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

On Sunday 25^th August 2013 the television channel ARTE celebrated the 75^th birthday of the Lucerne Festival with a special programme. Included in this was an item on the Abbadiani Itineranti lasting approx. ten minutes. You can see this programme if you follow the link: Lucerne 75 years (page in French) or Lucerne 75 Jahre (page in German). The extract concerning the Abbadiani is at about 1.04 hours into the programme. Attention: this link expires after a week.

The Swiss radio channel SRF2 will broadcast the opening concert of this year's Lucerne Festival on 16th August 2013 at 8.00 p.m., the Swiss television channel SRF1 will follow at 10.20 p.m.! The Lucerne Festival Orchestra will be conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Our Japanese friends inform us about the dates of the concerts of the LFO in Tokyo next October with Claudio Abbado as conductor:

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Schubert Sym. No. 8
Bruckner Sym. No. 9

The Suntory Hall, Tokyo

October 20, 21

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Piano concert (to be announced)
Soloist: Radu Lupu
Beethoven Sym. No. 3 "Eroica"  

The Suntory Hall, Tokyo