Lucerne Festival Preview 2015

Lucerne Festival Preview 2015

 

Lucerne’s Easter Festival 2015 will concentrate on religious works. John Eliot Gardiner will bring over the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists for a performance of the B Minor Mass on March 26th, Mariss Jansons brings the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Dvorak’s Stabat Mater on March 28th, and finish the mini-festival with Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony on March 29th. Ingo Metzmacher will conduct the South- West German Radio (Südwestfunk Radio) Symphony Orchestra Freiburg/Baden-Baden in a performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony on March 27th.

Lucerne’s Summer Festival 2015 features the surtitle “Humour”.

 

Orchestral highlights are:

 

14^th/15^th August: opening concert:  Haitink, Lucerne Festival Orch., Mahler 4

16^th August: West-Eastern Divan Orch., Barenboim, Tchaikovsky 4

17^th August: West-Eastern Divan Orch., Barenboim, Beethoven Triple Concerto, Schönberg’s  Pelleas et Mélisande

19^th and 20^th August: Lucerne Festival Orch., Nelsons, Mahler 5

22^nd August: Chamber Orch. of Europe, Haitink, Schubert 8, Mozart 41

23^rd August: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Blomstedt, Bruckner 8

24^th August: Mahler Chamber Orch., Gatti, Prokofiev 1, Pulcinella

25^th August: Chamber Orch. of Europe, Haitink, Schubert 9

26^th August: Bamberg Symphony Orch., Nott, Verdi’s Falstaff (semi-staged)

27^th August: Concertgebouw, Harding, Bruckner 5

28^th August: Concertgebouw, Harding, Dvorak 8

29^th August: Israel PO, Mehta, Tchaikovsky 6

30^th August: Boston Symphony Orch., Nelsons, Heldenleben

31^st August: Boston Symphony Orch., Nelsons, Shostakovich 10

1^st September:  Berlin Philharmonic Orch., Rattle, Shostakovich 4

2^nd September: Berlin Philharmonic Orch., Rattle, Mozart & Haydn

3^rd September: St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Termirkanov, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich 9

4^th September: St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Termirkanov, Petrushka

7^th September: Dresdner Staatskapelle, Thielemann, Alpine Symphony

8^th September: Dresdner Staatskapelle, Thielemann, Bruckner 6

9^th  September:  San Francisco Symphony, Tilson Thomas, Beethoven 3

10^th September: San Francisco Symphony, Tilson Thomas, Mahler 1

12^th September: Vienna Philharmonic, Bychkov, Brahms 3

13^th September: Vienna Philharmonic, Rattle, Dream of Gerontius

 

Full details can be found on the Festival’s website www.lucernefestival.ch

Tickets for the Easter Festival go on sale on-line at midday on 10^th November 2014

Tickets for the Summer Festival go on sale on-line at midday on 2^nd March 2015

 

 

John Rhodes