Commissions.” The resulting new works are given their premieres as part of the Summer Festival.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL thanks its Partners for their valued commitment to the 2019 Summer Festival.

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The Adecco Group Foundation supports the development of the Festival’s international presence, especially the activities of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA in Asia, thus enhancing the worldwide reputation of the Festival.

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Zurich) has made it a primary goal to enable access to classical music for a broad public. The free “40min” concert series underscores this commitment with numerous events in Lucerne Hall.

Theme Sponsor Every summer, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is traditionally organized around a general theme that serves as a leitmotif for the concert programming. “Power” is the theme of the 2019 Summer Festival – which may well be the most controversial theme for humanity in general. On the one hand, the programming will include works that explore the phenomenon of power in terms of their content; on the other, we will investigate music’s own power to have an impact. And of course we will also draw attention to power structures as these have shaped and continue to shape the world of music.

Clariant supports LUCERNE FESTIVAL in these endeavors as Theme Sponsor.

Concert Sponsors Dr. Christoph M. Müller and Sibylla M. Müller | Franke | KPMG AG | marmite verlags AG | Viking Co-Sponsors Andermatt Swiss Alps AG | B. Braun Medical AG | Bucherer AG | la Mobilière | Family Goer | Schindler Elevator Ltd. | Swiss Life | Swiss Re | Zuger Kantonalbank Foundations Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation – Partner Donor Concert Fritz Gerber Foundation – Partner Fritz Gerber Award Hilti Foundation – Partner Music Camp Arts Council Korea | Bernard van Leer Foundation Lucerne | Cleven Foundation | Egon Zehnder | Else v. Sick Stiftung | Ernst Göhner Foundation | Fondation Suisa | Geert and Lore Blanken-Schlemper Foundation | Karitative Stiftung Dr. Gerber-ten Bosch | Kuehne Foundation | Federal Cultural Foundation | Landis & Gyr Foundation | Max Kohler Stiftung | Paul Sacher Foundation | Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council | René und Susanne Braginksy Stiftung | RHL Foundation | Foundation Melinda Esterházy de Galantha Zurich | Stiftung Musikpädagogisches Forschungszentrum Vitznau | Strebi-Stiftung Luzern | Thomas Abegg Foundation Grants and Subsidies Kanton Luzern | Stadt Luzern

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The moral and financial support that is obtained through this non-profit organization is invaluable for LUCERNE FESTIVAL. The Friends’ contributions, about eight percent of the total budget, are a significant contribution to the Festival’s financial security and sustainability.

Aside from this funding source, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is mainly supported by private and corporate sponsors and receives only a small contribution in the form of subsidy from the public sector. The Friends have thus become an indispensable partner of the Festival. But not only is supporting the Festival of today a matter of central concern: they also hope to create a sustainable basis for the artistic activity of tomorrow by fostering such important projects as the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG. The circle of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL offers an opportunity to share in the experience of the Festival in all its variety and to deepen your musical experience through such exclusive events as artist meetand-greets and visits to rehearsals; through the Friends you can moreover make contact with an interesting and international group of like-minded peers.

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We organize shared trips to the concert hall at reduced ticket prices, which are supplemented with a varied program of related events. You can obtain more information by writing jungefreunde@lucernefestival.ch.

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QR-CODE FOR INSTANT BOOKING Each Festival event has a unique QR code associated with it. You can scan this using the QR code reader on your smartphone and directly access the corresponding concert page on our website.

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TICKET SALES AT THE BOX OFFICE Ticket Sales Throughout the Year As soon as online sales begin on 25 March 2019 at 12.00 noon (Swiss time), you can also obtain your concert tickets for the Summer Festival in person at the ticket windows of our off-site ticket outlets. Please find the addresses of our ticket outlets throughout Switzerland on p. 93.

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Things To Know For Your Concert Visit Entrance to the Concert Hall The main KKL Concert Hall opens 30 minutes before the beginning of the concert. For events in the KKL’s Lucerne Hall or at one of the venues outside the KKL, if applicable, access will start shortly before the beginning of the event. For the sake of the musicians and the audience, latecomers will not be admitted until intermission or at the discretion of the Concert Hall staff. In certain instances concerts will have no intermission and allow no latecomers. If the concert is missed on account of tardy arrival, tickets will not be refunded.

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Read the Program Booklet before the Concert You may purchase your program booklet online in PDF form starting about seven days before the event in question. Each concert’s detail page on our website has a direct link where you can purchase and download the PDF. Audio and Video Recording For all LUCERNE FESTIVAL events, customers are strictly prohibited from making visual or audio recordings, including even for private use. Failure to comply will result in expulsion from the event venue. LUCERNE FESTIVAL makes audio and/or video recordings of certain performances. With the purchase of a concert ticket, the customer understands that LUCERNE FESTIVAL also uses recordings in which it is possible that he or she may appear.

Cloakroom Coats and items indicated below must be left in the cloakroom in the KKL Luzern, which is free of charge. A limited number of lockers is also available in the cloakroom area. Please note that, for security reasons, bags and other objects that are larger than 40 x 25 x 25 cm in size must be left in the cloakroom before entering the concert halls.

Information on Wheelchairs The main concert hall of the KKL Luzern has six wheelchair spaces with a good view of the stage, which are available on special terms.

The Festival cannot ensure that accompanying persons will receive a seat in the same price range or in the general vicinity. You can access the KKL Luzern through ground-level doors directly into the foyer, from which elevators give you access to all levels of the building.

Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are located near the cloakrooms on the downstairs level.

Wheelchair spaces are also available at the other event locations. Should you require help at any event venue, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our local staff is always available to help with questions and problems.

General Terms & Conditions The General Terms & Conditions may be found at lucernefestival.ch.

Ticket Outlets Throughout Switzerland BASEL Kulturhaus Bider & Tanner Vorverkaufsstelle Aeschenvorstadt 2 | CH–4010 Basel Mon – Wed and Fri, 9.00 am to 6.30 pm Thu, 9.00 am to 8.00 pm Sat, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm Musik Hug Basel Binningerstrasse 152 | CH–4123 Allschwil Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm BERN tonträger music & more Schweizerhofpassage Spitalgasse 38 | CH–3011 Bern Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm LUCERNE KKL Box Office (train station entrance) Europaplatz 1 | CH–6002 Luzern Mon – Fri, 9.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm

SOLOTHURN Central ticket outlet Buchhandlung Säli Ritterquai 4 | CH–4500 Solothurn Mon, 2.00 pm am to 6.30 pm Tue – Fri, 9.00 am to 12.00 noon and 2.00 pm to 6.30 pm Sat, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm SURSEE von Matt AG Buchhandlung Rathausplatz 2 | CH–6210 Sursee Mon, 1.30 pm to 6.30 pm Tue – Fri, 7.45 am to 12.00 noon and 1.15 pm to 8.30 pm (Thu to 8.00 pm) Sat, 8.30 am to 4.00 pm ZURICH Musik Hug Zürich Limmatquai 28–30 | CH–8001 Zürich Mon – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Musik Hug Luzern Luzernerstrasse 45 | CH–6030 Ebikon Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 9.00 am to 4.00 pm

With regard to all ticket sales from our sales partners, it is not possible to redeem LUCERNE FESTIVAL vouchers, to print duplicate tickets, or to return tickets for resale.

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Seating Maps

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Note on the seating maps: The organizer reserves the right to release individual sections for sale at a later date.

Updated information on all available seats can be found at lucernefestival.ch.

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MK | Matthäuskirche (Church of St. Matthew), Hertensteinstrasse 30, Luzern S | Südpol, Arsenalstrasse 28, Kriens (Bus no. 14 from the main train station) UL | University of Lucerne/main building, Frohburgstrasse 3, Luzern WM | Richard Wagner Museum, Richard-Wagner-Weg 27, Luzern (Bus nos. 6/7/8)

Getting There ARRIVAL VIA TRAIN: YOUR CONCERT TICKET IS ALSO VALID AS A TRAVEL TICKET! Arrival and Departure by Train: 40% Rebate in the Swiss Rail Network As a concertgoer you can receive a discount of 40% for 1st or 2nd class for a round trip to Lucerne. (The concert ticket must be presented to the inspector on the train.) With the halffare card, the trip will cost only 30% of the full fare.

This special ticket must be purchased before beginning your trip: either at a Swiss Rail ticket counter, from a ticket machine, by calling the Rail Service line at 0848 44 66 88 (CHF 0.08/minute in the Swiss telephone network), or online at the SBB ticket shop (sbb.ch/lucernefestival).

ARRIVAL VIA CAR The KKL Luzern is located right next to Lucerne’s main train station. Owing to the parking and traffic situation, we recommend using public transportation during the Festival season. Guests who travel by car are advised to observe the city’s parking guidance system and to take the bus from the parking garages to the KKL Luzern.

The parking garages are indicated on the adjacent map; you can find additional information at parking-luzern.ch.

Park & Ride Several train stations outside the City of Lucerne offer Park & Ride for rail travel to Lucerne. The following stations are especially convenient and provide ample parking: Sursee, Rotkreuz, Zug, Wolhusen, Arth-Goldau, and Sarnen.

Would you like to learn more about Lucerne and its surrounding area?

Are you in need of accommodation?

Tourist Information Tourist Information Luzern Zentralstrasse 5 | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 (0)41 227 17 17 Accommodation Lucerne’s Tourist Office can help you find accommodation.

Central reservations no.: t +41 41 227 17 27 | luzern@luzern.com

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FESTIVAL CITY LuCErnE The Festival City Lucerne delights throughout the year: classical music, blues, rock, comics and enthralling sport events.

Fumetto Comic-Festival Luzern

World Band Festival Lucerne

6 – 14 April 2019 www.fumetto.ch

21 – 29 September 2019 www.worldbandfestival.ch

European Rowing Championships 2019 Lucerne, 31 May – 2 June 2019

SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne

www.lucerne2019.com

27 October 2019 www.swisscitymarathon.ch

Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern

Lucerne Blues Festival

9 July 2019 www.spitzenleichtathletik.ch

9 – 17 November 2019 www.bluesfestival.ch

Blue Balls Festival

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Piano

19 – 27 July 2019 www.blueballs.ch

16 – 24 November 2019 www.lucernefestival.ch

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Summer

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Easter

16 August – 15 September 2019 www.lucernefestival.ch

28 March – 5 April 2020 www.lucernefestival.ch

Luzern LuzernTourismus Tourismus-Tourist -TouristInformation Information| Zentralstrasse | Zentralstrasse5 5| CH-6002 | CH-6002Lucerne Luzern Tel. +41 (0)41 227 17 17 | Fax Tel. +41 (0)41 227 17 18 17 | luzern@luzern.com | www.luzern.com

Erleben Sie ein Künstlergespräch und hochkarätigen Konzertgenuss Programm 16.00 bis 17.00 Uhr – Künstlergespräch Selten erlebt man Komponisten, die derart erhellend über Musik zu sprechen vermögen: NZZ-Musikredaktor Christian Wildhagen führt ein exklusives Gespräch mit dem führenden deutschen Komponisten Wolfgang Rihm über die Moderne in der Musik und sein Schaffen und Wirken.

17.30 bis 18.15 Uhr – Konzerteinführung 18.30 bis etwa 20.00 Uhr – Sinfoniekonzert Das Orchester der Lucerne Festival Alumni spielt unter der Leitung von Riccardo Chailly und mit den Solisten Jacques Zoon (Flöte) und Lucas Macías Navarro (Oboe) Werke von Alexander Mossolow (Die Eisengiesserei op.19), Arnold Schönberg (Fünf Orchesterstücke op. 16), Bruno Maderna (Grande Aulodia für Flöte und Oboe, Schweizer Erstaufführung) und Wolfgang Rihm (Dis-Kontur, Schweizer Erstaufführung).

Datum Sonntag, 8. September 2019 Eintritt Festivalpaket * Abonnentenpreis Fr. 115.– Normalpreis Fr. 125.– * Im Festivalpaket sind alle Eintritte im KKL-Auditorium (jeweils freie Platzwahl) sowie die Eintrittskarte zum Konzert (Kategorie 2 im Wert von Fr. 100.–) enthalten. Für Künstlergespräch und Konzerteinführung erhalten Sie ein Eintrittsband, das Sie zum Einlass berechtigt. Für das Konzert erhalten Sie eine separate Eintrittskarte.

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Reception on the roof terrace Enjoy a reception on our roof terrace before the concert One glass Louis Roederer Brut Premier, Dyhrberg salmon with herbs of Provence, bread and horseradish mousse Price per person CHF 27.– Information & reservation +41 41 226 79 50 kkl-luzern.ch/experiences

A Recipe for Music: The KKL Lucerne It’s one of the best-sounding locations in the world: the KKL Luzern’s concert hall, created by Jean Nouvel and renowned for its phenomenal acoustics and exquisite architecture alike. This is where the majority of LUCERNE FESTIVAL’s concerts take place.

With a feeling for geometry, forward-looking thinkers in the 19th century had already come to realize what really matters: the sound is best when the concert hall is shaped like a shoebox. Jean Nouvel and the American acoustician Russell Johnson emphasized this even more: from the outset they understood that a modern concert hall needs to be acoustically variable, that Bach and Bruckner require different sonic environments. The acoustic canopy over the stage, a total of 50 heavy echo chamber structures weighing up to eight tons, plaster reliefs, and all of the materials that are used help to implement the highest level of acoustical quality.

Along with double doors that swallow noise and a ventilation system that operates

well below the threshold of audibility, Russell Johnson established a foundation for what any good acoustical environment requires: the sort of absolute quiet in which sounds are allowed to resonate across their entire dynamic range – from the gentlest pianissimo to the mightiest fortissimo.

This fastidious attention to quality extends to the culinary sphere: with their uniquely composed menus, the Restaurant RED (rated 15 points by Gault Millau), the World Café, and the Seebar round out the total experience of the KKL Luzern.

KKL Luzern Europlatz 1 | CH–6005 Luzern t +41 (0)41 226 70 70 info@kkl-luzern.ch | kkl-luzern.ch

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LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG – Children’s pillow concerts, family concerts, Music Camp and lots more …

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CIGARS & COOL DRINKS

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SOPHISTICATED LOUNGING

BEFORE OR AFTER THE CONCERT

Design Jean Nouvel

Sempacherstrasse 14, CH-6002 Lucerne, Tel. +41 41 226 86 86, www.the-hotel.ch

EXTENDED OPENING HOURS during the Lucerne Summer Festival

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In the heart of Lucerne a few steps from the Culture and Convention Centre (KKL) Pilatusstrasse 29, CH-6002 Lucerne, Tel. +41 41 226 88 88, www.astoria-luzern.ch

www.astoria-luzern.ch

F R O M B Ü R G E N S TO C K R E S O RT D I R EC T LY TO T H E CO N C E RT H A L L As a hotel guest you enjoy free travel with the Bürgenstock Funicular and the Shuttle Boat to Europaplatz in front of the KKL.

Bürgenstock Hotels & Resort – 6363 Obbürgen – Switzerland T +41 (0)41 612 60 00 – info@buergenstock.ch – buergenstock.ch

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Our festival package: We serve you a pre­concert aperitif on our lake­ side terrace, The hotel‘s launch then speeds you across the bay to the KKL concert hall and brings you back afterwards to enjoy a composition conjured up by our chef.

Per person from CHF 110.00 incl. 3 to 5 course menu, boat transfer and parking Reservation: T +41 41 419 09 09

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Where history comes alive In all our award-winning rooms you will discover a story of a former hotel guest of the last 170 years.

Experience a five-star overnight stay at the festival hotel.

Telefon +41 (0)41 410 0 410

www.schweizerhof-luzern.ch

With an atmospheric overnight stay in the first building in the park, close to the KKL part of top festival enjoyment. BTW … and orders for aperitifs or tasty Ticino-style dishes in the Bellini Locanda Ticinese taken up until 11 p.m.

Hotel Continental Park Murbacherstrasse 4 | CH-6002 Lucerne | T +41 41 228 90 50 | hotel@continental.ch | continental.ch

A gourmet restaurant with atmosphere.

Have a feast, savour your choice, and enjoy yourself.

Indulge.

Hotel Wilden Mann Luzern Bahnhofstrasse 30 · 6003 Luzern · T +41 41 210 16 66 www.wilden-mann.ch

P I A N O F E S T I VAL 16 − 24 November 2019

Danae Dörken Claire Huangci Evgeny Kissin Igor Levit Mitsuko Uchida Alexander Ullman Arcadi Volodos and many more

Info: lucernefestival.ch

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Partners of Swiss Top Events:

Supporting Organizations Official Rail Carrier

Official Airline

LUCERNE FESTIVAL is a member of

AMAG Audi Center Luzern, Car Partner KKL Luzern, Event Partner Luzern Tourismus MetaDesign, Partner in Communication Radio SRF Kultur, Media Partner Ringier AG, Media Partner 115

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MAGICAL MOMENTS WITH THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Enjoy four unforgettable concerts with Riccardo Chailly and Yannick Nézet-Séguin this summer.

Fri 16 August

Thu 22 August

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 | Vocalise, Op. 34, no. 14 (orchestral version) | Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 | Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Leonidas Kavakos

Sat 17 August

Sat 24 August

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 | Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

Tickets and Information at: t +41 (0)41 226 44 80 | lucernefestival.ch

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