LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Easter Festival 2019 by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

EASTER F E S T I V A L

6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 14 April 2019

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Program

Dear Music Lovers,

S Michael Haefliger Executive and Artistic Director LUCERNE FESTIVAL

pirituality has always been a major theme of our Easter Festival. But just how do you find a way to become immersed in contemplation, transcendence, and the divine? When Giuseppe Verdi produced his Messa da Requiem in 1874, he faced accusations that his treatment of religious music sounded too passionate and sensual. The critic Eduard Hanslick, however, refuted all of these charges with a powerful argument: Why should an Italian not be allowed to speak to dear God in Italian, he asked. We would also like to expand on this idea and illustrate some very different kinds of dialogue between God and the world. The ensemble musicAeterna under Teodor Currentzis returns to Lucerne from its home in Perm, Russia, to perform Verdi’s Italian Requiem; the Italian Riccardo Chailly and his Filarmonica della Scala will dedicate themselves to the Russian repertoire, concluding their concert with the splendidly tolling bells of Mussorgsky’s Great Gate of Kiev. We also have two anniversaries to which we are looking forward: the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 70th birthday with Iván Fischer, and Bernard Haitink will turn 90 shortly before the Festival. We welcome the return of Emmanuelle Haïm, who brings her Concert d’Astrée to serve as our “artist-in-residence” for two performances in which she will present rarities of European Baroque music as well as an evening of Handel. You can look forward to an Easter Festival rich in discoveries, starting with the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois, the storied boys’ choir from France, who will trace the thread of sacred music from Gregorian chant to French Romanticism. And we will present such forgotten masterpieces as sacred compositions by the Liechtenstein composer Josef Gabriel Rheinberger and the Mysteries of the Rosary by the French composer André Caplet that deserve to be rescued from oblivion. I look forward to sharing these extraordinary concerts with you. Yours,

Sit back and enjoy. On the ground and in the air.

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Easter Festival | 6 – 14 April 2019 Sat

6.4.

18.30 | JK

Choral Concert 1

Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois | Marie-Noëlle Potot

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Collegium Vocale zu Franziskanern Luzern | Ulrike Grosch | soloists

p. 10

Junge Philharmonie Zentralschweiz | Akademiechor Luzern | Howard Arman | Marie-Claude Chappuis

p. 11

Le Concert d’Astrée | Emmanuelle Haïm

p. 12

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 13

J.S. Bach, Fauré, Gounod, Mozart, Vivaldi, et al. Sun

7.4.

17.00 | FK Choral Concert 2

Brahms, Rheinberger, Dvořák Mon

8.4.

19.30 | MH Choral Concert 3

Caplet, Arman

9.4.

Tue

Wed

10.4.

19.30 | FK Early Music 1 18.30 | A Introduction 19.30 | KS Choral Concert 4

Scheidt, Biber, Charpentier, J.S. Bach, et al.

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera | Teodor Currentzis | soloists Verdi

Thu

11.4.

18.30 | A Introduction 19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 1

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Filarmonica della Scala | Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

p. 14

Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky/Ravel Fri

12.4.

19.30 | KS Early Music 2

Le Concert d’Astrée | Emmanuelle Haïm | Sandrine Piau | Tim Mead

p. 15

Handel Sat

13.4.

with Susanne Stähr (in German) 17.30 | A Introduction 18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 2 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra |

p. 16

Iván Fischer | Janine Jansen Mozart, Bartók

Sun

14.4.

17.00 | KS Symphony Concert 3

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Bernard Haitink | Till Fellner Mozart, Bruckner

Venues: KKL Luzern: A Auditorium | KS Concert Hall FK Franziskanerkirche | JK Jesuitenkirche | MH Church Hall MaiHof

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Organization Honorary Board

Alain Berset, President of the Swiss Confederation | Dr. Othmar Frei, Provost | Robert Küng, President of the Government of the Canton of Lucerne | Beat Züsli, Mayor of the City of Lucerne

Board of Trustees of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Honorary Chairman Jürg R. Reinshagen

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Board of Trustees Dr. Hubert Achermann, Chairman | Otto Wyss, Treasurer | Elisabeth Oltramare | Dr. Michel Stadlin | Corinna von Schönau-Riedweg 6

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C O N C E R T S A N D E V E N T S

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord Psalm 150

Saturday, 6 April Choral Concert 1 18.30 Jesuitenkirche Ticket prices CHF 60/30 Event no. 19101

Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois Marie-Noëlle Potot conductor works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Giulio Caccini, François Couperin, Alexis Duffaure, Gabriel Fauré, César Franck, Charles Gounod, Antonio Lotti, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Camille Saint-Saëns, Antonio Vivaldi, et al. This concert has no intermission and ends at approx. 20.00

On their chests, over their white choir shirts, they wear wooden crosses. Artists such as Charles Aznavour, Louis Chedid, and Mireille Mathieu have performed with them. The successful film La Cage aux rossignols (and its 2004 adaptation The Chorus) was inspired by them. There’s no question that Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois are an institution in France and rank among the most famous boys’ choirs on the international scene. Now based in Autun, Les Petits Chanteurs were founded in Paris in 1907, which is why they are also known to many music lovers as The Little Singers of Paris. They have already sung more than 17,000 concerts and are now coming to Lucerne for the first time to open the 2019 Easter Festival in the atmospheric setting of the Jesuitenkirche with a program of Gregorian chorales and music from their homeland by the composers Charles Gounod, César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Gabriel Fauré. And with their crystal-clear voices, they will also sing works by Antonio Vivaldi, Mozart’s Alleluia, and the Bach chorale Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.

Sunday, 7 April Choral Concert 2 17.00 Franziskanerkirche Ticket prices CHF 60/30 Event no. 19102

“Such a human – and he believes in nothing!” Antonín Dvořák on Johannes Brahms

Collegium Vocale zu Franziskanern Luzern Ulrike Grosch conductor Marián Krejčík baritone Sophie Luise Hage cello Tobias Willi organ Johannes Brahms Motet Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen? Op. 74, no. 1 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Tribulationes and Dextera Domini from Five Hymns, Op. 140 Elegie for Cello and Organ, Op. 150, no. 5 Prelude from the Organ Sonata No. 7 in F minor, Op. 127 Cantus Missae. Mass in E-flat major, Op. 109 10

Antonín Dvořák excerpts from Biblical Songs, Op. 99 This concert has no intermission and ends at approx. 18.30

“A small discourse on the great question ‘Why’” is how Johannes Brahms described the first of his two Op. 74 motets. His choral works frequently take up questions of faith, fate, and death: questions that concerned him throughout his life, since Brahms, who was well versed in the Bible but a freethinker, had no easy answers. The Collegium Vocale zu Franziskanern juxtaposes the North German Protestant composer, who found his adopted home in Vienna, with the Biblical Songs by the Czech Antonín Dvořák and with works by the Catholic Josef Rheinberger from Liechtenstein, who at that time worked in Munich. Like Brahms, Rheinberger also kept his distance from the “New German School” centered around Liszt and Wagner. And yet he was no hardcore traditionalist, as his opponents would have us believe. Consider the Cantus Missae for double choir, Rheinberger’s best-known work along with his Organ Sonatas, whose expressive harmonic language takes a stand against the conservative, purist Cecilianist movement, which aimed to drive out experimentation and individuality in church music.

“This Caplet is an artist!” Claude Debussy

Monday, 8 April Choral Concert 3 19.30 Church Hall MaiHof Ticket prices CHF 60/30 Event no. 19103

Junge Philharmonie Zentralschweiz Akademiechor Luzern Howard Arman conductor Marie-Claude Chappuis mezzo-soprano André Caplet Le Miroir de Jésus. Mystères du Rosaire for mezzo-soprano, women’s chorus, strings, and harp ca. 60’

Howard Arman The Cries of London for soloists, choir, and strings Swiss premiere ca. 8’

This concert has no intermission

Mystical meditation meets the colorful activity of the secular marketplace in this concert. Deeply shaken by the horrors of the First World War, the Frenchman André Caplet turned increasingly to religion and sacred music after 1918. His final years saw the creation of Le Miroir de Jésus, a musical setting of the Rosary that recounts the life of Jesus from Mary’s perspective. Caplet’s mystical, inward-directed musical language combines influences from his friend Debussy and Gregorian chant. Howard Arman will then take us back to his native England: “In old London, it was customary to advertise certain commodities in the markets and on the streets by using music. Someone selling fish would sing melodies different from those of a chimney sweep.” The Cries of London, which he composed in 2015 for the Bavarian Radio Choir, revives this tradition with a sense of humor: “In the middle, the songs of the market criers become jumbled together, while at the same time the two violins in particular play many echoes of folk violin music, in a very sturdy and rhythmic way.”

Tuesday, 9 April Early Music 1 19.30 Franziskanerkirche Ticket prices CHF 60/30 Event no. 19104

“Baroque music fires the imagination” Emmanuelle Haïm

Le Concert d’Astrée Emmanuelle Haïm organ, harpsichord and musical direction “Sacro Profanum” Instrumental Music for Court and Church works by Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Johann Rosenmüller, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, Johann Sebastian Bach, and John Blow and from the Manuscrit de Kassel This concert has no intermission and ends at approx. 21.00

When the French Maestra Emmanuelle Haïm performs, she radiates a joy and boundless enthusiasm for the music that are spontaneously transmitted to the audience. She has been described as “Ms. Dynamite of the French Baroque,” and that’s quite fitting, because her performances simply catch fire and have explosive power. Over two evenings with her ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm, who made her debut at LUCERNE FESTIVAL leading the Vienna Philharmonic in 2016, will be artist-in-residence at this year’s Easter Festival. Her residency begins with an exploratory journey covering half of Europe – from France via Italy, Germany, and Austria to Sweden and Great Britain – and presents sacred and secular instrumental music that many have likely never heard before. But it is just this that inspires Emmanuelle Haïm: to snatch works from oblivion and to awaken them to life anew. In doing so, she will also show what pleasure she takes from improvising: “The Baroque gives you an incredible freedom as an interpreter,” she explains, comparing making music played by the Concert d’Astrée with a jazz band.

“Spirituality has nothing to do with wellness” Teodor Currentzis

Wednesday, 10 April Choral Concert 4 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 200/170/130/90/60/30 Seating map 1, p. 26 | Event no. 19105

musicAeterna orchestra and chorus of Perm Opera Teodor Currentzis conductor Zarina Abaeva soprano Hermine May mezzo-soprano Dmytro Popov tenor Tareq Nazmi bass Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem ca. 90’

This performance has no intermission

Giuseppe Verdi did not think much of the Church. He found it outrageous that the Vatican claimed political power for itself and was appalled by Rome’s rejection of such values as tolerance and freedom of conscience, as well as by its critical attitude towards Italian Unification. He also had a personal quarrel with God after losing his wife and children at an early age and suddenly finding himself alone. Yet it was this heretic, of all people, who created one of the most shattering and powerful settings of the Catholic Mass of the Dead. You can almost smell the incense in Verdi’s music, which stages the Last Judgement with a graphic naturalism and which celebrates the celestial dimension with the most exhilarating “Sanctus” ever written. And in its most beautiful moments, as in the plea for salvation, it feels as if the sky is actually opening up… Verdi’s magnificent Messa da Requiem is a work that seems to have been created for Teodor Currentzis, since this Greek-Russian conductor is a master of musical truth-telling whose performances tend to radically push the envelope: to heaven and hell. This concert is under the auspices of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

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

Thursday, 11 April Symphony Concert 1 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Music is revelation” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 26 | Event no. 19106

Filarmonica della Scala Riccardo Chailly conductor Denis Matsuev piano Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 ca. 35’

Modest Mussorgsky/ Maurice Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition ca. 35’

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

“I look up to Mussorgsky, because I think he is the greatest Russian composer,” Dmitri Shostakovich professed. But the most Russian of the Russian works by Mussorgsky, his Pictures at an Exhibition, actually is set in France and Italy as well: in the Tuileries, in Limoges, in the Roman catacombs. And it will be played in Maurice Ravel’s orchestral version (made in Paris) by the legendary Filarmonica della Scala Orchestra from Milan. Maestro Chailly will indulge his international audience by combing Pictures with another of the greatest hits from Russia: Tchaikovsky’s B-flat minor Piano Concerto. Can there really be only one “greatest Russian composer”? Incidentally, the world premiere of this most famous of all piano concertos took place far from home: in Boston in 1875. The pianist had hands “as elastic as rubber, as durable as steel, as light as down feathers, and, if needed, as solid as granite,” Tchaikovsky rhapsodized about the soloist of the premiere, Hans von Bülow. Exactly the same might also be said of Denis Matsuev, the magnificent Russian virtuoso and prize-winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition. Zurich Insurance Company Ltd – Main Sponsor

“An earthly, passionate man of the theater” Emmanuelle Haïm on George Frideric Handel

Friday, 12 April Early Music 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 3, p. 27 | Event no. 19107

Le Concert d’Astrée Emmanuelle Haïm conductor Sandrine Piau soprano Tim Mead countertenor “Desperate Lovers” George Frideric Handel Concerto grosso in B-flat major, Op. 3, no. 2, HWV 313 ca. 12’

Arias, duets, and instrumental movements from the operas Rodelinda, Tamerlano, Ariodante, Alcina, and Orlando and the dramatic cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo ca. 65’

Political intrigue and sorcery, stage spectacles with the leading stars, social events for the snobs, and a chance for the gourmands of vocal art to display their adulation: the Italian operas that the German George Frideric Handel presented to his audience in London were record-breaking productions that earned the finest praise. Their enthusiastically acclaimed and controversial premieres caused sensations and scandals. But the best news of all still holds true: that after two centuries of almost complete oblivion, Handel’s music for the stage has outlived its glorious past and returned to contemporary concert and theater life. “Desperate Lovers”: this is the theme of Emmanuelle Haïm’s second program for LUCERNE FESTIVAL, in which she presents overtures, dances, arias, and duets from Handel’s enchanting, heart-rending, melodious, musically magnificent operas. A timeless feast of Baroque music that will welcome concertgoers with love (and will certainly not drive them to despair).

Saturday, 13 April Symphony Concert 2 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Mozart’s instrumental music sounds like opera” Iván Fischer

Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 4, p. 27 | Event no. 19108

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Iván Fischer conductor Janine Jansen violin Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Symphony in C major, K. 338 ca. 21’

Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz 36 ca. 22’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Symphony in E-flat major, K. 543 ca. 32’

Béla Bartók Romanian Dances for orchestra, Sz 68 ca. 6’

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

“Mozart in Hungarian style” might be the title of this concert, with which the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra will open its residency at the Easter Festival. The Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer will juxtapose two symphonies of the Viennese classicist with music by Béla Bartók, with results that are sure to be insightful. As a teacher and pianist, Bartók has moreover made a significant contribution to the modern understanding of Mozart, giving the lie to all those clichés about graceful rococo art. “Through Bartók, we were made acquainted with a new Mozart, the right one,” recalled his pupil Júlia Székely, describing the composer’s unsentimental style of Mozart playing, which could even sound dramatic, austere, and dark. By the same token, Iván Fischer will upend the prejudices that regard Bartók as a supposedly “brittle” composer and show his popular side in orchestral dances as well as the sumptuous First Violin Concerto. Fischer says that his enthusiasm for Bartók is by no means only the result of both of them hail from the same homeland: “I would also love his music if he came from Honolulu.” Zurich Insurance Company Ltd – Main Sponsor

“I admire this music, I love it” Bernard Haitink on Anton Bruckner

Sunday, 14 April Symphony Concert 3 17.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 5, p. 27 | Event no. 19109

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink conductor Till Fellner piano Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Piano Concerto in C major, K. 503

ca. 35’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A major, WAB 106 Performed in the version edited by Leopold Nowak ca. 55’

The grand Easter Festival finale celebrates two milestone anniversaries: Bernard Haitink will have just turned 90 in March, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1949, marks its 70th birthday. Haitink has chosen two of his “desert-island” composers: Mozart and Bruckner. Together with the Austrian pianist Till Fellner – who is likewise an unpretentious artist dedicated entirely to music – he will perform Mozart’s late-period, symphonically rich C major Piano Concerto, K. 503, and Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony, which Haitink has never before conducted in Lucerne. “Even as a child, I had a relationship with Bruckner,” the Dutch maestro once said. “I was eight years old when I listened to a radio broadcast of the Eighth Symphony and was tremendously impressed. Since then I have never left this composer.” This great experience that he has gathered over the course of his career is what makes Haitink’s Bruckner interpretations seem so compelling and at the same time so natural.

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Central ticket outlet Buchhandlung Säli Ritterquai 4 | CH–4500 Solothurn Mon, 2.00 pm am to 6.30 pm Tue – Fri, 9.00 am to 12.00 noon and 2.00 pm to 6.30 pm Sat, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

Musik Hug Basel Binningerstrasse 152 | CH–4123 Allschwil Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm BERN tonträger music & more Schweizerhofpassage Spitalgasse 38 | CH–3011 Bern Mon, 1.00 pm to 6.30 pm Tue – Fri, 9.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm LUCERNE KKL Box Office (train station entrance) Europaplatz 1 | CH–6002 Luzern Mon – Fri, 9.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm

SURSEE von Matt AG Buchhandlung Rathausplatz 2 | CH–6210 Sursee Mon, 1.30 pm to 6.30 pm Tue – Fri, 7.45 am to 12.00 noon and 1.15 pm to 8.30 pm (Thu to 8.00 pm) Sat, 8.30 am to 4.00 pm ZÜRICH Musik Hug Zürich Limmatquai 28–30 | CH–8001 Zürich Mon – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Musik Hug Luzern Luzernerstrasse 45 | CH–6030 Ebikon Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm Sat, 9.00 am to 4.00 pm

With regard to all ticket sales from our sales partners, it is not possible to redeem LUCERNE FESTIVAL vouchers, to print duplicate tickets, or to return tickets for resale.

Seating Maps Seating Map 1 Event 4. Gallery right 3. Gallery right 2. Gallery right 1. Gallery right

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Easter Festival Price per Category in CHF

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200

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Easter Festival Price per Category in CHF

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150

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100

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Note on the seating maps: The organizer reserves the right to release individual sections for sale at a later date. Updated information on all available seats can be found at lucernefestival.ch.

Seating Map 3 Event 4. Gallery right 3. Gallery right 2. Gallery right 1. Gallery right

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Easter Festival Price per Category in CHF

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Seating Map 4 Event 4. Gallery right 3. Gallery right 2. Gallery right 1. Gallery right

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Organ Loft

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19109 I

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150

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100

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Getting There ARRIVAL VIA TRAIN: YOUR CONCERT TICKET IS ALSO VALID AS A TRAVEL TICKET! Arrival and Departure by Train: 40% Rebate in the Swiss Rail Network As a concertgoer you can receive a discount of 40% for 1st or 2nd class for a round trip to Lucerne. (The concert ticket must be presented to the inspector on the train.) With the halffare card, the trip will cost only 30% of the full fare. This special ticket must be purchased at a Swiss Rail ticket counter, by calling the Rail Service line at 0848 44 66 88 (CHF 0.08/minute in the Swiss telephone network), or online at the SBB ticket shop (sbb.ch/lucernefestival) before beginning your trip.

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

KKL vouchers

For moments that last. Treat your nearest and dearest to a very special experience – our vouchers allow you to enjoy unique concert moments, gourmet dinners or cocktail evenings at KKL Luzern. Orders: kkl-luzern.ch gutschein@kkl-luzern.ch +41 41 226 79 50 Counter at KKL Luzern: Mon–Fri 9–18.30, Sat 10–16

A Recipe for Music: The KKL Lucerne It’s one of the best-sounding locations in the world: the KKL Luzern’s concert hall, created 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 in all their 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 RED (rated 15 points by Gault Millau), the World Café, 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

Hotels

Hotels rated by hotelleriesuisse (H) / GastroSuisse (G) Ä(Superior)

Renaissance Luzern Hotel G 041 226 87 87 The Hotel G 041 226 86 86 Bürgenstock Hotels, Bürgenstock H 041 612 60 00 Villa Honegg, Bürgenstock H 041 618 32 00 Park Hotel, Vitznau H 041 399 60 60 The Chedi Andermatt, Andermatt H 041 888 74 88

renaissance.lucerne@ renaissancehotels.com info@the-hotel.ch information@buergenstock.ch info@villa-honegg.ch info@parkhotel-vitznau.ch info@chediandermatt.com

Ö Grand Hotel National Schweizerhof Waldhotel Healthy Living Bürgenstock

H H

041 419 09 09 info@grandhotel-national.com 041 410 04 10 info@schweizerhof-luzern.ch

041 612 60 00 information@buergenstock.ch

H G H H H H

041 419 00 00 041 226 88 88 041 375 81 81 041 660 53 00 041 375 32 32 041 369 90 00

À(Superior) Art Deco Hotel Montana Hotel Astoria Hermitage Seehotel Kreuz, Sachseln Sonnmatt Luzern Radisson Blu Hotel Luzern

(Superior) Schlüssel Stern Luzern ibis Luzern Kriens

H H H

041 210 10 61 welcome@schluessel-luzern.ch 041 227 50 60 info@sternluzern.ch 041 349 49 49 H2982@accor.com

Chärnsmatt, Rothenburg H

041 280 34 34 info@chaernsmatt.ch

k Ibis Budget Luzern

041 367 80 00 H6782@accor.com

Swiss Lodge

Ameron Hotel Flora H 041 227 66 66 flora@ameronhotels.com Cascada Hotel H 041 226 80 88 info@cascada.ch Château Gütsch H 041 289 14 14 info@chateau-guetsch.ch Continental-Park H 041 228 90 50 hotel@continental.ch Des Balances H 041 418 28 28 info@balances.ch Grand Hotel Europe H 041 370 00 11 info@europe-luzern.ch Hofgarten H 041 410 88 88 hotel@hofgarten.ch Monopol H 041 226 43 43 mail@monopolluzern.ch Rebstock H 041 417 18 19 hotel@rebstock-luzern.ch Wilden Mann H 041 210 16 66 mail@wilden-mann.ch Birdland Hotel, Sempach Station H 041 369 81 81 office@birdland-hotel.ch Jagd-Schloss, Merlischachen H 041 854 54 54 info@swiss-chalet.ch Palace Hotel, Bürgenstock H 041 612 60 00 information@buergenstock.ch Parkhotel, Zug H/G 041 727 48 48 info@parkhotel.ch Schloss-Hotel, Merlischachen H 041 854 54 54 info@swiss-chalet.ch Seehotel Kastanienbaum H 041 340 03 40 info@seehotel-kastanienbaum.ch Seehotel Sternen, Horw H 041 348 24 82 info@seehotel-sternen.ch Winkelried, Stansstad H 041 618 23 23 hotel@winkelried.ch

Ã(Superior) Waldstätterhof H 041 227 12 71 info@hotel-waldstaetterhof.ch Hotel Pilatus-Kulm H 041 329 12 12 hotels@pilatus.ch Jugendstilhotel Paxmontana G 041 666 24 00 info@paxmontana.ch Seerausch Hotel, Beckenried H/G 041 501 01 31 info@seerausch.ch Hotel Sempachersee, Nottwil H 041 939 23 23 info@hotelsempachersee.ch Swisshotel Zug, Zug H/G 041 747 28 28 email@swisshotel-zug.ch Zugertor, Zug H 041 729 38 38 info@zugertor.ch Ô Altstadt Hotel Krone Ambassador Anker Bellevue

041 418 82 20 contact@altstadthotelluzern.ch 041 210 50 60 info@hotel-central-luzern.com 041 418 80 00 info@de-la-paix.ch 041 417 20 60 info@desalpes-luzern.ch 041 248 04 80 hotel@drei-koenige.ch 041 210 09 59 info@hotelfox.ch 041 418 48 48 H8549@accor.com 041 375 55 55 mail@hotelseeburg.ch 041 250 52 00 info@thorenberg.ch 041 789 78 78 info@hotel-arcade.ch 041 288 28 28 info@expressluzern.com 041 289 40 50 office@hotel-lux.ch 041 612 60 00 information@buergenstock.ch

Ó info@hotel-montana.ch info@astoria-luzern.ch welcome@hermitage-luzern.ch info@kreuz-sachseln.ch info@sonnmatt.ch info.lucerne@radissonblu.com

Boutique Hotel Weisses Kreuz H Central Luzern H De la Paix H Des Alpes H Drei Könige H Fox H ibis Styles Luzern City H Seeburg H Thorenberg G Arcade, Sins H Holiday Inn Express Luzern H Lux, Emmenbrücke H Taverne 1879, Bürgenstock H

H H H H

041 419 44 00 041 418 81 00 041 220 88 00 041 371 27 27

info@krone-luzern.ch hotel@ambassador.ch anker@remimag.ch info@bellevue-luzern.ch

Balm, Meggen H 041 377 11 35 BnB Haus im Löchli H 041 250 90 73 Jugendherberge Luzern H 041 420 88 00 Pickwick H 041 410 59 27 Sonnenberg, Kriens H 041 320 66 44 The Bed + Breakfast H 041 310 15 14 Villa Maria H 041 370 21 19 Gasthaus Kreuz, Meggen H 041 377 11 14 Swiss-Chalet B&B, H 041 854 54 54 Merlischachen

info@balm.ch bnb_loechli@bluewin.ch luzern@youthhostel.ch welcome@hotelpickwick.ch info@hotelsonnenberg.ch info@theBandB.ch villamaria@bluewin.ch info@kreuz-meggen.ch info@swiss-chalet.ch

Hotels not rated by hotelleriesuisse / GastroSuisse Alpha Alpina Luzern Altstadt Hotel Le Stelle Altstadt Hotel Magic Anstatthotel Business Apartments Appartements Hofquartier Beau Séjour Luzern AG B & B Bettstatt Neustadt Guest House Daniela HITrental AG Linde Lion Lodge Luzern Lucerne Business Apartments Braui Luzernerhof Richemont Royal Tourist Hotel Bellevue, Pilatus-Kulm Krone, Buochs Lichtzentrum Lotus, St.Niklausen Schwendelberg

041 240 42 80 041 210 00 77 041 412 22 20 041 417 12 20

info@hotelalpha.ch info@alpina-luzern.ch info@lestelle.ch mail@magic-hotel.ch

041 755 00 03 041 410 43 47 041 410 16 81 041 210 43 09 041 240 51 41 041 311 29 29 041 410 31 93 041 410 01 44

mail@anstatthotel.ch info@appartements-luzern.ch info@beausejourlucerne.ch info@bettstatt.ch welcome@guesthouse-daniela.ch info@hitrental.com

079 663 89 20 041 418 47 47 041 375 85 64 041 419 46 46 041 410 24 74 041 329 12 12 041 624 66 77

mail@lucernebusinessapartments.ch info@luzernerhof.ch gastronomie@richemont.cc info@hotel-royal-luzern.ch info@thetouristhotel.ch hotels@pilatus.ch info@krone-buochs.ch

info@lionlodge.ch

041 362 11 33 lotus.luzern@gmail.com 041 340 35 40 info@schwendelberg.com

Tourist Information Luzern Zentralstrasse 5, located in the main Lucerne train station, CH–6002 Luzern | t +41 (0)41 227 17 27

F R O M B Ü R G E N S TO C K R E S O RT D I R EC T LY TO T H E CO N C E RT H A L L As a hotel guest you enjoy free travel with the Bürgenstock Funicular and the Shuttle Boat to Europaplatz in front of the KKL.

Bürgenstock Hotels & Resort – 6363 Obbürgen – Switzerland T +41 (0)41 612 60 00 – info@buergenstock.ch – buergenstock.ch

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Pilatusstrasse 15, CH-6002 Lucerne, Tel. +41 41 226 87 87

Sempacherstrasse 14, CH-6002 Lucerne, Tel. +41 41 226 86 86

A gourmet restaurant with atmosphere. Have a feast, savour your choice, and enjoy yourself.

Indulge.

Hotel Wilden Mann Luzern Bahnhofstrasse 30 · 6003 Luzern · T +41 41 210 16 66 www.wilden-mann.ch

29 JUNE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15 JULY 2019

Partners of Swiss Top Events:

Supporting Organizations Official Rail Carrier

Official Airline

LUCERNE FESTIVAL is member of

AMAG Audi Center Luzern, Car Partner KKL Luzern, Event Partner Luzern Tourismus MetaDesign, Partner in Communication Radio SRF Kultur, Media Partner 35

Image Credits p. 1: Marco Borggreve – p. 9: Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois – p. 10, 12, 14, and 17: Priska Ketterer/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 11: Astrid Ackermann – p. 13: Nadia Rosenberg – p. 15: Marianne Rosenstiehl – p. 16: Harald Hoffmann/Decca – p. 18/19: Peter Fischli/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 31: Georg Anderhub/LUCERNE FESTIVAL This program was published in October 2018 and is subject to alteration without prior notice. Printed prices are subject to correction. Follow LUCERNE FESTIVAL on

SAMMLUNG ROSENGART LUZERN Stiftung Rosengart Pilatusstrasse 10

ZENTRUM DER KLASSISCHEN MODERNE Einzigartige Werkgruppen von

PICASSO und KLEE sowie über 20 weitere weltberühmte Künstler des Impressionismus und der Klassischen Moderne wie Monet, Matisse, Miró, Braque, Chagall u.a. und eine eindrückliche Foto-Ausstellung aus Picassos Leben von David Douglas Duncan.

Täglich geöffnet (inkl. Feiertage) Öffnungszeiten April – Oktober 10.00 - 18.00 November – März 11.00 - 17.00

info@rosengart.ch www.rosengart.ch Tel. +41 (0)41 220 16 60 Fax +41 (0)41 220 16 63 Paul Klee: Bergdorf (herbstlich) 1934

Angebote Öffentliche Führungen sonntags 11.30 Uhr Private Gruppenführungen Fotos: David Douglas Duncan

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