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:

- Andris NELSONS, who conducted the LFO during the Festival 2014 will conduct the second programme on 19th and 20th August:

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.

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.

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

Lucerne Festival has announced that the autumn tour of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra to Japan is cancelled. Claudio Abbado's health does not permit him to travel so far.

The press release of Lucerne Festival:

Lucerne, 11 September 2013. On the recommendation of his doctors, Claudio Abbado has been compelled on short notice to cancel his plans to conduct the four concerts with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA in Suntory Hall in Tokyo on 15, 17, 20, and 21 October 2013 as well as the concert in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ARK NOVA on 12 October 2013. Please find his personal statement below. The four concerts in Suntory Hall will not take place. The new program and the musicians for the concert in LUCERNE FESTIVAL ARK NOVA on 12 October will be published at a later time. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ARK NOVA in Matsushima will be opened on 27 September.

''My dear friends,

We have many unforgettable memories in our hearts from our last project in 2006, and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and I were greatly looking forward to visiting Japan again. I myself was excited by the prospect of being able to share time with Japanese music lovers this coming October. However, I deeply regret that we have no choice but to cancel all our concerts in Tokyo due to reasons of my health. I ask for your kind understanding.

Claudio Abbado''

The ECHO klassik Award 2013 (Deutscher Musikpreis) have been conferred this year in the category "Instrumentalists (Trumpet)" to Reinhold Friedrich, solo trumpet of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, for his CD of the Russian Trumpet concertos (with the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester and Christoph-Matthias Mueller) published by MDG. 

Lucerne Festival has announced the publication of a new CD with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. It is a recording from 2012 of Bruckner's 1st Symphony.