Andris Nelsons conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in a magnificent performance of Mahler's 5th symphony. Now we are looking forward to Lucerne.
Sunday, April 26 2015
ANDRIS NELSONS IN BERLIN
By Guy Cherqui on Sunday, April 26 2015, 12:12 - News
Tag - Andris Nelsons
Monday, October 27 2014
LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2015: PROGRAMME OF THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
By Guy Cherqui on Monday, October 27 2014, 12:43 - News
The LUCERNE FESTIVAL published the programme of the Lucerne Festival Easter and Summer.
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra will open the Lucerne Festival Summer with two programmes and two different conductors
- The great Bernard HAITINK who often replaced Claudio Abbado when he was ill will conducts the first programme on 14th and 15th August 2015:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony fis-Moll Hob. I:45 Abschiedssinfonie (Farewell Symphony)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony n 4 in in G major
Soloist, Anna Lucia Richter, soprano
- Andris NELSONS, who conducted the LFO during the Festival 2014 will conduct the second programme on 19th and 20th August:
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Soloist: Matthias Goerne, Bariton
Symphony n 5 in C sharp minor
Sunday, June 29 2014
ARTE TV FOR CLAUDIO ABBADO ON JUNE 29th 2014
By Guy Cherqui on Sunday, June 29 2014, 12:04 - News
The Franco-German channel ARTE dedicates two transmissions to Claudio ABBADO on June 29th:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/052696-000/in-memoriam-claudio-abbado
- 5.45PM: Transmission of the tribute concert of 6th April 2014 in Lucerne with the LFO, Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Faust, Andris Nelsons.
- 11:25PM (on ARTE France) & 10:55 (on ARTE Germany): Transmission of the concert of 16th August 2013, last videoregistrated concert of Abbado (Beethoven Eroica), directed by Claudio Abbado in Lucerne with the LFO.
Tuesday, April 8 2014
VIDEO OF THE MEMORIAL CONCERT FOR CLAUDIO ABBADO ONLINE
By Guy Cherqui on Tuesday, April 8 2014, 21:50 - News
You can see the streaming of the MEMORIAL CONCERT FOR CLAUDIO ABBADO on the URL:
MEMORIAL KONZERT FOR CLAUDIO ABBADO
By Guy Cherqui on Tuesday, April 8 2014, 01:39 - News
The concert on April 6 in Lucerne dedicated to Claudio Abbado with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has been for many of us one of the most harrowing of our life. You can read the report (in French) in Le Blog du Wanderer.
Thursday, April 3 2014
LIVE STREAM OF THE MEMORIAL CONCERT FOR CLAUDIO ABBADO
By Guy Cherqui on Thursday, April 3 2014, 23:40 - News
Whoever doesn’t have a ticket for the memorial concert in honor of Claudio Abbado on 6 April can still listen live: it’s being streamed on our own homepage. On 10 April at 8 pm the concert can again be heard in a rebroadcast on SRF 2 Kultur.
Tuesday, February 25 2014
Memorial Concert for Claudio Abbado to be held during LUCERNE FESTIVAL at Easter – the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA will perform in memory o f its late founder and artistic director
By Guy Cherqui on Tuesday, February 25 2014, 11:49 - News
On Sunday, 6 April 2014, LUCERNE FESTIVAL will give a special memorial concert for Claudio Abbado, the founder and artistic director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. Abbado died on 20 January 2014. This “orchestra of friends,” as Claudio Abbado affectionately called his orchestra, convened inLucerne every year to participate in the Summer Festival’s opening week. To honor its late artistic director, these musicians will now gather together for LUCERNE FESTIVAL at Easter for a uniquememorial concert dedicated to Claudio Abbado. The concert will be led by Andris Nelsons, who will also conduct the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA’s four concerts in the summer of 2014. As a deeply personal dedication to Claudio Abbado, the musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVALORCHESTRA will perform the first movement from Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 7 (Unfinished)without a conductor. It was this symphony that Claudio Abbado conducted in Lucerne during hisunforgettable final concert on 26 August 2013. On 6April Isabelle Faust will perform the solo part in Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto (which the composer dedicated “to the memory of an angel”).
The concert begins at 16.00.
The entire program is as follows:
Franz Schubert
(1797–1828)
from Symphony No. 7 in B minor, D. 759 Unfinished· Allegro moderato
Alban Berg
(1885–1935)
Violin Concerto (To the memory of an angel)
Gustav Mahler
(1860–1911)
from Symphony No. 3 in D minor· Finale: Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
Saturday, February 15 2014
In place of the late Claudio Abbado, ANDRIS NELSONS will conduct the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA during LUCERNE FESTIVAL in Summer 2014
By Guy Cherqui on Saturday, February 15 2014, 00:18 - News
Andris Nelsons ©Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
Lucerne, 14 February 2014. Andris Nelsons will conduct the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA’s concerts during the 2014 Summer Festival. Two different programs will be performed, each featuring works by Johannes Brahms. Claudio Abbado himself had planned these programs for the summer. “We are extremely pleased to be able to have Andris Nelsons, one of the leading conductors of our time, agree to take on these LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA concerts,” says Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of LUCERNE FESTIVAL. “We are furthermore happy that we are able to present these two Brahms programs originally conceived by Claudio Abbado. In this way, the memory of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA’s founder remains alive in the Festival’s artistic program- ming as well.” For the opening concert on 15 August as well as the concert on 16 August, the works to be performed include the Serenade No. 2 in A major, the Rhapsody for Alto, Male Chorus, and Or- chestra, with Sara Mingardo as the soloist, and the Symphony No. 2 in D major. The program for
22 and 24 August consists of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, featuring Maurizio Pollini, as well as the Symphony No. 3 in F major.
