Lucerne Festival | Summer Festival 2022 by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Y T I S R E DIV 09.08. – 11.09. 2022 Summer Festival Program

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A WARM WELCOME! Who “owns” classical music? Whites, males, Europeans? For many years, Chi-chi Nwanoku played double bass in the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and she was always the only Black person there. When she attended concerts by other ensembles, the same picture emerged. That cannot be, Nwanoku said to herself, because why should people of color play only hip-hop or jazz but never make it into the world’s elite classical orchestras? The increasing role women were playing in music gave her hope: “When I graduated from the Royal Academy in 1991, there wasn’t a single woman in the London Symphony Orchestra. Nowadays, about half are female.”

Michael Haefliger Executive and Artistic Director Lucerne Festival

By presenting the two orchestras of Nwanoku’s Chineke! Foundation, which comprise members of ethnic minorities, the 2022 Summer Festival opens and closes with inspiring examples of the theme of “Diversity.” In doing so, we are addressing a hot topic that plays an important role in shaping the future. This theme is all about diversity: in the varying formations, the works performed, the program offerings. And with proving that art is not the domain of a select few but is open to all, regardless of skin color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. The best artists in the business will brilliantly illuminate this concept. The Lucerne Festival Orchestra led by Riccardo Chailly and Jakub Hrůša and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO), as well as 18 of the finest international orchestras and many top stars await you. The Briton Thomas Adès will be present as composer-in-residence, and Golda Schultz and Tyshawn Sorey will be featured as “artistes étoiles.” And of course you can also expect many newcomers — more than ever. Best regards,

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SYMPHONY

Kirill Petrenko | Berlin Philharmonic

A summit meeting of the very finest: at no other festival in the world do so many top international orchestras perform within such a short time frame. The list of orchestras to appear in 2022 includes: Bamberger Symphoniker and Jakub Hrůša Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer Chineke! Orchestra and Kevin John Edusei The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly and Jakub Hrůša Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Michael Sanderling Mahler Chamber Orchestra Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco with Cecilia Bartoli and Gianluca Capuano NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Alan Gilbert Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma and Sir Antonio Pappano Sinfonía por el Perú Youth Orchestra with Juan Diego Flórez and Roberto González-Monjas The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim Vienna Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen

CONTEM– PORARY We love new sounds — and set standards for the performance of contemporary music through the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Seminar with Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann Conducting Fellowship Masterclass in Conducting Roche Commissions Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) The orchestra of excellence for new music comprises members of the Academy network. Composer-in-residence Thomas Adès

“Bye Bye Beethoven” at the 2021 Summer Festival

“Artiste étoile” Tyshawn Sorey world premieres by Thomas Adès, Olivia Bennett, Tyson Davis, Joy Guidry, Pengyi Li, Jinan Zhenyan Li, Liza Lim, Minzuo Lu, Aregnaz Martirosyan, Lila Wildy Quillin, Hugo Van Rechem, Julian Riehm, Wolfgang Rihm, Bettina Skrzypczak, Tyshawn Sorey, Héloïse Werner, and Raimonda Žiūkaitė

MUSIC FOR FUTURE We are totally committed to the generation of tomorrow. Through debut concerts, performances by youth orchestras, and the awarding of top-level prizes, we support the next generation of musicians. We lay the groundwork through school concerts and education projects. And we present family concerts to attract the audience of the future to music.

Die Schurken (Summer Festival 2019)

Appearances by international youth orchestras Debut Concert Series Credit Suisse Young Artist Award Fritz Gerber Award Family Concerts School Performances Debut in the Schoolhouse Music for Future Talks

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Board of Trustees Markus Hongler, Chairman* Dr. Christian Casal, Treasurer* Dr. Rolf Dörig* Dr. Christoph Franz Christian Gellerstad Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger Dr. Marianne Janik Dr. Ursula Jones-Strebi Walter B. Kielholz* Dr. Hariolf Kottmann* Michel M. Liès Anne-Sophie Mutter Urs Rohner Prof. Klaus Schwab Marcel Schwerzmann Anne Schwöbel Isabelle Welton* Manuela Wirth Beat Züsli

Board of Trustees Markus Hongler, Chairman Dr. Christian Casal, Treasurer Dr. Franz Egle Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger Elisabeth Oltramare EXECUTIVE AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Haefliger EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT Michael Haefliger Danièle Gross Christiane Weber

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Honorary Chairman Jürg R. Reinshagen

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra Lucerne Festival Academy & Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Thomas Adès | composer-in-residence Golda Schultz | “artiste étoile” Tyshawn Sorey | “artiste étoile” 40min

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LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA All for the joy of music and playing together: sought-after principals and chamber musicians, music teachers and members of other famous orchestras travel to Lake Lucerne each summer to form a unique de luxe orchestra. Joined by Music Director Riccardo Chailly, Jakub Hrůša, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Augustin Hadelich, Denis Matsuev, and Andrè Schuen, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will also be a musical highlight in 2022. Fri 12.08. | 18.30

Tue 16.08. | 19.30

Fri 19.08. | 19.30

Opening Concert Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly conductor | Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Rihm new work for orchestra (world premiere) | Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 5, no. 2 | Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Kit Armstrong piano Gershwin Second movement from the Concerto in F | Dvořák Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 | Sorabji Transcendental Study No. 36 | Takemitsu A Bird came down the Walk | Price Piano Quintet in A minor

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša conductor | Augustin Hadelich violin Suk Scherzo fantastique, Op. 25 | Dvořák Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 | Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World

Sat 13.08. | 18.30

Wed 17.08. | 19.30

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly conductor | Denis Matsuev piano Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 | Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly conductor | Andrè Schuen baritone Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen | Symphony No. 1 in D major

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LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY & LUCERNE FESTIVAL CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA (LFCO) Fully in tune with the present: at the Lucerne Festival Academy, around 100 talented musicians from all over the world dedicate themselves to the music of our time, offering audiences a variety of musical adventures. Sat 20.08. | 22.00

26.08. – 10.09.

Sun 28.08. | 15.00

Lucerne Festival Academy 1 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Elena Schwarz conductor | Timothy McAllister saxophone | Kirill Gerstein piano Sorey new work for saxophone and orchestra (world premiere) | Adès In Seven Days: Concerto for Piano with Moving Image

Music Theater/Performance Altes Krematorium Luzern Friedental Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje composer “STYX Tours. A Rendezvous with Death”

Lucerne Festival Academy 3 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Tyshawn Sorey conductor and percussion Sorey For Anton Vishio | For Marcos Balter | Improvisation for solo percussion | Autoschediasms

22. – 25.08. | 10/12

Composer Seminar KKL Luzern, Clubraum 8 with Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann Wed 24.08. | 14.30

Masterclass in Conducting KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall with Thomas Adès

Sat 27.08. | 19.30

Lucerne Festival Academy 2 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Thomas Adès conductor | Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Nørgård Drømmespil | Stravinsky Agon | Adès Air for violin and orchestra (world premiere) | Lutosławski Symphony No. 3

We cordially thank our Main Sponsor Roche for its generous support of the Lucerne Festival Academy. 16

Sat 03.09. | 11.00

Lucerne Festival Academy 4 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sylvain Cambreling conductor Skrzypczak new work for orchestra (world premiere) | Rihm Sub-Kontur | Ammann Core, Turn, and Boost Sat 03.09. | 14.30

Composer Seminar — Closing Concert KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA Ensemble 2021-22) | Participants in the Conducting Fellowship | Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann hosts Composer Seminar Showcase

THOMAS ADÈS

COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE

The Briton Thomas Adès is a quick-change artist. Whether pop or Purcell, triadic harmony or quarter tones, he draws on a versatile spectrum of idioms with relish, playing with them and transforming them into something new, something distinctly his own. Which is why his music always sounds like Adès, despite its enormous stylistic range. Sat 20.08. | 22.00

Wed 24.08. | 14.30

Lucerne Festival Academy 1 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Elena Schwarz conductor | Kirill Gerstein piano Adès In Seven Days: Concerto for Piano with Moving Image

Masterclass in Conducting KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall featuring participants in the Conducting Fellowship of the Lucerne Festival Academy

Sun 21.08. | 17.00

Duo Adès & Gerstein KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein pianos Debussy En blanc et noir | Stravinsky Symphonie de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), arranged for two pianos by Dmitri Shostakovich | Debussy Lindaraja | Adès Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face | Ravel La Valse

Sat 27.08. | 19.30

Quatuor Diotima Hochschule Luzern — Musik, Kriens Quatuor Diotima | Mark Simpson clarinet Adès Arcadiana for string quartet | Alchymia for clarinet and string quartet (Swiss premiere)

GOLDA SCHULTZ ARTISTE ÉTOILE “Stunning,” raved the Süddeutsche Zeitung, while Bavarian Radio pronounced her performance “outstanding” when Golda Schultz sang Agathe at the opening of Weber’s Freischütz at the Munich Staatsoper in spring 2021. Born in 1983, the South African soprano is a genuine shooting star of the current scene who is enchanting opera audiences all over the world, from the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala in Milan to the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna Staatsoper. As the “artiste étoile” of the summer of 2022, she will also be a star at Lucerne Festival, whether performing Gershwin’s Summertime or exquisite art songs. Sat 20.08. | 16.00

Thu 25.08. | 18.30

NZZ Podium KKL Luzern, Auditorium “Diversity: Multiplicity and Unity” Round table discussion (in German) with Iris Bohnet, Adam Fischer, Mithu Sanyal, and Golda Schultz Host: Martin Meyer

Porgy and Bess KKL Luzern, Concert Hall NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester | Alan Gilbert conductor | Golda Schultz Clara | additional soloists Gershwin Porgy and Bess

Sun 21.08. | 11.00

Recital Golda Schultz Lukaskirche Golda Schultz soprano | Jonathan Ware piano Lieder by five women composers: Clara Schumann, Emilie Mayer, Rebecca Clarke, Nadia Boulanger, and Kathleen Tagg

MythenEnsembleOrchestral KKL Luzern, Concert Hall MythenEnsembleOrchestral | Graziella Contratto conductor | Golda Schultz soprano Mahler Four selected lieder Wed 24.08 | 18.20

40min KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Golda Schultz soprano | Alan Gilbert piano | et al. “Summertime”

Sun 04.09. | 14.30

TYSHAWN SOREY ARTISTE ÉTOILE

He resists being pigeonholed: Tyshawn Sorey is a drummer, pianist, trombonist, composer, and conductor. He moves between the realms of jazz and new music, combining composed and improvised material. Especially in our era of specialization, he commands an extremely diverse artistic profile — and one that is extraordinarily creative and productive. Sun 14.08. | 14.30

Sun 28.08. | 15.00

JACK Quartet 1 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall JACK Quartet | Tyshawn Sorey percussion Sorey new work for percussion and string quartet (world premiere)

Lucerne Festival Academy 3 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Tyshawn Sorey conductor and percussion Sorey For Anton Vishio for flute, clarinet, and piano | For Marcos Balter for violin and orchestra | Improvisation for solo percussion | Autoschediasms for orchestra

Sat 20.08. | 22.00

Lucerne Festival Academy 1 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Elena Schwarz conductor | Timothy McAllister saxophone Sorey new work for saxophone and orchestra (world premiere)

40MIN SHORT CONCERTS WITH NO ADMISSION FEE

The 40min series is not just for die-hard classical music fans but for anyone who just wants to get a taste of the Festival mood. At 6:20 p.m., when the workday is over but the evening has not yet really begun, we introduce selected artists and works in short concerts. Admission is free, there is no dress code, and no prior knowledge is necessary. Mon 15.08. | 18.20

Wed 24.08. | 18.20

“Rhapsody in Blue” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

“Summertime” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Golda Schultz soprano | Alan Gilbert piano | et al.

Wed 17.08. | 18.20

Fri 26.08. | 18.20

“Spotlight on: Tyshawn Sorey” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Tyshawn Sorey conductor

“Spotlight on: Thomas Adès” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Anne-Sophie Mutter violin | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Thomas Adès conductor

Thu 18.08. | 18.20

Mon 29.08. | 18.20

“Antonín Dvořák’s New Worlds” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša conductor

“Diversity! Carte blanche for the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Members of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

A valid ticket is required for admission to the 40min series concerts. Five days before each event, you can obtain free, open-admission tickets via our website at lucernefestival.ch. The number of tickets is limited to two per order. On the day of the event, any remaining tickets can be obtained on site.

Fri 02.09. | 18.20

“Classical Music Composed Today” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA Ensemble 2021-22) | Participants in the Conducting Fellowship | Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann hosts Wed 07.09. | 18.20

“Women Composers Only” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik Thu 08.09. | 18.20

“On Sixteen Strings” KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Viano String Quartet

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AGENDA

AUG Time | Venue

Tue 09.08.

Page

18.00 | A

Music for Future Talk 1

with Chi-chi Nwanoku et al. (in English)

19.30 | KS

Chineke! Junior Orchestra

Chineke! Junior Orchestra | Glass Marcano | Gerard Aimontche

Wed 10.08.

19.30 | KS

National Youth Orchestra of the USA

National Youth Orchestra of the USA | Daniel Harding | Alisa Weilerstein

Thu 11.08.

19.30 | KS

Ilumina

Ilumina | Jennifer Stumm | Mark Padmore

Fri 12.08.

17.00 | E

Superar Suisse

Chorus and Orchestra of Superar Suisse | Laida Alberdi

18.30 | KS

Opening Concert | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Anne-Sophie Mutter

18.30 | I

Lakeside Symphony

Live projection of the Opening Concert

17.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

18.30 | KS

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

11.00 | KS

Recital András Schiff

Sir András Schiff

14.30 | LS

JACK Quartet 1

JACK Quartet | Tyshawn Sorey

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

19.30 | KS

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 1

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim

12.15 | A

Music for Future Talk 2

with Daniel Barenboim et al. (in English)

18.20 | LS

40min

“Rhapsody in Blue”

19.30 | KS

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 2

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Lang Lang

19.30 | KS

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3

Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Kit Armstrong

Sat 13.08.

Sun 14.08.

Mon 15.08.

Tue 16.08.

FREE

Wed 17.08.

Thu 18.08.

Fri 19.08.

Sat 20.08.

Sun 21.08.

Mon 22.08.

Tue 23.08.

“Spotlight on: Tyshawn Sorey”

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Andrè Schuen

12.15 | LK

Debut Zoltán Despond

Zoltán Despond | Vesselin Stanev

18.20 | LS

40min

“Antonín Dvořák’s New Worlds”

19.30 | KS

Recital Igor Levit

Igor Levit

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

19.30 | KS

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša | Augustin Hadelich

11.00 | HL

JACK Quartet 2

JACK Quartet

16.00 | A

NZZ Podium

“Diversity: Multiplicity and Unity” (in German) with Iris Bohnet, Adam Fischer, Mithu Sanyal, Golda Schultz, and Martin Meyer

18.30 | KS

Concert Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli | Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco | Gianluca Capuano

22.00 | LS

Lucerne Festival Academy 1

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Elena Schwarz | Timothy McAllister | Kirill Gerstein

11.00 | KS

MythenEnsembleOrchestral

MythenEnsembleOrchestral | Graziella Contratto | Golda Schultz

14.30 | KS

Afternoon Concert

Festival Strings Lucerne | Raphaela Gromes

17.00 | LS

Duo Adès & Gerstein

Thomas Adès | Kirill Gerstein

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

19.30 | KS

Mariinsky Orchestra 1

Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev

10/12 | CR

Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

19.30 | KS

Mariinsky Ochestra 2

Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev | Daniil Trifonov

10/12 | CR

Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann

12.15 | LK

Debut Randall Goosby

Randall Goosby | Anna Han

17.30 | E

In the Streets — Opening

Music groups from around the world

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

19.00 | AS

In the Streets

Music groups from around the world

19.30 | KS

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Budapest Festival Orchestra | Iván Fischer | Soloists

18.20 | LS

40min

19.30 | KS

FREE

Wed 24.08.

Thu 25.08.

Fri 26.08.

Sat 27.08.

Sun 28.08.

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Conducting Fellowship | Thomas Adès

Music groups from around the world

“Summertime”

Duo Gabetta & Bezuidenhout

Sol Gabetta | Kristian Bezuidenhout

10/12 | CR

Composer Seminar

with Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann

12.15 | LK

Debut Mishka Rushdie Momen

Mishka Rushdie Momen

18.00 | AS

In the Streets

Music groups from around the world

18.30 | KS

Porgy and Bess

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra | NDR Vocal Ensemble and Guests | Alan Gilbert | Soloists

18.00 | AS

In the Streets

Music groups from around the world

18.20 | LS

40min

“Spotlight on: Thomas Adès”

19.30 | KS

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Michael Sanderling | Joyce El-Khoury

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

10.00 | SP

In the Steets

Music groups from around the world

11.00 | HL

ensemble recherche

16.00 | KS

Recital Víkingur Ólafsson Víkingur Ólafsson

18.00 | AS

In the Streets

18.30 | A

14.30 | LS

Masterclass in Conducting

18.00 | AS

In the Streets

18.20 | LS

40min

19.30 | KS

FREE

Music groups from around the world

Introduction

with Mark Sattler (in German)

19.30 | KS

Lucerne Festival Academy 2

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Thomas Adès | Anne-Sophie Mutter

12.00 | E

In the Steets

Music groups from around the world

11.00 | KS

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Isabelle Faust | Antoine Tamestit | Matthew Truscott

15.00 | LS

Lucerne Festival Academy 3

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Tyshawn Sorey

16.00 | E

In the Streets — Closing Concert

Music groups from around the world

FREE

Sun 28.08.

Mon 29.08.

Tue 30.08.

Wed 31.08.

17.00 | JK

Church Festival Worship Service

FREE

Soloists, vocal ensemble, and orchestra of the Collegium Musicum Luzern | Pascal Mayer | Suzanne Z’Graggen

17.30 | A

Introduction

with Malte Lohmann (in German)

18.30 | KS

Orchestra di Santa Cecilia

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma | Sir Antonio Pappano | Elīna Garanča

18.20 | LS

40min

“Diversity! Carte blanche for the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders”

19.30 | KS

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Collegium Vocale Gent | Philippe Herreweghe | Soloists

12.15 | LK

Debut Aaron Akugbo

Aaron Akugbo | Zeynep Özsuca

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Dieter Ammann and Mark Sattler (in German)

19.30 | KS

räsonanz — Donor Concert

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | Susanna Mälkki | Andreas Haefliger

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

19.30 | KS

Berlin Philharmonic 1

Berlin Philharmonic | Kirill Petrenko

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

FREE

SEPT Zeit | Ort

Thu 01.09

Seite

12.15 | LK

Debut Samuel Nebyu

Samuel Nebyu | Charles Abramovic

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

19.30 | KS

Berlin Philharmonic 2

Berlin Philharmonic | Kirill Petrenko | Tabea Zimmermann

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

Fri 02.09.

Sat 03.09.

Sun 04.09.

Mon 05.09.

Tue 06.09.

“Classical Music Composed Today”

Concert Juan Diego Flórez

Juan Diego Flórez | Sinfonía por el Perú Youth Orchestra | Roberto González-Monjas

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

11.00 | KS

Lucerne Festival Academy 4

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sylvain Cambreling

14.30 | LS

Composer Seminar — Closing Concert

International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA Ensemble 2021-22) | Participants in the Conducting Fellowship | Wolfgang Rihm | Dieter Ammann

17.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

18.30 | KS

London Symphony Orchestra 1

London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

11.00 | KS

London Symphony Orchestra 2

London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle

100

11.00 | LS

Family Concert — Die Schurken 1

“Vergissmeinnicht" (“Forget-Me-Not") (in German)

101

14.00 | LS

Family Concert — Die Schurken 2

“Vergissmeinnicht" (“Forget-Me-Not") (in German)

101

14.30 | LK

Recital Golda Schultz

Golda Schultz | Jonathan Ware

102

15.00 | LT

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

Christian Tschelebiew | Solenn’ Lavanant Linke | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Anika Rutkofsky

103

16.00 | HL

Quatuor Diotima

Quatuor Diotima | Mark Simpson

104

18.30 | KS

The Philadelphia Orchestra 1

The Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Angel Blue

105

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

106

19.30 | KS

The Philadelphia Orchestra 2

The Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Lisa Batiashvili

106

12.15 | LK

Debut Abel Selaocoe

Abel Selaocoe | Fred Thomas

107

18.30 | A

Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

108

19.30 | KS

Vienna Philharmonic 1

Vienna Philharmonic | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Yuja Wang | Cécile Lartigau

108

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

18.20 | LS

40min

19.30 | KS

FREE

Wed 07.09.

“Women Composers Only”

18.20 | LS

40min

19.30 | KS

Vienna Philharmonic 2

Vienna Philharmonic | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Valentine Michaud

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

12.15 | LK

Debut Viano String Quartet

Viano String Quartet

110

18.20 | LS

40min

“On Sixteen Strings”

19.30 | KS

The Cleveland Orchestra 1

The Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst

111

19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

Fri 09.09.

19.30 | KS

The Cleveland Orchestra 2

The Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst

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11.00 | LS

Family Concert — Opera 1

“The Magical Game: A Magic Flute for Children” (in German)

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14.00 | LS

Family Concert — Opera 2

“The Magical Game: A Magic Flute for Children” (in German)

113

18.30 | KS

Bamberger Symphoniker

Bamberger Symphoniker | Jakub Hrůša | Joélle Harvey

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19.30 | KF

Music Theater/ Performance

Luzerner Theater Ensemble | Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble | Music Theater Collective Agora | Maja S. K. Ratkje

Thu 08.09.

Sun 11.09.

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10.00 | MK Thematic Worship Service

Ecumenical worship service on the Festival Theme of “Diversity”

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17.00 | KS

Chineke! Orchestra | Kevin John Edusei | Sheku Kanneh-Mason

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Chineke! Orchestra

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THE 2022 SUMMER THEME For a long stretch, until the post-war decades, time seemed to stand still in the classical music scene. Orchestras were a male domain — women could only be found playing the harp or in the ranks of the violins. People of color were almost non-existent, and Asian women had to fight for their place on the stage. Of course, the leadership was also in male hands: the conductor was to be addressed as “maestro” or, in German orchestras, as “Meister” or “Herr Professor.” The repertoire, in turn, was limited to the Eurocentric canon of works, including the Viennese classics, the German-Austrian Romantics, plus Italian opera and a few coloristic touches from the fringes of Europe. This monoculture even persisted with respect to the audience, since access was found primarily among educated bourgeois circles who had enough income for musical pursuits. A great deal has of course changed since then, yet a lot still remains to be done. Through this summer’s theme of “Diversity,” we want to make a plea for genuine diversity in classical music. That is why we have invited artists from demographic groups that were previously underrepresented in the scene. A number of women have made their mark on the program, and many works that are inherently diverse or have never been heard here before will be performed. And with affordable offers like the “Overture” presented by international youth orchestras, we hope to prove that enjoying classical music is not a question of money. Because music is for everyone. On the pages following, we would like to introduce you to some of our focal points for the summer.

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BLACK COMPOSERS

When you look closely at concert programs all around the field, you might think that music history was written only by white people, and almost exclusively by men. What a mistake! During this “Diversity” summer of 2022, we will introduce you to 16 Black composers who are indeed worth getting to know.

One focus is on works by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a contemporary of Mozart, and another is the American Florence Price, whose folklore-flavored First Symphony is on the program. And there are many others. Not to overlook “artiste étoile” Tyshawn Sorey, whom we introduce to you on p. 22.

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 5, no. 2 Fri 12.08. | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 Symphony in D major, Op. 11, no. 2 Sun 28.08. | Mahler Chamber Orchestra Les Caquets Violin Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 1a Thu 01.09. | Debut Samuel Nebyu

Henry Thacker Burleigh Southland Sketches Thu 01.09. | Debut Samuel Nebyu

Valerie Coleman This Is Not a Small Voice Sun 04.09. | The Philadelphia Orchestra 1

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Daniel Kidane

Tyshawn Sorey

Othello Suite, Op. 79 Tue 09.08. | Chineke! Junior Orchestra Four African Dances, Op. 58 Deep River from 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59 Thu 01.09. | Debut Samuel Nebyu

Precipice Dances Sun 04.09. | London Symphony Orchestra 2

See p. 22 for complete list of concerts and works

Brian Raphael Nabors

William Grant Still

Pulse for orchestra Sun 11.09. | Chineke! Orchestra

Suite for Violin and Piano Tue 23.08. | Debut Randall Goosby Quit Dat Fool’nish Thu 01.09. | Debut Samuel Nebyu

Tyson Davis new work for violin and piano Thu 01.09. | Debut Samuel Nebyu

William Levi Dawson African-American Folk Symphony Sun 11.09. | Chineke! Orchestra

Stewart Goodyear Callaloo. Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra Tue 09.08. | Chineke! Junior Orchestra

Florence Price Piano Quintet in A minor Tue 16.08. | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3 Four Pieces Tue 30.08. | Debut Aaron Akugbo Symphony No. 1 in E minor Sun 04.09. | The Philadelphia Orchestra 1 Andante moderato from the String Quartet in G major Thu 08.09. | Debut Viano Quartet

Carlos Porfirio Vásquez El Alcatráz Fri 02.09. | Concert Juan Diego Flórez

Joseph White La Jota Aragonesa Thu 01.09. | Debut Samuel Nebyu

Daniel Bernard Roumain They know what they’ve done to us for trumpet and electronics Tue 30.08. | Debut Aaron Akugbo

Filter for solo violin Tue 01.09. | Debut Samuel Nebyu

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Joy Guidry

Glass Marcano

FEMALE POWER

This summer has a strong feminine current: you will have the chance to experience six female conductors, from the Venezuelan newcomer Glass Marcano to the established maestra Susanna Mälkki, 24 female composers from the Romantic period to the present, and many female soloists in prominent positions. We are thus carrying forward the success story of the “PrimaDonna” year of 2016, thanks to which in part women have become an almost natural phenomenon on the orchestral podium in today’s scene.

Women Conductors

Women Composers

Laida Alberdi Fri 12.08. | Superar Suisse

Sally Beamish

Graziella Contratto

Olivia Bennett

Susanna Mälkki

Lili Boulanger

Sun 21.08. | MythenEnsembleOrchestral Tue 30.08. | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Glass Marcano

Tue 09.08. | Chineke! Junior Orchestra

Elena Schwarz

Sat 20.08. | Lucerne Festival Academy 1

Jennifer Stumm

Thu 11.08. | Ilumina

Tue 30.08. | Debut Aaron Akugbo starting 22.08. | Composer Seminar Fri 26.08. | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Nadia Boulanger

Thu 18.08. | Debut Zoltán Despond Sun 21.08. | Afternoon concert Sun 04.09 | Recital Golda Schultz

Matilde Capuis

Sun 21.08. | Afternoon concert

Rebecca Clarke

Sun 04.09. | Recital Golda Schultz

Valerie Coleman

Sun 04.09. | The Philadelphia Orchestra 1

Catherine Lamb

Sat 20.08. | JACK Quartet 2

Jinan Zhenyan Li

Bettina Skrzypczak

Elīna Garanča

Liza Lim

Lisa Streich

Raphaela Gromes

Alma Mahler

Kathleen Tagg

Joélle Harvey

Minzuo Lu

Pauline Viardot-García

starting 22.08. | Composer Seminar Sun 14.08. | JACK Quartet 1 Sat 10.09. | Bamberger Symphoniker starting 22.08. | Composer Seminar

Aregnaz Martyrosian

starting 22.08. | Composer Seminar

Emilie Mayer

Sun 04.09. | Recital Golda Schultz

Florence Price

Tue Tue Sun Thu

16.08. | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3 30.08. | Debut Aaron Akugbo 04.09. | The Philadelphia Orchestra 1 08.09. | Viano String Quartet

Sat 03.09. | Lucerne Festival Academy 4 Sat 27.08. | ensemble recherche Sun 04.09. | Recital Golda Schultz Sun 21.08. | Afternoon concert

Raimonda Žiūkaitė

starting 22.08. | Composer Seminar

Soloists (Selection) Cecilia Bartoli

Sat 20.08. | Concert Cecilia Bartoli

Lisa Batiashvili

Mon 05.09. | The Philadelphia Orchestra 2

Lila Wildy Quillin

Angel Blue

starting 22.08. | Composer Seminar

Sun 04.09. | The Philadelphia Orchestra 1

Maja S. K. Ratkje

Joyce El-Khoury

starting 26.08. | Music Theater/ Performance

Fri 26.08. | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Kaija Saariaho

Sun 28.08. | Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Tue 30.08. | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Isabelle Faust Sol Gabetta

Wed 24.08. | Duo Gabetta & Bezuidenhout

Sun 28.08. | Orchestra di Santa Cecilia Sun 21.08. | Afternoon concert Sat 10.09. | Bamberger Symphoniker

Elizabeth Llewellyn

Thu 25.08. | Porgy and Bess

Valentine Michaud

Wed 07.09. | Vienna Philharmonic 2

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Fri 12.08. | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 Sat 27.08. | Lucerne Festival Academy 2

Mishka Rushdie Momen

Thu 25.08. | Debut Mishka Rushdie Momen

Golda Schultz

See p. 20 for a complete list of concerts.

Yuja Wang

Tue 06.09. | Vienna Philharmonic 1

Alisa Weilerstein

Wed 10.08. | Youth Orchestra of the USA

Tabea Zimmermann

Thu 01.09. | Berlin Philharmonic 2

Clara Schumann

Nadia und Lili Boulanger

Sun 21.08. | Afternoon concert Sun 04.09 | Recital Golda Schultz

THE DISTANT SOUND

Starting in the second half of the 19th century, classical music became more “diverse” as new national and local idioms were mixed into the familiar musical language. Composers such as the Czechs Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Josef Suk; the Pole Karol Szymanowski; and the Finn Jean Sibelius provided fresh perspectives with dances and melodies from their homelands. But the quest for the “distant sound” also drove Western and Central Europeans: Debussy and Ravel dreamed their way to Spain, and all of them associated the East with erotic fantasies.

Sun 14.08. | 19.30

Sun 28.08. | 18.30

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim conductor Smetana Má vlast

Orchestra di Santa Cecilia KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma | Sir Antonio Pappano conductor | Elīna Garanča mezzo-soprano Rossini Overture to L’italiana in Algeri | Ravel Shéhérazade | Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Mon 15.08. | 19.30

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša conductor | Augustin Hadelich violin Suk Scherzo fantastique Op. 25 | Dvořák Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 | Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World

Sat 03.09. | 18.30

London Symphony Orchestra 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle conductor Sibelius The Oceanides, Op. 73 | Tapiola, Op. 112 Mon 05.09. | 19.30

The Philadelphia Orchestra 2 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall The Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor | Lisa Batiashvili violin Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 | Dvořák Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

What would classical music be without the exchange with other musical genres? In keeping with the theme of “Diversity,” we have selected works that dare to bridge the gaps between entertainment, art, folk music, and jazz. Antonín Dvořák enriched his New World Symphony with Native American dances and African American spirituals. George Gershwin sprinkled his opera Porgy and Bess with Broadway songs. Florence Price incorporated chorales, folk songs, and jazz-tinged passages into her First Symphony. Juan Diego Flórez pays homage to Spanish operetta with zarzuela melodies. And “artiste étoile” Tyshawn Sorey has an orchestra engage in improvisation.

Fri 19.08. | 19.30

Fri 02.09. | 19.30

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša conductor | Augustin Hadelich violin Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World

Concert Juan Diego Flórez KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Sinfonía por el Perú Youth Orchestra | Roberto González-Monjas conductor | Juan Diego Flórez tenor selected melodies and orchestral pieces from zarzuelas

Sun 28.08. | 15.00

Lucerne Festival Academy 3 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Tyshawn Sorey conductor and percussion Sorey Autoschediasms for orchestra

Sun 04.09. | 18.30

The Philadelphia Orchestra 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall The Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor

Thu 25.08. | 18.30

Porgy and Bess KKL Luzern, Concert Hall NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra | Alan Gilbert conductor | soloists Gershwin Porgy and Bess

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS

Valentine Michaud

SPECIAL GUESTS

This summer, you can experience all kinds of unusual instruments at the symphony concerts. Guitar and mandolin intone a delicate serenade in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, while in Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony, the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument, produces celestial sounds. There are saxophone concertos by Anders Hillborg and “artiste étoile” Tyshawn Sorey, and composer-in-residence Thomas Adès even adds a video installation to his piano concerto In Seven Days.

Sat 20.08. | 22.00

Tue 06.09. | 19.30

Vienna Philharmonic 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Vienna Philharmonic | Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor | Yuja Wang piano | Cécile Lartigau Ondes Martenot Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony

Wed 31.08. | 19.30

Berlin Philharmonic 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Berlin Philharmonic | Kirill Petrenko conductor Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor

Wed 07.09. | 19.30

Vienna Philharmonic 2 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Vienna Philharmonic | Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor | Valentine Michaud saxophone Hillborg Peacock Tales. Millennium version for saxophone and orchestra

Wolfgang Rihm has long enjoyed a close association with Lucerne Festival, and since 2016 he has been Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival Academy. In March 2022, he celebrated his 70th birthday. We congratulate him with a world premiere and other important works. And, of course, Wolfgang Rihm will again seek out exchange with the young generation of composers in the Composer Seminar. Happy Birthday!

Fri 12.08. | 18.30

Sat 03.09. | 14.30

Opening Concert Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly conductor Rihm new work for orchestra (world premiere)

22. – 25.08. | 10/12

Thu 08.09. | 19.30

Composer Seminar KKL Luzern, Clubraum 8 with Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann

The Cleveland Orchestra 1 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall The Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst conductor Rihm Verwandlung 3 | Verwandlung 2

Sat 27.08. | 11.00

ensemble recherche Hochschule Luzern — Musik, Kriens ensemble recherche Rihm Chiffre IV Sat 03.09. | 11.00

Lucerne Festival Academy 4 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sylvain Cambreling conductor Rihm Sub-Kontur

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IN THE STREETS

This is what diversity sounds like: For the 17th annual edition, musicians from all over the world will gather in Lucerne’s Old Town and provide a colorful, ear-opening musical spectacle for young and old over a six-day period — all admission free! They will be led by the Kenyan Claudia Masika, the highlight of last year’s edition of In the Streets. We will publish details of the program in July.

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The Groups: Claudia Masika (Kenya/Senegal/Brazil/Switzerland)

The Tapi Project (India)

Arturo y su Azucaribe (Cuba/Switzerland)

Cheibe Balagan (Switzerland/Japan)

Xiao Jing Wang/Wang Chenyi (China)

Sara Curruchich (Guatemala)

Tue 23.08. | 17.30

Opening Concert featuring all of the groups Europaplatz afterwards all groups will perform in Lucerne’s Old City until 22.00 24.08. - 27.08.

Performances by all of the groups Lucerne’s Old City every day 18.00 to 22.00, Saturdays also from 10.00 to 12.00 Sun 28.08. | 16.00

Closing Concert featuring all of the groups Europaplatz preceded from 12.00 to 15.00 by performances by the groups on the Europaplatz

Hans Erni: Still life with Guitar I, 1933, Hans Erni Foundation, Lucerne © Hans Erni Foundation, Lucerne © photo: Andri Stalder, Lucerne

EXPERIENCE LUCERNE! USE YOUR CONCERT TICKET FOR MUSEUM VISITS

Your concert ticket entitles you to free admission to the Kunstmuseum Luzern and a 50 % discount at the Rosengart Collection. You can also enjoy free guided tours at the Hans Erni Museum.* These benefits apply not only on the day of your concert visit but also on the day before and the day after. Simply show your concert ticket at the museum box office. * Details on how to register at lucernefestival.ch/museums

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LAKESIDE SYMPHONY THE OPENING CONCERT FOR ALL 18.30 | Inseli | free admission

A Festival highlight for young and old: enjoy the Opening Concert live on the big screen at Lucerne’s lnseli Park — with a view of Lake Lucerne at evening and the magnificent panorama of Rigi, Bürgenstock, and other mountain peaks. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Riccardo Chailly, and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will enchant you with music from the classical era to the contemporary.

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Credit Suisse Main Sponsor and Presenting Partner Lakeside Symphony

Fri 12.08.

“WHAT AN EXCITING OUTLOOK!”

Tue 09.08. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Sir Simon Rattle on Chineke! This is what the future sounds like! The Summer of “Diversity” at Lucerne Festival will be heralded by the Chineke! Junior Orchestra, which is made up of ethnically diverse musicians between the ages of 11 and 22. This youth orchestra of the Chineke! Foundation was established by Chi-chi Nwanoku, a British double bass player with Nigerian roots who kept wondering why she was the only Black person on the concert podium. It can't stay that way, she told herself, and decided to take action. The Chineke! orchestras represent the highest level of artistic quality and start with groundwork, with education, deploying a sophisticated mentoring system. Not only is familiar repertoire performed at their concerts — so is music by Black composers as well. For this evening, the latter include the British late-Romantic composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the Canadian Stewart Goodyear (b. 1978), whose Caribbean suite Callaloo features Gerard Aimontche, a Black Russian pianist, playing the solo part. A discovery also awaits us on the podium with the young Venezuelan conductor Glass Marcano, who won the La Maestra Competition in Paris in 2020.

Chineke! Junior Orchestra 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Chineke! Junior Orchestra Glass Marcano conductor Gerard Aimontche piano Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Othello Suite, Op. 79 16 min

Stewart Goodyear Callaloo. Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra 27 min

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 45 min CHF 50/10 (adults/children)

Music for Future Talk 1 18.00 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Chi-chi Nwanoku et al. (in English)

Chineke! Junior Orchestra

CHF 20/10 (reduced)

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Wed 10.08. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

National Youth Orchestra of the USA 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall National Youth Orchestra of the USA Daniel Harding conductor Alisa Weilerstein cello Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Alisa Weilerstein

30 min

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor 75 min CHF 50/10 (adults/children)

“THEY PLAYED LIKE THEIR LIVES WERE AT STAKE” The Financial Times on the National Youth Orchestra of the USA The United States may well be the epitome of a “melting pot” in which the greatest diversity of ethnic groups combines to form a new national culture. This also applies to the National Youth Orchestra of the USA, founded in 2013 on the initiative of New York’s Carnegie Hall, which brings Black and white musicians together, along with youngsters with Asian or Hispanic backgrounds. But they all have one thing in common: they are between 16 and 19 years old and are among the finest young musicians in the country. And that’s why they are led every summer by sought-after conducting stars: Valery Gergiev got them started, while Christoph Eschenbach and Marin Alsop and, most recently, Michael Tilson Thomas and Sir Antonio Pappano have led the ensemble. In the summer of 2022, Daniel Harding will take over the baton for Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a work demanding everything from the orchestra that goes into great symphonic playing: opulent sound and delicate nuances, intimacy and expressivity, virtuosity and soulful lyricism. The American cellist Alisa Weilerstein will also bring these qualities to the fore with Edward Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto. 52

“CLASSICAL MUSIC NEEDS TO BE MORE DIVERSE”

Thu 11.08. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Ilumina 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Jennifer Stumm The violist Jennifer Stumm is unwilling to acquiesce to a situation where so many young people are given no opportunity to develop their talents because of their background. So she founded Ilumina in 2015. What began as a musical talent development project on a farm in the mountains of São Paulo has evolved in just a few years into a renowned chamber music festival and an important springboard for young talent. Ilumina strives to enable highly talented young musicians from South America to study at the top-level conservatories, and to this end has them work with a supportive range of international soloists. Together with their mentors, the youngsters perform concerts at the Ilumina Festival and on worldwide tours. “The future of classical music needs to include a lot more places around the world than Eurocentric nations and acknowledge how much talent there is out in the world and how we need those people,” Jennifer Stumm remarks. Because diversity and equality will generate completely new energies on stage.

Ilumina Jennifer Stumm viola and musical direction

Mark Padmore tenor “The Nature of Light” Heitor Villa-Lobos Prelúdio (Introdução) from Bachianas brasileiras No. 4 8 min

Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro from the String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 7 min

Richard Wagner Prelude to Tristan und Isolde

Jennifer Stumm & Ilumina

arranged for string sextet by Sebastian Gürtler 10 min

Benjamin Britten Les Illuminations for high voice and strings, Op. 18 21 min

along with other works by Johann Sebastian Bach, György Kurtág, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Nico Muhly, Baden Powell, and Franz Schubert CHF 50/10 (adults/children)

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Superar Suisse

Fri 12.08. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Superar Suisse 17.00 Europaplatz Chorus and Orchestra of Superar Suisse Laida Alberdi conductor Modest Mussorgsky/ Maurice Ravel The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition 5 min

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Allegro moderato from the Symphony in A major, K. 201 9 min

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Waltz from the Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

OPENING DOORS WITH A MUSICAL CLEF Showing children and young people new perspectives through the joy of music, regardless of their background: such is the goal of Superar Suisse. The non-profit association, which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022, therefore offers free lessons in choral singing and orchestral playing several times a week and in groups. After all, it is indeed collective music-making and regular joint performances that motivate people to overcome and rise above their limits – which is exactly what the Spanish word “superar” means. At their open-air concert on the Europaplatz, immediately before the Festival’s official Opening, the young singers and instrumentalists will present old and new hits. Viennese classical music meets a folk song from the South American Andes, while an elegant Tchaikovsky waltz is juxtaposed with excerpts from the score to the hit movie Pirates of the Caribbean, its most familiar earworms arranged by Ted Rickets into a thrilling orchestral suite.

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Klaus Badelt excerpts from the film score to Pirates of the Caribbean arranged by Ted Rickets 9 min

Carlos Garcia Ritmos Ciganos 2 min

Poco a Poco. Peruvian folk song arranged by Andy Garcia 2 min This concert has no intermission. Free admission

“A FANTASTIC PIECE”

Fri 12.08.

Anne-Sophie Mutter on Saint-Georges’ Concerto in A major

SYMPHONY

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly launch the 2022 Summer Festival with a double premiere. First is the world premiere of a brand-new work by Wolfgang Rihm, Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival Academy, who celebrated his 70th birthday in March. The star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will then join them for her first joint performance with the orchestra. In keeping with the theme of “Diversity,” she will play a violin concerto by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, one of the few Black composers from the 18th century. Today he is sometimes described as “Mozart noir,” but in Paris at the time he was much more successful than his Salzburg colleague: the gifted violinist advanced to become Queen Marie-Antoinette’s favorite musician and also became a sensation through his fencing skills, later fighting at the head of a legion of 1,000 soldiers for the Republic. Not even the polyglot Sergei Rachmaninoff was as versatile. Still, the latter’s highly Romantic Second Symphony beguiles with yearning melodies that you won’t be able to get out of your head.

Opening Concert Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra Riccardo Chailly conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Opening Address

Chi-chi Nwanoku Chineke! Foundation Greeting

Markus Hongler Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Michael Haefliger Executive and Artistic Director Welcoming Address

Ignazio Cassis President of the Swiss Confederation

Wolfgang Rihm new work for orchestra world premiere Commissioned by Lucerne Festival | 15 min

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto, Op. 5, no. 2 | 25 min Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 | 60 min CHF 350/300/240/170/100/50 Seating map 1, p. 132

Lakeside Symphony The Opening Concert projected live on a giant screen | 18.30 | Inseli Park | Free admission

Anne-Sophie Mutter

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Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

Sat 13.08. SYMPHONY

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra Riccardo Chailly conductor Denis Matsuev piano Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 32 min

Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 60 min

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

“I LOVED RACHMANINOFF EVEN WHEN I WAS A CHILD” Riccardo Chailly Sergei Rachmaninoff, who left Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 and went on to tour the world as a virtuoso pianist, found a new home at Lake Lucerne in the early 1930s. In Hertenstein he had a villa built in the latest Bauhaus style, enjoying peace and quiet and the beauty of nature there: until the Second World War broke out, that is, and he fled again, this time to the USA. Celebrating Rachmaninoff in Lucerne is a heartfelt undertaking for Riccardo Chailly. This summer he is dedicating himself to the Second Symphony and the Second Piano Concerto, the most famous of all four Rachmaninoff concertos, which opens with eight piano chords that continue to swell in volume, resembling the sound of bells. It’s an assignment tailor-made for the Rachmaninoff specialist Denis Matsuev, who not only commands the pianistic chops to hold his own against the orchestra, even amid tremendous floods of sound, but also has a sense for the subtleties of Rachmaninoff’s piano writing and his melting lyricism. 56

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“MUSIC COMES FROM THE SOUL”

Sun 14.08.

Sir András Schiff This much is clear: with the four composers he has chosen for his summer recital in Lucerne, András Schiff will be completely in his element. Johann Sebastian Bach is for him “the greatest and most important” of them all, for his sound world has a strong spiritual effect. Schiff sees Mozart’s art as a “gift to humanity,” and he affirms that Beethoven’s music has something “metaphysical and cosmic” that touches on the existential. As to Franz Schubert, he remarks: “His music is the most human I know, and also the most personal. His modesty and humility touch me deeply.” Things only get complicated when Sir András has to decide which of the many great works he should play out of those left behind by these four. After all, his repertoire is vast and encompasses large portions of their piano music. The solution? Surprise! András Schiff will decide on the spot, on the day of the concert itself, which pieces by each of these four composers we will hear. He will also introduce the works he has chosen for his matinee concert, discussing their unique features.

Recital András Schiff 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Sir András Schiff piano “In memory of Bernard Haitink” Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert Sir András Schiff will decide spontaneously which compositions he will perform and will additionally discuss his choices during the concert. This concert has no intermission.

Sir András Schiff

CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 5, p. 133

Tyshawn Sorey

Sun 14.08. CONTEMPORARY

JACK Quartet 1 14.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violins John Pickford Richards viola Jay Campbell cello Tyshawn Sorey percussion Liza Lim String Creatures for string quartet world premiere Commissioned by Lucerne Festival, the Melbourne Recital Centre, and Miller Theatre at Columbia University 40 min

“I DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANY MUSICAL STYLE LESS SERIOUSLY” Tyshawn Sorey “Is it jazz? New classical music? Composition? Improvisation? Tonal? Atonal? Minimal? Maximal?”, wondered the music critic Alex Ross following one of Tyshawn Sorey’s performances, which he found “awesomely confounding.” And Sorey’s work is indeed difficult to categorize. He is a multi-instrumentalist, conductor, and composer who moves seamlessly between jazz and contemporary “classical,” combining both precisely notated music and freely improvised performance. “If I notice that I’m discriminating against some style, then that’s a problem I have to deal with. I can’t blame it on the musical genre that I don’t like, can I?” Sorey will begin his turn as Lucerne’s “artiste étoile” in a very classical way: namely, with a new string quartet. But he will undoubtedly contribute unprecedented facets to this traditional genre. And so does Liza Lim: String Creatures is the title of the Australian composer’s new work for the JACK Quartet. Through various materials and applications, she transforms the instruments and musicians into fantastic hybrid creatures. 58

Tyshawn Sorey new work for percussion and string quartet world premiere Commissioned by Lucerne Festival 35 min CHF 50 (open seating)

“I AM CZECH, BODY AND SOUL”

Sun 14.08. SYMPHONY

Bedřich Smetana A folk song claims that music comes from Bohemia, but in the temples of European high culture, above all in Vienna, people preferred to stick to their own tradition. Bedřich Smetana deserves credit for introducing a specifically Czech color to the European musical language through his orchestral cycle Má vlast, thus ensuring greater diversity. In this work, Smetana presents the beauties of his homeland: the castle rock of Vyšehrad, the Vltava river as it courses from its source to Prague, the lovely charms of “Bohemia’s groves and meadows.” And he introduces the world of Czech myths with his portrayals of the Amazon Šárka, heads to the Hussite fortress of Tábor, and reveals the secrets of the legendary mountain Blaník. In Lucerne, these six ravishing tone poems that mark a pinnacle of national Romanticism will be performed by an orchestra that comes across as the embodiment of our summer theme of “Diversity”: the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by Daniel Barenboim in 1999, which unites different cultures, religions, and nationalities and celebrates the unifying power of music

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 1 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Bedřich Smetana Má vlast (My Homeland) 80 min This concert has no intermission.

Introduction to the Concert 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German) CHF 200/170/130/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 132

Daniel Barenboim

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Lang Lang

Mon 15.08. SYMPHONY

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Lang Lang piano Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole 16 min

Manuel de Falla Noches en los jardines de España for piano and orchestra 25 min

Claude Debussy Images for Orchestra No. 2: Ibéria 22 min

Maurice Ravel Boléro

“GIVE DIVERSITY A CHANCE!” Daniel Barenboim Music thrives on the exchange of cultures. At the beginning of the 20th century, the French composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy were inspired by Spain and monumentalized the Iberian soundscape in several famous orchestral works. The Spaniard Manuel de Falla took the opposite approach: he moved to Paris, drew inspiration from Debussy and Ravel, and created his Noches en los jardines de España as an Impressionist musical painting. On this evening, the highly virtuosic piano part will be played by the Chinese keyboard titan Lang Lang, thus building a bridge to Asia. What’s more, Daniel Barenboim on the podium of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is a prime example of a citizen of the world: born in Argentina as the son of Russian parents, he grew up in Israel, studied in Paris, lived in London and Chicago, and today makes his home in Berlin. He holds four citizenships, speaks six languages fluently, and has been performing around the globe for 70 years. Even Wilhelm Furtwängler called him “a phenomenon.” And that is what Barenboim, who celebrates his 80th birthday in late fall, has remained to this day.

17 min CHF 200/170/130/90/60/30 Seating map 1, p. 132

Music for Future Talk 2 12.15 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Daniel Barenboim et al. (in English) CHF 20/10 (reduced)

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“I HAVE SOME NEGRO BLOOD IN MY VEINS”

Tue 16.08.

Florence Price In 2009, construction workers made an astonishing discovery in the attic of a dilapidated house in St. Anne, Illinois: they unearthed entire stacks of handwritten sheet music penned by Florence Price, who once had kept her summer residence on the property. The sensational find led to a renaissance of interest in this great African American composer, who became almost completely forgotten following her death in 1953. Kit Armstrong and soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will perform the Piano Quintet in A minor, which combines late-Romantic lyricism with echoes of church hymns and a Juba dance. The program is a multicultural one, combining the slow movement from George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, filled with blues touches, with the catchy Czech tunes and ravishing Dumka movement of Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Quintet. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, who died in 1988, was of Parsi origin and built a musical bridge from East to West. He will be represented by several piano works long considered “unplayable.” Finally, the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu will contribute impulses from the Far East.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Kit Armstrong piano George Gershwin Second movement from the Concerto in F arranged for trumpet, piano, and string quartet 12 min

Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 41 min

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Transcendental Study No. 36 (for the left hand) 5 min

Tōru Takemitsu A Bird came down the Walk for viola and piano 8 min

Florence Price Piano Quintet in A minor 35 min

Kit Armstrong

CHF 120/90/60

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Riccardo Chailly

Wed 17.08. SYMPHONY

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra Riccardo Chailly conductor Andrè Schuen baritone Gustav Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen 16 min

Symphony No. 1 in D major 60 min This concert has no intermission. CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 132

“HIS MUSIC MUST GO DIRECTLY TO THE HEART”

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Riccardo Chailly on Gustav Mahler The Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (“Songs of a Wayfarer”) comprise Gustav Mahler’s earliest masterpiece. He wrote them in 1884-85 when he was unhappily in love with the soprano Johanna Richter, and this experience, as well as his dream of a “beautiful world,” informs both the verses (which he also wrote) and the music. The cycle will be performed by the young South Tyrolean baritone Andrè Schuen, who has been creating a sensation as both an opera star and an art song performer of the first rank. Mahler quoted from the Songs of a Wayfarer a short time later in his First Symphony, which juxtaposes heterogeneous sound worlds in a collage, providing the model image of a “diverse” work of art. The music should resonate “like a natural sound,” as the instructions for the opening movement put it, where Mahler incorporates alterations of the cuckoo’s call. He later weaves in references to the popular idioms of ländler and waltz. In the third movement, he transforms the familiar tune of Frère Jacques into a gruesome, minor-key funeral march, only to counteract this macabre dirge with the “merriment and banality of a Bohemian band of musicians mingling together.” A sonic experience! 62

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“EACH CONCERT IS UNIQUE”

Thu 18.08. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Zoltán Despond Launching the series of Debut concerts in the 2022 Summer Festival is a Swiss from French-speaking Switzerland: Zoltán Despond, born in 1992, whom the critic Peter Hagmann has declared to be “one of the best cellists of his generation.” Hagmann is not alone in this opinion. Thomas Grossenbacher, for example, principal cellist of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, praises his student’s special sensitivity: “His interpretations are expressive and touching, and the tone is full and soulful.” In September 2021, Despond introduced himself in a recital at the Vienna Musikverein and then performed in Lyon, Graz, Salzburg, Nice, and Toulouse, and he will make his debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Berlin Philharmonie before the summer. For Lucerne Festival he has put together a varied program that includes Beethoven and Schumann as well as two modern classics: Paul Hindemith and Sergei Prokofiev. He will also perform music by Nadia Boulanger, a composer whose work is worth rediscovering. Despond loves the spontaneity of interpretation: “Ultimately, you dance and sing with time.”

Debut Zoltán Despond 12.15 Lukaskirche Zoltán Despond cello Vesselin Stanev piano Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, no. 2 20 min

Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 12 min

Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces for cello and piano 7 min

Paul Hindemith Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 25, no. 3 10 min

Sergei Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119 24 min This concert has no intermission.

Zoltán Despond

CHF 30

Igor Levit

Thu 18.08. Recital Igor Levit 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Igor Levit piano Ferruccio Busoni Six Chorale Preludes for Organ from Opus 122 by Johannes Brahms, transcribed for piano, BV B 50 16 min

Fred Hersch Variations on a Folk Song Swiss premiere 20 min

Richard Wagner Prelude to Tristan und Isolde arranged for piano by Zoltán Kocsis 9 min

“AS IF I WERE PLAYING MILES DAVIS” Igor Levit on Fred Hersch’s piano music Igor Levit has set interpretive standards with his cycle of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, which he performed at Lucerne Festival up through 2021. But now the time is ripe for new challenges. And for the next peak in the piano repertoire: which is why he is now devoting himself to Franz Liszt’s mighty B minor sonata. But Levit is never concerned with mere virtuosity. He searches for philosophical and metaphysical surplus value. Liszt’s magical sonata, in which all of the motifs, even the contrasting ones, are based on a shared germ cell, is ideal material. Brahms’s chorale preludes, his final work, seek to come to terms with both finitude and God and also possess a transcendental aura. And the prelude to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde already touches on another world, musically as well as spiritually. A counterpoint to this is provided by the Variations on a Folk Song, which Levit commissioned from Fred Hersch, an American jazz musician whom he considers “one of the best pianists of our time.” And owes much to Hersch’s advice: “He took away my fear of the path I’m following.”

Franz Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178 32 min CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 5, p. 133

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“THIS MUSIC IS MOTHER’S MILK FOR ME”

Fri 19.08. SYMPHONY

Jakub Hrůša on Antonín Dvořák “The Americans expect great things from me,” wrote Antonín Dvořák when he was appointed director of the New York-based Conservatory of Music in 1892. He of all people, who clearly identified as Czech, was expected to do no more and no less than to compose the first true “American” symphony. And Dvořák found the key to success: “diversity” was his formula. And so he had spirituals, plantation songs from the Southern states, and Native American melodies performed for him and integrated these new musical experiences into his famous Ninth, the Symphony from the New World. Jakub Hrůša, who made his triumphant debut leading the Lucerne Festival Orchestra last summer in Dvořák’s Sixth, will conduct this multicultural milestone. Before that, he will perform another treasure from Dvořák’s ouput: the enchanting Violin Concerto. German-American violinist and Grammy Award winner Augustin Hadelich, who combines impeccable technique with soulful tone, will perform the solo part; Hadelich received the coveted Opus Klassik Award in 2019 for his account of this work, which he recorded with Hrůša.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor Augustin Hadelich violin Josef Suk Scherzo fantastique, Op. 25 16 min

Antonín Dvořák Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 32 min

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World 46 min

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

Augustin Hadelich

CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 132

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Sat 20.08. CONTEMPORARY

JACK Quartet 2 11.00 Hochschule Luzern — Musik, Kriens JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman violins John Pickford Richards viola Jay Campbell cello Catherine Lamb String Quartet No. 1 53 min

JACK Quartet

This concert has no intermission. CHF 50

“OUR LEADING MUSICAL FOURSOME” The New York Times on the JACK Quartet “The most violent sound is not the most intense,” observes the Berlin-based American composer Catherine Lamb. “Especially when working with certain timbres and shades of sound, the more simply and relaxed the notes are played — with enough space for them to unfold — the more expressive they become.” Lamb’s Minimalist, meditative music takes a lot of time and develops a tremendous pull precisely because of this trait — not least because it turns listening itself into the subject and because it makes us aware of our own perception. This is also true of Lamb’s First String Quartet: it lasts for 50-plus minutes, doing without complicated playing techniques and tricky rhythms and instead concentrating entirely on the vibrations of the four string instruments. With their sustained notes, they open up a harmonic space that pulsates and expands and whose microtonal colorations continually change. The JACK Quartet, working closely with Catherine Lamb, offers an intense listening experience.

“DIVERSITY IS A STRENGTH FOR TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS”

Sat 20.08. NZZ Podium 16.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium

Iris Bohnet “Diversity,” the appreciation and inclusion of as many social groups as possible, should actually happen as a matter of course. But history shows a different picture, and discrimination, racism, and exclusion are still widespread today. The morality of the majority is reflected in how it treats its minorities. Diversity and identity culture are problematic where they become a cult and an ideology. The “essentialization” of characteristics such as skin color or sexual identity also leads to a stalemate, as does exaggeration of victim status — responsibilities thereby become blurred. Being human is not limited to belonging to a group; also to be considered are the freedom of the individual and the right of the collective. The view of the whole must not be clouded by a fixation on the individual. A right and fair balance is essential.

Round Table with Iris Bohnet Economist and Professor of Business & Government

Adam Fischer conductor and member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Mithu Sanyal author, cultural scientist, and journalist

Golda Schultz soprano Host Martin Meyer director of the NZZ Podium “Diversity: Multiplicity and Unity” (in German) 90 min

Golda Schultz

CHF 30/10 (reduced)

Cecilia Bartoli

Sat 20.08. SYMPHONY

Concert Cecilia Bartoli 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco Gianluca Capuano conductor “Viva Mozart!” Arias, scenes, and instrumental movements by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Details of the program will be announced at a later date. CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 1, p. 132

“MOZART WAS A POP STAR” Cecilia Bartoli “Mozart will always be my musical god,” observes Cecilia Bartoli. “It’s clear that there will never again be another like him.” And she knows whereof she speaks. Wolfgang Amadé Mozart has been Bartoli’s companion throughout her career. When she auditioned for Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg in the mid-1980s, as a very young mezzo-soprano, she already had Mozart’s scores in her luggage — and was engaged right away to sing Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. She later created a sensation with all three female roles from Così fan tutte: as Fiordiligi, Dorabella, and Despina — a feat that will not soon be replicated. And of course she has also thrilled as Donna Elvira and Zerlina in Don Giovanni and as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito. Mozart’s music offers Cecilia Bartoli the opportunity to play all the winning cards of her astounding vocal artistry: daring coloratura and blossoming lyricism, huge interval leaps and feather-thin pianissimi. Only one wish will remain denied to her: to sing Don Giovanni once in her life ... For this program, Bartoli will perform Mozart arias and scenes that lie especially close to her heart these days.

“A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLOR”

Sat 20.08. CONTEMPORARY

The Sunday Times on In Seven Days Who composes program music today? Jack-of-all-trades Thomas Adès does. With In Seven Days, his “symphony with obbligato piano” (Kirill Gerstein), he follows the biblical account of creation. However, Adès is not interested in a musical canvas of images. Rather, he aims to make the overflowing creative energy of creation tangible, supported by a video installation by the Israeli filmmaker Tal Rosner. In a series of variations, he allows themes and motifs to grow and proliferate, illuminating them ever anew with lush orchestral colors anchored in tonality, at times reminiscent of Baroque models, at others of Hollywood. “The music zooms into the atoms of chaos and spins out to the largest scale of the stars in their constellations; we seem to see the creatures of the earth from a lunar distance before plunging into their midst,” observes the music critic Tom Service. The second half of the concert features a new work that “artiste étoile” Tyshawn Sorey has written for the American saxophonist Timothy McAllister.

Lucerne Festival Academy 1 22.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Elena Schwarz conductor Timothy McAllister saxophone Kirill Gerstein piano Tyshawn Sorey new work for saxophone and orchestra world premiere Commissioned by Lucerne Festival and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as part of New Music USA’s “Amplifying Voices” 20 min

Thomas Adès In Seven Days: Concerto for Piano with Moving Image 30 min This concert has no intermission.

Elena Schwarz

CHF 50 (open seating)

Graziella Contratto

Sun 21.08. SYMPHONY

MythenEnsembleOrchestral 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall MythenEnsembleOrchestral Graziella Contratto conductor Golda Schultz soprano Gustav Mahler Four selected lieder: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Das irdische Leben Ich atmet' einen linden Duft Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen arranged for chamber orchestra by Daniel Grossmann and Klaus Simon 20 min

Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor arranged for chamber orchestra by Klaus Simon 75 min

“CHAMBER MUSIC ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL” Graziella Contratto on conducting With Gustav Mahler’s thunderous, world-shaking symphonies, it usually gets pretty crowded onstage. A 100-piece orchestra is the norm. But there is another way to do them. Arnold Schoenberg proved this when he founded the Society for Private Musical Performances in 1918, where he presented large-scale works in arrangements for chamber orchestra. The German composer Klaus Simon follows his approach and has arranged several Mahler symphonies for smaller ensemble. The effect is striking, for Simon foregrounds the inner life of Mahler’s music. You can hear its ornate polyphony with the most beautiful transparency. The MythenEnsembleOrchestral, comprising Swiss and international soloists, will perform Mahler’s Fifth Symphony in this version, under the direction of the fin-desiècle expert Graziella Contratto. Before that, however, “artiste étoile” Golda Schultz launches her residency at the Summer Festival, and for this she has chosen four moving Mahler lieder that tell of the earthly vale of tears and the longing for a better world.

This concert has no intermission. CHF 90/60/30

“THERE IS STILL SO MUCH TO DISCOVER!”

Sun 21.08. SYMPHONY

Raphaela Gromes on women composers Is the name Matilde Capuis still unfamiliar? If so, it’s about time to make her acquaintance, according to Raphaela Gromes. She opens the Festival Strings Lucerne’s afternoon concert with Tre Momenti by the long-lived Italian composer who died in 2017 at the age of 104. Capuis wrote in a completely late-Romantic style, such that her musical language fits in perfectly with the compositions by Clara and Robert Schumann that follow it. Ditto for the three pieces Pauline Viardot-García on the program. Around the middle of the 19th century, she earned success not only as an acclaimed singer but as an accomplished and prolific composer. The multiple award-winning German cellist Raphaela Gromes ranks among the original thinkers in the classical music world and loves exploring unusual repertoire. But she does so at the highest level: the Süddeutsche Zeitung praises the beauty of her tone and her poetry, while the Neue Zürcher Zeitung points to her “diabolical acrobatics and infectious musicality.” These are the just the qualities needed for Bizet’s dashing Carmen Fantasy, which Gromes will play in an arrangement for cello by her piano partner Julian Riem.

Afternoon Concert 14.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Festival Strings Lucerne Raphaela Gromes cello and host Matilde Capuis Tre Momenti for cello and string orchestra 16 min

Robert Schumann Abendlied, Op. 85, no. 12 arranged for string orchestra by Johan Svendsen 3 min

Clara Schumann Andante molto from Three Romances, Op. 22 arranged for cello and string orchestra by Julian Riem 3 min

Pauline Viardot-García Bohémienne, Romance and Tarantelle from the Six Morceaux, VWV 3003 arranged for cello and string orchestra by Julian Riem 9 min

Joaquín Rodrigo Dos miniaturas andaluzas for string orchestra 5 min

Julian Riem Carmen Fantasy after Georges Bizet for cello and string orchestra world premiere 6 min

Raphaela Gromes

This concert has no intermission. Tickets at CHF 10 are exclusively available from the Stadthaus Luzern from 8 to 19 August (Hirschengraben 17; always from 9.00 to 11.00 and from 14.00 to 16.00).

Sun 21.08. Duo Adès & Gerstein 17.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein pianos

Thomas Adès | Kirill Gerstein

Claude Debussy En blanc et noir 16 min

Igor Stravinsky Symphonie de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms) arranged for two pianos by Dmitri Shostakovich 23 min

Claude Debussy Lindaraja 5 min

“YOU ARE SORT OF SCULPTING IN AIR” Thomas Adès on composing

Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face 16 min

Maurice Ravel La Valse 12 min

Composer-in-residence Thomas Adès came to composing via the piano. And he has remained faithful to his instrument to this day, whether in solo performances or in a duo with the Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein. In Lucerne, the pair will perform two classics for two pianos: En blanc et noir, Debussy’s cryptically patriotic commentary on the First World War, and La Valse, Ravel’s apocalyptic vision of doom in 3/4 time. But they will also play a rarely heard arrangement that Dmitri Shostakovich made of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. And, of course, a piece by Adès himself is on the program. The composer has arranged four scenes for piano duo from his operatic breakthrough Powder Her Face, which traces the scandalous life of the Duchess of Argyll: a voluptuous homage to the virtuoso operatic paraphrases of Franz Liszt and Ferruccio Busoni, spiked with numerous pianistic masterstrokes.

CHF 50 (open seating)

“ART IS LIKE A NEW PLANET”

Sun 21.08. SYMPHONY

Anatoly Lyadov The vast expanses of Russia are home to many cultures. A wide variety of different influences have therefore found their way into Russian art music since it began to develop around the middle of the 19th century. However, almost all Russian composers have one thing in common: they prefer to draw on the world of fairy-tales and myths. And on archaic musical formulas that differ fundamentally from the Western tradition. These traits are unmistakable in this entertaining survey of Russian music history, which Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra undertake in their first Lucerne concert of the summer. The evening begins tenderly and poetically with Lyadov’s depiction of an enchanted lake. Mussorgsky’s Night on Bare Mountain sounds wild and feverish and is probably the most radical Russian composition before Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps — the revolutionary ballet score, with its percussive rhythms and eruptions of sound, that crowns the program. Between these works, Gergiev and Alexander Borodin will spotlight the dancing Polovtsy, a Turkic people from the southern Volga region, thereby setting off a fireworks display of unforgettable melodies.

Mariinsky Orchestra 1 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor Anatoly Lyadov The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62 8 min

Baba Yaga, Op. 56 4 min

Modest Mussorgsky Night on Bare Mountain 13 min

Alexander Borodin Polovtsian Dances 12 min

Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps 35 min

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

Valery Gergiev

CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

Dieter Ammann | Wolfgang Rihm

Mon 22.08. – Thu 25.08. CONTEMPORARY

Composer Seminar each day 10.00–11.30 and 12.00–13.30 KKL Luzern, Clubraum 8 Participants in the Composer Seminar: Olivia Bennett, Pengyi Li, Jinan Zhenyan Li, Minzuo Lu, Aregnaz Martirosyan, Lila Wildy Quillin, Hugo Van Rechem, and Raimonda Žiūkaitė Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann co-directing teachers Introduction and discussion of the selected works for guests CHF 100/30 (course pass/day pass)

“I’M SEEING A NEW GENERATION OF INDIVIDUALS” Wolfgang Rihm

Composer Seminar — Closing Concert Sat 03.09. | 14.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA Ensemble 2021-22) see p. 98

When he took on his position as Director of the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2016, Wolfgang Rihm established the Composer Seminar. But much earlier, as composer-in-residence of the 1997 Summer Festival, he sought out exchange with the young generation of composers in the context of a masterclass in Lucerne. Dieter Ammann also acquired enduring inspiration from him at that time and was impressed by “how someone can speak and listen for three days and simply be present without feeling even basic needs such as hunger or the like while listening.” Nowadays, Ammann and Rihm co-direct the Composer Seminar. Neither is interested in making the participants adhere to any aesthetic positions (certainly not to their own). Rather, the goal is a productive dialogue between positions and stages of development that are as different as possible. In four public sessions, the selected composers will introduce themselves and their works.

“AN ARTIST LIVES A DOUBLE LIFE”

Mon 22.08. SYMPHONY

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a master of a great many different genres. He wrote ravishing stage works, incomparable solo concertos, and grandiose symphonies. Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will present Russia’s most famous composer in all three guises on this evening. They will open the concert with excerpts from the fairy-tale ballet score Sleeping Beauty, getting us into a waltzing mood. But then Daniil Trifonov will take to the keyboard and perform the legendary First Piano Concerto. The 31-year-old star pianist is not only a virtuoso who seems to have no technical limits; he is also a profound interpreter who surprises us over and over with unusual, intimate interpretations and is completely absorbed by the music. Following the intermission, Valery Gergiev and his orchestra will revel in the unique sound world of the Fifth Symphony, tracing Tchaikovsky’s struggle with “fate”: a concept that for him encoded his homosexuality, which he was forced to hide in czarist Russia, openly acknowledging it only in his diaries — and in his last three symphonies, which he ambiguously described as “symphonies of fate.”

Mariinsky Orchestra 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor Daniil Trifonov piano Piotyr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Adagio, Panorama and Valse from the Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a 14 min

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 35 min

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 47 min

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

Daniil Trifonov

CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

Randall Goosby

Tue 23.08. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Debut Randall Goosby 12.15 Lukaskirche Randall Goosby violin Anna Han piano Antonín Dvořák Sonatina for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 100 20 min

William Grant Still Suite for Violin and Piano 15 min

Edvard Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 24 min This concert has no intermission.

“GOOSBY PLAYS LIKE AN ANGEL” The Los Angeles Times His father is African American, his mother Korean: for violinist Randall Goosby, born in San Diego in 1996, diversity is the most natural thing in the world. He is now bringing this self-image to the classical music industry — and is about to embark on a meteoric career. In the summer of 2021, he made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl, last October was his first appearance with the London Philharmonic, and in May 2022 he will play the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra. “Randall Goosby knows who he is,” according to his teacher Itzhak Perlman. “The important thing for me, in any musician, is sound. And his is beautiful. It immediately hits the listener.” Goosby’s debut album Roots shows that he also combines music with a political statement. It’s a tribute to Black composers who, he says, “had to get by in the music business when racism, prejudice, and exclusion were still the order of the day.” One of them, William Grant Still, is also on his Debut program in Lucerne. Goosby will pair Still with Antonín Dvořák’s Sonatina, written in America, and a highly Romantic violin sonata by Edvard Grieg. 76

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“WAGNER IS THE MOST CREATIVE OF ALL”

Tue 23.08. SYMPHONY

Iván Fischer Iván Fischer believes that once you succumb to Richard Wagner, you can’t quit him. Because his parents were sworn Wagnerians, he himself was infected with the Wagner virus as a child in Hungary. For all those who are not yet ready, he offers the ideal gateway drug in this concert: the first act from Die Walküre. The plot is as exciting as a thriller. You can’t help but sympathize with the two main characters, Sieglinde and Siegmund, who are allowed to spend only one night together before Siegmund dies the next day in a duel with Sieglinde’s jealous husband Hunding. Wagner’s music leaves you breathless right from the opening chase, enchants you when it depicts the intensest emotions, and culminates at the end of the act in the intoxicating ecstasy of making love. With Camilla Nylund, Klaus Florian Vogt, and Günther Groissböck, three top stars from the Wagner scene will ensure delectable vocalism. But what Iván Fischer loves most of all are the lyrical moments in Wagner’s music. And he can fully indulge them at the beginning of the evening with the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed in 1870 in Tribschen near Lucerne.

Budapest Festival Orchestra 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer conductor Camilla Nylund Sieglinde Klaus Florian Vogt Siegmund Günther Groissböck Hunding Richard Wagner Siegfried Idyll 18 min

Die Walküre Concert performance of the first act 65 min This concert has no intermission.

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

Klaus Florian Vogt

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Thomas Adès

Wed 24.08. CONTEMPORARY

Masterclass in Conducting 14.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Participants in the Conducting Fellowship Thomas Adès leader Igor Stravinsky Agon Witold Lutosławski Symphony No. 3 Per Nørgård Drømmespil (Dream Play) for chamber orchestra For guests CHF 30 (open seating)

“AN ALL-AROUND MUSICIAN” The New York Times on Thomas Adès Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre Boulez: they were all composers and at the same time gifted conductors. Thomas Adès, composer-in-residence of the 2022 Summer Festival, is another in this august, doubly talented group. Indeed, he is also an excellent pianist, so “triple talented” is more accurate. All of which makes him the ideal candidate for the Lucerne Festival Academy’s annual summer masterclass in conducting. For Adès understands both sides of music. He can convey how something is “made” compositionally but he also knows about the practical problems of interpretation and performance-related pitfalls. He has chosen works representing three important positions of 20th-century composition, each with its own characteristics. And because he himself will conduct these pieces by Igor Stravinsky, Witold Lutosławski, and Per Nørgård three days later, when he leads the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO), his public masterclass is not only an enlightening introduction to the art of conducting but a perfect preparation for anyone attending his concert on 27 August.

“YOU CAN PLAY MORE DRAMATICALLY”

Wed 24.08.

Kristian Bezuidenhout on the fortepiano

Duo Gabetta & Bezuidenhout 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Soloist”: a word that for Sol Gabetta conjures ambivalent feelings. After all, it derives from the Italian adjective “solo,” which means “alone,” thus implying a certain loneliness. Still, the Argentine cellist, who began her international career in 2004 as a winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award at Lucerne Festival and inspired audiences here in 2018 as our “artiste étoile,” is an avowed supporter of cooperation and therefore places all the more value on chamber music, on the art of playing together. And she has found a likeminded spirit in the Australian all-rounder Kristian Bezuidenhout. He will play three different keyboards at this duo performance: a fortepiano by Conrad Graf, a historic Blüthner Grand Piano, and a modern Steinway Grand Piano. For each of the evening’s four composers, who include Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, the two will thus be able to generate a distinctive sound world, demonstrating the manifold personalities that keyboard instruments can express. Of course the same hold for the cello, since Sol Gabetta will elicit corresponding nuances of color from her instrument.

Sol Gabetta cello Kristian Bezuidenhout keyboards Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 arranged in D major for cello and piano 28 min

Franz Schubert Allegretto quasi andantino from the Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537 7 min

Hungarian Melody, D 817 4 min

Andante from the Piano Sonata in A major, D 664

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Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 26 min

Felix Mendelssohn Variations concertantes, Op. 17 10 min

Johannes Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 26 min

Sol Gabetta | Kristian Bezuidenhout

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Mishka Rushdie Momen

Thu 25.08. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Debut Mishka Rushdie Momen 12.15 Lukaskirche Mishka Rushdie Momen piano Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, no. 2 Sonata quasi una fantasia | 17 min Robert Schumann No. 4 Ziemlich langsam from Bunte Blätter, Op. 99 | 2 min Vijay Iyer Hallucination Party (on a Theme of Schumann), Part 1 | 3 min Robert Schumann Romance in F-sharp major, Op. 28, no. 2 | 4 min

“PURITY AND DEPTH OF MUSICAL FEELING” Richard Goode on Mishka Rushdie Momen

Nico Muhly Small Variations | 5 min Frédéric Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. post. 66 6 min

The familiar name is no coincidence: Mishka Rushdie Momen’s mother comes from India and is the sister of the famous novelist Salman Rushdie. Born in London in 1992, daughter Mishka studied at the Guildhall School of Music with Imogen Cooper and Joan Havill; she also took lessons with Richard Goode and completed András Schiff’s Performance Program for Young Pianists at the Kronberg Academy. Schiff then invited her to join his Building Bridges concert series and performed with her in Zurich, New York, and Antwerp. Mishka Rushdie Momen, who won the Leschetizky Competition in New York at the age of 13, has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, and the Orchestre National d’Île de France. As a chamber musician, she collaborates with Steven Isserlis, Midori, the Endellion, and the Orion String Quartet. While the Classical and Romantic periods form the core of her repertoire, she is also committed to contemporary music and has commissioned a new work from French composer Héloïse Werner for her Lucerne debut, which she will premiere here.

Héloïse Werner new work world premiere | commissioned by the I&I Foundation | 7 min

Franz Schubert Fantasy in C major, D 760 Wanderer Fantasy | 23 min This concert has no intermission. CHF 30

Debut in the Schoolhouse On 26 August Mishka Rushdie Momen will also perform for school classes.

“MY TIME IS TODAY”

Thu 25.08.

George Gershwin

SYMPHONY

George Gershwin made history with Porgy and Bess: this “American folk opera” is the first musical drama set among people of color, on Catfish Row in the port city of Charleston. In the USA of the 1930s, which was characterized by racial discrimination, it took a lot of courage to choose such a subject. All the more so since Gershwin brought simple fishermen, the unemployed, and even drug addicts onto the stage here. Musically, he also showed a willingness to experiment, adding jazz elements, songs, and (self-invented) spirituals to the score. Authenticity was Gershwin’s top priority. Which is why he even took up residence near Charleston while working on the project in order to study in detail the dialect of the Gullah, the African Americans from the Low Country in South Carolina. This work is not to be missed in the summer of “Diversity”! Alan Gilbert will perform it in a semi-staged version with an all-Black ensemble led by Elizabeth Llewellyn and Morris Robinson in the title roles. The fabulous Golda Schultz will beguile with the famous Summertime, and hits like I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ and It Ain’t Necessarily So will also fill the air.

Porgy and Bess 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra NDR Vocal Ensemble and Guests Alan Gilbert conductor Morris Robinson Porgy Elizabeth Llewellyn Bess Chauncey Packer Sportin’ Life Lester Lynch Crown Norman Garrett Jake, Simon Frazier Golda Schultz Clara Cameo Humes Robbins, Mingo, Peter, Crab man

Latonia Moore Serena Tichina Vaughn Maria, Lily, Annie, Strawberry woman

Njabulo Madlala Jim, Undertaker The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin Opera in three acts 180 min (complete playing time without intermission)

“Porgy and Bess”, world premiere

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Joyce El-Khoury

Fri 26.08. SYMPHONY

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Michael Sanderling conductor Joyce El-Khoury soprano Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps 5 min

Richard Strauss Four Last Songs 23 min

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique 47 min CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 133

“MUSIC IS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE” Joyce El-Khoury She was the first woman to win the coveted “Prix de Rome”: what other marvels would the French composer Lili Boulanger have brought to the music world if she had not died in 1918 at the age of only 24? Michael Sanderling recalls this highly gifted composer with the delicate tonal painting D’un matin de printemps. He then conducts two farewell works. Richard Strauss is represented by the Four Last Songs, his beauty-drunk swan song to Romantic music. The weightless melismas and jubilant flights of fancy of the solo part will be sung by Joyce El-Khoury; born in Lebanon, she is now involved in humanitarian and educational work for her home country. After intermission, Tchaikovsky’s famous Pathétique will be heard, ending with a fade-out, like a death depicted in music. That the composer actually died of cholera, with which he may have deliberately infected himself, just days after the world premiere seems macabre. “Tchaikovsky was a torn personality, he never really found his place in society,” Sanderling believes. He will pay homage to the Sixth as a poignant requiem.

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Artemis Group / Franke Group Concert Sponsor

LOOKING FOR A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH? With STYX Tours, the audience embarks on a musical-theatrical journey into the unknown. We can expect a humorous as well as touching encounter with our own abysses, missed chances, and 99 ways to die. Because when we are confronted with death, we inevitably think about life: What makes a life worth living? What is? What remains? For the premiere, the music theater collective Agora, which works at the intersection of music theater and digital media, is developing a music theater performance on the grounds of the Old Crematorium at Friedental Cemetery together with composer Maja S. K. Ratkje, musicians from the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO), and the opera choir and singers from the Lucerne Theater ensemble. In addition to two world premieres by Ratkje, the LFCO and Agora will design a music-theatrical walk with the singers across the grounds and into the crematorium itself — using Baroque arias, lamento choruses, and electronic loops.

Fri 26.08. Music Theater/Performance 19.30 Altes Krematorium Luzern Friedental Luzerner Theater Ensemble Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Ensemble Music Theater Collective Agora Maja S. K. Ratkje composer “STYX Tours. A Rendezvous with Death” world premiere 120 min A cooperation of the Luzerner Theater with Lucerne Festival and Agora Tickets available starting 10 May exclusively from the Luzerner Theater: t +41 (0)41 228 14 14 (The box office is closed during the summer break from 20 June to 14 August.)

Altes Krematorium Luzern Friedental

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ensemble recherche

Sat 27.08. CONTEMPORARY

ensemble recherche 11.00 Hochschule Luzern — Musik, Kriens ensemble recherche Lisa Streich Nebensonnen for violin, viola, cello, and clarinet 11 min

Helmut Lachenmann new work for string trio Swiss premiere Commissioned by Lucerne Festival, ensemble recherche, West German Radio, Milano Musica, Françoise and Jean-Philippe Billarant (IRCAM Paris), and the Festival Wien Modern, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation 14 min

“A MUSIC WITHOUT TRICKS” Dieter Ammann on Wolfgang Rihm’s composing What a richly associative chamber music matinee the fabulous ensemble recherche has devised to celebrate the birthdays of Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann! For example, there is the title Gehörte Form (“Heard Form”), which Ammann chose for an early string trio: it goes back to a formulation Rihm used to describe Ammann’s working method of developing “the music out of itself and not following a preconceived formal idea.” Such an intuitive approach, based in listening, is also followed by Rihm himself, for example in his large Chiffre cycle: “music emerges completely free from the tension of the imagination. Not: an automatic system, but: subsidence.” A new trio composition by Helmut Lachenmann, who, like Rihm, is deeply rooted in the German-Austrian musical tradition, will be given its Swiss premiere. Lachenmann is currently a mentor to the Swede Lisa Streich, who dedicated her piece Nebensonnen to him in 2015 for his 80th birthday.

Wolfgang Rihm Chiffre IV for bass clarinet, cello, and piano 9 min

Dieter Ammann Gehörte Form. Hommages for violin, viola, and cello 18 min This concert has no intermission. CHF 50

“WE MUST LIFT MOZART INTO THE PRESENT” Víkingur Ólafsson Icelander Víkingur Ólafsson is a man given to special projects. When he made his impressive debut at Lucerne Festival in November 2019, he presented — alongside two Beethoven sonatas — a collage of Bach and Bach arrangements, performed without interruption as if it were a single composition. He now undertakes something similar with Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, coupling works from the 1780s by Mozart with piano music by his contemporaries, in the process creating striking effects. “Galuppi’s Sonata No. 9 is totally modern for me. It is a composition without melody; there are chord sequences that remind me of sleepwalking. From today’s perspective, it seems like Philip Glass,” Víkingur explains. “Or take Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. He composes in a way completely atypical of the time. His Rondo in D minor sounds like Beethoven with a touch of Stravinsky.” Víkingur Ólafsson is not interested in merely replicating the music but prefers entering into a personal dialogue with the composer. “But that has always been the case. That’s why Mozart recordings differ so substantially,” he observes, and adds, “I play music that I bring into being in the moment of playing it.”

Sat 27.08. Recital Víkingur Ólafsson 16.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Víkingur Ólafsson piano “Mozart and His Contemporaries” Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Rondo in F major K. 494 | 6 min Fantasy in D minor, K. 397 (385g) | 6 min

Rondo in D major, K. 485 | 4 min Gigue in G major, K. 574 | 2 min Piano Sonata in C major, K. 545 | 9 min

Adagio ma non troppo from the String Quintet in G minor, K. 516* 8 min

Piano Sonata in C minor, K. 457 17 min

Adagio in B minor, K. 540 | 8 min Baldassare Galuppi Andante spiritoso from the Piano Sonata No. 9 in F minor | 2 min Larghetto from the Piano Sonata No. 34 in C minor | 3 min

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Domenico Cimarosa Sonata No. 42 in D minor* | 3 min Sonata No. 55 in A minor* | 3 min Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Rondo in D minor, Wq 61 No. 4 | 4 min Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI:32 | 8 min Franz Liszt Ave verum corpus de Mozart S 461 | 4 min * arranged for piano by Víkingur Ólafsson Víkingur Ólafsson

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

Sat 27.08. CONTEMPORARY

Lucerne Festival Academy 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Thomas Adès conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Per Nørgård Drømmespil (Dream Play) for chamber orchestra 11 min

Igor Stravinsky Agon 23 min

Thomas Adès Air for violin and orchestra

“I WANT TO REACH THE AUDIENCE DIRECTLY”

world premiere Commissioned by Roche as part of the “Roche Commissions” series for Lucerne Festival Co-commissioned by Anne-Sophie Mutter, Carnegie Hall, and Boston Symphony Orchestra 15 min

Thomas Adès

Witold Lutosławski Symphony No. 3

Composer-in-residence Thomas Adès, who himself conducts his new composition for the star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, titled Air, has no fear of contact with tradition. His work draws on a wide variety of idioms — from Bach to the blues, from symphonic tradition to club culture. And yet you can recognize his music at once. Igor Stravinsky, too, was inspired by a variety of styles: in his last ballet, Agon, for example, by a French dance treatise from the 17th century. Agon turns out to be a lively revue of stylized dances, merging early Baroque models with an advanced musical language and grouping its large orchestra (including mandolin and castanets!) into evershifting, distinctive ensembles. A varied sequence of instrumental episodes is also presented by Per Nørgård’s Drømmespil (“Dream Play”), while Witold Lutosławski works with the “controlled aleatoricism” so characteristic of his music in the Third Symphony, where through-composed passages alternate with sections that allow the musicians great rhythmic freedom, resulting in pulsating soundscapes of thrilling vitality.

28 min

Introduction to the Concert 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Mark Sattler (in German) CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 133

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“THE MUSICAL WORLD IS Sun 28.08. BECOMING EVER LARGER Mahler Chamber Orchestra FOR ME” 11.00

SYMPHONY

Isabelle Faust

KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

When Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was at the height of his fame in 1778 and acclaimed in Paris as a violin virtuoso and leader of the much-admired Orchestre de la Loge Olympique, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart was also staying in the French capital. And what is more, he even lived with the Chevalier under the same roof for a few weeks: in the house of Baron Melchior von Grimm. The two — the so-called “black Mozart” Saint-Georges and the original — must have at least run into each other, even if they did not know each other personally. Unfortunately, nothing regarding any encounter between them has been recorded. The Mahler Chamber Orchestra restages such a meeting of the minds, coupling the Chevalier’s terse D major Symphony with the Salzburg composer’s exuberant Linz Symphony. Isabelle Faust and Antoine Tamestit show how much inspiration Mozart took with him from the big city on the Seine with the charming Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, which was written shortly after the Paris trip. It displays the fashion for concertante symphonies featuring several solo instruments that prevailed in France at the time.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra Isabelle Faust violin Antoine Tamestit viola Matthew Truscott concertmaster and musical direction

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Symphony in D major, Op. 11, no. 2 8 min

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 364 (320d) 32 min

Symphony in C major, K. 425 Linz 36 min This concert has no intermission.

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Worship Service for the Consecration of the Church 17.00 | Jesuitenkirche Soloists, vocal ensemble, and orchestra of the Collegium Musicum Luzern | Pascal Mayer conductor | Suzanne Z’Graggen organ

Isabelle Faust

J.S. Bach Kyrie in F major, BWV 233a | Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 | Sanctus in C major, BWV 237

Tyshawn Sorey

Sun 28.08. CONTEMPORARY

Lucerne Festival Academy 3 15.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Tyshawn Sorey conductor and percussion Tyshawn Sorey For Anton Vishio for flute, clarinet, and piano Swiss premiere 19 min

For Marcos Balter for violin and orchestra Swiss premiere 27 min

Improvisation for solo percussion 15 min

Autoschediasms for orchestra 60 min

“ACCELERATED COMPOSITION” Tyshawn Sorey on Improvisation Can an orchestra improvise? This was the visionary idea pursued by the American Lawrence “Butch” Morris with his “conduction” method: using a repertoire of gestural signs, as a conductor he coordinated the free interplay of completely different ensembles and instigated them to compose in real time. “Artiste étoile” Tyshawn Sorey worked closely with Morris in his younger years and later developed his mentor’s approach further. With the young musicians of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO), he performs Autoschediasms: a collective improvisation that he leads as first among equals, using hand signals, a baton, and spontaneously notated playing instructions. But in this concert Sorey can additionally be experienced as a gifted percussionist. Also heard are two recent works: the crystalline study of chords For Anton Vishio and For Marcos Balter, Sorey’s deconstruction of the classical instrumental concerto: rather than a virtuosic display for solo violin, this “noncerto” is about “staying in the moment with each sound — not about the question ‘What’s next?’.”

CHF 50 (open seating)

“ITS UNIQUE QUALITY IS ITS ITALIANITÀ” Sir Antonio Pappano on the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma In the 19th century, people in Europe began to dream of foreign countries and people. The East in particular emerged to become a place of longing. “I want to see Damascus and Persia’s cities with their airy minarets. I want to see beautiful silk turbans over dark faces with gleaming teeth,” proclaims Maurice Ravel’s song cycle Shéhérazade, which evokes a distant dream world through melismas and lascivious chromaticism. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov had already chosen the figure of the Eastern storyteller Sheherazade from A Thousand and One Nights as the heroine of a tone poem a few years earlier. He characterizes the foreign beauty using arabesques and a delicate violin solo that is meltingly seductive, while the murderous Sultan appears with brass-armored, tyrannical chords. Rimsky’s colorful, sensuous orchestration also reveals an important motif of Orientalist fashion: exoticism and eroticism are closely related, separated only by a letter. In contrast, matters become entirely Italian in Gioachino Rossini’s Algeria, where the concert evening begins with a triumph of brio and good humor.

Sun 28.08. SYMPHONY

Orchestra di Santa Cecilia 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Elīna Garanča mezzo-soprano Gioachino Rossini Overture to L’italiana in Algeri 8 min

Maurice Ravel Shéhérazade Three Songs for voice and orchestra 18 min

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Symphonic Suite based on A Thousand and One Nights, Op. 35 45 min

Introduction to the Concert 17.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Malte Lohmann (in German)

Elīna Garanča

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Philippe Herreweghe

Mon 29.08. SYMPHONY

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe conductor Robin Johannsen soprano Werner Güra tenor Florian Boesch bass-baritone Joseph Haydn The Creation, Hob. XXI:2 Oratorio in three parts 100 min (plus intermission) CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

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“HAYDN’S MUSIC IS HAPPY MUSIC” Philippe Herreweghe Exactly fifty years ago, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, which has given Lucerne Festival so many great moments, performed for the first time at the Festival on Lake Lucerne. This is an anniversary that must be celebrated. In keeping with the summer theme of “Diversity,” these guests from Amsterdam have chosen Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, a resounding ode to all the world’s variety. With childlike joy in tonal painting, Haydn depicts not only the sun, moon, and stars but all kinds of creatures as well. The bassoon makes the dove coo, the nightingale warbles to virtuoso arabesques of the flute, the lion roars with deep trills, an army of insects buzzes to soft string tremolos, and sheep graze in their pasture to gently swaying melodies. On the podium is Philippe Herreweghe, the grand Belgian master of historically informed performance practice. He, too, celebrates a milestone birthday in 2022: he turned 75 in May. Haydn’s music, whose intelligence and richness of sound he cannot praise highly enough, is a matter close to his heart. And with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he has just the right orchestra at his side.

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“LOUIS ARMSTRONG!”

Tue 30.08.

Aaron Akugbo responding to a question about his model

MUSIC FOR FUTURE

It’s not his first appearance at Lucerne Festival — and it won’t be his last this summer. Born in 1998, Aaron Akugbo previously introduced himself here in 2021 with the Connaught Brass Ensemble, and since he is also principal trumpet of the Chineke! Orchestra, he will be heard once again in the closing concert on 11 September. But this son of a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother makes his major debut as a soloist with this concert. His program is finely balanced in terms of diversity. Two female composers are featured: the African American, late-Romantic Florence Price and the British contemporary Sally Beamish. The Baroque master Telemann is juxtaposed with a world premiere by Black artist Joy Guidry, and the Broadway ballad My Funny Valentine meets a sonata by the Viennese Karl Pilss inspired by Richard Strauss. Aaron Akugbo attended masterclasses by Reinhold Friedrich and Tine Thing Helseth, was awarded a special prize in the 2019 Girolamo Fantini Trumpet Competition, and made his debut at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2020 performing Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto.

Debut Aaron Akugbo 12.15 Lukaskirche Aaron Akugbo trumpet Zeynep Özsuca piano Sally Beamish Trinculo for trumpet and piano 6 min

Georg Philipp Telemann Methodic Sonata in B minor TWV 41:h3 12 min

Joy Guidry They know what they’ve done to us for trumpet and electronics world premiere commissioned by the I&I Foundation 7 min

Florence Price Remembrance | Sympathy | Resignation | Adoration 13 min

Richard Rodgers My Funny Valentine 4 min

George Enescu Légende for trumpet and piano 7 min

Peter Maxwell Davies Farewell to Stromness 4 min

Karl Pilss Sonata for trumpet and piano 15 min This concert has no intermission.

Aaron Akugbo

CHF 30

Susanna Mälkki

Tue 30.08. SYMPHONY

räsonanz — Donor Concert 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Susanna Mälkki conductor Andreas Haefliger piano Kaija Saariaho Vista for Orchestra Swiss premiere 25 min

Dieter Ammann The Piano Concerto (Gran Toccata) Swiss premiere Co-commissioned by the Munich Philharmonic, BBC Radio 3, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Vienna, Lucerne Festival, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and Pro Helvetia 32 min

“TCHAIKOVSKY ON AMPHETAMINES”

Per Nørgård Symphony No. 8

Gramophone on Dieter Ammann’s Piano Concerto

Jean Sibelius Tapiola, Op. 112

You can almost lean into the curves as fast as if you’re in a sports car with this music, raves the conductor Susanna Mälkki. And the music critic Anna Kardos wrote: “If Easy Rider hadn’t been a movie but a piece of classical music — it probably would have sounded like this.” With its driving grooves, breathtaking virtuosity, and lavish sonic fantasy, Dieter Ammann’s piano concerto Gran Toccata has become a veritable hit of contemporary music in the three years since its premiere. Now it is finally being performed in Switzerland — together with three works that will make the aurora borealis glimmer in the Lucerne Festival sky. In his final great orchestral work, named after the Finnish forest god Tapio, Jean Sibelius evoked Nordic nature: “We are completely under the spell of the gloomy pine forests; we hear the howling winds whose icy tones seem to come from the North Pole itself,” observed the conductor Walter Damrosch. The Finnish Kaija Saariaho and the Dane Per Nørgård also create colorful, shimmering soundscapes.

Swiss premiere 28 min

18 min

Introduction to the Concert 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium Dieter Ammann in conversation with Mark Sattler (in German) CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 133

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Partner räsonanz — Donor Concert

“THE MUSIC SEEMS TO BE ABOUT NOTHING BUT LOVE, LOVE, LOVE” Anton Webern on Mahler’s Seventh Symphony

Kirill Petrenko

What a symphony! In Gustav Mahler’s Seventh, opposites collide. A funeral march is placed at the beginning, but soon leads into an Allegro main movement of elemental vitality. Two “night music pieces” frame a ghostly scherzo that resembles a dance of death. And in the dazzling, day-bright finale in C major, timpani pound out the opening to strains that seems to mingle echoes from Wagner’s Meistersinger, chorales, Janissary music, and bell ringing. All of this unfolds with a sophisticatedly colorful instrumentation, the likes of which had never been heard before in orchestral music. Mahler not only employs such exotic percussion as the cowbells and rute but also incorporates the delicate sounds of guitar and mandolin. The Berlin Philharmonic, world champions when it comes to sonic quality, will have an opportunity to show off all facets of their art in this work. And their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko will be completely in his element here. He plunges “headlong into extremes with a dizzying willingness to take risks,” observed Bavarian Radio with regard to Petrenko’s interpretation. “The music is on speed.”

Wed 31.08. SYMPHONY

Berlin Philharmonics 1 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Berlin Philharmonic Kirill Petrenko conductor Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor 75 min This concert has no intermission.

Introduction to the Concert 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German) CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 132

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Samuel Nebyu

Thu 01.09. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Debut Samuel Nebyu 12.15 Lukaskirche Samuel Nebyu violin Charles Abramovic piano Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Les Caquets. Rondo en staccato 6 min

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Four African Dances, Op. 58 18 min

Daniel Bernard Roumain Filter for solo violin | 5 min Tyson Davis new work for violin and piano

“I WANT TO SHARE THIS MUSIC WITH EVERYONE” Samuel Nebyu on Black composers A program containing works exclusively by Black composers: this has never happened before at Lucerne Festival! Violinist Samuel Nebyu, who was born in 1993 and has performed Bach’s Double Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter, brings us this first-time experience and presents music spanning two-and-a-half centuries. Mozart’s contemporary Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is on the program, along with Joseph White, a 19th-century Cuban violin virtuoso, plus Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who has been labeled the “Black Mahler.” Henry Thacker Burleigh sang spirituals to Antonín Dvořák when the latter composed his New World Symphony; William Grant Still was the first to present an Afro-American Symphony. In addition, two contemporary works will be performed, including a world premiere. For Samuel Nebyu, the son of a Hungarian and an Ethiopian who grew up in Asia and who describes himself as a “multicultural person,” his Festival debut is more than a concert: “I have chosen these composer’s works because they are beautiful and carry a strong, meaningful message, and an historical and humanistic one as well,” he explains. 94

world premiere commissioned by the I&I Foundation 3 min

Henry Thacker Burleigh Southland Sketches | 12 min Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Deep River from 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59 5 min

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Sonata in B major, Op. 1a | 12 min Joseph White La Jota Aragonesa, Op. 5 | 6 min William Grant Still Quit Dat Fool’nish | 1 min This concert has no intermission. CHF 30

“MUSIC IS ABOUT VARIETY”

Thu 01.09. SYMPHONY

Tabea Zimmermann Polystylism is a synonym for musical “diversity.” Alfred Schnittke developed this as his own style in the 1970s in order to reconcile tradition with modernity. His Viola Concerto of 1985 is a prime example thereof. It combines the new with the familiar, incorporating echoes of waltzes, marches, and film music but also deeply felt, lamento-like moments, a “silence with an inner tremor,” as Tabea Zimmermann calls it. She is a winner of the Siemens Music Prize and will perform the work with the Berlin Philharmonic, who have been causing a sensation under their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, not least with Russian repertoire. Schnittke’s work was frowned upon in the Soviet Union, for it did not conform to the maxims of Socialist Realism. This links the composer with his great role model Dmitri Shostakovich, who even had to fear for his life because his music did not please the ruler Stalin. In 1953, after Stalin’s death, Shostakovich unveiled his personal reckoning: the Tenth Symphony, whose scherzo portrays the dictator with electrifying pandemonium. A shattering work of self-assertion.

Berlin Philharmonic 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Berlin Philharmonic Kirill Petrenko conductor Tabea Zimmermann viola Alfred Schnittke Concerto for Viola and Orchestra 35 min

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 56 min

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

Tabea Zimmermann

CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 132

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Fri 02.09. SYMPHONY

Concert Juan Diego Flórez 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Juan Diego Flórez tenor Sinfonía por el Perú Youth Orchestra Roberto González-Monjas conductor Gioachino Rossini Overture to La cenerentola Sì, ritrovarla io giuro from La cenerentola Juan Diego Flórez

Gaetano Donizetti Overture to La Favorite Quanto è bella and Una furtiva lagrima from L’elisir d’amore

“MUSIC CAN EVEN FIGHT POVERTY” Juan Diego Flórez Juan Diego Flórez is in a position to fully enjoy the glory of being a star tenor. He could jet around the globe, be feted today in New York, tomorrow in Vienna, and next week in London. He could focus on a handful of showcase roles to play his trump cards: the gleaming top notes, the striking coloratura skills, the stylish phrasing. But Flórez looks beyond the confines of his own art and also pursues a social mission. That’s why he founded the Sinfonía por el Perú in his home country, an educational project through which he provides musical training for children from disadvantaged families. And gives them a chance to change their lives. “The engine of these children is their poverty,” he explains. “It only takes them a few months to play well. They soak up everything immediately, are incredibly motivated.” Together with this orchestra and conductor Roberto GonzálezMonjas, who was acclaimed in Lucerne in 2021 for his performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, he will create a varied program that spans from bel canto to Spanish zarzuela.

Vincenzo Bellini O di Capellio, generosi amici, È serbato a questo acciaro and L’amo tanto e m’è sì cara from I Capuleti e i Montecchi Manuel de Falla Danza española from La vida breve Melodies and orchestral pieces from zarzuelas by Tomás Barrera/ Rafael Calleja Gómez, Federico Moreno Torroba, Gerónimo Giménez y Bellido, Pablo Sorozábal Mariezcurrena, Daniel Alomía Robles, Manuel Casazola Huancco, Miguel Ángel Hurtado Delgado, and Carlos Porfirio Vásquez CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 4, p. 133

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WOLFGANG RIHM TURNS 70, DIETER AMMANN TURNS 60 How do you congratulate two major composers closely associated with Lucerne Festival on their birthdays? Quite simply: by playing their music. With his large orchestral work Sub-Kontur from 1976, according to Wolfgang Rihm, he wanted to “chew on a symphonic topos,” namely, the late-Romantic “type of Adagio.” And through this clear reference to musical tradition, as well as through his deliberately subjective, physically expressive music, he caused outraged reactions among the avant-garde circles of the time. Dieter Ammann never concerned himself about the supposed norms and aesthetic conventions of so-called new music. He worked for ten years on his orchestral triptych Core-Turn-Boost, which fuses completely different influences — the symphonic tradition as well as material from the Koch-Schütz-Studer improvisation trio — into a compelling tonal language with a great density of event and coloristic finesse. We can also look forward to a new orchestral piece by Bettina Skrzypczak, which traces the phenomenon of time and the processual character of musical form.

Sat 03.09. CONTEMPORARY

Lucerne Festival Academy 4 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) Sylvain Cambreling conductor Bettina Skrzypczak new work for orchestra world premiere Commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, and the Fondation SUISA 20 min

Wolfgang Rihm Sub-Kontur for orchestra Swiss premiere 27 min

Dieter Ammann Core for orchestra 9 min

Turn for orchestra 10 min

Boost for orchestra 13 min CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 133

Guest performance by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) at the Cologne Philharmonie Sun 04.09. | 11.00

Dieter Ammann | Wolfgang Rihm

Tickets may be purchased at koelner-philharmonie.de

Wolfgang Rihm

Sat 03.09. CONTEMPORARY

Composer Seminar — Closing Concert 14.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA Ensemble 2021-22) Participants in the Conducting Fellowship Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann hosts Composer Seminar Showcase: Ensemble works by Olivia Bennett, Pengyi Li, Jinan Zhenyan Li, Minzuo Lu, Aregnaz Martirosyan, Lila Wildy Quillin, Hugo Van Rechem, and Raimonda Žiūkaitė world premieres 120 min

“COMPOSITION HAS TO DO WITH THE EMPIRICISM OF EXPERIENCE”

Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann will introduce the participants and their works during the concert (in German) CHF 50 (open seating)

Wolfgang Rihm There are no formulas for pieces of music, Wolfgang Rihm emphasized in last year’s Composer Seminar. “You have to be able to sit inside the piece as if in a prison and wait to see what happens next.” Only in this way, he said, does vibrant music emerge. “Because often we write things that aren’t living; they’re just functioning.” In this respect, it is “a good gift for composers to know where music begins and where it ends,” where the subject relinquishes its authorship to a structure or concept. What’s more, music is alive only when it is also heard and does not remain mere theory on paper. The participants of the Composer Seminar will therefore be able, over the course of one week, to rehearse their works with the accomplished young musicians of the International Ensemble Modern Academy and then present them to the Lucerne Festival audience. A selection will also be presented by the Ensemble Modern in its 2022-23 season in Frankfurt.

Composer Seminar Mon 22.08. – Thu 25.08. see p. 74

With the frienly support of Aventis Foundation

“O MASTER I ADORE YOU!!!”

Sat 03.09. SYMPHONY

Anton Bruckner to Richard Wagner “Music is ultimately always about the gigantic metaphor of death, loss, and farewell,” Simon Rattle observes. “A kaleidoscope of emotions opens up, memories, visions, dreams, images, experiences, everything flows into each other. It’s like a drowning person watching their life pass by in fast motion.” In the first of his two concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Rattle will conduct Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, which anticipates and laments the death of Richard Wagner. At the same time, it conveys a distinctly transcendental aura through chorale strains and its use of the orchestra to evoke the registers of an organ. The moving Seventh marked Bruckner’s international breakthrough and remains one of his most popular symphonies to this day. Rattle pairs it with another farewell work: the tone poem Tapiola, the last great composition by Jean Sibelius, which however pays homage not to the Christian god, but to Tapio, the forest god from Finnish mythology. With multiply divided strings, Sibelius here evokes the voices of the forest spirits, while in The Oceanides he takes up the eternal play of the waves.

London Symphony Orchestra 1 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor Jean Sibelius The Oceanides, Op. 73 11 min

Tapiola, Op. 112 18 min

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 performed in the edition by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs 72 min

Sir Simon Rattle

Introduction to the Concert 17.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German) CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

Sun 04.09. SYMPHONY

Sir Simon Rattle | London Symphony Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra 2 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor Hector Berlioz Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 9 min

Daniel Kidane Precipice Dances Swiss Premiere 15 min

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 23 min

Maurice Ravel La Valse

“ONLY FOOTBALL COACHES ARE MORE MYSTERIOUS” Sir Simon Rattle on conductors Hardly any other top star on the conductor’s podium commands as broad a repertoire as Sir Simon Rattle — “diversity” is obviously his motto. This concert begins with Hector Berlioz’s wild concert overture Le Corsaire, based on the story of the same name by Lord Byron. Berlioz had first read it while seeking refuge from the heat in a church in Rome and made himself comfortable in a confessional with, of all things, this pirate story … This is followed by Jean Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony, his last, which is considered by many to be the Finnish composer’s finest. Rattle compares the effect of this music to the feeling of a droplet touching the skin and eating through to the bone. He will dance on the volcano’s edge with Maurice Ravel’s rapturous orchestral poem La Valse, making for a brilliant finale. But before that, he has brought us a surprise: Precipice Dances by the British composer Daniel Kidane will be heard in their Swiss premiere. This son of a Russian and an Eritrean was born in 1986 and was featured with another work at the BBC’s renowned Last Night of the Proms in 2019. 100

23 min This concert has no intermission. CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

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“AN INGENIOUS DOVETAILING OF MUSIC THEATER AND CONCERT”

Sun 04.09. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Family Concert — Die Schurken 11.00 and 14.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

The Badischen Neuesten Nachrichten on Die Schurken Four old friends have experienced so much together! But now they live in a luxurious yet boring retirement home and wonder if that’s all there is to it. One of the four is forgetful and confused. Yes, sometimes he doesn’t even recognize his friends anymore — which makes for many funny moments. But music awakens his memories and, supported by the three others, takes him back to his youth. The friends passionately tell each other about past adventures and together make a decision: they want to escape and dream of traveling to distant countries. Out of the old people’s home, back into life! Who will come with them to Panama, China … or what was it called again? Accompanied by the Stiftung Aktion Demenz, the multi-award-winning ensemble Die Schurken deals with the sensitive topic of dementia in a humorous and child-friendly way. But it’s also about friendship and older people full of joie de vivre who refuse to become discouraged.

Die Schurken: Martin Schelling clarinet and actor Stefan Dünser trumpet and actor Goran Kovačević accordion and actor Martin Deuring double bass and actor Sara Ostertag staging director Michèle Rohrbach co-director Nina Ball set design Mathias Zuggal lighting design “Vergissmeinnicht” (“Forget-Me-Not”) A staged concert about joie de vivre, creative forgetting in old age — and the music that fixes everything 50 min for everyone ages 6 and up Cooperation Partners: Bregenzer Festspiele, Lucerne Festival, Kölner Philharmonie, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Aktion Demenz Vorarlberg, Demenz Liechtenstein, Land Vorarlberg CHF 20/10 (adults/children)

Additional performances for school classes Mon 05.09. | 9.00 and 10.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Die Schurken

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Golda Schultz

Sun 04.09. Recital Golda Schultz 14.30 Lukaskirche Golda Schultz soprano Jonathan Ware piano Clara Schumann Liebst du um Schönheit, Op. 12, no. 4 Warum willst du and’re fragen, Op. 12, no. 11 Am Strande Lorelei 10 min

Emilie Mayer Wenn der Abendstern die Rosen Du bist wie eine Blume Erlkönig II 10 min

“I THINK DIVERSITY IS NECESSARY” Golda Schultz “Artiste étoile” Golda Schultz, whose beautiful first name was inspired by the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, is an artist who thinks outside the box of her own discipline. She herself originally wanted to become a journalist, but even as an opera star she is involved in social and political issues, as in the “Opera for Peace” initiative, and she is committed to her passionately held views. For example, this song recital, which she has dedicated exclusively to women composers, is also a statement. “I was interested in what other women have to say about love, disappointments, and all the great themes of humanity,” she explains. “The answers are as complex as they are emotional; all five composers in the program have created very colorful music.” Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer are two German Romantics on the bill, one a celebrity since her own time, the other all but forgotten. The British Rebecca Clarke and the French Nadia Boulanger represent early Modernism, while with Kathleen Tagg, who was born in 1977, Golda Schultz introduces a composer who, like herself, comes from South Africa.

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Rebecca Clarke Down by the Salley Gardens The Tiger Cradle Song The Seal Man 15 min

Nadia Boulanger La mer est plus belle Prière Élégie Cantique 12 min

Kathleen Tagg This be her verse Swiss premiere 15 min CHF 60/40

“FILLED WITH THE INNERMOST TRUTH OF FEELING”

Sun 04.09. Duke Bluebeard’s Castle 15.00 Luzerner Theater

Zoltán Kodály on Bartók’s Bluebeard In May 1918, the premiere of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle took place at the Royal Opera House in Budapest. Béla Bartók had composed his only opera seven years earlier to a libretto by Béla Balázs. The story of the wife-murdering Duke Bluebeard, who gathers in his castle everything needed in life, has occupied countless writers, composers, and visual artists over the centuries. Bartók composed a one-act opera with a unique structure, not only musically but also dramaturgically: The audience is taken on a journey through Bluebeard’s castle, which is a reflection of his own self, and each room opens onto a musical world of its own. Bartók combines folkloristic elements with a harmonic language that was forward-looking for his time. Anika Rutkofsky, who received the Ring Award in 2021, one of the most important music theater competitions for direction and stage design, is responsible for the Lucerne production.

Christian Tschelebiew Duke Bluebeard Solenn’ Lavanant Linke Judith Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Anika Rutkofsky staging director Uta Gruber-Ballehr staging and costumes

Béla Bartók Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Sz 48 Opera in one act premiere 90 min A co-production of the Luzerner Theater with Lucerne Festival

Anika Rutkofsky

Tickets available starting 16 August exclusively from the Luzerner Theater: t +41 (0)41 228 14 14 (The box office will be closed for summer break from 20 June to 14 August.)

Additional performances until December Info at luzernertheater.ch

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Quatuor Diotima

Sun 04.09. CONTEMPORARY

Quatuor Diotima 16.00 Hochschule Luzern — Musik, Kriens Quatuor Diotima: Yun-Peng Zhao and Léo Marillier violins Franck Chevalier viola Pierre Morlet cello Mark Simpson bass clarinet Thomas Adès Arcadiana for string quartet 20 min

Alchymia for clarinet and string quartet Swiss premiere 20 min

Franz Schubert String Quartet in G major, D 887

“OUTSTANDING” The Times on Alchymia Composer-in-residence Thomas Adès has never been averse to flirting with the past. His new clarinet quintet Alchymia, which was premiered in 2021, transforms found objects from earlier eras into pure musical gold: a folk song from Elizabethan England, for example, which William Byrd already drew upon for a series of variations — that is, which itself already underwent an “alchemical” transformation. Adès’s First String Quartet from 1994, on the other hand, evokes the ancient landscape of longing, Arcadia. “Six of the seven titles which comprise Arcadiana evoke various vanished or vanishing ‘idylls,’” explains Adès, who here also weaves a subtle web of musical allusions to Couperin, Mozart, Schubert, and Elgar. It seems only logical, then, that Quatuor Diotima will conclude its performance with Schubert’s final string quartet: a groundbreaking work whose sheer dimensions, almost orchestral gestures, and bold harmonies point far into the future.

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50 min CHF 50

“AMERICAN THROUGH AND THROUGH”

Sun 04.09. SYMPHONY

The Philadelphia Orchestra 1 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Yannick Nézet-Séguin on Florence Price’s First Symphony This is a composer you should definitely get to know. Born in 1887, Florence Price came from an African American family in Arkansas and, in her own words, had to struggle with two “handicaps” at the same time: being a woman and being Black. Although her First Symphony, which combines folk melodies and chorales with jazzy moments, was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933, her work was subsequently almost forgotten. Yannick NézetSéguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra have made it their mission to rediscover Price’s oeuvre: “Perhaps one day her symphonies will become repertoire pieces like those of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff,” the maestro hopes. Rachmaninoff opens the program with the tone poem The Isle of the Dead, based on the painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin: a night piece of fathomless beauty. And with Valerie Coleman, a contemporary Black composer is on the program. Her music beguiles with its atmospheric intensity and noble, tonally beautiful lyricism. She has written a new song cycle for the soprano Angel Blue, which will be heard in its Swiss premiere.

The Philadelphia Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Angel Blue soprano Sergei Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 20 min

Valerie Coleman This Is Not a Small Voice Swiss premiere 10 min

Florence Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor 40 min CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

Angel Blue

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Mon 05.09. SYMPHONY

The Philadelphia Orchestra 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall The Philadelphia Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Lisa Batiashvili violin Karol Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 24 min

Ernest Chausson Poème for violin and orchestra, Op. 25 Lisa Batiashvili

16 min

Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 45 min

“WE NEED TO ACHIEVE MORE DIVERSITY” Lisa Batiashvili She was born in Georgia, is married to a Frenchman, lives with her family in Munich, and, as a star violinist, is at home all over the world: Lisa Batiashvili is indeed multicultural. For this concert, she will show that she has also made diversity her artistic premise with two works. She appreciates the many surprising twists and turns in Karol Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto: “It’s about tenderness and love, and certainly also about despair. You need a wide range of expression for that.” The Frenchman Ernest Chausson, for his part, initially wanted to call his Poème “Le chant de l’amour triomphant,” after the story of the same name by Ivan Turgenev, which builds a bridge from the Italian Renaissance to distant Ceylon. Chausson’s sound world seems correspondingly “diverse.” After intermission, Yannick Nézet-Séguin has some astonishing insights in store: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony contradicts all clichés of the “primitive Bohemian musician”; instead, it shows how artfully Dvořák was able to stage drama, heroic pathos, and orchestral monumentality.

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Introduction to the Concert 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German) CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

“WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR HOME”

Tue 06.09. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Debut Abel Selaocoe 12.15 Lukaskirche

Abel Selaocoe “I am a classical musician and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music,” says cellist Abel Selaocoe. And at the same time he remarks: “I am also an African musician. So I have to combine the two. I refer to ‘Papa Bach’ in my work as much as to my ancestors and let them meet in one room.” Selaocoe, who was born in 1991, will show what this symbiosis sounds like with his project “Hae Ke Kae — Where Home Is.” He will not only play and improvise with extreme virtuosity on his cello but also sing and contribute percussive effects. He had a crucial experience when he was practicing Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello at home in South Africa and heard how the melodies he was rehearsing were taken up, performed, and transformed by his family. Selaocoe now proceeds in a very similar way himself, drawing on a wide variety of inspirations: rhythms from Botswana or the timbres of instruments from Tanzania and Lesotho. For Selaocoe, home is not just a geographical concept; it has to do with spirituality, with rituals and ceremonies. And, of course, with the people we love.

Abel Selaocoe cello Fred Thomas piano “Hae Ke Kae — Where Home Is” Johann Sebastian Bach, music from South Africa, and improvisations 70 min This concert has no intermission. CHF 30

Abel Selaocoe

Debut in the Schoolhouse On 7 September Abel Selaocoe will also perform for school classes.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Tue 06.09. SYMPHONY

Vienna Philharmonic 1 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Vienna Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Yuja Wang piano Cécile Lartigau Ondes Martenot Olivier Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony 80 min This concert has no intermission.

Introduction to the Concert 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German) CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 132

“THIS PIECE BLEW ME AWAY” Esa-Pekka Salonen on the Turangalîla Symphony What a commission! Serge Koussevitzy asked the French composer Olivier Messiaen to write a work “entirely as you wish, in the style, length, and instrumentation you desire.” And he indeed took all liberties, delivering a ten-movement symphony for a huge orchestra featuring two solo instruments, in which Indian rhythms, the medieval Tristan myth, birdcalls, and Asian gamelan sounds all meet up: a “must” in this Summer of “Diversity”! Messiaen borrowed the title Turangalîla from the Sanskrit: “‘Lîla’ refers to the game of life and death and also means Love,” as he explained. “‘Turanga’ means rapidly passing time that trickles away like sand in the hourglass. ‘Turanga’ is movement and rhythm. Hence ‘Turangalîla’ means altogether: song of love, hymn to joy, time, movement, rhythm, life and death.” The Finnish conductor and Messiaen specialist Esa-Pekka Salonen will perform this massive work together with Chinese star pianist Yuja Wang and the Vienna Philharmonic. And at the end he will let a euphoric, exuberant song of joy ring out.

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“THE SAXOPHONE EMBODIES MY EGO”

Wed 07.09. SYMPHONY

Vienna Philharmonic 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Valentine Michaud An evening that is more than just a concert. When the French Valentine Michaud performs Anders Hillborg’s saxophone concerto Peacock Tales, she will not only play the role of a virtuoso. The winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award will also dazzle as a performer during her appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic. As she plays, she will be required to dance and put on animal masks. Michaud loves to push boundaries and attract young audiences with new concepts. And Hillborg’s poppy, witty, and thrilling soundscape gives her ideal material to display her musical peacock’s fan in his appropriately named work. Finnish maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen will be completely in his element in the Second Symphony of his compatriot Jean Sibelius, which evokes a magic ritual and works its way into a breathtaking frenzy, as if a shaman were present. But Salonen’s heart belongs just as much to French music, as he will prove right at the beginning with Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, a suite that draws on the art of the “grand siècle” and enchants through its wizardly beauty, clarity, and elegance.

Vienna Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Valentine Michaud saxophone Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin 18 min

Anders Hillborg Peacock Tales Millennium version for saxophone and orchestra 17 min

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 45 min CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 132

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Thu 08.09. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Debut Viano String Quartet 12.15 Lukaskirche Viano String Quartet: Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou violins Aiden Kane viola Tate Zawadiuk violoncello Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 18, no. 6 Viano String Quartet

24 min

Caroline Shaw Blueprint for string quartet 8 min

Florence Price Andante moderato from the String Quartet in G major

“IT WAS LIKE PLAYING IN HEAVEN” Hao Zhou on the Viano String Quartet’s first performance

6 min

Antonín Dvořák String Quartet in C major, Op. 61 37 min This concert has no intermission. CHF 30

The name contains their motto: The Canadian-American Viano String Quartet has set out to play their four string instruments, each of whose names begins with a “V,” with a level of coordinated perfection that would otherwise only be possible for a single individual at the piano – thus, they literally act as a “Viano.” The ensemble has won numerous prizes in recent years: in Osaka, Japan, in Banff, Canada, and at the Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition. Through performances in Berlin, Brussels, Hamburg, Paris, and Eisenstadt, the four have also made a name for themselves in Europe. Their cleverly balanced programs are their trademark. For their Lucerne debut, for example, they will pair Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 6, with Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint, which is an interpretive rewriting of Beethoven’s final movement. And if you didn’t know that Florence Price composed the Andante moderato, you might easily mistake her work for a genuine Dvořák selection. Dvořák meanwhile reveals a completely “atypical” side in what is arguably his most experimental string quartet, the Opus 61. 110

Debut in the Schoolhouse On 9 September the Viano String Quartet will also perform for school classes.

“A PERFECT MATCH”

Thu 08.09.

Franz Welser-Möst on his collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra

SYMPHONY

The Cleveland Orchestra 1 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Panta rhei”: Everything flows and is subject to eternal change. With this formula, ancient Greek philosophy already expressed the principle of life. Wolfgang Rihm has translated it into music with a six-part cycle of transformations for orchestra. Each piece is based on a motivic germ cell, a primordial seed, which is transformed in the ongoing course of the music, always producing different blossoms — with the striking effect that the familiar appears new, the new familiar. The result sounds almost late Romantic and thus perfectly suits Anton Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth Symphony, his “swan song,” which Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra will perform after intermission. The deeply religious Bruckner composed this work, which he wanted to dedicate “to the dear Lord,” when he had already begun to suspect that he would not be granted a long life. The Adagio, which is as far as he finished, is especially reminiscent of a prayer and a deeply felt confession of faith in the face of death. This is pain-filled and highly expressive music, which at the same time is flooded with light and seems to open a visionary window into another world.

The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst conductor Wolfgang Rihm Verwandlung 3 Music for orchestra 11 min

Verwandlung 2 Music for orchestra 20 min

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109 64 min

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The Cleveland Orchestra 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst conductor Richard Strauss Macbeth, Op. 23 21 min

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944 “Great” 60 min CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p. 132

“THE BASIC MOOD IS OF YEARNING” Franz Welser-Möst on Schubert’s Music “New thoughts must seek new forms,” Richard Strauss believed – and in 1886 he discovered the genre of the tone poem for himself. The first work in which he took this up was his Macbeth, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name. But he conceived it less as a musical “retelling” of the drama than as a sonic psychogram of the title character, who ends with bloodlust and self-destruction: an abysmal nocturne that Strauss orchestrated with phenomenal success. Franz Schubert also broke new ground when he composed his “Great” C major Symphony in 1825-26: he wanted to establish himself as a major symphonist, on a par with the “titan” Ludwig van Beethoven. And he succeeded, albeit with a delay. This enormous work did not have its world premiere until eleven years after Schubert’s death. Robert Schumann had discovered it during a visit to Vienna at Schubert’s estate and could not stop raving about it: “These are human voices,” he marveled, referring to the instrumentation, and he praised the score’s “heavenly length, like a novel in four volumes.” But with this music, not a single minute is too long!

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Sat 10.09. MUSIC FOR FUTURE

Family Concert — Opera 11.00 und 14.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

From dreary everyday life to the fairy-tale world of royal ladies, dangerous monsters, and magical sounds: Taschenoper Lübeck (“Lübeck Pocket Opera”) has adapted one of the greatest opera hits of all time, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, for little Festival visitors — and transferred the stage classic imaginatively and wittily into the here and now. The virtual worlds of computer games take the place of the fairy-tale setting. Tamino escapes into them during a boring music lesson (Sarastro plays a schoolmaster) with the help of his smartphone. Here he can become a hero and go in search of Pamina, the kidnapped sister of the Queen of the Magic Game. But he overlooks the fact that this Pamina also exists in reality: namely, in his school class … Some of the singers take on several roles at once, and Mozart’s ravishing music is imaginatively arranged for piano and percussion. The three-hour fairy-tale opera is condensed into 75 entertaining minutes of contemporary musical theater.

Taschenoper Lübeck: Marie Sofie Jacob Queen of the Magic Game, First Lady

Marlene Metzger Pamina, Second Lady Margrit Dürr Third Lady Tobias Zepernick Tamino Kolja Martens Papageno Tobias Hagge Sarastro Peter Bauer percussion Andrea D’Alonzo piano Carl Augustin musical direction Sascha Mink staging Katia Diegmann set design “The Magical Game: A Magic Flute for Children” (in German) after Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, for six singers, piano, and percussion, arranged by Julian Metzger and Margrit Dürr 75 min for everyone ages 6 and up a production of Taschenoper Lübeck CHF 20/10 (adults/children)

Additional performance for school classes Fri 09.09. | 9.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Scene from The Magical Game

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Jakub Hrůša

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Bamberger Symphoniker 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Bamberger Symphoniker Jakub Hrůša conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Richard Wagner Prelude and Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde 18 min

Alma Mahler Five Lieder: Die stille Stadt In meines Vaters Garten Laue Sommernacht Bei dir ist es traut Ich wandle unter Blumen 17 min

“THERE MUST BE MAHLER!” Jakub Hrůša When Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberger Symphoniker released their account of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony on CD in 2021, the reviews they earned were panegyrics. “Taut, refreshing, inspired, never bland: Hrůša is among the finest Mahler conductors of the younger generation,” remarked Gramophone magazine, which gave the recording an Editor’s Choice Award, as did BBC Music Magazine. The Czech conductor believes that Mahler, who was born in Iglau, Bohemia, is “genetically very close” to his orchestra and himself – after all, the “Bambergers” were also founded in 1946 by musicians who originally came from Bohemia, Moravia, and the Sudetenland. It goes without saying that the folk-like musical moments of the Fourth are in the best of hands with them. But the spooky scherzo, the ethereal rapture of the slow movement, and the humorous tour through Paradise with which the Symphony concludes will all be realized by these musicians according to the highest artistic standards. The American soprano Joélle Harvey will appear as the vocal soloist, performing not only in the final movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony but also presenting five songs composed by Mahler’s wife Alma. 114

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major 57 min CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 132

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“CLASSICAL MUSIC IS THERE FOR EVERYONE!”

Sun 11.09. SYMPHONY

Chineke! Orchestra 17.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Kevin John Edusei The Summer Festival began with the youth formation of the Chineke! Orchestra, and it now comes to an end with the adult ensemble. “Championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music” is the motto of this multi-ethnic orchestra, about which one can only marvel: “Chineke! is an exciting and imperative idea,” declares the star conductor Sir Simon Rattle, for example. “It will enrich classical music for generations. How strange that we didn’t think of it sooner.” In the final concert, the Chineke! Orchestra will be conducted by Kevin John Edusei, a graduate of the Lucerne Festival Academy and a master student of Pierre Boulez. The young English cello virtuoso Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who stirred an audience of billions at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, will perform Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto. This will be complemented by works by two Black composers: the rhapsody Pulse by British composer Brian Raphael Nabors, who was born in 1991, which traces the rhythm of the universe; and William L. Dawson’s African-American Folk Symphony, which was premiered in 1934 by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski.

Chineke! Orchestra Kevin John Edusei conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Brian Raphael Nabors Pulse for orchestra 13 min

Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 126 36 min

William Levi Dawson African-American Folk Symphony 35 min CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 3, p. 133

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Thematic Worship Service 10.00 | Matthäuskirche Ecumenical worship service on the Festival Theme of “Diversity” with Marcel Köppli, Andreas Rosar, and the Ensemble Corund under Stephen Smith

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THANK YOU GRAZIE MERCI Great musical experiences need strong partners. We warmly thank all of our partners and supporters for their invaluable commitment!

Cooperation Partners AMAG Audi Center Luzern — Car Partner Confiserie Sprüngli — Chocolate Partner Egon Zehnder KKL Luzern — Event Partner Luzern Tourismus MetaDesign — Partner in Communication myclimate Radio SRF Kultur — Media Partner Ringier AG — Media Partner Grants and Subsidies Kanton Luzern Stadt Luzern

Many thanks also go to the Lucerne Festival Friends and all those supporters who do not wish to be mentioned by name.

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Concert Sponsors Artemis Group / Franke Group Dr. Christoph M. Müller and Sibylla M. Müller Dr. Dolf and Maria Stockhausen KPMG AG Nestlé S.A. Viking Co-Sponsors B. Braun Medical AG Bucherer AG La Mobilière Glencore International AG Schindler Elevator Ltd. Swiss Life Swiss Re Zuger Kantonalbank

Patrons Dr. Hans-Dieter Cleven Family Goer Berthold Herrmann and Dr. Mariann Grawe-Gerber Carla Schwöbel-Braun Foundations Arthur Waser Foundation Aventis Foundation Bernard van Leer Foundation Luzern Credit Suisse Foundation Ernst Göhner Stiftung Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Fondation SUISA Fritz-Gerber-Stiftung für begabte junge Menschen Geert und Lore BlankenSchlemper-Stiftung Hilti Foundation I&I Foundation Josef Müller Stiftung Muri Landis & Gyr Foundation Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland Stiftung Melinda Esterházy de Galantha Zürich Strebi-Stiftung Luzern 119

DIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

Because these two goals belong together. If classical music hopes to develop sustainably and to remain relevant in the future, it must inspire the younger generation and needs to open itself up to wider audiences from different backgrounds. At the same time, music is a global language that is able to bring together a remarkable diversity of people, both on stage and in the audience. It makes participation possible and ensures togetherness that is sustainable.

Supporting and Inspiring Young Talent: Music for Future With Music for Future, Lucerne Festival addresses itself to the generation of tomorrow: to the people who will be performing on concert stages in the future, and to all those who will be listening to them in the concert hall. Important sponsorship prizes and performance opportunities, for example in the Debut series, support young musicians, while education projects and special concert formats for families introduce young listeners to the world of classical music. This dual focus is also shown by the “Overture” of international youth orchestras that has heralded the Summer Festival since

Chineke! Orchestra

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Zurich) and Lucerne Festival have enjoyed a close partnership for more than 30 years. Zurich has supported the Festival as a main sponsor since 2005. Zurich is also keeping in mind the future of classical music and is committed to diversity and sustainability.

Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra of Lucerne Festival Academy Alumni in the 40min series

2021, a program that makes it possible for young ensembles from every continent to be introduced at a renowned music festival. And it specifically appeals to a young audience that can experience how fresh and thrilling classical music can sound. Zurich has been a Founding Partner of Music for Future since 2021. Classical Music for All: 40min Giving a broad audience access to classical and contemporary music and opening this music up to all levels of society and generations: this is the goal of the 40min concert series, which Zurich has supported since 2013. It consists of nine to eleven events each summer that begin early in the evening, at 6:20 p.m., when the workday has just ended. These events charge no admission fee and are shorter than a normal concert. Most importantly, they have a different feeling from a conventional concert since the

artists themselves take on the role of presenters and introduce themselves and the works they are playing. Classical music, in a totally casual atmosphere where no prior knowledge or dress code is necessary — that is just the recipe to attract anyone who might be curious to try it out. “Diversity” in the Summer of 2022: Chineke! As the Main Sponsor of the 2022 Summer Festival, Zurich supports not only the guest appearances by the Berlin Philharmonic but two special concerts closely related to this year’s Festival theme of “Diversity” as well: the performances by the Chineke! Junior Orchestra and the Chineke! Orchestra, with which the Festival will start and conclude. The Chi-neke! Foundation is committed to achieving greater ethnic diversity in classical music, both among the performers and in the programming. A powerful cue for more diversity! 121

LUCERNE FESTIVAL FRIENDS We are passionate about outstanding performances of both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Communication between artists and the audience as well as between generations is important to us. That is why we support one of the most important music festivals in the world. The Friends have been an indispensable partner of Lucerne Festival for more than 50 years. Through our personal commitment and annual donations, we make a significant contribution to the Festival’s financial security and sustainability. We do more than support the Festival of today, for example by sponsoring the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. We are also dedicated to its ongoing development by fostering young talent through the Lucerne Festival Academy and Music for Future,

thus establishing a basis for the art of tomorrow to flourish. Firmly anchored in Lucerne as a city of music and in Switzerland, while at the same time internationally networked, we offer you the opportunity to deepen your concert experience through exclusive discussions with artists, encounters with musical experts, and rehearsal visits; at the same time, we invite you to become part of a community of music fans as well as of the “Festival family.” We are particularly eager to attract young adults to our circle of Friends and to benefit from their input and inspiration. That’s why we introduced the Young Friends program: they attend concerts together at discounted rates and meet regularly to share their passion for classical music.

Rehearsal with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly

We love classical music.

A special thank-you goes to our Patrons and Gold Friends: Thomas Abegg E. I. Ascher Esq. Trust Bâloise Holding AG Stanley M. Bergman Regula Bibus-Waser Dr. Christian Casal and Katja Biella Casal Oswald J. Grübel Yann and Sabine Guyonvarc’h Dr. Otto and Michaela Happel Berthold Herrmann and Dr. Mariann Grawe-Gerber André and Rosalie Hoffmann Dr. Rudolf W. Hug Dr. Klaus Jenny Bruce and Suzie Kovner Luzerner Kantonalbank AG Dr. Christoph M. Müller and Sibylla M. Müller Makoto Nakao Dr. Lutz and Christiane Peters Project Villa Serdang Carla Schwöbel-Braun Monique and Dr. Thomas Staehelin-Bonnard Dr. Dolf and Maria Stockhausen Alan Vickery Margrit Wullschleger-Schmidlin

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Rehearsal with Yuja Wang

Lucerne Festival thanks all of its Friends for their solidarity and generous support.

Contact Foundation Lucerne Festival Friends Isabelle Köhler, Relationship Manager Hirschmattstrasse 13 | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 41 226 44 52 | i.koehler@lucernefestival.ch lucernefestival.ch/en/friends 123

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Online tickets sales begin on 29 March 2022, 12.00 noon (Lucerne Time) Mail sales begin on 31 March 2022 Telephone sales

begin on 31 March 2022 Mon – Fri from 10.00 to 12.00 noon (Lucerne Time); and on 31 March and 1 April from 14.00 to 17.00 as well Telephone hours during the Summer Festival: Mon – Sun from 10.00 to 12.00 and from 14.00 to 16.00

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During the Summer Festival At the Lucerne Festival ticket box near the main entrance of the KKL Luzern (lakeside), you can purchase tickets for the Summer Festival daily from 9 August to 11 September 2022, from 2.00 p.m. until the evening concert starts. For morning, midday, and late-night events at the KKL Luzern, as well as for events at an outdoor venue, you can buy your tickets (subject to availability) on site starting one hour before the concert begins. Only cash payment is accepted at the outdoor venues. Ticket Refunds Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns of tickets that have already been purchased. Important Note The impact of the Corona pandemic on the 2022 Summer Festival cannot be predicted as of today. Lucerne Festival will comply with the official requirements and regulations in force in the summer of 2022. Up-to-date information for the 2022 Summer Festival, supplemented by answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs), can be found at lucernefestival.ch/ en/safely-attending-the-concert. General Terms & Conditions The General Terms & Conditions may be found at lucernefestival.ch/en/agb.

Discounts for Students and KulturLegi Holders Special offers for events that are not sold out will be available at the 2022 Summer Festival for grade school, university, and vocational students as well as members of the JTC up to the age of 29 as well as KulturLegi holders. Detailed information on these offers will be available as soon as the Festival begins at lucernefestival.ch/students. Special Offer: “Look | Listen | Enjoy — Together at the Concert” When purchasing a ticket for selected events, adults will receive two free tickets of the same value to bring their young companions (children, grandchildren, godchildren, etc.) to the concert for free. This special offer is valid for price groups 1 to 4 and is available online. The selected events for which this offer is available are highlighted in the program section by a green circle. We will be publishing a list of more concerts beginning with the launch of the Festival, which you can find at lucernefestival.ch/ look-listen-enjoy. WhatsApp-News for Students Which concerts have tickets still available for students at the box office? What’s on at the Festival for primary, secondary, and university and vocational students? Use our WhatsApp News feature to get up-to-date information. How does it work? Simply add a contact for our number +41 (0)79 385 36 53 and send the message “Start” using WhatsApp.

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ATTENDING THE CONCERT

Our Health Protection Plan Your health is close to our hearts! To ensure that you can enjoy your concert visit free of worry even in this time of coronavirus, we have developed a comprehensive protection plan together with the KKL Luzern that we continuously adapt to the current situation and coordinate with the responsible authorities: lucernefestival.ch/protection-concept. 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. 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.

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. Cloakroom The use of the cloakroom in the KKL Luzern is free of charge. Handbags up to a size of 42 x 29.7 cm (A3) may be taken into the hall. All larger bags and luggage, as well as other bulky items, must be left at the cloakroom for a charge of CHF 5 per item. For security reasons, coats and jackets are also not permitted to be taken into the hall and can be left free of charge at the cloakroom. 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. Wheelchair spaces are also available at the other event locations. The Festival cannot ensure that accompanying persons will receive a seat in the same price category or near the wheelchair space. Our staff members from Visitor Services are happy to advise when you are ordering tickets. Wheelchair spaces cannot be purchased online. 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.

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GETTING THERE

Arrival via public transportation — at a 40% discount Your concert tickets entitle you to a discount of 40% (1st or 2nd class) for a round trip to Lucerne. (Concert tickets must be presented upon inspection.) This special ticket must be purchased before beginning your trip: either at a Swiss Rail ticket counter, by calling the SBB Contact Center at 0848 44 66 88 (CHF 0.08/minute in the Swiss telephone network), or online at 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.

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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, ArthGoldau, 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 luzern@luzern.com | luzern.com Accommodation Lucerne’s Tourist Office can help you find accommodation. Central reservations no.: t +41 41 227 17 27 | luzern@luzern.com

Venues KKL KKL Luzern, Europaplatz 1, Luzern E Europaplatz HL Hochschule Luzern – Musik, Arsenalstr. 28, Kriens (bus no. 14 from the main train station) I Inseli, Inseliquai, Luzern JK Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church), Bahnhofstrasse 11a, Luzern KF Altes Krematorium Luzern Friedental, Ibachstrasse 2, Luzern LK Lukaskirche (Church of St. Luke), Morgartenstrasse 16, Luzern LT Luzerner Theater, Theaterstrasse 2, Luzern MK Matthäuskirche (Church of St. Matthew), Hertensteinstrasse 30, Luzern

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WELCOME TO LUCIDE Head chef Michèle Meier, GaultMillau female chef of the year 2021, and her team are looking forward to welcoming you to Lucide. Enjoy the beautiful view and the exquisite dishes awarded with 16 GaultMillau points. Information & reservation lucide-luzern.ch lucide@kkl-luzern.ch +41 41 226 71 10

A RECIPE FOR MUSIC: THE KKL LUZERN The KKL Luzern’s Concert Hall, designed 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 Lucide (rated 16 points by Gault Millau), the Le Piaf 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 141

FESTIVAL-CITY LUCERNE The Festival City Lucerne delights throughout the year: classical music, blues, rock, comics and enthralling sport events. Lucerne Festival | Summer 9 August – 11 September 2022 www.lucernefestival.ch

Lucerne Blues Festival 5 – 13 November 2022 www.bluesfestival.ch

Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne April 2023 www.fumetto.ch

Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern 30 August 2022 www.spitzenleichtathletik.ch

Lucerne Festival | Forward 18 – 20 November 2022 www.lucernefestival.ch

Zaubersee Festival 10 – 14 May 2023 www.zaubersee.ch

World Band Festival Lucerne 24 September – 2 October 2022 www.worldbandfestival.ch

Lilu Light Festival Lucerne 12 – 22 January 2023 www.lichtfestivalluzern.ch

LUCERNE REGATTA 7 – 9 July 2023 www.lucerneregatta.com

SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne 30 October 2022 www.swisscitymarathon.ch

Lucerne Festival | Spring 31 March – 2 April 2023 www.lucernefestival.ch

BLUE BALLS FESTIVAL 21 – 29 July 2023 www.blueballs.ch

A NEW RING FOR ZURICH Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda Stage Director: Andreas Homoki DAS RHEINGOLD 30 Apr 2022 DIE WALKÜRE 18 Sep 2022 SIEGFRIED 5 Mar 2023 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG 5 Nov 2023 DER RING as cycle season 23/24 Supported by Freunde der Oper Zürich

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p. 1: Daniel auf der Mauer/Lucerne Festival – p. 4, 6, 25, 59, 62, 64, 69, 79, 97, 99, 100, and 141: Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival – p. 8, 15, 17, 96, 98, and 123 top: Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival – p. 19, 72, and 95: Marco Borggreve – p. 21, 67, 75, and 102: Dario Acosta – p. 23 and 58: John Rogers – p. 38: University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections – p. 39: commons.wikimedia.org – p. 40: Raphael Perez – p. 41: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris – p. 42: Musée du Louvre, Paris – p. 43: Frank Driggs Collection – p. 44 and 109: Valentine Michaud – p. 45: Stefan Deuber/Lucerne Festival – p. 46, 114, 121, and 122: Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival – p. 51: Orlando Gilli – p. 52: Paul Stewart/Decca – p. 53: Rodrigo Rosenthal – p. 54: Samuel Schalch – p. 55: The Japan Art Association/ The Sankei Shimbun – p. 56, 57, 73, and 74: Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival – p. 60: Olaf Heine/ DG – p. 61: Jean-François Mousseau – p. 63: Akvilė Šileikaitė – p. 65: Suxiao Yang – p. 66: Beowulf Sheehan – p. 68: Uli Weber/Decca Classics – p. 70: Mark Baumgartner – p. 71: wildundleise – p. 76: Jeremy Mitchell – p. 77: Harald Hoffmann – p. 78: Mathias Benguigui – p. 80: Ben Ealovega – p. 81: Vandamm Studio. Photo courtesy of the Ira & Leonore Gershwin Trusts – p. 82: Fay Fox – p. 83: Pius Amrein – p. 84: Marc Doradzillo – p. 85: Ari Magg – p. 86: Kristian Schuller/DG – p. 87: Felix Broede – p. 88: tyshawnsorey.com – p. 89: Deutsche Grammophon – p. 90: Michiel Hendryckx – p. 91: Olivia Da Costa – p. 92: Sakari Viika – p. 93: Chris Christodoulou/BBC – p. 94: Michael Shingo Crawford – p. 101: Gerhard Klocker – p. 104: Iyodoh Kaneko – p. 105: Jack Hill/The Times – p. 106: Chris Singer – p. 107: Mlungisi Mlungwana – p. 108: Annick Ramp – p. 110: vianostringquartet.com – p. 111 and 112: Roger Mastroianni – p. 113: Olaf Malzahn – p. 115: Jake Turney – p. 120: Zen Grisdale – p. 123 bottom: Johanna Unternährer/Lucerne Festival

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ARTISTIC OFFICE Christiane Weber*, Director Artistic Office Katharina Christen | Silvia Rösselet | Susanne Stähr, Dramaturgy | Monika Widler Lucerne Festival Contemporary Felix Heri, Director Lea Arnet | Mark Sattler, Dramaturgy Editorial Susanne Stähr, Director Denise Fankhauser | Malte Lohmann

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