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Dear Music Lovers,

F Michael Haefliger Executive and Artistic Director LUCERNE FESTIVAL

or Igor Levit, who opens our 2018 Piano Festival, “the freedom of interpretation is unbounded.” Taking him at his word, we present you with some stars of the keyboard who fathom the great masterpieces of the piano repertoire with inexhaustible curiosity and imagination and who have never lost their desire for the new: whether that means rarities that have disappeared into oblivion or brand-new scores yet to be discovered. Sir András Schiff performs two concerts presenting programs he himself has designed – indeed, “composed” – around the late piano pieces of Johannes Brahms. Piotr Anderszewski will immerse himself in the strange cosmos of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, while Andreas Haefliger will combine two brothers in spirit, Mozart and Ravel. But contrasts will be in high relief when Cameron Carpenter, the organist with a cult following, pairs Bach’s Goldberg Variations with music by Howard Hanson that has played a role in Hollywood. Lofty insights are sure to be attained in the recital by Grigory Sokolov, the Russian keyboard wizard who knows how to elicit unexpected facets even from the works we know best. For music is created only at the moment when it is being played. Or, as Sokolov puts it: “You cannot listen to Mozart directly, ever.” Of course we are also interested in how this art is being passed on to the next generation of piano virtuosos. So we juxtapose these master pianists with three debuting artists who, we believe, will influence the piano scene in future: the Chinese Haochen Zhang, the German-Iranian Shaghajegh Nosrati, and the Italian Federico Colli. Last but not least, we are celebrating a milestone birthday. Lucerne’s Piano Festival has now been in existence for twenty years. So we invite you to our “Day of the Keyboard” marathon, “Cueing the Keys,” where it won’t always be easy to sit still as Sergei Redkin, Varvara, and Bertrand Chamayou perform rousing rhythms and rapturous waltzes meant to instill a sense of ecstasy. And, as always, the music continues even after the concerts until late in the night with Piano Off-Stage in Lucerne’s finest bars. We cordially invite you to enjoy the magic of the keyboard, which has no boundaries. Warm regards,

Piano Festival Sat

17.11.

18.11.

Day of the Keyboard

Sun

11.00 | SC Piano Master Class 1

with Andreas Haefliger

p. 26

17.30 | A Introduction 18.30 | KS Recital 1

Igor Levit

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 9

11.00 | SC Piano Master Class 1

with Andreas Haefliger

p. 26

11.00 | KS Day of the

Sergei Redkin

p. 10

Lecture (in German)

p. 11

Keyboard 1

14.00 | A

Piano Lecture 1

J.S. Bach/Brahms, Busoni, Schumann, Wagner/Liszt, Liszt/Busoni

Tchaikovsky/Pletnev, Prokofiev, Stravinsky

Martin Meyer

“Waltzes, Waltzes, Waltzes”

16.00 | KS Day of the

Varvara

p. 12

18.30 | KS Day of the

Bertrand Chamayou

p. 13

with Andreas Haefliger

p. 26

19.30 | KS Recital 2

Sir András Schiff

p. 14

11.00 | SC Piano Master Class 1

with Andreas Haefliger

p. 26

19.30 | LS Opening of

p. 15

with Andreas Haefliger

p. 26

Haochen Zhang

p. 16

16.00 | SC Piano Master Class 1 –

Participants in the Master Class

p. 26

18.30 | A Introduction 19.30 | KS Recital 3

Sir András Schiff

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 17

Keyboard 2 Keyboard 3

Mon

19.11. 11.00 | SC

Tue

20.11.

Piano Master Class 1

Piano Off-Stage

Wed 21.11. 11.00 | SC Piano Master Class 1

12.15 | LK

Debut 1

Final Concert

Rameau, Soler, Debussy, Ravel Ravel, Cage

Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms, J.S. Bach

Boulez, Debussy, Janáček, Liszt

Schumann, Brahms, Mozart, J.S. Bach, Beethoven

Thu

Fri

22.11.

23.11.

Sat

24.11.

Schaghajegh Nosrati

p. 18

19.30 | KS Recital 4

Grigory Sokolov

p. 19

12.15 | LK

Federico Colli

p. 20

19.30 | KS Recital 5 – Organ

Cameron Carpenter

p. 21

11.00 | KS

Recital 6

Nicolas Hodges

p. 22

16.00 | A

Piano Lecture 2

Lecture (in German)

p. 23

12.15 | LK

Debut 2

Debut 3

J.S. Bach, Alkan Schubert et al.

Scarlatti, J.S. Bach/Busoni, Mussorgsky J.S. Bach, Hanson

Birtwistle, Delz, Rihm, Ciurlio, Hilli, Tsukamoto

Martin Meyer “Just Yesterday”

Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra | Donald Runnicles | Andreas Haefliger

p. 24

Piano Master Class 2 9.30/ 14.00 | SC

with Nicolas Hodges

p. 27

Introduction 17.30 | A 18.30 | KS Final Concert

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 25

26.11.

9.30/ 14.00| SC

Piano Master Class 2

with Nicolas Hodges

p. 27

27.11.

Piano Master Class 2 9.30/ 14.00 | SC

with Nicolas Hodges

p. 27

19.00 | SC Piano Master Class 2 –

Participants in the Master Class

p. 27

18.30 | KS Piano Concert

Strauss, Mozart, Ravel, Elgar

Sun

25.11.

Mon Tue

Final Concert

Piotr Anderszewski Beethoven et al.

Venues: KKL Luzern: A Auditorium | KS Concert Hall | LS Lucerne Hall LK Lukaskirche | SC St. Charles Hall, Meggen

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LUCERNE FESTIVAL thanks its Partners for their valued commitment to the 2018 Piano Festival.

Concert Sponsor

Julius Baer

Foundation Walter B. Kielholz Foundation Grants and Subsidies Kanton Luzern | Stadt Luzern

A very special thanks is owed as well to the Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, which is an indispensable partner in implementing our program.

Organization Honorary Board

Alain Berset, President of the Swiss Confederation | Dr. Othmar Frei, Provost | Guido Graf, 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

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

Team Valentina Rota, Executive Director | Claudia Cavallari Hemmeter, Administration and Individual Support | Marina Cavallari, Manager of Marketing & Communication, Director of Young Friends and Little Friends International Advisory Committee of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Albert Behler (Switzerland/USA) | Mag. Klaus Buchleitner (Austria) | Peter Greither (Germany) | David Kershaw (Great Britain) | Dr. Christoph M. Müller (Switzerland) | Makoto Nakao (Japan) | Paloma O’Shea (Spain) | Lutz Peters (Germany) | Sara Sela (Israel) | Kazuko Shiomi (Japan) | Alan B. Vickery (USA) American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Alan B. Vickery, Chairman | Richard Matlaga, Treasurer & Secretary | Dr. Hubert Achermann | Stanley M. Bergman | Yefim Bronfman | Michael Haefliger Valentina Rota, Director of Development

Directorship

Michael Haefliger*, Executive and Artistic Director/CEO | Alexandra Lankes, Assistant to the Executive and Artistic Director Public Relations, Social Media Nina Steinhart, Director | Jacqueline Saner | Katharina Schillen Sponsorship Martina Lötscher, Director | Daniela Amrein | Cornelia Imfeld

Artistic Office

Christiane Weber*, Director, Management of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Katharina Christen | Silvia Rösselet | Monika Widler LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Dominik Deuber, Director | Lea Hinden Modern Music Mark Sattler, Director and Dramaturge Programming and Editorial Susanne Stähr, Director and Dramaturge | Denise Fankhauser | Malte Lohmann LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG Marcella Tönz

Services

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

“Music is physical, highly erotic” Igor Levit

Saturday, 17 November Recital 1 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/50/30 Seating map 1, p. 40 | Event 18501

Igor Levit piano Johann Sebastian Bach/ Johannes Brahms Chaconne from the Partita in D minor, BWV 1004 ca. 15’

Ferruccio Busoni Fantasia on Johann Sebastian Bach, BV 253

ca. 14’

Robert Schumann Ghost Variations in E-flat major, WoO 24 ca. 13’

Richard Wagner/Franz Liszt Solemn March to the Holy Grail from “Parsifal” S 450 ca. 9’

Franz Liszt/Ferruccio Busoni Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam, S 259

ca. 30’

Igor Levit opens the 2018 Piano Festival with a program of works whose subject is music itself. Brahms and Busoni transferred pieces by Bach to the modern piano. Liszt arranged a march from Wagner’s “stage-consecrating festival play” Parsifal for the keyboard, while one of his own works, Ad nos, ad salutarem undem (originally written for organ) was transcribed by his colleague Busoni. Meanwhile, in Geistervariationen (“Ghost Variations”), his final piano work just before he suffered a mental breakdown, Schumann treated a theme that he believed angels had sung to him: the composer in dialogue with the hereafter. This spiritual component is a shared thread in Levit’s program as well: Bach’s work also suggests something of a spiritual retreat or prayer, Wagner’s Parsifal touches on sacred mysteries, and Liszt’s Ad nos is based on a chorale from Meyerbeer’s opera Le prophète. In other words, these pieces hint at higher truths. And who better to articulate them on the piano than the 31-year-old Levit, an artist known for exploring existential musical experiences?

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

Day of the Keyboard “Cueing the Keys: The Piano Festival Turns 20” | 18 November Day of the Keyboard 1 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Difficult to play…”

Arthur Rubinstein on Stravinsky’s Mouvements

Ticket price CHF 50 Event 18502

Sergei Redkin piano Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky/ Mikhail Pletnev Five pieces from the Concert Suite to the Ballet The Sleeping Beauty for piano ca. 20’

Sergei Prokofiev Six pieces from Cinderella, Op. 102 ca. 25’

Igor Stravinsky Trois mouvements de “Pétrouchka” ca. 15’

This performance has no intermission

The Day of the Keyboard Package Attend all three Day of the Keyboard recitals for a total price of CHF 120 (instead of CHF 150). See the ticket order form.

The Piano Festival turns 20 this year: a birthday to truly celebrate! And so we have designed this year’s Day of the Keyboard as an exciting ball – with piano dances from the Baroque to modern times. The opening event will be performed by the young St. Petersburg pianist Sergei Redkin, who made a dynamic debut in the 2017 Summer Festival as part of the Prokofiev marathon led by Valery Gergiev. Redkin introduces us to the world of Russian ballet – with the three most important “dance masters” among the composers of his homeland: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Igor Stravinsky. All three of course wrote their ballet scores for full orchestra, but these works are also wonderfully suited to interpretations on the piano. Prokofiev, who himself was an excellent virtuoso, arranged several suites from Cinderella for the keyboard. Stravinsky chose “Trois mouvements” from his Petrushka demanding the maximum from the performer in terms of dexterity. In the case of Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Pletnev created a dance sequence from The Sleeping Beauty that is as resplendent as it is enchanting.

Day of the Keyboard “Cueing the Keys: The Piano Festival Turns 20” | 18 November Piano Lecture 1 14.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium free admission limited number of seats

Martin Meyer lecturer “Waltzes, Waltzes, Waltzes” (in German) ca. 90’

How would music history have unfolded if the waltz had not been invented in the late 18th century? The waltz, which is usually in three-quarter time, has become the epitome of dance ever since. Great composers have resorted to it over and over to create great music. This applies particularly to the piano repertoire, resulting in an abundance of examples from Beethoven through Schubert and Schumann to Chopin and Liszt, and from Brahms to late Romanticism and beyond. Masterpieces such as Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and the waltzes of Chopin and Brahms can be found side-by-side with interesting dance pieces along the way that are mostly by composers who used the waltz to shine in the salon and to beguile the spirit. We will listen to sublime and elusive examples performed by masters of the keyboard who also command a special affinity for the dance – an affinity that all pianists should share but that for some inspires an almost Dionysian sense of rhythmic momentum.

Day of the Keyboard “Cueing the Keys: The Piano Festival Turns 20” | 18 November Day of the Keyboard 2 16.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event 18504

“The apotheosis of the Viennese waltz” Maurice Ravel on La Valse

Varvara piano Jean-Philippe Rameau Suite in E minor from the Pièces de Clavecin ca. 22’

Antonio Soler Fandango in D minor, R. 146 ca. 11’

Claude Debussy La plus que lente ca. 6’

Valses nobles et sentimentales ca. 17’

Maurice Ravel La Valse ca. 13’

This performance has no intermission

The Day of the Keyboard Package Attend all three Day of the Keyboard recitals for a total price of CHF 120 (instead of CHF 150). See the ticket order form.

Baroque music is dance music. The Russian pianist Varvara will keep this in mind with her distinguished program for the Day of the Keyboard, which starts off with Rameau’s famous E minor Suite – a work that is at times graceful and courtly, at times unbridled and rustic. And that’s just the beginning: with Antonio Soler’s Fandango, the rhythms intensify into a frenzy. Varvara will then take a necessary breather with the slowest of all waltzes, Debussy’s La plus que lente, a masterpiece of beguiling, extreme delicacy. With his Valses nobles et sentimentales, Maurice Ravel created a dreamy, nostalgic work that pays homage to Franz Schubert. A few years after that, he introduced its intoxicating counterpart, La Valse: a heated dance on the edge of the volcano and a swan song to the “world of yesterday” that had disappeared after the First World War. To execute the piano version of this orchestral work, for which Ravel used three staves over long stretches, Varvara would literally need three hands. But this is a challenge the winner of the 2012 Géza Anda Competition can also master.

Day of the Keyboard “Cueing the Keys: The Piano Festival Turns 20” | 18 November

“I am at home with Ravel” Bertrand Chamayou

Day of the Keyboard 3 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event 18505

Bertrand Chamayou piano Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte Menuet antique Menuet sur le nom de Haydn Le Tombeau de Couperin

ca. 38’

John Cage Selected works for prepared piano: Primitive Root of an Unfocus Bacchanale Totem Ancestor And the Earth Shall Bear Again

ca. 20’

This performance has no intermission

Word is out that Bertrand Chamayou is one of the finest Ravel interpreters of the present – and has been at least since the French pianist recorded the composer’s entire piano oeuvre two years ago, winning a number of awards in the process. At the Day of the Keyboard, he will show how Ravel composed dances and suites based on Baroque and Classical models, on Couperin and Haydn, on the minuet and the pavane, crafting an enchantingly beautiful music that pays tribute to the ideal of “clarté,” of clarity, elegance, and sophistication. But there are many ways to dance. Between the Ravel pieces, Chamayou will switch to a second grand piano prepared with pins and nails, felt, rubber, and wood, to play short pieces by the American John Cage created in the 1940s for Valerie Bettis and Merce Cunningham, two pioneers of modern dance. These “preparations” will suddenly open up a completely different soundscape within the familiar keyboard instrument, one more reminiscent of an archaic percussion ensemble. “More fascinating than a dozen percussion instruments,” Pierre Boulez remarked of this work.

The Day of the Keyboard Package Attend all three Day of the Keyboard recitals for a total price of CHF 120 (instead of CHF 150). See the ticket order form.

Monday, 19 November Recital 2 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Making programs for me is like cooking” Sir András Schiff

Ticket prices CHF 170/130/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 40 | Event 18506

Sir András Schiff piano Felix Mendelssohn Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28 Sonata écossaise ca. 14’

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78 ca. 11’

Johannes Brahms Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76 ca. 27’

Seven Fantasies, Op. 116 ca. 25’

Johann Sebastian Bach English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 ca. 27’

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A recital usually comprises a variety of compositions, but the way these are put together can in itself resemble a small work of art. Hardly any pianist “composes” their programs as beautifully as does Sir András Schiff. He has organized the two recitals he designed for the 20th anniversary of Lucerne’s Piano Festival around the late work of Johannes Brahms. In both programs, the composer seems to reminisce about older colleagues whom he either knew, like Robert Schumann, or admired, like Mendelssohn and Mozart, throughout his life; about the “giant” Beethoven, with whose shadow he faced an arduous struggle; and about the myth of Bach, who was the linchpin of Brahms’s conceptual world. From the interplay of his works with theirs emerges an “alliance of kindred spirits,” a musical family portrait in two parts: lines of tradition are delineated, surprising references are made obvious. And suddenly, historical time simply vanishes and seems to dissolve away, for the artistic similarities turn out to be stronger than the changes through the eras.

Piano Off-Stage Turns 15!

Tuesday, 20 November Opening of Piano Off-Stage 19.30 KKL Luzern, Luzerner Saal free admission

Complete Lineup of Off-Stage Pianists: Ehud Asherie USA Jon Davis USA Jörg Hegemann Germany Chris Hopkins Germany David Ruosch Switzerland Julia Siedl Austria Thilo Wagner Germany Robi Weber Switzerland Andreas Müller-Crepon host This event has no intermission

Leonard Bernstein, whose 100th birthday the music world is celebrating in 2018, understood that the allegedly clear-cut distinction between music for “entertainment” and so-called “serious music” is pointless. There is only good or bad music. Taking Bernstein at his word, we have been enriching the classical programming of our Piano Festival with the jazz spin-off Piano Off-Stage – for 15 years! But what does “spin-off ” mean in this context? Eight well-known masters of improvisation from Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the United States will once again play over 40 free concerts this fall for the Off-Stage birthday edition, throughout the entire city. From Wednesday until Sunday evening, they will enchant us in Lucerne’s most atmospheric bars and restaurants with the finest piano jazz. But first they will warm themselves up in the KKL – an ideal opportunity to get an initial overview.

Piano Off-Stage 20 – 25 November selected bars and restaurants in Lucerne

You can find an overview of the complete Off-Stage concerts and detailed information on all of the pianists starting on p. 28.

Wednesday, 21 November Debut 1 12.15 Lukaskirche

“Loneliness can be your best friend” Haochen Zhang

Ticket price CHF 30 Event 18508

Haochen Zhang piano Pierre Boulez Piano Sonata No. 1 ca. 9’

Claude Debussy from Préludes pour Piano, 2ième livre: Bruyères General Lavine – eccentric La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune Feux d’artifice ca. 15’

Leoš Janáček In the Mists ca. 15’

Franz Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178 ca. 32’

This performance has no intermission 16

An unusual confession for a young pianist: “I feel irresistibly drawn to music of a reflective and introspective nature,” explains Chinese Haochen Zhang, frankly acknowledging that this affinity has something to do with his inward-looking personality. When asked about his idols, no wonder that he mentions sensitive poets of the piano like Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, and Alfred Cortot. Yet precisely because he keeps his distance from keyboard thunder and rattling virtuosity, he has developed a remarkable career: Zhang took first prize and the gold medal in the Van Cliburn Competition in 2009, when he was only 19 years old, and received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant Award in 2017. In the United States, where he studied with Gary Graffman, he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he has appeared in Europe with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Israel Philharmonic. This success story continues with his Lucerne debut.

“Brahms has invented much that is new here” Sir András Schiff on Brahms’s late piano pieces

Wednesday, 21 November Recital 3 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/130/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 40 | Event 18509

Sir András Schiff piano Robert Schumann Ghost Variations in E-flat major, WoO 24 | ca. 13’ Johannes Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 ca. 17’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Rondo in A minor, K. 511 ca. 9’

Johannes Brahms Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118 | ca. 25’ Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 869 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 1) ca. 12’

Johannes Brahms Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119 | ca. 16’ Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 81a Les Adieux

ca. 17’

“Western music reaches an absolute peak with and at the time of Bach,” Sir András Schiff believes. “It then has a second golden age with Viennese Classicism up until the death of Schubert in 1828. The Romantic and Late-Romantic eras form additional productive phases.” In his two concerts at the 2018 Piano Festival, he will focus entirely on these three great heydays of music history, juxtaposing them directly. By doing so, Schiff will provide striking insights, for example regarding the “modernity” of these composers: “One cannot seriously claim that Brahms is more progressive than Bach,” he explains. But the recital promises to yield even more discoveries. When Schiff plays Beethoven, audiences can anticipate a “metaphysical and cosmic” experience, while Robert Schumann’s last work, the Ghost Variations – long considered the creation of a “madman” – can bring the listener to tears. The late piano pieces of Brahms, which Schiff describes as “autumnal, melancholic, resigned,” offer a fitting complement. A moving farewell – and yet no swan song.

Julius Baer – Concert Sponsor

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

Thursday, 22 November Debut 2 12.15 Lukaskirche

“Clarity, purity, and maturity”

Sir András Schiff on Schaghajegh Nosrati’s Bach playing

Ticket price CHF 30 Event 18510

Schaghajegh Nosrati piano “Concert sans orchestre” Johann Sebastian Bach Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 ca. 14’

Charles Valentin Alkan Concerto pour piano seul Op. 39, nos. 8–10 ca. 50’

This performance has no intermission

Schaghajegh Nosrati has in fact already celebrated her debut at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. It happened at the 2018 Easter Festival, when she took part in two double concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach in a stirring interaction with her great mentor Sir András Schiff. But since this young pianist, who was born in Germany in 1989 to a family from Iran, is a very special artist, she also merits being honored at the Piano Festival with a Debut series recital. “Concert sans orchestre” is the name she has given her program of works by Bach and Alkan, which were written as if they were solo concertos – except that the “orchestral part” is also played on the keyboard. Bach has been a guiding star for Nosrati’s career ever since she won an award at the 2014 Bach Competition in Leipzig and subsequently created a sensation with her recording of The Art of the Fugue. A real discovery awaits in the ingenious Concerto pour piano seul by the French composer Charles Valentin Alkan, a 19th-century virtuoso whose contemporaries declared: “If Chopin is the poet at the piano and Liszt the prophet, then Alkan is the dear God.”

“You play differently every day” Grigory Sokolov

Thursday, 22 November Recital 4 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/130/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 40 | Event 18511

Grigory Sokolov piano Franz Schubert Four Impromptus, D 935 ca. 42’

The rest of the program will be announced at a later date.

No other pianist goes his own way as steadfastly – and radically – as Grigory Sokolov. He becomes intensely engaged with the same works for a half-year stretch, playing them wherever he appears. At the same time, routine never enters into the picture for him – the music remains inexhaustible. Moreover, each concert is different, because every day brings something new and the environment inevitably changes as the audience does. “Performers are performers of their time, whether they like it or not, and so are the listeners,” Sokolov said in 2016 in a conversation with Die Zeit, his first interview after fifteen years of silence. The result of his interpretations is, of course, unique. With Sokolov, wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Schubert’s Impromptus sounded “as if they had never been heard before. As if Schubert himself were playing from the page, still wet with ink. You think you’re encountering a kind of wise monk who has penetrated to the very root of the music through endless hours of practice, occasionally allowing the audience to participate. A bit sulkily though by no means grudgingly.”

Friday, 23 November Debut 3 12.15 Lukaskirche

“I feel myself to be an artist first and only after that a pianist” Federico Colli

Ticket price CHF 30 Event 18512

Federico Colli piano Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in F minor, K. 19 Sonata in G minor, K. 450 Sonata in D major, K. 492 Sonata in F minor, K. 69 Sonata in D minor, K. 32 Sonata in D minor, K. 9 Sonata in D minor, K. 1 Sonata in A major, K. 39 ca. 26’

Johann Sebastian Bach/ Ferruccio Busoni Chaconne from the Partita in D minor, BWV 1004 ca. 16’

Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition ca. 34’

This performance has no intermission

He shares his hometown with his great role model, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Federico Colli was born in Brescia in Lombardy, though in 1988, 68 years after his idol. So it’s probably no coincidence that he has chosen to open his debut program at Lucerne with Scarlatti sonatas, just as Michelangeli liked to do. Colli has meanwhile earned an excellent reputation himself. He won the Salzburg Mozart Competition in 2011 and took the gold medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012. Since then he has appeared with many celebrated orchestras: the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. He has additionally given recitals at the Ravinia Festival and in New York, Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, and Leipzig. Colli plays with crystal-clear tone and calligraphic phrasing, according to The Times, which added: “But Federico Colli takes care to seduce before sweeping the listener off his or her feet.”

“The organ knows only domination or submission” Cameron Carpenter

Friday, 23 November Recital 5 − Organ 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 3, p. 41 | Event 18513

Cameron Carpenter International Touring Organ Johann Sebastian Bach Aria with 30 Variations, BWV 988 Goldberg Variations ca. 65’

Howard Hanson Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 Romantic, arranged for organ by Cameron Carpenter ca. 30’

He is considered the “bad boy” of the organ for a good many reasons. From outward appearance alone, Cameron Carpenter, with his flamboyant mohawk haircut, muscle shirt, and dancing shoes, is a far way off from stereotypes commonly associated with “classical music.” Not to mention that he has dared to bring his instrument out of the special sphere of sacred music. Carpenter rarely appears in churches and plays no pious chorales. He prefers to present his own arrangements of large symphonies – on the International Touring Organ, a digital instrument on which he can access 186 electronically input registers, controlling the dynamics as he pleases. He even interprets Bach’s music as follows: “I feel certain that anyone can play Bach in the way they see to be right.” Still, Carpenter will break a genuine “taboo” when he follows the moving Goldberg Variations with the Second Symphony by the American Howard Hanson, a musical spectacle that has been used in the film Alien – it’s hard to think of a greater contrast.

This concert is under the auspices of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Saturday, 24 November Recital 6 11.00 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 50 Event 18514

“To break through your listening habits”

Christoph Delz on his most-important goal

Nicolas Hodges piano Harrison Birtwistle Gigue Machine for piano ca. 14’

Christoph Delz Sils for piano, Op. 1 ca. 8’

Wolfgang Rihm Klavierstück No. 7 ca. 8’

Winners of the 7th Composition Competition of the Christoph Delz Foundation | world premieres: Francesco Ciurlio Four Strips for piano ca. 15’

Sebastian Hilli Rack and Pinion for piano ca. 15’

Eiko Tsukamoto Zickenzone for piano

ca. 10’

Piano Master Class with Nicolas Hodges 25 – 27 November

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Who wants to keep on listening to the same things? There’s no chance of boredom at this matinee recital by the British pianist Nicolas Hodges, who will present three brand-new scores. They were written as part of the Christoph Delz Composition Competition, which is now in its seventh edition (its fourth in partnership with LUCERNE FESTIVAL). The jury selected three finalists: the Japanese Eiko Tsukamoto, the Italian Francesco Ciurlio, and the Finn Sebastian Hilli. But the prize winner will only be decided after the new works have received their premieres in concert: instead of being studied as abstract scores, they will be judged on the basis of the live listening experience. Christoph Delz, the competition’s founder, surely would have approved of this idea. The late composer from Basel made it a point to follow the evidence of his ears. He enthusiastically opened his creative work up to the world, finding inspiration in environmental sounds and natural phenomena, as in his official Opus 1, the piano piece Sils from 1975, which depicts a walk over the frozen Lake Sils in the Upper Engadine.

Saturday, 24 November Piano Lecture 2 16.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium free admission limited number of seats

Martin Meyer lecturer “Just Yesterday” (in German) ca. 90’

How fast time flies! This is also true for musical life and the interpretations that preoccupy us so much today, only to become, sooner or later, somehow “historical” or simply even forgotten. Still, we don’t make the claim that the history of interpretation is a straightforward story of progress toward what keeps getting better. So we will look back and listen a bit to the work of yesterday and before that, when different approaches to the piano held sway and different experts dominated the international stage. Memories of the great keyboard masters (and sometimes even just the good ones) can still move us, and their names can bring to mind concerts of yesteryear. What they documented in recordings and films then gives us an opportunity to verify whether Horowitz actually was always so ostentatious, whether Glenn Gould was so ascetic, whether Clara Haskil was the definition of refinement, or whether Emil Gilels never messed up or, on the contrary, often did so, without his errors significantly affecting his Beethoven interpretations. “Just yesterday” thus becomes a small and indeed subjective journey through time expedited by the experiences of the lecturer.

Saturday, 24 November Piano Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“The pianist’s life continues to develop with no end in sight” Andreas Haefliger

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 3, p. 41 | Event 18515

Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra Donald Runnicles conductor Andreas Haefliger piano Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 ca. 16’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491 ca. 33’

Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in D major for the Left Hand ca. 20’

Edward Elgar In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 ca. 22’

Piano Master Class with Andreas Haefliger 17 – 21 November

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“Absolutely simple, nothing but Mozart.” Maurice Ravel once characterized his own music by declaring this astonishing credo. Andreas Haefliger will give us a chance to judge whether he was right when he plays two piano concertos sideby-side, one each by the composers in question. Mozart’s C minor Concerto is one of Haefliger’s favorites: “It wonderfully embodies the spirit of chamber music as it is practiced,” he explains. “The orchestra and the solo instrument are equal partners in dialogue, subtly playing interim commentaries on each other’s statements.” Things get more turbulent in Ravel’s D major Concerto, which offers an animated mix of featherlight dance rhythms, dark Romanticism, and jazz – all the while tricking us into thinking the pianist here is using both hands, not just his left. The Scottish maestro Donald Runnicles and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra will frame the two concertos with a pair of dashing late-Romantic tone poems: the resilient Till Eulenspiegel by Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar’s melody-rich concert overture In the South, an homage to the Italian Riviera.

“Easy things are your biggest foe” Piotr Anderszewski

Sunday, 25 November Final Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/50/30 Seating map 1, p. 40 | Event 18516

Piotr Anderszewski piano Ludwig van Beethoven 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 ca. 60’

The first part of the program will be announced at a later date.

Piotr Anderszewski and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations have a long history together. Normally, pianists take on this late work, which is extremely demanding when it comes to interpretation, only when they have reached the zenith of their artistic experience. But Anderszewski was already studying it at age 19, and he chose to introduce himself with it at the famous Leeds Piano Competition in 1990. At that time, everyone saw him as the sure winner, but Anderszewski himself was so dissatisfied with his performance that he dropped out during the semifinals: a radical step that earned him great respect and only helped his career. Ten years later, his interpretation had matured to such an extent that the director Bruno Monsaingeon made a film about it. And today, after nearly two more decades, Anderszewski has once again turned to the legendary cycle, attaining still another level: “Perhaps the most convincing reading of the Diabelli I’ve ever heard in the concert hall,” wrote Andrew Clements in The Guardian after the Polish poet of the piano played the work in London in April 2018.

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

Saturday, 17 – Wednesday, 21 November Piano Master Class 1 with Andreas Haefliger always 11.00 – 14.00 St. Charles Hall, Meggen Ticket prices for auditors: CHF 15 (full day pass) Tickets must be purchased from the Hochschule Luzern – Musik

Participants in the Master Class Andreas Haefliger director Selected works from the Baroque to Classical Modernism In collaboration with the Hochschule Luzern – Musik

Information for auditors Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Reimar Houtman reimar.houtman@hslu.ch Final Concert 21 November | 16.00 St. Charles Hall, Meggen free admission

A chance to gather advice about the art of interpretation, along with highly practical tips from experienced masters: what an advantage for young instrumentalists at the start of their careers! The exchange of ideas between the generations has always been an important concern for LUCERNE FESTIVAL. Within just a few years of the Festival’s founding, master classes began being offered alongside the regular concert program, a practice that continues up to today. And not only at the Summer Festival, but at the Easter and Piano Festivals as well. Before he performs piano concertos by Mozart and Ravel on the closing weekend, Andreas Haefliger will work with eight up-and-coming pianists over five days to develop a broad repertoire from the Baroque to classic Modernism, clarifying what matters for a successful interpretation. An array of insights is guaranteed, not only for the active participants in the master class, but for any curious auditors.

Sunday, 25 – Tuesday, 27 November Piano Master Class 2 with Nicolas Hodges always 9.30 – 12.30 and 14.00 – 17.00 St. Charles Hall, Meggen free admission

Participants in the Master Class Nicolas Hodges director Selected works from the 20th and 21st centuries In collaboration with the Hochschule Luzern – Musik and the Christoph Delz Foundation

The British pianist and composer Nicolas Hodges will not only premiere three new works at this year’s Piano Festival (in his recital on Saturday, 24 November) but will also make contemporary music accessible for the emerging generation of pianists. In a public master class, he will work through selected piano pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries with the participants – complex scores that pose high technical demands on their performers and that also need to be analyzed in detail to be understood. Hodges, who himself received a degree in composition, has for decades been intensively involved with the piano music of our time. Numerous new works have been written especially for him by such composers as Thomas Adès, Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Beat Furrer, Wolfgang Rihm, and Salvatore Sciarrino. Hodges teaches piano at the Academy of Music in Stuttgart and is also a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.

Information for auditors Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Reimar Houtman reimar.houtman@hslu.ch Final Concert 27 November | 19.00 St. Charles Hall, Meggen free admission

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Piano Off-Stage

Anniversary celebration! It was 15 years ago that Piano Off-Stage, our jazz festival within the Festival, first took place â&#x20AC;&#x201C; becoming so popular from the outset that it has remained indispensable ever since. What could be lovelier than listening to the finest piano jazz while ice cubes clink in a whiskey glass? Especially since all concerts are free of charge ... From Wednesday through Sunday evening, eight international masters of improvisation will give more than forty performances in Lucerneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most atmospheric bars.

Ehud Asherie

USA The New Yorker praises him as a “master of swing and stride.” Ehud Asherie was born in Israel in 1979 and spent his childhood in Italy before his family moved to New York, where he quickly made a name for himself. He has appeared with such musicians as Roy Ayers, Bobby Durham, and Scott Hamilton, tours regularly in South America, Europe, and Asia – and is also dedicated to the Brazilian musical tradition, as with the duo he has formed with the guitarist Bina Coquet.

Jörg Hegemann

Jon Davis

USA Jeff Ballard, Brian Blade, Don Byron, Kenny Garrett, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Norah Jones, Will Lee, Mike Stern, Toots Thielemans – the list of musicians with whom Jon Davis has worked over the last 30 years reads like a who’s who of jazz. He has become known primarily as a trio partner with Jaco Pastorius and Brian Melvin and is invited all over the world. Playing regularly in the clubs of New York, he has released over 70 records.

Germany Jörg Hegemann, who was born in 1966, will take us on a journey through time to 1930s Chicago, to boogie-woogie kings like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. This Westphalian pianist has toured Europe, the USA, and Russia for three decades. He directs the “BoogieWoogie Congress” Festival in Essen and was awarded the “German Boogie-Woogie Award Pinetop” in 2009. And he has also accompanied Bill Ramsey, Chris Howland, and Hape Kerkeling as the “man at the piano.”

Chris Hopkins

Germany Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, and Nat King Cole have inspired Chris Hopkins, who was born in Princeton in 1972, to develop a style of his own as a pianist and as the saxophonist for the quartet Echoes of Swing. He has performed more than 4,000 concerts around the globe, solo and alongside stars like Till Brönner, Dick Hyman, and Clark Terry. His discography of more than 30 CDs has received such awards as the “Prix de l’Académie du Jazz” and the German Record Critics’ Prize.

David Ruosch

Switzerland David Ruosch, born in 1963, was initially active in the Swiss rock and roll scene while he was a student, afterward becoming intensively involved with blues, stride, and boogie-woogie. He performs with his trio, with the swing quartet Benny’s From Heaven, in various duo formations, and with the singers Lisa Berg and Christina Jaccard. He also teaches in Zurich at the University of the Arts and the Conservatory and in 2012 received the Swiss Jazz Award.

Julia Siedl

Austria Hailing from Vienna, Julia Siedl initially trained in classical piano but soon discovered her love for improvisation. She studied jazz in her native city and film music in London and also took classes with Marc Copland and Cidinho Teixeira in New York. She has released three CDs, most recently the album Good News with her trio. In addition to her own projects, she is a sought-after side woman in numerous jazz and world music ensembles.

Thilo Wagner

Germany Breakneck runs, expressive ballads, powerfully grooving blues quotations: Thilo Wagner cultivates a powerfully swinging piano style in the tradition of Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson. When he was only 18 he founded his first trio. He has toured Europe, the United States, Canada, and South America, appeared with countless jazz greats, took the soloist prize at the 1988 Jazz Festival in Vienne, France, and is an honorary citizen of New Orleans.

Robi Weber

Switzerland Robi Weber’s enthralling soul jazz shows strong influences from the blues, R&B, and gospel and is oriented toward pianists like Les McCann and Gene Harris – and, naturally, toward Oscar Peterson’s energetic piano playing. For years he has been regarded as one of Switzerland’s most distinguished and successful jazz pianists, whether as a soloist, in duos, or in his trio with Kalli Gerhards and Curt Treier. In 2009 he received the Swiss Jazz Award.

Program Overview of Piano Off-Stage Tuesday, 20 − Sunday, 25 November Selected Restaurants and Bars in Lucerne Admission to all Piano Off-Stage events is free

Opening Piano Off-Stage Tuesday, 20 November | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

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KKL | KKL Luzern, Europaplatz 1, Luzern LK | Lukaskirche, Morgartenstrasse 16, Luzern SC | St. Charles Hall, Meggen

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Seebar KKL Luzern, Europaplatz 1, Luzern The Hotel, Sempacherstrasse 14, Luzern Hotel Wilden Mann, Bahnhofstrasse 30, Luzern Hotel Des Balances, Weinmarkt, Luzern Des Alpes, Rathausquai 5, Luzern Hotel Schweizerhof, Schweizerhofquai, Luzern Grand Hotel National, Haldenstrasse 4, Luzern Art Deco Hotel Montana, Adligenswilerstrasse 22, Luzern

Getting There ARRIVAL VIA BUS AND TRAIN: YOUR CONCERT TICKET IS ALSO VALID AS A TRAVEL TICKET! Free rides within the Passepartout System When you visit the Festival you can travel in Lucerne for free: Your concert ticket may also be used on the day of the performance for a free ride to and from the venue within the Passepartout-Zone 10 (2nd class). Valid from 3 hours before the start and up to 3 hours after the end of the performance. 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 0900 300 300 (CHF 1.19/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 in 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 Dem Klang forTür Music: und Tor geöffnet: The KKL Luzern Lucerne das KKL 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 info@lionlodge.ch

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

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

WWW.RENAISSANCE-LUCERNE.CH

WWW.THE-HOTEL.CH

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AB CHF 245 PRO PERSON IM DZ

Sempacherstrasse 14, CH-6002 Luzern, Tel. +41 41 226 86 86, www.the-hotel.ch

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FESTIVAL CITY LuCErnE The Festival City Lucerne delights throughout the year: classical music, blues, rock, comics and enthralling sport events. LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Easter

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Summer

6 – 14 April 2019 www.lucernefestival.ch

16 August – 15 September 2019 www.lucernefestival.ch

Fumetto Comic-Festival Lucerne

World Band Festival Lucerne

6 – 14 April 2019 www.fumetto.ch

21 – 29 September 2019 www.worldbandfestival.ch

EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 LUCERNE

SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne

31 May – 2 June 2019 www.lucerneregatta.com

Spitzen Leichtathletik Lucerne 9 July 2019 www.spitzenleichtathletik.ch

Blue Balls Festival 19 – 27 July 2019 www.blueballs.ch

27 October 2019 www.swisscitymarathon.ch

Lucerne Blues Festival 9 – 17 November 2019 www.bluesfestival.ch

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Piano 16 – 24 November 2019 www.lucernefestival.ch

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Das Jahres-Abo

Mein Abo – das passt. Reisen Sie mit Bahn und Bus bequem ans nächste Konzert. Das Jahres-Abo einmal lösen und das ganze Jahr unterwegs sein.

Supporting Organizations Official Rail Carrier

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AMAG Audi Center Luzern, Car Partner KKL Luzern, Event Partner Luzern Tourismus MetaDesign, Partner in Communication Radio SRF Kultur, Media Partner Tariff Union Passepartout, Partner in Public Transportation 51

Image Credits p. 1 and 26: Marco Borggreve – p. 9, 15, 21, 24, and 32/33: Priska Ketterer/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 11: commons. wikimedia.org – p. 12: Jordi Roca – p. 13: Marco Borggreve/Warner Classics – p. 14 and 23: Peter Fischli/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 16: Benjamin Ealovega – p. 17: Manuela Jans/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 18: Irene Zandel – p. 19: Mary Slepkova – p. 20: Nicola Malnato – p. 22: Philippe Gontier – p. 25: Simon Fowler/Warner – p. 27: Eric Richmond – p. 28 and 45: Georg Anderhub/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 29 top: Giorgio Niro – p. 29 center right: Dunke –p. 29 bottom: Sascha Kletzsch – p. 30 top right: Céline Doriot – p. 30 top left: Marko Mestrovic – p. 30 bottom: Manfred Rinderspacher

Addresses | Publishing Credits LUCERNE FESTIVAL Hirschmattstrasse 13 | P.O. Box | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 (0)41 226 44 00 | f +41 (0)41 226 44 60 info@lucernefestival.ch | lucernefestival.ch Ticketing & Visitor Information LUCERNE FESTIVAL | P.O. Box | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 (0)41 226 44 80 | f +41 (0)41 226 44 85 ticketbox@lucernefestival.ch | lucernefestival.ch Publisher | LUCERNE FESTIVAL Foundation | lucernefestival.ch Executive and Artistic Director | Michael Haefliger Editing and Content | Susanne Stähr, Malte Lohmann English Language Editor and Translator | Thomas May Design | Isabelle Gargiulo Layout and Execution | Denise Fankhauser Advertising | Bettina Jaggi Printing | Engelberger Druck AG, Stans This program was published in June 2018 and is subject to alteration without prior notice. Printed prices are subject to correction. 52

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ROSENGART COLLECTION LUCERNE The Rosengart Foundation Pilatusstrasse 10

CENTER OF CLASSICAL MODERNISM Unique works by

PICASSO and KLEE The Rosengart Collection, world-class modern art, is comprised of unique groups of works by Picasso and Klee as well as 20 other world-famous masters of the 19 th and 20 th centuries and an impressive show of photos by David Douglas Duncan on Picasso’s life.

Open daily (incl. holidays) Opening hours: April – October: daily 10 am - 6 pm November – March: daily 11 am - 5 pm

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

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