Lucerne Festival | Summer Festival 2017 by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Identity

Summer Festival 11 August â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10 September 2017 Program

Dear Music Lovers,

T Michael Haefliger Executive and Artistic Director LUCERNE FESTIVAL

How does commitment elevate young talent?

he world is on the move: never before have so many human beings set out to find shelter as well as a future in other countries. They leave their homelands behind because they need to escape terror and war or hunger and poverty. In Europe they find protection, but they are not accepted everywhere with open arms. Many long-time residents feel threatened by these “new folks,” fearing domination by foreigners and the loss of their own sense of self, their own “identity.” Yet what really lies behind this much-used and sometimes misused concept? Is “identity” something innate, or does it emerge only through consciousness, the social environment, education, and experience? Who is this “we” that is evoked by a shared identity – and who has the right to define it? Are we not searching throughout our whole lives for our sense of self, for the “I” and the “Other”? The 2017 Summer Festival aims to delve into these highly topical and controversial issues. Being on the road has always been a defining feature – and remains so today – for many musicians who lead a nomadic life. As a young man, Mozart traveled across half of Europe in the hope of landing a good position. It was just a century ago that Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Sergei Rachmaninoff opted for a life of exile following the October Revolution of 1917. Others, like Béla Bartók and Modest Mussorgsky, explored archaic folk and peasant music in order to renew their own musical language. Still other composers, such as Dmitri Shostakovich, had to deny their own individuality to avoid political coercion. We will depict these and many other fates in more than 60 concerts. But we will address the theme of the current political situation as well: through refugee projects, moderated concerts, and discussions. In the following pages you can learn about our substantial and many-faceted program. We look forward to seeing you this summer, in the midst of an unsettled world.

Warm regards, Even major talents start small. That’s why Credit Suisse highlights young classical musicians and their talent with the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes. Credit Suisse has been a main sponsor of the Lucerne Festival since 1993.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

World-famous soloists and chamber musicians, acclaimed music teachers and instrumentalists from the top orchestras of Europe – the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA comprises all of these. For his second summer as Music Director, Riccardo Chailly has chosen composers who have previously only seldom or never appeared on the programs of this unique ensemble: Strauss and Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn. See p. 13, 14, 19, 23, and 26

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

They are young, highly talented, and eager to experiment: the roughly 130 international students of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, this master school for new music that is internationally unique, will again enable Festival audiences to make countless discoveries in 2017. Under Artistic Director Wolfgang Rihm and Principal Conductor Matthias Pintscher, they will present works by composers from Bartók to Ligeti, Holliger, and Cerha – and of course several world premieres. See p. 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 35, 37, 39, 40, 43, 45, 50, 52, 57, and 60

Introducing LUCERNE FESTIVAL LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG

Does music for children need to sound different from that for adults? Not necessarily, but it needs to be presented differently. LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG shows that classical music is something not just for grownups – through age-appropriate programs at family-friendly prices.

The Orchestra Festival

The Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam, and La Scala Milan’s Opera Orchestra: in the modern era of globalization, each of these maintains its unique sound and special musical identity. LUCERNE FESTIVAL gives you a chance to compare them: each evening a different “major player” from the international music scene takes the stage.

See p. 25, 47, 59, 74, and 77

Summer 2017 in Focus

Michel van der Aa Composerin-residence

He combines high tech with emotional power: the Dutch artist Michel van der Aa is a composer, filmmaker, and director, all in one. He uses innovative digital technologies to bring music theater into the 21st century. See p. 15, 16, 22, 43, and 71

Monteverdi Trilogy

Travel back to the origins of opera: 450 years ago saw the birth of Claudio Monteverdi. Sir John Eliot Gardiner celebrates “ll divino Claudio,” as his contemporaries called him, by conducting all three of his surviving operas over a five-day period: L’Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione di Poppea.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja “Artiste étoile” “I hate it when something is done in art that’s banal. There’s enough of that in everyday life.” A characteristic statement from Kopatchinskaja: the Moldova-born violinist is no fan of the artistically rote or of well-trodden paths. Instead, she radically redefines the identity of music – an ideal “artiste étoile” for the summer of 2017. See p. 11, 28, 35, 43, 50, 62, 64, and 74

Jay Campbell “Artiste étoile”

From Academy student to a defining artist of the Summer Festival: the American cellist Jay Campbell was significantly shaped by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY before going on to a major solo career – and now returns to Lucerne as the youngest “artiste étoile” in the Festival’s history. See p. 11, 22, 50, and 60

See p. 34, 38, and 42

Contents 11 Concerts and Events 80 Concert Overview 84 Partners 86 Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL 90 Ticketing Information 96 Seating Maps 103 Getting There 121 Supporting Organizations 122 Addresses | Publishing Credits

LUCERNE FESTIVAL thanks its Sponsors and Foundations for their extraordinary commitment t0 the 2017 Summer Festival.

Main Sponsors

Theme Sponsor

The Special Event Day for 2017

A day filled with music related to the Festival theme of “Identity” Sunday, 27 August 2017

Asian Youth Orchestra | Matthias Bamert Refugee project Idomeneo Patricia Kopatchinskaja | Jay Campbell | Polina Leschenko La Capella Reial de Catalunya | Hespèrion XXI | Jordi Savall Orchestra and Ensembles of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Basel Symphony Orchestra | Kristiina Poska Street music groups from all around the world and lots more

detailed information starting on p. 44

www.lucernefestival.ch

Concert Sponsors

Co-Sponsors

Foundations

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 parter in implementing our program. 9

Organization Honorary Board

Doris Leuthard, President of the Swiss Confederation | Dr. Othmar Frei, Provost | Reto Wyss, President of the Government of the Canton of Lucerne | Beat Züsli, Mayor of the Town of Lucerne

Board of Trustees of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Honorary Chairman Jürg R. Reinshagen

Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Executive and Artistic Director

Michael Haefliger*, Executive and Artistic Director | Alexandra Lankes, Assistant to the Executive and Artistic Director | Valérie Grüter, Director of Strategic Projects

Artistic Office

Christiane Weber*, Director | Katharina Christen | Monika Widler LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Dominik Deuber, Director | Isabelle Bischof | Lea Hinden Modern Music Mark Sattler, Director and Dramaturgy Programming and Editorial Susanne Stähr, Director and Dramaturgy | Denise Fankhauser | Malte Lohmann LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG Johannes Fuchs, Director | Marcella Tönz

Sponsorship

Martina Lötscher, Director | Daniela Amrein | Cornelia Imfeld

Marketing & Communication

Concerts and Events

Finance, Human Resources & IT

Kai Uellendahl*, Director | Tanja Cattaneo | Susanne Stalder IT Kilian Bürli, Director | Silvio Frei | Gisela Sigrist Salzmann * Member of the Board

“But I’m a real fellow!”

Friday, 11 August Opening Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Richard Strauss on Richard Strauss

Ticket prices CHF 350/300/240/170/100/50 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17301

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Opening Ceremony with music played by Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) and Jay Campbell (cello) Richard Strauss Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Op. 30 ca. 35’

Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 ca. 25’

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 ca. 16’

LUCERNE FESTIVAL dedicates this concert to Arturo Toscanini, the Festival’s cofounder, on his 150th birthday.

Who are we? How are we supposed to be? These are the questions surrounding the theme of “Identity” with which Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA open the Summer Festival in Lucerne. And with a composer capable of offering many responses to them: Richard Strauss. In his tone poem Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which draws freely on Friedrich Nietzsche, he delineates the vision of a “Superman” who relies on his own abilities and who makes his ideas into reality without compromise, overriding his own limits. Strauss emphasizes a different aspect in Till Eulenspiegel, a tribute to the legendary prankster who overturns the orderly world of the Philistines. And in Death and Transfiguration Strauss pays homage to the prototypical artist who has striven “for the highest goals” and whose soul will find perfection “in the infinite reaches of heaven.” But you don’t need to follow Strauss philosophically to get your money’s worth with music so richly colorful and sonically resplendent.

Nestlé S.A. – Main Sponsor

Saturday, 12 August Symphony Concert 1 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Why don’t people see what’s new about my works?”

Richard Strauss

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17302

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Richard Strauss Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Op. 30 ca. 35’

Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 ca. 25’

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 ca. 16’

“Technology and media are the DNA of our time” Michel van der Aa

Saturday, 12 August Music Theater 1 21.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17303

Miah Persson soprano Michel van der Aa staging Michel van der Aa Blank Out Chamber Opera for soprano and 3D film Swiss premiere ca. 70’

A coproduction of Dutch National Opera Amsterdam with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma This performance has no intermission

“Richard Strauss – Music as Play and Reflection” 17.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Lecture by Susanne Stähr (in German) In collaboration with the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne

In his second summer with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, Riccardo Chailly is focusing on composers who have not previously appeared on the programs of this elite ensemble. Composers like Richard Strauss, whose massively orchestrated tone poems demand the utmost virtuosity not only from the musicians but from the maestro as well. Above all they require finely detailed and flexible conducting to evoke their powerful images. Strauss even once claimed he could translate beer into music so precisely that the listener would be able to tell at once whether it was a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher. And this artistry has nothing to do with the fact that on his mother’s side Strauss was related to the Pschorr beer dynasty in Munich … In this program, for example, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA depicts the rising sun at the beginning of Zarathustra and, in Till Eulenspiegel, a trip to the scaffold. It promises to be a breathtaking pleasure for the ears!

Nestlé S.A. – Main Sponsor

Imagine 3D glasses at the opera! The Dutchman Michel van der Aa is not only a composer but also a filmmaker and director. And he combines these various artistic identities in virtuosic Gesamtkunstwerk projects. As, for instance, in his multimedia chamber opera, Blank Out, which was first performed in the spring of 2016 in Amsterdam and is now receiving its Swiss premiere as the start of a van der Aa retrospective for Lucerne’s composer-in-residence. A single singer, the soprano Miah Persson, appears onstage. Opposite her is the baritone Roderick Williams, but he is present only virtually: in a 3D film that blends pre-produced material with live-recorded video sequences. What is reality and what is fiction become harder and harder to distinguish in this tragic story of a mother-son relationship that is based on the life and texts of the South African writer Ingrid Jonker. A major event that combines emotional power with high tech.

Sunday, 13 August Music Theater 2 11.00 Luzerner Theater

“There are many sides to me” Fernando Pessoa

Gustav Mahler

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17304

Chamber Orchestra of Europe Bernard Haitink conductor Anna Lucia Richter soprano Christian Gerhaher baritone

Michel van der Aa The Book of Disquiet Music theater for actor, ensemble, and film based on Fernando Pessoa Swiss premiere

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Symphony in C major, K. 425 Linz

This performance has no intermission

Michel van der Aa

Who am I – and how many I’s do I contain? This is a question that Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) posed throughout his life: his day job was as a commercial correspondent, but at night he wrote – mostly unpublished work, for himself. Pessoa also split up his identity as a writer into more than 70 alter egos – his term was “heteronyms” – each of which he furnished with a (fictive) biography, a creed, and a unique writing style. Take his legendary Book of Disquiet, which was only published posthumously, in 1982, quickly becoming a cult classic. He passed it off as the work of a melancholy assistant accountant named Bernardo Soares. Pessoa’s diary-like and poetic notes and philosophical reflections inspired composer-in-residence Michel van der Aa to seek out these multiple identities. The result is a fascinating multimedia work of music theater that reproduces the realism of theater cinematically.

Swiss Re – Partner LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI

Sunday, 13 August Symphony Concert 2 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17305

Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Duncan Ward conductor Walter Sigi Arnold actor

ca. 75’

“Music leaves poetry far behind; it can say everything”

ca. 35’

Gustav Mahler selected lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn ca. 50’

Christian Gerhaher

Throughout his life, Gustav Mahler was a passionate reader who felt at home on the Olympus of literature. But when he composed lieder, instead of setting texts by Goethe, Eichendorff, or Heine, he chose folk poems from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Why? Because Mahler believed that these poems expressed human feelings and moods authentically, regarding them as “firsthand poetry.” In his two concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink will focus on Mahler’s song writing. Joining him for the splendid Wunderhorn lieder, which waver between profound grief, rebellion, and humor is Christian Gerhaher, a first-rate Mahler performer, and the young soprano Anna Lucia Richter, who has thrilled Lucerne audiences in her accounts of Mahler’s Fourth and Eighth Symphonies – two gifted lieder singers. Haitink will pair Mahler with Mozart, opening the program with the Linz Symphony.

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

Monday, 14 August Symphony Concert 3 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Being me is a full-time job” Sir James Galway

Bernard Haitink on the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 5, p. 97 | Event no. 17306

Festival Strings Lucerne Daniel Dodds violin and musical direction Sir James Galway flute Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Symphony in A major, K. 201 (186a) ca. 22’

Flute Concerto in D major, K. 314 (172k/185d) ca. 20’

Jean Sibelius Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 46 ca. 30’

Composer Seminar with Wolfgang Rihm 14–19 August | always from 10.00–11.30 and 12.00–13.30 Auditors: CHF 30/150 (one-day pass/course pass) additional information at www.lucernefestival.ch/ composer-seminar

“The biggest gift in the late years of my career”

Tuesday, 15 August Symphony Concert 4 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17307

Chamber Orchestra of Europe Bernard Haitink conductor Christian Gerhaher baritone Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Symphony in D major, K. 385 Haffner ca. 20’

Gustav Mahler Rückert Lieder ca. 20’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Symphony in D major, K. 504 Prague

ca. 37’

40th anniversary of Sir James Galway’s Lucerne debut

Reunite with a legend: to mark the 40th anniversary of his Festival stage debut, Sir James Galway, ”the man with the golden flute,” will play Mozart’s D major Concerto, K. 314. The fact that its composer actually disdained the flute is impossible to tell from a single bar of this score. And if Mozart had known Galway, you can be sure he would have written more than two concertos for the instrument. Sir James enchants with his exquisite sound, immaculate technique, musical thoughtfulness, and spirited demeanor. To start the program, the Festival Strings will play another Mozart piece, the dazzling Symphony in A major, K. 201, which sets off veritable fireworks with its “Mannheim rocket” theme in the finale: audiences of the time found it so thrilling that they broke into applause. The second half will present a psychological drama from 1905: Jean Sibelius’s incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande – a Finnish alternative to the adaptations by Fauré, Debussy, and Schoenberg.

The concerts that Bernard Haitink has been giving since 2008 at LUCERNE FESTIVAL with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe are a real bonanza for the music world. The Dutch maestro, who has been tirelessly refining the art of conducting over a 60-year career, finds fresh ways to approach the peaks of the repertoire with this polyglot ensemble. What characterizes their music-making is a combination of vitality, precision, and tight tempos, along with a glowing sound. These are qualities especially needed for the two Mozart symphonies and Gustav Mahler’s wondrous Rückert Lieder. A shared passion for music is the key to their success, according to Haitink, who praises the orchestra highly: “They are musicians who come from all over Europe when a project is looming – out of purer love, since there is not much to earn. They often give the impression of being nothing but young musicians because they radiate such youthful enthusiasm. It really is a huge joy.”

Vontobel – Theme Sponsor

40min “The Festival Orchestra in Rehearsal” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly Master Class in Conducting with Heinz Holliger 22.00 Südpol for details see p. 21

Wednesday, 16 August Symphony Concert 5 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17310

“Quite simple, nothing but Mozart”

Maurice Ravel on his music

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Martha Argerich piano Bassam Mussad trumpet

“Sometimes serious and quiet, sometimes passionate” Hector Berlioz on the saxophone

Edison Denisov Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano

Dmitri Shostakovich Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra in C minor, Op. 35

Paul Hindemith Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, no. 4 transcribed for saxophone and piano

ca. 23’

Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin ca. 17’

Alban Berg Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6 ca. 20’

Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17309

Valentine Michaud saxophone (winner of the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes) Akvilė Šileikaitė piano

Maurice Ravel Ma mère l’oye Suite for Orchestra ca. 19’

Thursday, 17 August Debut 1 12.15 Lukaskirche

ca. 13’

ca. 17’

Erwin Schulhoff Hot Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano ca. 16’

William Albright Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano ca. 19’

This concert has no intermission

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

Not every composer has been able to act as they really were. Dmitri Shostakovich always felt compelled to make artistic compromises and to put on masks, because the Soviet rulers had become so suspicious of his music that he had to fear for his life. Maurice Ravel preferred to escape from the reality he disdained through the childlike world of fairy-tale or by recreating a transfigured past. And Alban Berg had to suffer the criticism of his revered teacher Arnold Schoenberg, who complained about his careless way of dressing, his illegible handwriting, and his verbose letters. Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will explore the psychological conflicts and escape routes found with these three musicians. Joining them will be the legendary Martha Argerich, who shares more with Barenboim than her place of birth, Buenos Aires. They’ve known each other since childhood, and whoever heard both musicians play a Schubert rondo as an encore at a recent Summer Festival concert in Lucerne will have noticed their touching intimacy.

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

Promoting the highest level of musical talent from Switzerland’s conservatories is the mission of the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes, which has been conferred every two years since 2001, when the cellist Sol Gabetta was the victor. Besides receiving a generous cash prize of 25,000 CHF, the winner has a valuable opportunity to perform in a debut concert at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. The winner for 2017 is the saxophonist Valentine Michaud, who was born in 1993 in Nantes, France. In addition to studying her instrument at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne, she graduated in musicology from the Sorbonne in Paris and is currently finishing up her work in the master class of Lars Mlekusch at the Zurich University of the Arts. She will give Lucerne audiences a chance to experience the abundance of colors and expressive nuances offered by the saxophone when it is played by an expert. Berlioz remarked that the sound of this instrument alternately brought to mind for him “the hint of an echo,” the “howling of the wind,” or the “mysterious vibrations of a bell.”

Credit Suisse – Main Sponsor

Master Class in Conducting with Matthias Pintscher and Heinz Holliger

15. and 17.8. at 20.00 at the Südpol | 21.8. at 20.00 | 23.8. at 10.00 | 30.8. at 12.45 | 31.8. at 20.30 at Lucerne Hall Auditors: CHF 30/150 (one-day pass/course pass) additional information at www.lucernefestival.ch/master-classes

Thursday, 17 August Symphony Concert 6 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Everyone is equal before a musical score”

Daniel Barenboim

Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17308

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Kian Soltani cello Yulia Deyneka viola Richard Strauss Don Quixote, Op. 35 ca. 45’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 ca. 45’

“What exile from himself can flee?” George Lord Byron

Friday, 18 August Symphony Concert 7 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17311

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Felix Mendelssohn Overture and excerpts from the incidental music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opp. 21 and 61 ca. 30’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op. 58 ca. 56’

40min “I Times Two: A Cello Concerto with Film” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Jay Campbell | Michel van der Aa Michel van der Aa Up-close for cello, string ensemble, and film

When the issue of identity comes up, along with the question of how to preserve one’s own or to open it up to the other, one often ends up facing limits that seem impassable. But the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has proved how opposites can be reconciled and conflicts resolved. Its members come from Israel and the Arab worlds and for the most part consist of Jews and Muslims, yet when they make music together there is no trace of hostility, for they play with a single bow stroke and one breath. Daniel Barenboim has called this orchestra an “experiment in utopia,” having founded it in 1999 with the late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said to implement his vision for peace in a nutshell, in the field of music. The program for their second Lucerne concert will likewise bridge different perspectives: the German Richard Strauss and the Russian Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, contrasting the musical naturalism of Don Quixote, with its wind machine and its depiction of a flock of sheep, with the high-romantic melodic wealth of the Fifth Symphony.

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd – Main Sponsor

“Thyself to be thy proper Hell!” agonizes Manfred, the Byronic hero, who is in flight from his guilty past, after his incest with his sister led to her death. He wanders restlessly through the wilderness, across the Alps – and yet can find no peace there. The struggle with his own identity, with forbidden sexuality, was all too familiar for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. No wonder then that he based one of his most opulent tone poems on Byron’s dramatic poem. Meanwhile, Shakespeare’s indestructible A Midsummer Night’s Dream offers a delightful play of identities: the magic of confusion makes all those involved go crazy with the folly of love, whether nobles, courtiers, workers, or even fairies. Felix Mendelssohn wrote a matchless incidental score to this comedy which is at times aromatic and frisky, at times full of sturdy humor. For their second program, Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA will take up these two utterly different, classic ruminations on identity and probe the rich variety of each score.

Nestlé S.A. – Main Sponsor

40min “Ape Dance for Orchestra: The First Jungle Book Setting” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Heinz Holliger

Saturday, 19 August Identities 1 11.00 Lukaskirche

“I’m allergic to routine” Heinz Holliger

“Music is an enchantment” Alice Herz-Sommer

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17312

Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event no. 17369–17389

sCHpillit Ghost Choir (Peter Siegwart chorus master) Dani Mangisch narrator Silvia Nopper vocals Heinz Holliger Fünf Kinderlieder (“Five Children’s Songs”) based on poems by Albert Streich ca. 7’

Alb-Chehr “Geischter- and Älplermüsig” based on a legend from Valais ca. 26’

Gränzä – Grenzen based on poems by Bernadette Lerjen-Sarbach ca. 14’

Helena Winkelman New work | world premiere Commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL and the Festival Alpentöne Helena Winkelman

Puppet Theater PETRUSCHKA: Marianne Hofer concept and puppetry Regula Auf der Maur puppetry Jodok Vuille cello Stefanie Burgener piano Robert Hofer staging and technical support “Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”) A musical fairy-tale in which the children’s audience plays an important role Premiere

ca. 60’

Coproduction of LUCERNE FESTIVAL with the Puppet Theater PETRUSCHKA Ages 5 and up This performance has no intermission

This concert has no intermission

Starting in the mid-1970s the group known as Oberwalliser Spillit became a sensation. With clarinet, hammered dulcimer, and such new-fangled instruments as the Tenundi Titschini (a tuned wooden drum), as well as plenty of wit, the “Oberwalliser Spielleute” (“the bandsmen from Valais”) devoted themselves to the old tunes and dances of the Swiss Confederation – but without a hint of old-fashioned stuffiness. And they proved that folk music and the avant-garde can get along by having contemporary composers write new works tailor-made for them. Composers like Heinz Holliger. In Alb-Chehr he set a Valais legend about two shepherds and a cantankerous dairyman who run into some music-making ghosts – with a fatal outcome for the dairyman. Shortly after Oberwalliser Spillit broke up in 2001, the clarinetist Elmar Schmid founded the ensemble sCHpillit, which is now coming together again to present not only Holliger’s classic but also a brand-new score by the composer and violinist Helena Winkelman.

Saturday, 19 August Young Puppet Theater 14.30 Pavillon Tribschenhorn

Two musicians and a narrator get together to invent a musical story for children. But alas, they are living in a time when children themselves no longer love stories and dreams. So what can they come up with to encourage young people and grownups to enjoy music and exciting stories again? The three artists grow increasingly perplexed and decide to take a break. But two invisible elves have been eavesdropping and decide to help them – after all, they come directly from the land of Fantasy! And so the elves playfully spread magic dust on the musicians’ instruments and the narrator’s book … and wait for what happens.

Additional performances until 1 October 2017 always on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 14.30 (exception: Saturday 2 September, no performance) Additional evening performances on Friday, 22 and 29 September at 19.30

Saturday, 19 August Symphony Concert 8 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“A genius can never be wrong” Igor Stravinsky

“New music that makes you listen – and laugh out loud.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Inszenierte Nacht

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17313

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Sophie Koch mezzo-soprano Igor Stravinsky Le Faune et la Bergère, Op. 2 Three Songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra ca. 10’

Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3 ca. 12’

Feu d’artifice, Op. 4 ca. 5’

Chant funèbre op. 5 Swiss premiere ca. 12’

Le Sacre du printemps ca. 35’

Saturday, 19 August Identities 2 22.00 Neubad Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17314

ascolta: Erik Borgir cello Andrew Digby trombone Florian Hoelscher piano and synthesizer Martin Homann percussion Boris Müller percussion Markus Schwind trumpet Hubert Steiner guitar Simon Steen-Andersen direction and sound staging Simon Steen-Andersen Inszenierte Nacht (“Staged Night”) Literal readings of the classics Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, MauricRavel, and Robert Schumann

ca. 60’

This performance has no intermission

“Protest and Identity: Martin Luther and Music” 17.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Lecture by Alois Koch (in German) In partnership with the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne

Hosted by the Buvette 17.00 Inseli selected Festival artists

In 1913 Igor Stravinsky set off the “big bang of modernism” with the percussive eruptions of his Sacre du printemps. But no one is born a revolutionary … For their third program, Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA explore the paths that led the young Stravinsky to this musical milestone. It’s an exciting chance to hear the Swiss premiere of the Chant funèbre from 1909, a work that Stravinsky composed following the death of his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and which was regarded as lost for more than 100 years until it was rediscovered in a backroom at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 2015. As a companion, they will play the short piece Feu d’artifice, which Stravinsky wrote in 1908 as a wedding gift for Rimsky’s daughter Nadezhda. Meanwhile, Le Faune et la Bergère is a setting of an erotic poem by Pushkin that he composed in 1906 during his own honeymoon. And the Scherzo fantastique prompted the impresario Sergei Diaghilev to commission Stravinsky for the first new production by the Ballets Russes.

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The identities of masterpieces seem firmly fixed. Even before the concert begins, we know basically what they will sound like – which introduces the danger of becoming a museum object. The Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen and the ensemble ascolta follow a different approach: like a theater director taking on a piece, Steen-Andersen performs famous pieces inspired by night (including its spooky side), from Bach to Ravel. He stages them afresh for ear and eye, updates and dusts them off – thus removing them from their historical distance into the here and now. In other words, instead of a fussy “reading of the classics,” he underscores the originally unsettling impact of these works. In Schumann’s Träumerei, time seems to stand still, while Ravel’s Scarbo morphs from a virtuoso piece into a horror trip and the famous revenge aria from The Magic Flute becomes a techno hymn by a drag queen. “Maybe that’s what Mozart’s ‘Queen of the Night’ and Ravel’s Gaspard sound like when you’re high on coke,” remarked the Stuttgarter Zeitung.

Sunday, 20 August Symphony Concert 9 10.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“A normal person doesn’t compose” Heinz Holliger

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 97 | Event no. 17315

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Heinz Holliger conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Claude Debussy Khamma orchestrated by Charles Koechlin ca. 22’

Charles Koechlin Les Bandar-log (Scherzo de singes), Op. 176 ca. 20’

Heinz Holliger Violin Concerto Hommage à Louis Soutter ca. 47’

“Music begins where words leave off” Jean Sibelius

Sunday, 20 August Afternoon Concert 14.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Tickets on sale starting 7 August – available only at the Stadthaus Luzern (Hirschengraben 17)

Festival Strings Lucerne Daniel Dodds violin and musical direction Jonas Iten cello Alexander Kionke cello Felix Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 6 in E-flat major for string orchestra ca. 10’

Enjott Schneider Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde for two cellos and string orchestra ca. 18’

Jean Sibelius Impromptu for string orchestra ca. 8’

Carl Nielsen Suite for string orchestra, Op. 1 ca. 16’

This concert has no intermission

An oboist, conductor, composer, and teacher, Heinz Holliger is a truly complete musician who can look back over a career that now spans six decades. He has the ideal depth and range of experience to impart to the students of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY the secrets of the art of performance. For their concert together, they will devote themselves to Khamma, a later, rarely played ballet score by Claude Debussy which the composer was unable to complete – it was orchestrated by his Alsatian colleague Charles Koechlin. The latter will also be represented by the tone poem Les Bandar-log. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, it’s a grotesque Scherzo that depicts a horde of screeching monkeys on their way through the jungle. Meanwhile, Holliger’s own Violin Concerto, which “artiste étoile” Patricia Kopatchinskaja will perform, addresses the topic of identity. Holliger wrote it as a tribute to the “mentally deranged” Swiss painter Louis Soutter, who was sent to a nursing home against his will and spent his last two decades there.

Three composers, each in search of a musical language of their own. Felix Mendelssohn wrote his Sixth String Symphony at the age of just 12 for the famous Sunday concerts at his parents’ home in Berlin. Jean Sibelius was in his mid-20s when he composed his Impromptu for Strings, inspired by folk tunes he’d heard while hiking in the unspoiled natural setting of Karelia. And with his Suite for String Orchestra, Op. 1, the Dane Carl Nielsen enjoyed his first success as a creative artist. Meanwhile Enjott Schneider, one of the most sought-after film composers of our time, takes on a very special aspect of identity in his Concerto for Two Cellos: schizophrenia, as the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson depicted it in the form of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The good doctor and the sadistic psychopath, each of whom is “represented” by one of the two cellists, turn out to be two facets of the very same principle. And what better way to mirror that than with music?

Sunday, 20 August Identities 3 16.00 Church Hall MaiHof

“Folk song contains the whole of man, body, soul, all” Leoš Janáček

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17316

Camerata Zurich (Igor Karsko musical direction) Thomas Demenga cello Thomas Sarbacher narrator Josef Suk Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale “St. Wenceslas,” Op. 35a

ca. 7’

Antonín Dvořák Silent Woods, Op. 68, no. 5 ca. 5’

Rondo in G minor, Op. 94 ca. 7’

“You must rejoice, you must rejoice!” Dmitri Shostakovich

Sunday, 20 August Symphony Concert 10 19.30 KKL Luzern Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 3, p. 97 | Event no. 17317

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Long Yu conductor Maxim Vengerov violin Aaron Avshalomov Hutongs of Peking ca. 10’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 ca. 35’

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

ca. 46’

Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46, no. 8 ca. 5’

Leoš Janáček On an Overgrown Path arranged for string orchestra by Daniel Rumler performance with texts by Maïa Brami ca. 45’

This concert has no intermission

“Music comes from Bohemia,” they say. But in fact Bohemian and Moravian composers had to struggle for a long time before they succeeded in getting their own original musical language and identity recognized. The cellist Thomas Demenga and the Camerata Zürich trace the path of this self-discovery. Antonín Dvořák belonged to the generation of pioneers and brought about the emancipation of “local color” with this Slavonic Dances. His son-in-law Josef Suk used a medieval Czech hymn, the St. Wenceslas Chorale, as the theme for a musical meditation with which he simultaneously advocated Czech independence. And Leoš Janáček based his work on the rhythms and speech melodies of the Czech language. For his autobiographically inspired piano cycle On an Overgrown Path, which will be heard in a new arrangement for strings, the French author Maïa Brami has created a fairy-tale that evokes fresh associations.

For the first time ever, a Chinese symphony orchestra is performing at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. If yet more evidence that classical music has long since become a global language were needed, it would be this appearance by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under music director Long Yu. These musicians from Asia have planned a program of three Russian composers. Aaron Avshalomov, who was born in 1894, served as a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory, where he taught from 1919 on; he was one of the founders of China’s Western musical tradition. His tone poem Hutongs of Peking captures the sounds and voices that once echoed through the narrow alleys of the Chinese capital. Tchaikovsky’s immortal Violin Concerto will be performed by one of the leading virtuosos of our time, Maxim Vengerov. And the orchestra will demonstrate the degree to which a composer under Stalin had to wrestle with his own identity with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Here the composer reacts to the political demand to be popular and monumental – which leads to an absurdly overstated “jubilant” conclusion.

Monday, 21 August Recital 1 – Piano 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“I’ve never let myself be influenced”

Maurizio Pollini

Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 5, p. 97 | Event no. 17318

Maurizio Pollini piano Robert Schumann Arabeske in C major, Op. 18 ca. 7’

Allegro in B minor, Op. 8 ca. 10’

Fantasie in C major, Op. 17 ca. 32’

Frédéric Chopin Two Nocturnes, Op. 55 ca. 9’

Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

“The secret to salvation is memory” Richard von Weizsäcker

Tuesday, 22 August Debut 2 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17319

SPIEGEL TRIO: Zlata Chochieva piano Ermir Abeshi violin Nikolay Shugaev cello Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67

ca. 27’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 À la mémoire d’un grand artiste ca. 46’

This concert has no intermission

ca. 30’

Maurizio Pollini is regarded as a thinker at the piano who probes a work profoundly to get at its inner essence. But what does he himself see as the secret to his performance? “On the one hand it is important to know a score down to the minutest detail and to internalize its message,” he says. “During the concert, though, it is crucial to forget this knowledge at the moment of performance in order to let the music emerge intact, as it were.” And for him this experience is always something fresh, even if he has spent decades engaging with the composers in question. Schumann and Chopin, for instance, are at the top of his list of favorites. Chopin’s Third Piano Sonata, which he will play as part of this Lucerne recital, has become weightier to him in recent years: “Just take the tragic grandeur of the final movement, which is incredibly modern – it’s the most beautiful, perhaps the most unreal, music you could imagine. Schumann wrote: ‘This goes beyond mere music…’”

In 2013 three young virtuosos, each of whom had already started a remarkable international solo career, joined to form a piano trio: the Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva, her compatriot Nikolay Shugaev on cello, and the Albanian violinist Ermir Abeshi. They named their ensemble the SPIEGEL TRIO because music is a mirror (“Spiegel” in German) of life and of human identity and because the interplay of their different instruments reflects their coexistence; plus, musical techniques like counterpoint use the principle of mirroring. The two works that they have chosen for their Lucerne debut, which are part of the great Russian tradition, both share the idea of the piano trio as an epitaph: Tchaikovsky dedicated his contribution to the genre to the memory of the composer and pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, and Shostakovich composed his E minor Trio following the death of his best friend, the Renaissance man Ivan Sollertinsky. In the finale, which resembles a dance of death, he used echoes of klezmer to create a memorial to the murdered Jews.

Opening Concert “In the Streets” 17.00 Europaplatz International Street Music Groups

Tuesday, 22 August Symphony Concert 11 – Monteverdi 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Monteverdi is the musical equivalent of Shakespeare” Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 3, p. 97 | Event no. 17321

English Baroque Soloists Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Elsa Rooke staging Krystian Adam Orfeo Hana Blažiková La Musica, Euridice Kangmin Justin Kim Speranza Anna Dennis Ninfa Lucile Richardot Messaggiera Francesca Boncompagni Proserpina Gianluca Buratto Caronte, Plutone Furio Zanasi Apollo and additional soloists Claudio Monteverdi L’Orfeo Favola in musica in a prologue and five acts

“The ideal starting point for a musical rebirth” Béla Bartók on peasant music

Wednesday, 23 August Symphony Concert 12 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 3, p. 97 | Event no. 17323

Mahler Chamber Orchestra François-Xavier Roth conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Joseph Haydn Symphony in E-flat major Hob. I:22 The Philosopher ca. 21’

Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112

ca. 38’

Dance Suite Sz 77 ca. 17’

Joseph Haydn Symphony in D major Hob. I:96 The Miracle ca. 25’

ca. 130’

This performance has no intermission

40min “Finding Sanctuary in Mozart: Idomeneo with Refugees” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall members of the Idomeneo ensemble | Cornelia Lanz Introduction to the Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

This is how it all began: Claudio Monteverdis L’Orfeo, which premiered in 1607, marks the birth of opera, of “dramma per musica.” The work involves a famous myth from Greek antiquity and recounts the moving story of the singer Orpheus, who cannot accept the death of his beloved Eurydice. And so he follows her into the Underworld, where he tames the wild beasts with his marvelous singing and even moves the raving Furies to tears. Until he gains access and finds his Eurydice again … Monteverdi sets this story with dramatic power and thrilling emotion: Recitatives and arias, songs and dances, choruses and instrumental fanfares endow the score with continual musical variety. “Monteverdi’s operas simply grip you, they captivate you from beginning to end,” says Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who launches his Monteverdi trilogy in Lucerne with L’Orfeo, in homage to “il divino Claudio,” as contemporaries named the composer, thus marking the 450th anniversary of his birth.

One composer on this program, Joseph Haydn, spent the lion’s share of his composing career in the service of an enormously wealthy Hungarian dynasty, the aristocratic Esterházy family. Some 150 years later, the other, Béla Bartók, systematically studied the primitive peasant music of his Hungarian homeland as well as of the entire Balkan region. Both integrated dances and folk melodies into their works, endowing their respective musical languages with an identity of its own. And through clever “compositional science,” as Haydn called it, both combined these folkloristic elements with the forms of classical tradition. The French conductor François-Xavier Roth, who commands an extremely versatile repertoire from the Baroque to contemporary music, will present a double portrait of these two “brothers in spirit” with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. And “artiste étoile” Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who herself grew up in Moldova with the folk music of southeastern Europe, will show herself to be a highly gifted Bartók performer.

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40min “Classical Music, Composed Today” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | participants in the “Composer Seminar” and the “Conducting Fellowship” | Wolfgang Rihm

Thursday, 24 August Debut 3 12.15 Lukaskirche

35 to 40 Kilograms

The Harp: A Heavy but Heavenly Instrument

“The meaning of art is to form the soul” Leonidas Kavakos

Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17322

Elisa Netzer harp Bedřich Smetana Vltava (arr. Hanuš Trneček) ca. 11’

Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Sz 56 (arr. Elisa Netzer) | ca. 6’ Joaquín Turina Tocata y Fuga (arr. Nicanor Zabaleta) ca. 11’

Aram Khachaturian Oriental Dance and Toccata ca. 5’

Thursday, 24 August Symphony Concert 13 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17320

Filarmonica della Scala Riccardo Chailly conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 ca. 43’

Ottorino Respighi Fontane di Roma ca. 16’

Pini di Roma

ca. 21’

In memory of Victor de Sabata on the 50th anniversary of his death

Julien-François Zbinden Trois esquisses japonaises, Op. 72 | ca. 15’ Benjamin Britten Suite for Harp, Op. 83 | ca. 14’ Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2 (arr. Emmanuel Padilla Holguin) | ca. 11’ This concert has no intermission

The harp is only rarely encountered as a solo recital instrument. And yet its potential by no means lags behind that of the ubiquitous piano. No other instrument can execute arpeggios or glissandi so convincingly; the harp can even produce artificial harmonics. Miraculous abilities have been attributed to this instrument – think of the Biblical King Saul, for instance, who was saved from his depression by David’s heavenly harp playing. Not to mention that with its magical sound the harp almost seems predestined to represent natural impressions, from the rustling of the wind to the trickling of water. The Swiss harpist Elisa Netzer, who was born in 1990 in Lugano and who studied at the Conservatory of Parma and the Royal Academy of Music in London, will present the wide spectrum of her instrument’s facets in her debut concert. A victor at numerous international competitions, she has appeared at the Musical Olympus in St. Petersburg and has concertized in many European countries and in Brazil.

Since 2015 Riccardo Chailly has served as Music Director at the famous Teatro alla Scala in his native Milan – and thus, in this position, is also a successor to his mentor Claudio Abbado. This summer Chailly and the Filarmonica della Scala come to Lucerne for the first time together, with a program of music from their homeland: not from the great city in Lombardy, but from the capital Rome, to which Ottorino Respighi dedicated a sonic portrait consisting of an orchestral triptych. In Fontane di Roma he musically depicts the marvelous fountains of the Eternal City, while Pini di Roma presents snapshots of the Villa Borghese, the catacombs, the Janiculus, and the Appian Way. Even the nightingale has a prominent role among these impressions of Rome at night. The soloist, however, is a Greek, the phenomenal violinist Leonidas Kavakos. The fiendishly difficult Brahms Concerto will not only allow him to showcase his virtuosity and marvelous cantabile line but, in the finale, with its Hungarian impetuosity, even requires him to prove his temperament.

40min “Musical World Theater: Friedrich Cerha’s Spiegel” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher

Friday, 25 August Symphony Concert 14 – Monteverdi 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 3, p. 97 | Event no. 17324

“Even if we do away with home, homesickness doesn’t go away”

Walter Kempowski

English Baroque Soloists Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Elsa Rooke staging Furio Zanasi Ulisse Lucille Richardot Penelope Hana Blažiková Minverva, Fortuna Krystian Adam Telemaco Francisco Fernando Rueda Eumete Robert Burt Iro Zachary Wilder Eurimaco Anna Dennis Melanto John Taylor Ward Giove Francesca Boncompagni Giunone Francesca Biliotti Ericlea Silvia Frigato Amore and additional soloists Claudio Monteverdi Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria Opera in a prologue and three acts

“To say as much as possible with as few notes” György Kurtág about his music

Saturday, 26 August Identities 4 11.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17325

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Heinz Holliger conductor Natalia Zagorinskaya soprano Ivan Ludlow baritone Bernd Alois Zimmermann Contrasts Music for an imaginary ballet for orchestra ca. 10’

György Kurtág Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova for soprano and chamber ensemble, Op. 17 ca. 30’

Heinz Holliger Lunea 23 Sentences by Nikolaus Lenau for baritone and ensemble ca. 35’

Performance ends at ca. 22.00

Introduction to the Concert 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German) Monteverdi Trilogy with Sir John Eliot Gardiner L’Orfeo | p. 34 L’incoronazione di Poppea | p. 42

The cunning Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who became a hero in the Trojan War, gets lost on his journey back and spends 10 years crossing the seas with his crew searching for home. He has to go through numerous adventures before he can find his home and thus himself. But when he finally arrives there, nothing is as it had been. His wife Penelope is being pressed by several suitors. And no one recognizes Odysseus; he must first prove that he is who he is. That is the background situation with which Claudio Monteverdi opens his opera Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (1639-40) – and it’s hard to imagine a piece better suited to the theme of “Identity.” This work is a milestone in the history of opera: “Monteverdi’s musical equipment, his ‘armory,’ if you like, marks the beginning of a modern system of musical expression,” observes Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who continues his Monteverdi cycle in Lucerne with Ulisse. “All subsequent generations of composers have benefited from his achievements.”

The “Identities” series illuminates various aspects of the Festival theme. That applies as well to the second program that Heinz Holliger will prepare this summer with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY: In Lunea Holliger, who has aways been interested in outsider figures and in the dark side of the artist’s existence, sets texts by the restless and inwardly conflicted poet Nikolaus Lenau. To put it more precisely: 23 lines of text by Lenau, “jotted down quickly, like flashes of lightning,” which Holliger shapes into impressive miniature dramas. The Hungarian György Kurtág is also a master of musical as well as emotional concision. In his song cycle Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova, which made him internationally famous in 1981 – when he was already 55 – he uses verses by Rimma Dalos to imagine the story of a failing love and an abandoned, deeply wounded woman: “You took my heart / into the palms of your hands / and turned it carefully around.” Huge feelings in the tiniest possible form.

Saturday, 26 August Identities 5 15.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

“For me these are life moments” Wolfgang Rihm on premieres

“I speak through my notes” Johannes Brahms

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17326

Saturday, 26 August Chamber Music 16.00 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17327

Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Participants in the “Conducting Fellowship” Composer Seminar Performance

Elena Bashkirova piano Michael Barenboim violin Julian Steckel cello Johannes Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101 ca. 22’

Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87

ca. 32’

Piano Trio No. 1 in B minor, Op. 8 Second version from 1889

ca. 37’

Young composers have it hard. Take when they write for an ensemble or orchestra. They set their best ideas down on paper, but who is there to play what it sounds like? LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY’s Composer Seminar provides a remedy. As the Academy’s new Artistic Director, Wolfgang Rihm introduced the Seminar in 2016, for he is quite familiar with the obstacles a composer faces at the beginning and knows what doesn’t function perfectly in the regular course of study. “Here composers can test their works with former Academy musicians,” he says about the concept. “But in the university, they usually first have to go a much longer route. Many instrument teachers insist on having their scores in hand as early as a half year before the performance.” For this summer Rihm has selected from among some 150 applicants those in particular “who can already produce a recognizably individual kind of work.” Following an intensive period of discussion and refinement, the participants for 2017 will present selected scores to introduce themselves in this Composer Retrospective.

Johannes Brahms was a discreet person who seldom talked about what he desired or what pained him. But his music often gives us deep glimpses thereof. Take the First Piano Trio, which Brahms finished in 1854, when he had fallen completely in love with Clara Schumann. The original version is characterized by passionate excitement, and in the finale Brahms included a kind of dedication by quoting the melody of “Take these songs, then” from Beethoven’s song cycle To the Distant Beloved. But 35 years later, such candor was distasteful to Brahms, and he subjected this ingenious work from his youth to a fundamental overhaul: “Not to stick a wig on it but merely to comb its hair a little,” as he put it. Elena Bashkirova, the founder and director of the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival and an expert in chamber music, will be joined by her son Michael Barenboim and the cellist Julian Steckel to trace Brahms’s life journey as they perform all three of his piano trios.

Saturday, 26 August Symphony Concert 15 – Monteverdi 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 3, p. 97 | Event no. 17328

“Who wins out in the end? Maybe it’s music” Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi’s Poppea

English Baroque Soloists Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Elsa Rooke staging Hana Blažiková Poppea, Fortuna Kangmin Justin Kim Nerone Carlo Vistoli Ottone Gianluca Buratto Seneca Lucile Richardot Arnalta, Venere Michał Czerniawski Nutrice Silvia Frigato Amore, Valletto Anna Dennis Drusilla, Virtù John Taylor Ward Mercurio, Littore and additional soloists Claudio Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea Opera in a prologue and three acts

“That’s the music that needs to become mainstream!” Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Saturday, 26 August Late Night 22.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17329

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Matthias Pintscher conductor David Kadouch piano Martin Adámek clarinet Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin György Ligeti Piano Concerto ca. 24’

Michel van der Aa Hysteresis for clarinet, ensemble, and tape ca. 17’

György Ligeti Violin Concerto

ca. 28’

Performance ends ca. 22.00

Hosted by the Buvette 17.00 Inseli selected Festival artists Introduction to the Concert 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

“Claudio Monteverdi is for me the musical equivalent of William Shakespeare,” according to Sir John Eliot Gardiner. “He is the first composer in the history of Western music that was able to assimilate and encapsulate the whole range of human feelings and emotions in music: from the noblest and most godlike figures to the most proletarian, the most lowlife.” And the last of the three surviving Monteverdi operas, L’incoronazione di Poppea, which was premiered in 1643 in Venice, in particular explores psychological depths – and at the same time remains a work that is sharply relevant today. “Poppea is based on human and political ambition, sexual desire, envy, and jealousy. Nobody had done anything like this before in musical terms,” says Gardiner. And it is Monteverdi’s passionate, sensual, comic, and dramatic setting that makes this political drama about the Roman Emperor Nero and his beloved Poppea such an incomparable experience.

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Learn to fly with Patricia Kopatchinskaja: “Ligeti’s Violin Concerto is like a fantastic mosaic for me,” explains the violinist. “It’s made up of countless tiny pieces. When you put them all together the right way, then it becomes an UFO and suddenly begins to fly – it’s a crazy feeling!” The “tiny pieces” that get put together comprise folksong-like tunes, super-virtuosic challenges, and a wide spectrum of exotic timbres that are produced by ocarinas, natural horns, and microtonally “tuned” instruments. Added to these are the kinds of intricate polyrhythmic overlayerings that also give Ligeti’s Piano Concerto a sense of groove. Michel van der Aa meanwhile expands the sonority of his instruments in Hysteresis by using electronic means: the solo clarinetist confronts his own digital alter ego – with sounds he himself distorts and makes alien. Three masterful concertos spanning the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one Late Night event – the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY makes it possible.

The “Ligeti Package” Along with this event, if you purchase tickets to Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at the Luzerner Theater (see p. 73) you will receive a combined discount of 20%. This offer is available only by telephoning either +41 (0)41 228 14 14 (Luzerner Theater) or +41 (0)41 226 44 80 (LUCERNE FESTIVAL).

Special Event Day | 27 August Opening 9.45 Europaplatz free admission

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY John Luther Adams Sila. The Breath of the World European premiere

ca. 65’

Package descount for the Special Event Day!

When you purchase a minimum of three different Special Event Day concerts, you will receive a discount of 20% on each ticket. You can purchase this package discount by telephone or in writing. All information can be found on the order form. The Special Event Day for Young Listeners For the Special Event Day Concerts 1–4, children, students of primary and vocational schools, and university students up to age 30 can receive reduced tickets for CHF 10.

The big Special Event Day in Lucerne begins right in front of the KKL: with an open-air concert by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and a work that was specifically designed as outdoor music. “Listening to music indoors, we usually try to ignore the outside world, focusing our listening on a limited range of sounds. Listening outdoors we’re challenged to expand our attention to encompass a multiplicity of sounds. We’re invited to receive messages not only from the composer and the performers, but also from the larger world around us,” writes the American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams. In Sila (the title refers to Inuit mythology and signifies the “breath of the world,” the “spirit that animates all things”), the musicians will be spread across the Europaplatz. Their sounds will blend with environmental noises, and the audience can also walk around and thus continually take in new aural perspectives. Also to note: later during the Special Event Day, make another excursion to the Europaplatz, when you can hear the concluding concerts of the world music “In the Streets” Festival within the Festival.

“In the Streets” The World Music Festival within the Festival on the Europaplatz Open air concert The time will be announced at a later date.

Special Event Day 2017 Twelve hours and fourteen concerts exploring the Festival theme “Identity”

Concluding Concert 16.00 Music groups from around the world Concert Sponsors Dr. Christoph M. Müller and Sibylla M. Müller

Special Event Day | 27 August

“He doesn’t lie, he only tells stories”

Concert 1 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 50/10 (reduced) Event no. 17332

Zoltán Kodály on Háry János

Concert 2 15.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 50/10 (reduced) Event no. 17330

La Capella Reial de Catalunya Hespèrion XXI Tembembe Ensamble Continuo Jordi Savall musical direction and gamba Kassé Mady Diabaté vocals Ballaké Sissoko kora Rajery valiha Driss el Maloumi oud Maria Juliana Linhares soprano Adriana Fernández soprano Zé Luis Nascimento percussion “Slave Routes” Portugal, Spain, and Latin America 1444 to 1888 ca. 90’

With support from the Departament de Cultura de Generalitat de Catalunya, the Diputació de Barcelona, and the Institute Ramon Llull under the auspices of UNESCO This performance has no intermission

For Jordi Savall, the great musician and humanist, it is “one of the most painful chapters in the history of humanity”: up until the end of the 19th century, countless millions of Africans were abducted and enslaved. All they were allowed to take with them was their religion and their culture. And so the music and dance of their homeland became an outlet for grief, lamentation, and misery – but also for hope. Together with musicians and dancers from Africa and South America, Savall and his ensembles will retrace these slave routes. Traditional songs from Mali, Morocco, and Madagascar will be interspersed with Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American music that the slaves encountered in the New World. “We hope to pay tribute to the victims,” says Jordi Savall, recalling that the economic pre-eminence of Europe and America was underpinned by the tragedy of slavery: “Perhaps the powers of the present age should reflect on their responsibility and come up with more humane solutions for so-called illegal immigration to southern Europe.”

Here the whole family can really get their money’s worth, from grandkids to grandparents! As part of the Special Event Day, LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG has for the first time invited an entire symphony orchestra. With the help of a narrator, the ensemble will regale us with the marvelously whimsical tales of the Hungarian folk hero Háry János. This shrewd veteran of the Austrian army cooks up a tall tale of a heroic life story while at the inn. Supposedly he vanquished Napoleon all by himself and was invited personally by the Habsburg Emperor Franz to the royal palace in Vienna. In Háry János Zoltán Kodály saw “the embodiment of the Hungarian imagination, the imagination that creates fairy-tales. What he relates never happened, but he has lived it through, and so it is truer than truth.” And so he wrote a whole folk opera about Háry János as the role model for an oppressed nation, setting his Münchhausen-like adventures to vivid music that draws on numerous Hungarian folk songs and dances.

Basel Symphony Orchestra Kristiina Poska conductor Florian von Manteuffel narrator Zoltán Kodály The Imperial Adventures of Háry János A symphony concert with narrator ca. 60’

for everyone ages 7 and up This performance has no intermission

Special Event Day | 27 August Concert 4 16.30–18.00: Part One 20.00–20.45: Part Two KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50/10 (reduced) Event no. 17453

Special Event Day | 27 August

“Whenever I’m standing onstage, I’m happy”

Concert 3 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket price CHF 50/10 (reduced) Event no. 17334

Hosam Karbotly (21), Syria

BandArt Orchestra Refugee Choir “Zuflucht” Philharmonia Choir Stuttgart Gordan Nikolić musical direction and violin Bernd Schmitt staging and video installation Birgit Angele set and costumes Marina Bernt choreography Peter Kopp lighting Manolito Mario Franz Idomeneo Cornelia Lanz Idamante Josefin Feiler Ilia Tatjana Charalgina Elettra Zaher Alchihabi Arbace Mohsen Rashidkhan Gran Sacerdote

Asian Youth Orchestra Matthias Bamert conductor Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major

ca. 60’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Idomeneo Opera in three acts A Production of Zuflucht Kultur e. V. Co-production with the Ludwigsburg Festival

This is an opera about war and flight, about the loss of homeland and the longing for peace. A piece written today? No, this is Idomeneo, which Wolfgang Amadé Mozart composed 235 years ago, but its themes are indeed highly topical. That’s because all of the characters presented by Mozart are stranded: the protagonist Idomeneo, who has gotten lost returning from war; his son Idamante, who has to flee the wrath of the gods; Ilia, the abducted daughter of the king; and the murderess Elettra. The director Bernd Schmitt has staged this material with refugees of today, who appear alongside the opera’s solo singers. Through new monologues in which they can sing, act, and narrate their own stories, they are made part of the action. And it will be something different musically as well: Idomeneo’s recitatives will be accompanied on an Arabic instrument, the pear-shaped oud, while a choreographed group of refugees will add a fresh touch to the regular chorus.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL celebrates Matthias Bamert, its former director: a few weeks after his 75 th birthday, the maestro will be honored when he ascends the podium of the Asian Youth Orchestra. For seven years, from 1991 to 1998, Bamert helmed the Festival in Lucerne, opening it up to a wider public and amazing with unusual thematic focuses, from “misunderstood music” to “whistling in the dark.” For his anniversary concert, and in keeping with this summer’s theme, he will conduct the First Symphony of Mahler. For it was with this symphony that Mahler not only set a piece of his autobiography to music – an unhappy love affair – but also found his musical identity: through the sounds of nature, folklike melodies, passages that echo klezmer, and, of course, through opulent, magnificently colorful orchestration. And his musical language is understood around the world, as the young musician of the Hong Kong-based Asian Youth Orchestra will prove: for them, Mahler’s art has long since become a piece of their own identity.

Church Consecration Festival Liturgy 17.00 Jesuit Church Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes H3 Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum Luzern Pascal Mayer conductor soloists

Special Event Day | 27 August

Museum Concerts 1–7 starting at 11.00 Kunstmuseum in the KKL Luzern Museum Concert 1 11.00–11.30

Museum Concert 3 13.00–14.30

Museum Concert 5 16.30–17.15

Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Wolfgang Rihm moderator

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Jay Campbell cello Polina Leschenko piano

Students of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

Composer Seminar Performance

George Enescu Sonata No. 3 in A minor for violin and piano, Op. 25 Dans le caractère populaire roumain Zoltán Kodály Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7 Maurice Ravel Tzigane. Concert rhapsody for violin and piano

Ticket Price CHF 15 | Event no. 17450

Museum Concert 2 12.00–12.30

Ticket price CHF 15 | Event no. 17451

Brass Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Pierre Boulez Initiale for seven winds Wolfgang Rihm Sine nomine I for five winds Enno Poppe Zug for seven winds

Ticket price CHF 30 | Event no. 17333

Ticket price CHF 15 | Event no. 17454

Béla Bartók Selected Duos for two violins György Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes Six Bagatelles for wind quintet

Museum Concert 6 18.00–18.45

Ticket price CHF 15 | Event no. 17455

Museum Concert 4 15.00–15.45

Ticket price CHF 15 | Event no. 17452

Students of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Frédérique Cambreling harp Béla Bartók Selected Duos for two violins Heinz Holliger Partita for harp world premiere Sándor Veress Diptychon for wind quintet

Students of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Béla Bartók Selected Duos for two violins György Kurtág Wind Quintet, Op. 2 Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28

Museum Concert 7 20.00–20.45

Ticket price CHF 15 | Event no. 17456

Strings of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Béla Bartók Selected Duos for two violins Divertimento for string orchestra Sz 133 Sándor Veress Four Transylvanian Dances for string orchestra 50

In 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály went on the road together in order to systematically research the folk music of southeastern Europe. They made their way to secluded regions and had old peasant women sing them songs their grandmothers had sung and asked goatherds to play the flute and village musicians to play the fiddle. This archaic, unadulterated peasant music, which they heard and recorded in the process, served both composers as a way to renew the musical language and development of a specific identity: “from musical forces that have sprung up from the earth,” as Bartók put it. The Special Event Day Museum Concerts will explore Bartók’s and Kodály’s revolution – and pose the question of what their contemporaries and the ensuing generation made of it. The Romanian George Enescu and the Frenchman Maurice Ravel, for instance, took up their innovations, while Sándor Veress (who was also the teacher of Heinz Holliger), György Ligeti, and György Kurtág initially carried them forward but ultimately freed themselves from the overwhelming influence of their early models. A wide variety of ensembles from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY – from duo and string quartet to wind quintet, brass ensemble, and string orchestra – will present this musical excursion across the Balkans. The centerpiece is a longer concert featuring this summer’s two “artistes étoiles”: the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the cellist Jay Campbell, who will be joined on their program by the Russian pianist Polina Leschenko. Whoever is interested in knowing whether all of this is still of relevance for the young generation of composers can find answers at the opening Composer Seminar workshop concert.

Monday, 28 August Symphony Concert 16 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Every work of art is political”

Friedrich Cerha

“There’s something human about the sound of the cello” Pablo Casals

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 97 | Event no. 17336

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Matthias Pintscher conductor Friedrich Cerha Spiegel I–VII Swiss premiere ca. 90’

Wolfgang Rihm will speak about Friedrich Cerha’s Spiegel at the beginning of the concert (in German) This concert has no intermission

Tuesday, 29 August Debut 4 12.15 Casineum Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17337

Chiara Enderle cello Hiroko Sakagami piano Franz Schubert Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor D 821

ca. 30’

Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm ca. 9’ Johannes Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 ca. 28’

This concert has no intermission

40min “On 16 Strings” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Members of the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris On Tour 4 September | 20.00 Hamburg Elbhilharmonie Matthias Pintscher conducts Cerha

The relationship between the individual and the crowd is a theme that has preoccupied Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha throughout his life – including in his orchestral cycle Spiegel, which he conceived in 1960-61 as a kind of “world theater” about the “genre ‘human’”: “It became clear to me only many years later that my terrible experiences during the war also lie behind it. I experienced the horrors of the Austrian civil war when I was 7 and, after that, the semi-fascist corperative state. During the war I became a deserter as a soldier twice and after that arrived in this Vienna, which at the time was truly ossified and conservative. I could never feel integrated into the community but always felt myself in opposition to it.” Cerha’s Spiegel broke with “pure” serialist doctrine, creating vividly pulsating sonorities. “I constantly had visions, sometimes large Rothko-like surfaces, sometimes Munch paintings, and then Turner or simply landscapes long familiar to me that blended into one another,” is how Cerha’s Hungarian colleague György Kurtág describes the fascinating impression of this music. This concert, under the auspices of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, is in memoriam Klaus Jacobs

You might say that she absorbed music along with her mother’s milk. The Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle was born in 1992 to the violinist Matthias Enderle and the violist Wendy Champney, who had founded the Carmina Quartet in 1984. Chiara ended up choosing as her own instrument neither that of her father nor that of her mother but the cello instead. Which means that she now has the advantage of being able to join her parents to perform in a string trio. Aside from that, Chiara Enderle, who studied with Thomas Grossenbacher, Jens Peter Maintz, and Steven Isserlis, has now started on a remarkable solo career. In 2013 she won both the International Lutosławski Competition in Warsaw and the Pierre Fournier Award in London. She has concertized with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Chamber Academy Potsdam, and the Warsaw National Philharmonic and recorded Paul Wranitzky’s Cello Concerto in 2016: “a genuinely impressive talent,” according to The Strad.

Tuesday, 29 August Symphony Concert 17 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Berlioz is a Monstrosity” Claude Debussy

“I’m crazy about Haydn” Sir Simon Rattle

Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17338

Wednesday, 30 August Symphony Concert 18 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17339

Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris Philippe Jordan conductor Bertrand Chamayou piano Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune ca. 10’

Berlin Philharmonic Berlin Radio Choir (Gijs Leenaars chorus master) Sir Simon Rattle conductor Genia Kühmeier soprano Mark Padmore tenor Florian Boesch bass-baritone

Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 Egyptian

Georg Friedrich Haas New work Swiss premiere

Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Joseph Haydn The Creation Hob. XXI:2 Oratorio in three parts

ca. 30’

ca. 55’

ca. 10’

ca. 100’

This concert has no intermission

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

In the 19th century, musical life in Paris was dominated by opera and ballet. Spectacular scenes, splendid decorations, acclaimed tenors, and admired prima donnas inspired the public, which was always eager for new sensations. But French composers who wanted to write for the concert hall had a hard time. ”Write symphonies like Beethoven and I will play them!” demanded the conductor Jules Pasdeloup – thus going against his own French identity. Few were the artists who could resist: artists like the eccentric Hector Berlioz with his trail-blazing Symphonie fantastique or Camille Saint-Saëns, who devoted himself exclusively to the “Ars gallica” by founding the Société Nationale de Musique, or even the young Claude Debussy, who ushered in a new era with his ingenious Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. The Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris, together with its Swiss music director Philippe Jordan, will explore the French DNA in music of Romanticism and early Modernism.

Adecco Group – Main Sponsor

It will be the last time that Sir Simon Rattle comes to Lucerne as the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. But for his farewell he has chosen to take us back to the beginning by telling the story of how the world originated, as found in Joseph Haydn’s epochal The Creation: how from formless chaos heaven and earth emerged, how light triumphed over the darkness, how plants and animals began to populate the planet, and how humanity ultimately came to life. Haydn had already reached the age of retirement when he composed this oratorio between 1796 and 1798. It contains some of his boldest musical ideas, far ahead of their time, and breathtaking effects – as when light bursts forth from the veiled pianissimo sounds depicting darkness with a blazing C major chord played forte. A contemporary composer will pave the way toward this work of “modern music” with a new work: the Austrian Georg Friedrich Haas, whom the Philharmonic has commissioned and who is well remembered by local audiences as the composer-in-residence of 2011.

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd – Main Sponsor

40min “No Money, No Music: The Naughty Band of Brass Players” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Sonus Brass Ensemble

Thursday, 31 August Debut 5 12.15 Lukaskirche

“Music is the beauty of the serious”

Valeriy Sokolov

Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17340

Valeriy Sokolov violin Evgeny Izotov piano Johann Sebastian Bach Ciaccona from the Partita in D minor for Solo Violin BWV 1004 ca. 18’

Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 30, no. 1

“I cannot live without composing” Dmitri Shostakovich

Thursday, 31 August Symphony Concert 19 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17341

Berlin Philharmonic Sir Simon Rattle conductor Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10

ca. 32’

Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141

ca. 45’

ca. 27’

Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 ca. 30’

Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 ca. 10’

This concert has no intermission

I and I. Whenever Valeriy Sokolov gives a concert, he splits up his identity: “I try to put my other self in the sixth row so as to watch myself playing. I want to understand how my music engages people.” Born in 1986 in Kharkiv, the Ukrainian violinist, who studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England and whose teachers have included Ana Chumachenco, Gidon Kremer, and Boris Kushnir, wins listeners over through his great earnestness. “It’s more important to hear Bartók than Valeriy Sokolov,” he says. “The point is to pull back from yourself.” Yet the music world has long been enjoying the experience of his view of things, his interpretations. Performances with the Philharmonia and Cleveland Orchestras, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic prove that he has already arrived on Olympus. For his Lucerne debut, his program will range widely, from Bach to Prokofiev.

Dmitri Shostakovich often had to disguise and conceal what he really thought and what he wanted to express through his music. The danger of being arrested and sent to the gulag was real, because his works did not correspond to the ideals prescribed by official Soviet culture. But Shostakovich was also gifted at putting on masks. Already in his First Symphony, a stroke of genius by an 18-year-old composer, he blends frisky waltzes and folk song with heroic sounds, neoclassicism, and swooning late-Romantic language. And a half century later, in his final contribution to the genre, the Symphony No. 15, he draws on the principle of collage, referencing both the Overture to Rossini’s Guillaume Tell and the Annunciation of Death scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre. The beginning and end of his oeuvre are thus intertwined. Sir Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic will trace the arc of Shostakovich’s career in search of the true identity of this great symphonist.

Bucherer AG – Concert Sponsor

40min “A Dancing Doppelgänger: Bartók’s Wooden Prince” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher Introduction to the Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Friday, 1 September Symphony Concert 20 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“I would have been expelled from the conservatory for that”

No music without money!

Mussorgsky on A Night on Bald Mountain

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17342

Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor Oksana Volkova mezzo-soprano Modest Mussorgsky Prelude to the opera Khovanshchina ca. 7’

A Night on Bald Mountain ca. 13’

Songs and Dances of Death ca. 22’

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

Saturday, 2 September Young Family Concert 11.00, 15.00, and 17.00 Südpol Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event nos. 17345–17347

Sonus Brass Ensemble Annechien Koerselman idea, concept, and staging Nina Ball scenography “Die Verblecherbande” (“The Gang of Naughty Brass Players”) A staged concert with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Leonard Bernstein, Claude Debussy, Werner Pirchner, Tristan Schulze, and Nino Rota Swiss premiere ca. 50’

A coproduction of LUCERNE FESTIVAL with the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Bregenzer Festspiele, KölnMusik, and Jeunesse Wien Ages 7 and up This concert has no intermission

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

Emancipating Russian art from the West and finding a path to its own identity by returning to language, folklore, and the country’s history: all this was the mission of the innovators who joined together in 1862 in St. Petersburg. But none of them took up the project more radically than Modest Mussorgsky. And, as his compatriot and younger colleague Edison Denisov wrote, “he looked ahead not only by decades, but by centuries.” Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will offer a portrait of the composer through four of his masterworks. The prelude to the opera Khovanshchina, which evokes dawn over the Moskva River, shows the poetic side of Mussorgsky, while his demonic aspect dominates Night on Bald Mountain. The macabre Songs and Dances of Death are dramas in miniature. And Pictures at an Exhibition, which we will hear in Maurice Ravel’s ingenious orchestration, has become one of the greatest hits of the repertoire.

Franke – Concert Sponsor

The “Gang of Naughty Brass Players” and their whacky music are beloved by all. Everyone knows them and everyone wants to hear them. But this time the brass quintet is in trouble: the money they need to make new hits is gone. A disaster is in the making! For if these five musicians want to keep on going, they need to replenish immediately. And so they forge a plan: they will rob the new city bank. But for that to work they must crack the vault’s musical code … This tumultuous comedy, which Annechien Koerselman has staged completely without words, is about music and all it can do, and the effect it has on us. The members of the “Gang of Naughty Brass Players” are cheerful, courageous folks who always dream about music – and who want to acquire music at any cost. But we can always count on surprises when we try to fulfill our most secret wishes.

Saturday, 2 September Symphony Concert 21 14.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“We want to open doors” Matthias Pintscher

“I am the disciple of my own ideas” Sergei Prokofiev

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 97 | Event no. 17350

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Matthias Pintscher, Gregor Mayrhofer (Streich) and Jeffrey Means (Kaner) conductor Jay Campbell cello Lisa Streich Segel for orchestra world premiere | commissioned by Roche Young Commissions Matthew Kaner Encounters for orchestra world premiere | commissioned by Roche Young Commissions

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17348

Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor Behzod Abduraimov (Opp. 10 and 26), Daniil Trifonov (Op. 16), and Sergei Redkin (Opp. 53 and 55) piano Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10 ca. 17’

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16

ca. 37’

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Luca Francesconi New work for cello and orchestra world premiere | commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 53

Béla Bartók The Wooden Prince Sz 60 A dancing-play in one act

Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, Op. 55

ca. 45’

Saturday, 2 September Symphony Concert 22 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

ca. 32’

ca. 27’

ca. 25’

This concert has two intermissions

On Tour 3 September | 18.00 Cologne, Philharmonie Matthias Pintscher conducts Debussy, Francesconi, and Bartók

The Academy students will present no fewer than three world premieres in their concluding concert. Joined by “artiste étoile” Jay Campbell, they will unveil Luca Francesconi’s new Cello Concerto. And they’ll introduce two representatives of the young generation composers: the Swede Lisa Streich and the Briton Matthew Kaner, who were able to prepare their respective new works for large orchestra through the Roche Young Commissions program as part of an intensive exchange with Academy Director Wolfgang Rihm. And a “founding father” of Modernism is also on the program: Béla Bartók takes up the theme of mistaken identities in his ballet The Wooden Prince. To win the attention of the haughty princess, the prince carves her a wooden doll that is his spitting image. But his beloved immediately falls in love with the wooden copy rather than with the original. For Béla Balász, who created this fairy-tale, it symbolized “the deep artistic tragedy that occurs so often: the work becomes a rival of its creator.”

Roche – Main Sponsor

The fate of a migrant. In 1918 Sergei Prokofiev, who was repulsed by the violence and economic decline following the October Revolution, left his Russian homeland. He made his way via Japan and Hawaii to San Francisco, to the “golden West.” Yet neither the USA nor France, where he lived beginning in the 1920s, gave him what they had promised. Prokofiev felt misunderstood and declared: “I have to go back. I need to talk to the people who are of my own flesh and blood so that they will give me what I’m lacking here: their songs, my songs.” In 1936 Prokofiev therefore settled in Moscow for good, in Stalin’s Soviet Union. But he did not find his peace there either, as he was pilloried by the system: as a decadent, formalist composer. Valery Gergiev and three prominent pianists, among them Daniil Trifonov, will retrace Prokofiev’s travels across the globe as they play all five of his piano concertos in one single evening: a real Festival event!

“Biblical Figures – In Search of Identity” 17.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Lecture by Hansruedi Kleiber (in German)

In collaboration with the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne

Hosted by the Buvette 17.00 Inseli selected Festival artists

Saturday, 2 September Identities 6 22.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 17344

“We don’t play notes, we play emotions”

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin, concept, and artistic direction JACK Quartet Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik Lani Tran-Duc artistic design Jonas Link video Jorge Sánchez-Chiong sound design “Dies irae” A staged concert with music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, George Crumb, Michael Hersch, Antonio Lotti, Jorge SánchezChiong, Giacinto Scelsi, and Galina Ustvolskaya

Global warming, wars over resources, refugee crises: the world seems out of balance, and reactions range from looking away and perplexity to fear and grief. “Artiste étoile” Patricia Kopatchinskaja associates this situation with the “Dies irae,” the end-time reckoning from the Latin Requiem Mass, which she has made the starting point for a new program. After the concert performance Bye Bye Beethoven, which she performed in Berlin and Hamburg with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Dies irae is now her second staged concert. It ranges from the music of Gregorian chant and the early Baroque depictions of battle music by the Bohemian virtuoso violinist Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber to the “extraterrestrial” music of the Italian Giacinto Scelsi and the disturbing Dies irae by the Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya. An aesthetic reflection of our time.

“How I have felt what farewell means!” Rainer Maria Rilke

Sunday, 3 September Recital 2 – Piano 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 5, p. 97 | Event no. 17349

Sir András Schiff piano “Last Sonatas” Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Piano Sonata in D major, K. 576

ca. 15’

Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat major D 960

ca. 43’

Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata in E-flat major Hob: XVI:52 ca. 22’

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111 ca. 27’

This concert has no intermission

“Last sonatas”: this title, which Sir András Schiff has chosen for his recital, probably makes you think of bidding adieu and the end, of wisdom and higher knowledge. To consider it from the angle of this year’s Festival theme: did the four great figures of Viennese classicism, Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, discover their true identities in their final contributions to the genre? Wit and esprit dominate in Haydn’s pianistic final words, while Mozart by contrast turned to the rigor and logic of Baroque models (and in 1789, when he wrote this work, he could hardly have been thinking of death). Schubert’s final sonatas exude melancholy and Weltschmerz – only two months after he completed this work his own life drew to a close. Beethoven’s legendary Opus 111 – composed in 1821-22, when the composer was already completely deaf – seems in fact to reflect a departure into the hereafter. For pianist Edwin Fischer, its two movements evoked “this world and the afterlife.”

Theme-Related Worship Service “Moses and Paul in Search of Their Own Selves” 10.00 Matthäuskirche Ecumenical worship service with Eva Brandin and Hansruedi Kleiber on the Festival theme of “Identity” musical direction: Stephen Smith

Sunday, 3 September NZZ Panel Discussion 16.00 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17460

“Complete otherness is very instructive” Nora Gomringer

Round of Talks on the Theme of Identity (in German) with Nora Gomringer poet Patricia Kopatchinskaja violinist Harald Welzer sociologist Moderator Martin Meyer leader of the NZZ Panel Discussion

“I feel music and don’t invent it” Edward Elgar

Sunday, 3 September Symphony Concert 23 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17351

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conductor Gautier Capuçon cello Pēteris Vasks Cantabile for string orchestra

ca. 9’

Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 ca. 30’

Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 ca. 45’

Who am I? Who are we? These questions touch on the very core of human existence – whether that means individual or social existence. Identity can be understood as a being-at-home-with-oneself that feeds on various sources. So we see our identity influenced, for instance, by our origin but also by our further development, which can never be completely finished; by our work, which can be a profession or even a vocation; by love, which ideally involves the interplay of giving and taking; and lastly, by society, politics, religion, and culture, the latter being understood as a difficult-to-express factor that is however central for the mind and emotions. To address the theme of identity, the NZZ panel discussion presents three personalities who in their individual ways contribute their uniqueness and thus prove their originality. One thing is already certain: without an awareness of self-awareness, we live fragmented lives – at least in these turbulent times.

In the “summer of the woman” in 2016, she was one of the 11 female conductors who performed at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. For her concert with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Lithuanian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who was born in 1986, garnered genuine hymns from the press. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung celebrated her “inspiring performance,” the Neue Luzerner Zeitung attested to her “charisma” and “magical mixes of sound,” and the Frankfurter Allgemeine praised her “energetic drive” and “fine sense of musical poetry.” As the Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the successor to such greats as Sir Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons, Gražinytė-Tyla has ascended to the top league of podium stars. She now returns to Lucerne with her British orchestra to present the enchantingly beautiful Cantabile by the Baltic composer Pēteris Vasks and, with Elgar’s Cello Concerto (with the wonderful Gautier Capuçon as the soloist) and Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony, works of delicious late Romanticism.

Monday, 4 September Symphony Concert 24 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“I am Bruckner”

Bruckner on Bruckner

“Trombones are sacred” Felix Mendelssohn

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17352

Tuesday, 5 September Debut 6 12.15 Casineum Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17353

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Daniele Gatti conductor Wolfgang Rihm IN-SCHRIFT ca. 20’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor WAB 109 ca. 65’

Michael Buchanan trombone Kasia Wieczorek piano Max Bruch Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 ca. 11’

Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 ca. 12’

Jacques Castérède Sonatina for Trombone and Piano ca. 14’

Maurice Ravel Pièce en forme de Habanera ca. 4’

George Gershwin Summertime from Porgy and Bess ca. 5’

Leonard Bernstein Elegy for Mippy II for solo trombone ca. 2’

Richard Peaslee Arrows of Time ca. 14’

This concert has no intermission

40min “Coming Across with Music – A Singing Project” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Young Refugees from the Lucerne Region

Whenever Anton Bruckner’s symphonies are played, the concert hall seems to become transformed into a musical cathedral: it’s no surprise that this music touches on higher realms, evoking the “mysterium tremendum et fascinosum” and an experience that is both awe-inspiring and exhilarating. Not to mention that Bruckner stacks sonorities and treats the orchestra like an organist pulling out a variety of stops. Wolfgang Rihm meanwhile went in the opposite direction by deliberately writing his 1995 orchestral work IN-SCHRIFT for a church space: the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. He looked back to the idea of polychoral sound developed by the Italian composer Giovanni Gabrieli at the end of the 16th century in this cathedral, where he positioned his musicians and singers at different levels and thus realized the vision of a “spatial music.” Daniele Gatti and his fabulous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam will explore this interplay of musical identities involving a temple of the Muses and a house of worship.

The sound of the trombone, as the Bible has it, is mighty enough to bring the walls of Jericho tumbling down. And when the Day of Judgment is sounded, this is the instrument that is supposed to summon the dead out of their graves. But in his debut concert, Michael Buchanan will prove that the trombone, so wondrous and shrouded in mystery, is also admirably suited to chamber music and more delicate sounds – especially when such a master of the instrument plays it. Born in 1993 in Britain, he studied with Ian Bousfield in Bern and won the 2015 International ARD Music Competition in Munich as well as the audience prize, also triumphing at the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Musical Competition. The British Trombone Society immediately named him Player of the Year. At LUCERNE FESTIVAL Buchanan will play a colorful mixture of works originally written for his instrument and arrangements, featuring composers from Schumann to Bernstein and from Bruch to Ravel.

Tuesday, 5 September Symphony Concert 25 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“One doesn’t compose; one is composed!”

Gustav Mahler

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p. 96 | Event no. 17354

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Daniele Gatti conductor Chen Reiss soprano Joseph Haydn Symphony in C major Hob. I:82 L’Ours ca. 30’

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major ca. 60’

“I have put my entire soul into this symphony” Tchaikovsky on the Pathétique

Wednesday, 6 September Symphony Concert 26 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17355

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Antonín Dvořák Suite from the opera Rusalka, Op. 114 arranged by Manfred Honeck

ca. 20’

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

ca. 34’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique ca. 47’

Introduction to the Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Malte Lohmann (in German)

What do Joseph Haydn and Gustav Mahler have in common? Musical humor and a delight in folklore, in the intersection of the elite and the popular, which was central to the identity of both. In the finale of his first Paris symphony, Haydn composed a rustic bagpipe dance with such a down-to-earth drone that his contemporaries thought even a bear could dance to it. And this association immediately led to the work’s nickname: L’Ours. In his Fourth Symphony, Mahler took up the difficult question of what happens to us after we die: but from the child’s perspective, depicting a Paradise that surprisingly resembles a land of milk and honey. For this he set to music a folk poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, which the soprano sings in the final movement. Yet behind this seemingly naive facade, Mahler opens up deeper and darker perspectives by having the music contradict the text. With its great Mahler tradition, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is made for this work.

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In recent years, Anne-Sophie Mutter has devoted herself intensively to the Violin Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, aiming to anchor it in the repertoire with equal weight alongside the Brahms Concerto. The work’s Slavic tone, with its interplay of melancholy and exuberant joie de vivre, has made it particularly attractive to her. And indeed: who could resist the thrilling dance-like rhythms and ear worms of this composer – whether in the Violin Concerto or in the suite from the opera Rusalka that Manfred Honeck has arranged? Even Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, the famous Pathétique, enchants through its melody. But the latter also shatters with its conclusion, where the music fades away into a multiple pianissimo after a grim beat on the tam-tam that sounds like the striking of the last hour. The fact that Tchaikovsky himself died only nine days after the premiere – he is said by some to have let himself become infected by cholera, possibly with a suicidal intention – has added to the myth of this symphony.

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40min “Strong Fellows Conquer the Stage” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Young Performance

Thursday, 7 September Debut 7 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17356

“No doubt: the future belongs to this quartet”

ensemble. Magazin für Kammermusik

Schumann Quartet: Erik Schumann violin I Ken Schumann violin II Liisa Randalu viola Mark Schumann cello Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major Hob. III:39 Bird ca. 19’

“Singing is something completely natural” Juan Diego Flórez

Thursday, 7 September Recital 3 – Lied 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/110/70/30 Seating map 4, p. 97 | Event no. 17357

Juan Diego Flórez tenor Vincenzo Scalera piano Lieder and Arias by Gioachino Rossini, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Giacomo Puccini, Jules Massenet, and Giuseppe Verdi

Helena Winkelman Papa Haydn’s Parrot Hommage à Joseph Haydn ca. 18’

Robert Schumann String Quartet in F major, Op. 41, no. 2 ca. 23’

This concert has no intermission

Their mother is a Japanese pianist, their father a violinist from Transylvania. All four of the Schumann couple’s children learned a string instrument from an early age and soon won attention through competition victories. The three brothers, Erik, Ken, and Mark, joined together with the Estonian violist Liisa Randalu to form a string quartet – chamber music as a family affair. “Whenever I give a spontaneous little impulse, the others instantly know how I’m going to play this phrase,” says cellist Mark Schumann about their special connection. “Smoothness and speedy reaction, risk-taking and drive, a curiosity for timbre, and an understanding of phrasing,” wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the young ensemble, which is currently in residence at New York’s Lincoln Center. For their Festival debut, they will play works by Joseph Haydn and their namesake Robert Schumann, as well as a new composition by the Swiss Helena Winkelman, which was written specifically for the “Schumanns.”

Such a tenor comes along only once! The Peruvian Juan Diego Flórez not only astounds through his uniquely masterful upper range but is also a sensitive and stylish performer, whether in the bel canto repertoire, in French operatic roles, or in lieder. And now, at last, he makes his LUCERNE FESTIVAL debut with a recital of works by Rossini, Mozart, Leoncavallo, Puccini, Massenet, and Verdi. The 44-year-old Flórez today ranks among the superstars of the classical music scene, but initially he had very different plans. It was with pop, rock, and Latin American music that he undertook his first steps as a performer, writing his own songs and appearing in bars. Until he won a scholarship to the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and, a few years later, at the age of 23, made his dazzling debut at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro. He then went on to win over the major opera houses, from the Vienna Staatsoper and London’s Royal Opera House to the Metropolitan Opera in New York – along with the hearts of vocal fans.

40min “Close-up: A Portrait Concert of Michel van der Aa” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Michel van der Aa

“A Mystery”

Friday, 8 September Symphony Concert 27 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Charles Dutoit on Martha Argerich

“A political piece against false prophets” György Ligeti on Le Grand Macabre

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17358

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Dutoit conductor Martha Argerich piano George Enescu Romanian Rhapsody in A major, Op. 11, no. 1 ca. 12’

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 ca. 35’

Claude Debussy La Mer

Friday, 8 September Opera 19.30 Luzerner Theater Starting 13 March, tickets available exclusively from the Luzerner Theater | t + 41 (0)41 228 14 14

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Chorus of the Luzerner Theater (Mark Daver chorus master) Clemens Heil conductor Herbert Fritsch sets and staging Bettina Helmi costumes György Ligeti Le Grand Macabre Opera in four scenes revised version from 1996 Premiere A coproduction of the Luzerner Theater with LUCERNE FESTIVAL

ca. 23’

Maurice Ravel Boléro ca. 16’

Herbert Fritsch

Introduction to the Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Isabelle Bischof (in German)

What makes Martha Argerich such a great artist? Martin Meyer, the Swiss authority when it comes to the keyboard, sees the secret as her “passion for making music: the pianistic aspect itself suddenly becomes peripheral as the performer immerses herself totally in the works. This mastery of concentration lays a foundation on which everything else develops organically: the joy of playing, humor, wit, as well as the ability to continually highlight each interjection, each phrase, the melody and the meter.” This time “Magna Martha” will dedicate these remarkable gifts to Ludwig van Beethoven, whose concertos she has played over the 50 years of her career. Together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Charles Dutoit, she will perform the First Piano Concerto in C major. And Dutoit for his part will conduct two pieces he singles out as his favorites: Debussy’s tone poem La mer, with its intoxicating waves of sound, and Ravel’s magic Boléro, whose repeated rhythmic patterns and massive orchestral crescendo exert an almost hypnotic effect on the listener.

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Comets circle, ministers bully their stuttering princes, alcohol flows down everyone’s throat. In György Ligeti’s ultra-black dance of death, Nekrotzar – the Grand Macabre – rises from his grave. His plan is to let the world go under, or, rather, the Principality of Breughelland, which is heaven and hell in one, familiar and at the same time gruesome, tender, beautiful, and yet so vulgar. Ligeti pulls out all the musical stops, using abrupt, abstruse, and satirical effects, allusions to the history of music, quotations, and expressive atonality. This fabulous Carnival play will be staged by Herbert Fritsch, who is said to be one of the most successful directors of his generation in the German-speaking world – his work has been seen from Moscow to Japan. Ligeti’s grotesque parable is ideal material for him: Fritsch will present Le Grand Macabre as a visually lush Gothic operetta full of hidden meaning, subversion, and mischief.

Additional performances on 10, 17, 22, and 24 September and on 7 and 15 October The “Ligeti Package” Along with this event, if you purchase tickets to the Ligeti Late Night on 26 August (see p. 43) you will receive a combined discount of 20%. This offer is available only by telephoning either +41 (0)41 228 14 14 (Luzerner Theater) or +41 (0)41 226 44 80 (LUCERNE FESTIVAL).

Saturday, 9 September Young Children’s Concert 11.00 and 15.00 KKL Luzern, Terrassensaal

A great artist for the little ones

“Art has a social purpose” Till Velten

Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event nos. 17390–17391

Saturday, 9 September Identities 7 16.00 Church Hall MaiHof Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 17362

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord “Das kleine Irgendwas” (“The Little Something”) Music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, John Cage, Heinz Holliger and others ca. 40’

A production of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ages 4 and up This performance has no intermission

Vienna Refugee Orchestra Leonid Belaieff conductor Till Velten staging and overall artistic direction “symphony.land” Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60 as a total artwork comprising concert, film, and walk-in sculpture along with musical statements and texts by the refugees from their homeland

ca. 90’

This performance has no intermission

Our youngest listeners get very close up to the music in this concert: they can make themselves comfortable on pillow cushions and listen to the sounds – and of course watch the artists. For example, the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who is this summer’s “artiste étoile.” Together with the Australian harpsichordist Anthony Romaniuk, she will show that it doesn’t always have to be the old-fashioned classics and that even the supposedly small can also be great: with musical miniatures by composers from the Baroque violin virtuoso Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, who set an entire zoo to music, to the present. The title of this children’s concert comes from Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s own daughter, Alice. She thought up the story of the “little something,” a “furry blue thing” that she also captured in a picture. And this picture then inspired the Swiss composer Heinz Holliger to write a wonderful piece for a singing violinist.

Under “normal” circumstances, this orchestra would not exist. Since spring 2017, musically trained refugees accommodated in Vienna and its surroundings have found a new home: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. The artist Till Velten has been creating sculptures with these and other asylum-seekers that serve as symbols of homeland and flight. The project will be documented by a film that records the entire creative process. The total artwork symphony.land is intended to be a temporary place of refuge for all participants – the musicians and the audience. “Can Beethoven’s Fourth, this classical masterpiece of our Western culture, become a temporary refuge to the refugees?” asks Till Velten. “Will it open up a dialogue and offer the opportunity to make changes or to allow oneself to change?” This project is supported by Pro Helvetia and additional donors. Its patrons are Swiss Refugee Relief and Theodor and Emmanuel von Oppersdorff, descendants of Beethoven’s patron Franz Graf von Oppersdorff, the Fourth Symphony’s dedicatee.

Saturday, 9 September Symphony Concert 28 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“To praise the Philharmonic is to carry violins to Vienna” Richard Strauss

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17359

Wiener Philharmoniker Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Emanuel Ax piano Johannes Brahms Haydn Variations, Op. 56a ca. 20’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Piano Concerto E-flat major, K. 449 ca. 22’

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 ca. 40’

60th anniversary of the Vienna Philharmonic’s Lucerne debut

“What do my ears see, what do my eyes hear?” Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Sunday, 10 September Young Performance 11.00 and 15.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event nos. 17392–17393

Young Performance: Felix Del Tredici trombone Mélanie Genin harp Alicja Marta Pilarczyk violin Jeffrey Young violin Laura Dykes double bass Manuel Alcaraz Clemente percussion Maged Mohamed idea and choreography Johannes Fuchs dramaturgy Susanne Boner costumes Markus Güdel lighting design Young Performance Project 4 world premiere The exact title will be announced at a later date. ca. 50’

A production of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ages 9 and up This performance has no intermission

They’ve been regular guests at LUCERNE FESTIVAL since 1957: the Vienna Philharmonic, who this summer celebrate the 60th anniversary of their stage debut here. Many memories of unforgettable musical highlights will be awakened, of appearances with Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, and Leonard Bernstein; Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, and Pierre Boulez; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, and Daniel Barenboim. This orchestra’s magic is based on its distinctive sonic identity, which in the course of its 175-year history has evolved and been passed on from one generation to the next. In fact, the Viennese “sonic style” has even been researched and taught at a special university institute devoted to the topic. It involves the brighter colors of the winds, the covering of the percussion instruments, and certain schools of string playing. All of which will again be a cause of admiration when the “Wiener,” under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, perform music by three composers – Brahms, Mozart, and Beethoven – all of whom chose Vienna as their home.

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Close your eyes and only listen? No, keep your eyes open and look around! For here the notes take on movement as music is experienced with all the senses. Young Performance brings former participants in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY together with experienced directors, choreographers, and composers. Together they develop a stage program for young, still-inexperienced listeners. The goal: making music should be visible. In this new production by Young Performance, six young instrumentalists meet the Egyptian Maged Mohamed. And as a dancer (including in the ballet ensemble of the Dresden Semperoper and in the Bavarian Staatsballett) and choreographer, he knows exactly how to turn sounds into staged scenes. The new piece will engage with this year’s Festival theme of “Identity.”

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“My music is ‘lived’”

Sunday, 10 September Symphony Concert 29 17.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Gustav Mahler

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 96 | Event no. 17361

Vienna Philharmonic Daniel Harding conductor Claude Debussy Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande arranged by Erich Leinsdorf ca. 25’

Gustav Mahler Symphony in No. 6 in A minor ca. 83’

60th anniversary of the Vienna Philharmonic’s Lucerne debut

Take a 40-Minute Break for Music! How strongly is our identity dominated by external constraints, coincidences, and twists of fate? The final concert of the Summer Festival offers a clear answer. In Claude Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, a grim fatalism reigns, and the heroes are only victims who sense a doom that they cannot oppose: fin de siècle – a mood of apocalypse? Gustav Mahler intensifies this atmosphere into nothing less than catastrophe when he has fate not just knock on the door but symbolically strike with a monstrous hammer blow. His widow Alma believed that Mahler anticipated his own fate: the loss of his prestigious position as the director of the Vienna Court Opera, the death of their little daughter Maria, and the heart disease from which he would die at the age of just 50. In spite of all the anxiety we might sense in it, Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is a marvelous confessional work – especially when performed by the Vienna Philharmonic and by a Mahlerian as fiery as Daniel Harding.

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No dress code, no prior knowledge: the “40min” series offers hosted programs for beginners, connoisseurs, and explorers alike. Widely varied and unconventional! Featuring Jay Campbell, Riccardo Chailly, Heinz Holliger, Matthias Pintscher, Wolfgang Rihm, Michel van der Aa, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, the Sonus Brass Ensemble, and many more Free admission 11 concerts | always at 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd – Partner 40min

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Summer Festival | August 2017 Fri 11.08.

18.30 | KS

Opening Concert

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

Sat 12.08.

17.00 | A

Lecture

Susanne Stähr: “Richard Strauss – Music as Play and Reflection”

18.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 1

21.00 | LS

In the Streets

Music groups from around the world

12.15 | LK

Debut 2

SPIEGEL TRIO

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

18.20 | LS

40min

members of the Idomeneo ensemble | Cornelia Lanz

Music Theater 1

Miah Persson | Michel van der Aa

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

to Symphony Concert 11

11.00 | LT

Music Theater 2

Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Duncan Ward | Walter Sigi Arnold

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 11 – English Baroque Soloists | Monteverdi Choir | Monteverdi Sir John Eliot Gardiner | Elsa Rooke | soloists

17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

to Symphony Concert 2

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

18.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 2

Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Bernard Haitink | Anna Lucia Richter | Christian Gerhaher

18.20 | LS

40min

Mon 14.08.

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 3

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds | Sir James Galway

Tue 15.08.

18.20 | LS

40min

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 12

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 4

Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Bernard Haitink | Christian Gerhaher

12.15 | LK

Debut 3

Elisa Netzer

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

to Symphony Concert 5

18.20 | LS

40min

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 5

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Martha Argerich | Bassam Mussad

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 13

Filarmonica della Scala | Riccardo Chailly | Leonidas Kavakos

12.15 | LK

Debut 1

Valentine Michaud | Akvilė Šileikaitė

17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

to Symphony Concert 14

Wed 16.08. Thu 17.08.

Fri 18.08. Sat 19.08.

Sun 20.08.

Mon 21.08.

Tue 22.08.

Wed 23.08.

Thu 24.08.

Fri 25.08.

18.30 | KS

18.20 | LS

40min

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 6

18.20 | LS

40min

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Heinz Holliger

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 7

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

11.00 | LK

Identities 1

sCHpillit | Ghost Choir | Dani Mangisch | Silvia Nopper

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

17.00 | I

Hosted by the Buvette

selected Festival artists

17.00 | A

Lecture

Alois Koch: “Protest and Identity: Martin Luther and Music”

18.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 8

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Sophie Koch

22.00 | N

Identities 2

ascolta | Simon Steen-Andersen

10.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 9

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Heinz Holliger | Patricia Kopatchinskaja

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

14.30 | KS

Nachmittagskonzert

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds | Jonas Iten | Alexander Kionke

16.00 | MH Identities 3

Camerata Zürich | Thomas Demenga | Thomas Sarbacher

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 10

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra | Long Yu | Maxim Vengerov

19.30 | KS

Recital 1 – Piano

Maurizio Pollini

Sat 26.08.

11.00 | LS

Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | participants in the “Composer Seminar” and in the “Conducting Fellowship” | Wolfgang Rihm Mahler Chamber Orchestra | François-Xavier Roth | Patricia Kopatchinskaja

“Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

15.00 | LS

Identities 5

Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | participants in the “Conducting Fellowship”

16.00 | LK

Chamber Music

Elena Bashkirova | Michael Barenboim | Julian Steckel

17.00 | I

Hosted by the Buvette

selected Festival artists

17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

to Symphony Concert 15

22.00 | LS

Sun 27.08.

“Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

14.30 | T

18.30 | KS

Special Event Day

Sun 13.08.

22. – 27. 08.

9.45 | E 11.00 | KS 11.00 | KM 12.00 | KM 13.00 | KM

Symphony Concert 15 – English Baroque Soloists | Monteverdi Choir | Monteverdi Sir John Eliot Gardiner | Elsa Rooke | soloists Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Late Night Matthias Pintscher | David Kadouch | Martin Adámek | Patricia Kopatchinskaja Special Event Day – Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Opening Special Event Day – Hespèrion XXI | La Capella Reial de Catalunya | Concert 1 Tembembe Ensamble Continuo | Jordi Savall | soloists Special Event Day – Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Wolfgang Rihm Museum Concert 1 Special Event Day – Brass Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Museum Concert 2 Special Event Day – Patricia Kopatchinskaja | Jay Campbell | Polina Leschenko Museum Concert 3

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

15.00 | KS

Special Event Day – Concert 2

Basel Symphony Orchestra | Kristiina Poska | Florian von Manteuffel

Special Event Day

Sun 27.08.

Mon 28.08. Tue 29.08.

Wed 30.08.

Thu 31.08.

Ensembles of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Frédérique Cambreling

Sat 02.09.

22.00 | LS

Identities 6

Patricia Kopatchinskaja | JACK Quartet | Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Lani Tran-Duc

Music groups from around the world

Sun 03.09.

10.00 | MK

Theme-Related Worship Service

Eva Brandin | Hansruedi Kleiber | Stephen Smith

11.00 | KS

Recital 2 – Piano

Sir András Schiff

Ensembles of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater “Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum Luzern | Pascal Mayer | soloists

16.00 | A

NZZ Panel Discussion

Ensembles of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

18.30 | KS

Asian Youth Orchestra | Matthias Bamert

Mon 04.09.

Tue 05.09.

Members of the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris

Sat 02.09.

Young Refugees from the Lucerne Region

18.20 | LS

40min

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 24 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam | Daniele Gatti

12.15 | C

Debut 6

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction to Symphony Concert 25

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 25

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater “Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

18.20 | LS

40min

Young Performance

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 26

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honeck | Anne-Sophie Mutter

12.15 | LK

Debut 7

Schumann Quartet

Michael Buchanan | Kasia Wieczorek

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40min

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Symphony Concert 16 Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher

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Debut 4

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Concert Introduction to Symphony Concert 17

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Symphony Concert 17

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Young Puppet Theater “Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

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Sonus Brass Ensemble

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Students of the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Michel van der Aa

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 18

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Recital 3 – Lied

Juan Diego Flórez | Vincenzo Scalera

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Debut 5

Valeriy Sokolov | Evgeny Izotov

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Concert Introduction to Symphony Concert 27

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Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 27 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Charles Dutoit | Martha Argerich

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction to Symphony Concert 19

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Opera

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Chorus of the Luzerner Theater | Clemens Heil | Herbert Fritsch | Bettina Helmi

19.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 19 Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle

11.00/ 15.00 | TS

Young Childrenʼs Concert

“Das kleine Irgendwas” (“The Little Something”)

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater “Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

Chiara Enderle | Hiroko Sakagami

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Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris | Philippe Jordan | Bertrand Chamayou

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Summer Festival | September 2017 Fri 01.09.

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Concert Introduction to Symphony Concert 20

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Symphony Concert 20 Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev | Oksana Volkova

16.00 | MH Identities 7

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam | Daniele Gatti | Chen Reiss

Vienna Refugee Orchestra | Leonid Belaieff | Till Velten

18.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 28 Vienna Philharmonic | Michael Tilson Thomas | Emanuel Ax

11.00/ 15.00 | LS

Young Performance

Young Performance | Maged Mohamed

11.00/15.00/ Young Family Concert 17.00 | S

“Die Verblecherbande” (“The Gang of Naughty Brass Players”)

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater “Die Zaubermuschel” (“The Magic Shell”)

14.30 | KS

Symphony Concert 21

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher | Gregor Mayrhofer | Jeffrey Means | Jay Campbell

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Symphony Concert 29 Vienna Philharmonic | Daniel Harding

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Lecture

Hansruedi Kleiber: “Biblical Figures –- In Search of Identity”

18.30 | KS

Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev | Behzod Abduraimov | Symphony Concert 22 Sergei Redkin | Daniil Trifonov

LUCERNE FESTIVAL thanks its Sponsors and Foundations for their extraordinary commitment to the 2017 Summer Festival. Main Sponsors

The Partners of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Main Sponsors Developing associated, content-rich projects in collaboration with leading partners from the business world is a special goal of LUCERNE FESTIVAL. As Main Sponsors, these companies enter into a long-term partnership with the Festival in order to promote the development and implementation of individual artistic concepts. Nestlé S.A. is committed to the ambitious idea of a unique Festival orchestra and makes the annual residency of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA possible through its contributions. Credit Suisse makes the annual orchestral residency of the Vienna Philharmonic possible. In addition, the Credit Suisse Foundation is dedicated to supporting emerging artists through two awards devoted to the next generation. These are granted annually on an al-

ternating basis: the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes and the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award. Roche is a committed partner of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and grants composition commissions in alternating years as part of the Roche Commissions and the Roche Young Commissions. The resulting new works are given their premieres as part of the Summer Festival. Young Performance, the award-winning concert format for both listeners and spectators, is made possible through the Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Zurich). And with the 40min series, Zurich emphasizes its commitment to making classical music accessible to a wider public. Since 2017 the Adecco Group has been supporting the Summer Festival as a new Main Sponsor. This will be a long-term partnership

Theme Sponsor

allowing for a commitment in the area of the Festival’s foreign projects. Theme Sponsor In the summer LUCERNE FESTIVAL traditionally develops its programming to reflect an overall key theme. For 2017 we have chosen the central theme of “Identity” – an important theme addressing the hot topics of globalization and migration. What makes a person, a community, a culture unique? In what way are these defined? The concert programs will explore these issues and moreover demonstrate how musicians in the globally interconnected world of music manage to develop or preserve their artistic individuality. Vontobel supports LUCERNE FESTIVAL as the Theme Sponsor.

Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Since its founding in 1966, the Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL has made supporting the work of one of the world’s most renowned classical music festivals its goal. The moral and financial support that is obtained through this non-profit organization is invaluable for LUCERNE FESTIVAL. The Friends’ contributions, about eight percent of the total budget, are a significant contribution to the Festival’s financial security and sustainability. Aside from this funding source, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is mainly supported by private and corporate sponsors and receives only a small contribution in the form of subsidy from the public sector. The Friends have thus become an indispensable partner of the Festival. But not only is supporting the Festival of today a matter of central concern: they also hope to create a sustainable basis for the artistic activity of tomorrow by fostering such important projects as the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG. The circle of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL offers an opportunity to share in the experience of the Festival in all its variety and to deepen your musical experience through such exclusive events as artist meetand-greets and visits to rehearsals; through the Friends you can moreover make contact with an interesting and international group of like-minded peers. LUCERNE FESTIVAL is grateful to all of its Friends for their long-standing and loyal support.

Piano Festival 18 – 26 November 2017

Useful Information

Tickets go on sale starting 2 August 2017

www.lucernefestival.ch

Ticketing Information

DISCOUNTS & SPECIAL OFFERS

DATES FOR TICKET SALES Summer Festival | 11 August – 10 September 2017 Online ticket sales begin on Mail and fax sales begin on Telephone sales begin on

13 March 2017, 12.00 noon (Swiss time) 17 March 2017 1 April 2017, Mon – Fri from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm (Saturdays and Sundays as well when the Festival is underway)

TICKETS & INFORMATION LUCERNE FESTIVAL Ticketing & Visitor Information | P.O. Box | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 (0)41 226 44 80 | f +41 (0)41 226 44 85 ticketbox@lucernefestival.ch | www.lucernefestival.ch TICKET SALES AT THE BOX OFFICE Ticket Sales Throughout the Year – Across Switzerland As soon as online sales begin on 13 March 2017 at 12.00 noon (Swiss time), you can also obtain your concert tickets for the Summer Festival in person at the ticket windows of our off-site ticket outlets. Please find the addresses of our ticket outlets throughout Switzerland on p. 93. During the Summer Festival Throughout the Summer Festival, daily from 10.00 am until the evening’s event begins, you can purchase tickets for events in the ongoing Festival as well as for events at the Piano Festival 2017 by visiting the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ticket window at the KKL Luzern’s main entrance (on the lake side). Ticket Purchases Directly at the Concert If you decide to attend a concert at the last minute, you can purchase tickets starting one hour before the concert begins directly at the venue where it takes place.

Picking Up Tickets That Have Been Ordered Tickets that have been ordered in advance may be picked up starting one hour before the performance begins at the relevant venue. Duplicates in Case of Ticket Loss When possible, we will provide duplicates for lost concert tickets. Such duplicates are available exclusively at the evening box office for a fee of CHF 10 per order. It is not possible to print duplicates of tickets purchased at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ticket window or at our sales outlets without customer data. Returning Tickets for Resale For events that are sold out, tickets can be resold on commission. The commission fee is 30% of the purchase price. The costs of the transfer transaction are payable by the recipient. The organizer accepts no liability for the resale of returned tickets. Print@Home-Tickets as well as tickets for which no customer data were stored at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL box office or that were bought at ticket outlets may not be resold.

Discounted Tickets for Students and KulturLegi Holders University students, high school students, vocational students, and JTC members up to the age of 30 as well as KulturLegi holders may purchase tickets for CH F 20 starting one hour before the beginning of the performance for events which are not sold out. They must present valid identification. No additional price reductions are possible. Valid identification must also be shown at the entrances to the respective venues. Special student offers can be found at www.lucernefestival.ch.

Audio and Video Recording For all LUCERNE FESTIVAL events, customers are strictly prohibited from making visual or audio recordings, including even for private use. Devices used to record, to film, to photograph, and to video record are not permitted. 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.

Bring Your Youngster to a Concert for Free What could be lovelier than introducing young listeners to the enchanting world of classical music? When you a buy a ticket to selected Festival events, you can also receive one free ticket for the same value for your little one. Information and list of eligible concerts available at www.lucernefestival.ch.

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. The Festival cannot ensure that accompanying persons will receive a seat in the same price range or in the general vicinity. You can access the KKL Luzern through ground-level doors directly into the foyer, from which elevators give you access to all levels of the building. Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are located near the cloakrooms on the downstairs level. Wheelchair spaces are also available at the other event locations. 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.

THINGS TO KNOW FOR YOUR CONCERT VISIT Entrance to the Concert Hall The house 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.

General Terms & Conditions The General Terms & Conditions may be found at www.lucernefestival.ch.

Ticket Outlets Throughout Switzerland BASEL Kulturhaus Bider & Tanner Vorverkaufsstelle Aeschenvorstadt 2 | CH–4010 Basel Mon – Wed and Fri, 9.00 am to 6.30 pm | Thu, 9.00 am to 8.00 pm | Sat, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm Musik Hug Basel Binniger Strasse 152 | CH–4123 Alschwil Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm | Sat, 9.00 am to 4.00 pm LUCERNE KKL Kartenverkauf (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 6.30 pm (Thu to 8.00 pm) | Sat, 8.30 am to 4.00 pm ZURICH Musik Hug Zurich Limmatquai 28–30 | CH –8022 Zürich Mon – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm | Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

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SOLOTHURN Central ticket outlet Buchhandlung Säli Ritterquai 4 | CH –4500 Solothurn Mon, 2.00 pm 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

Encores, lounge concerts, artist talk-backs & brief hosted performances in the KKL Luzern’s foyer – the Festival meeting point in a relaxed lounge atmosphere before and after the concert www.lucernefestival.ch

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.

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ARRIVAL VIA BUS AND TRAIN: YOUR CONCERT TICKET IS ALSO VALID AS A TRAVEL TICKET!

The parking garages are indicated in the adjacent map; you can find additional information at www.parking-luzern.ch.

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.

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.

Arrival and Departure by Train: 50% Rebate in the Swiss Rail Network As a concertgoer you can receive a discount of 50% for 1st or 2nd class at any Swiss Rail ticket window for a round trip to Lucerne. (The concert ticket must be presented to the inspector on the train.) With the half-fare card, the trip will cost only 25% 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 (www.sbb.ch/lucernefestival) before beginning your trip.

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

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.

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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. The American acoustician Russell Johnson emphasized this even more: from the beginning he 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

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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 Swiss-Chalet B&B, H 041 854 54 54 Merlischachen

bnb_loechli@bluewin.ch luzern@youthhostel.ch hotelpickwick@gastrag.ch info@hotelsonnenberg.ch info@theBandB.ch villamaria@bluewin.ch info@swiss-chalet.ch

Hotels not rated by hotelleriesuisse / GastroSuisse Alpha Alpina Luzern Altstadt Hotel Le Stelle Altstadt Hotel Magic Anstatthotel Business Apartments Aparthotel Adler Appartements Hofquartier Bed&Breakfast9 B & B Bettstatt Neustadt BnB Haus im Löchli Fox 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 Parkhotel, Zug Schweizerheim, Ebikon Schwendelberg

KKL

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

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www.continental.ch

077 406 43 31 041 418 47 47 041 375 85 64 041 419 46 46 041 410 24 74 041 329 12 12 041 367 80 99

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

041 362 11 33 041 727 48 48 041 429 71 10 041 340 35 40

lotus.luzern@gmail.com info@parkhotel.ch hotel@schweizerheim.ch info@schwendelberg.ch

with restaurant

Bellini Locanda Ticinese

Murbacherstrasse 4, CH-6002 Luzern, +41 41 228 90 50, hotel@continental.ch

info@lionlodge.ch

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

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St. Niklausenstrasse 105 | 6047 Kastanienbaum | Tel. +41 41 340 0 340 | www.seehotel-kastanienbaum.ch

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LUCERNE FESTIVAL SPECIAL A SYMPHONY OF THE SENSES • Stress-free parking in our multi-storey car park Casino-Palace • Enjoy an aperitif and dine with a delicious 3-course meal in the pleasant atmosphere of our Restaurant Olivo • Leisurely boat ride to the KKL and back to see the concert of your choice This true symphony of the senses is available for CHF 98 per person.

Book now at 041 418 56 61 or at www.grandcasinoluzern.ch

The “Ligeti Package” Purchase tickets for the Ligeti Late Night on 26 August (in the KKL Luzern) and for Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at the Luzerner Theater (performances start 8 September) and you will receive a combined discount of 20%. This offer is available only by telephoning either +41 (0)41 228 14 14 (Luzerner Theater) or +41 (0)41 226 44 80 (LUCERNE FESTIVAL).

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Visual Art Meets Music: “Soundzz.z.zzz…z” Combines the Arts The winner of the 2017 “Soundzz.z.zzz…z” Competition will present his project during the Summer Festival.

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In cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Luzern

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450 Years of Monteverdi

Indulge. Indulge. A gourmet restaurant with atmosphere. A gourmet restaurant with atmosphere. Have a feast, savour your choice, Have a and feast, savour your choice, enjoy yourself. and enjoy yourself. Hotel Wilden Mann Luzern Bahnhofstrasse 30Wilden · 6003 Luzern · T +41 41 210 16 66 Hotel Mann Luzern Bahnhofstrassewww.wilden-mann.ch 30 · 6003 Luzern · T +41 41 210 16 66

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the three Monteverdi operas 22 August 2017 L’Orfeo 25 August 2017 Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria 26 August 2017 L’incoronazione di Poppea KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

English Baroque Soloists Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner various soloists

Tickets at: t +41 (0)41 226 44 80 | www.lucernefestival.ch

Supporting Organizations Official Rail Carrier

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

Fumetto – International Comix-

23 September – 1 October 2017 www.worldbandfestival.ch

Festival Lucerne, 14 – 22 April 2018 www.fumetto.ch

SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne

Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern

29 October 2017 www.swisscitymarathon.ch

10 July 2018 www.spitzenleichtathletik.ch

Lucerne Blues Festival

Lucerne Regatta

11 – 19 November 2017 www.bluesfestival.ch

13 – 15 July 2018 www.lucerneregatta.com

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Piano

Blue Balls Festival

18 – 26 November 2017 www.lucernefestival.ch

20 – 28 July 2018 www.blueballs.ch

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Easter

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Summer

17 – 25 March 2018 www.lucernefestival.ch

17 August – 16 September 2018 www.lucernefestival.ch

Official Airline

LUCERNE FESTIVAL is member of

AMAG Audi Center Luzern, Car Partner KKL Luzern, Event Partner Luzern Tourismus MetaDesign, Partner in Communication Palace Luzern Radio SRF Kultur, Media Partner Tariff Union Passepartout, Partner in Public Transport VAN – an independent online classical music magazine, Media Partner

Image Credits p. 3: photo Geri Born, Zürich – p. 4 top, 5 bottom, 7 bottom, 13, 23, 32, 34, 65, 69, 74, and 86: photos Peter Fischli/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 6 top: photo Eric Melzer – p. 6 bottom and 60: photos Beowulf Sheehan – p. 7 top: photo Renske Vrolijk – p. 14: photo Gert Mothes/ Decca – p. 5 top, 15, 16, 35, 43, and 66: photos Marco Borggreve – p. 17: photo Thomas Egli/Tamedia AG – p. 19, 20, 22, 23, 37, 44/45, 57, 63, 76, 78, and 84: photos Priska Ketterer/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 21: photo Priska Ketterer/CREDIT SUISSE/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 24: photo Margrit Müller – p. 25 and 40: photo Stefan Deuber/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 26: photo Decca – p. 27: photo Nina Siven – p. 28: photo Daniel Vass – p. 4 bottom, 29, 52, and 96: photos Manuela Jans/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 30: photo Ismael Lorenzo – p. 31: photo Benjamin Ealovega – p. 32: photo Matje Vidmar – p. 36: photo Molina Visuals – p. 38: photo Anima Mandi Festival Pisa – p. 39: photo Patrizia Lanna – p. 41: photo Dan Porges – p. 42: photo Sheila Rock/Universal Classics – p. 46: photo David Ignaszewski – p. 47: photo Matthias Willi – p. 48: photo Andreas Knapp – p. 51: photo Patrick Hürlimann/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 53: photo Andreas Zihler – p. 54: photo JF Leclercq – p. 55: photo Sebastian Hänel – p. 56 and 71: photos Simon Fowler – p. 58: photo V. Baranovsky – p. 59: photo Sonus Brass Ensemble – p. 61: photo Dario Acosta – p. 62: photo Leila Navidi – p. 64: photo Judith Kinitz – p. 67: photo John Cooper – p. 70: photo Kaupo Kikkas – p. 72: photo Adriano Heitmann – p. 73: photo Sabrina Zwach – p. 75: collage Katja Pfleger – p. 77: photo Franca Pedrazzetti/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 109: photo Georg Anderhub/LUCERNE FESTIVAL

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Addresses | Publishing Credits

Theme Summer Festival “Identity”

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 | www.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 | www.lucernefestival.ch Publisher | LUCERNE FESTIVAL Foundation | www.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 February 2017 and is subject to alteration without prior notice. Printed prices are subject to correction.

The DNA of Music: Uniquely versatile This printed material has been prepared using a sustainable and carbon-neutral process according to the guidelines of FSC and ClimatePartner. Printed in Switzerland | © 2017 by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

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As theme sponsor of the Summer Festival we accompany LUCERNE FESTIVAL’s exploration of musical identities. Performance creates trust vontobel.ch

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