LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Summer Festival 2018 by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

C H I L D H O O D Summer Festival 17 August â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 16 September 2018 Program

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Dear Music Lovers,

F Michael Haefliger Executive and Artistic Director LUCERNE FESTIVAL

or the 2018 Summer Festival, we have chosen a theme that has many facets: “Childhood.” For some, childhood is a place of longing, the lost Paradise during a phase of life in which everything still made sense. For others, childhood memories are not so positive, mostly as a result of circumstances: whether involving the era or the social conditions into which they were born, or the people under whose control they grew up. Children represent innocence, love, the future, maybe also something godlike. “Become like little children!” Jesus Christ commanded. This is what the writer Erich Kästner, known as a famous children’s book author, regarded as an “unfulfillable demand.” Yet he also gave us this to think about: “We can seek to protect children from becoming like us.” Children will play an outstanding role at this year’s Summer Festival: as participants and audiences alike. We offer numerous events specifically devoted to young people and even the youngest, and we have organized some attractive offers to make a concert visit affordable for the entire family as well. The theme of “Childhood” is naturally also a leitmotif of the concert programming. You will be able to hear how great composers have imagined what it’s like to be and think like children again. We encounter numerous fairy-tales – and we will meet all kinds of “Wunderkinder,” child prodigies from the history of music as well as from the present. I hope that all of us will learn to be astonished again during the summer of 2018 in Lucerne, allowing our curiosity to reawaken. Perhaps our childhood never completely came to an end. Yours,

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Riccardo Chailly has been associated with LUCERNE FESTIVAL for thirty years, and since 2016 has served as Music Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. This summer, Chailly and his elite ensemble will cast their gaze at Russia (with Stravinsky’s fairy-tale Firebird) and France (in works by Debussy and Ravel). They will then dedicate themselves to a program of Wagner and Bruckner. And they will join with the Chinese star pianist Lang Lang. see pp. 19, 27, 33, 36, 40

Sounds of the Summer of Music 2018

“Cosmos Stockhausen”

Back to the music of the future: Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the most significant and influential composers of the 20th century, was born ninety years ago. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY is dedicating a major tribute to this sonic visionary who died in 2007. And will give the world premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Reading Malevich, a major new orchestral score. see pp. 53, 55, 59, 72, 74, 77, 78

Sol Gabetta | “Artiste étoile”

This summer’s “star artist” is a sun. Fourteen years ago, Sol Gabetta launched her international career in Lucerne. She now returns as “artiste étoile,” ready to perform solo highlights including cello classics by Haydn and Elgar, as well as chamber music and rarities such as Bohuslav Martinů’s First Cello Concerto. see pp. 26, 40, 43, 46, 48, 69, 87

The Orchestra Festival

Together with their chief conductor designate, Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic celebrates the 60th anniversary of their debut at Lucerne in 2018. Sir Simon Rattle travels for the first time in the company of the London Symphony Orchestra to Lucerne. LUCERNE FESTIVAL is where you can experience the top international orchestras: the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and many more. World-class ensembles, day after day!

Fritz Hauser | “Composer-in-Residence” “I try to playfully involve the audience in a different way of listening.” The Swiss composer and drummer Fritz Hauser transforms rhythm into sound and sound into color: explorations of the world of percussion on the border between improvising and composing. see pp. 24, 27, 37, 39, 45, 53, 74, 84, 86, 87, 90, 92

Dan Tanson | “Artiste étoile”

Dan Tanson is just the right “artiste étoile” for Lucerne’s “Summer of Childhood” in 2018. The Luxembourg director makes imaginative pieces of music theater for “young listeners from 3 to 99 years old.” For him, being young is not just a matter of age.

see pp. 40, 54, 82, 84, 91

Look | Listen | Enjoy – Together at the Concert

We’ve taken this year’s Festival theme of “Childhood” as an opportunity to reform our special “Bring Your Kids to the Concert” offer. We’re now calling it “Look | Listen | Enjoy – Together at the Concert.” And here are some new changes: • You can now purchase your tickets in advance, before general ticket sales start. They are high lighted in the program section with a green circle. On our homepage, we will as usual announce more concerts, about four weeks before the start of advance sales for each Festival, at: lucernefestival.ch/look-listen-enjoy • You can now bring two children to the concert for free. • The special offer is now valid for all price groups. In addition, please note: this special offer is of course not only for children and their parents but also their grandparents, aunts, uncles, godmothers and godfathers … For what could be better than to attend a concert together and introduce your little ones to the secrets of classical music?

LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG

Contents

6 The Program at a Glance 17 Concerts and Events 94 The Partners of LUCERNE FESTIVAL 96 Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL 100 Ticketing Information 102 New at LUCERNE FESTIVAL 103 Ticket Outlets Throughout Switzerland 106 Seating Maps 113 Getting There 127 Supporting Organizations 128 Addresses | Publishing Credits

Big experiences for little Festivalgoers: Through exciting stories and age-appropriate programs, LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG is aimed at children and adolescents. Because they are not just the audiences of tomorrow but already the listeners of today. see pp. 20, 22, 35, 40, 41, 54, 82, 91

Summer Festival | August 2018 Fri 17.08.

Sat 18.08.

Sun 19.08. 6

National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain | Glenn D. Price

p. 18

18.30 | KS Opening Concert

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Lang Lang

p. 19

11.00 | SK

Film

“Kinders” (“Children”)

p. 20

12.30 | SK

Panel Discussion

on the Orchestra Camp

p. 20

14.30 | KS Young Family Concert

Orchestra Camp of LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Ulysses Ascanio

p. 20

16.00 | LK Chamber Music 1

Edith Mathis | Rafael Fingerlos | Sascha El Mouissi

p. 21

17.00 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

17.00 | I

Hosted by the Buvette

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI

p. 23

18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 1

Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Bernard Haitink | Alina Ibragimova

p. 23

21.00 | LS

Basler Madrigalisten | contrapunkt chor | Percussion Trio Klick | Brigitte Dubach | Fritz Hauser

p. 24

10.00 | MK Theme-Related Worship Service

Marcel Köppli | Marco Schmid

p. 26

11.00 | KS

Symphony Concert 2

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Jonathan Nott | Renaud Capuçon

p. 25

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

14.30 | KS Chamber Music 2

Matthias Goerne | Sol Gabetta | Kristian Bezuidenhout

p. 26

16.00 | KM Visavis

Fritz Hauser | TBA

p. 27

18.30 | A

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 27

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Lang Lang

p. 27

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

p. 56

with Heinz Holliger and Mark Sattler (in German)

p. 28

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 4 – Chamber Orchestra of Europe | räsonanz Donor Concert LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Heinz Holliger |

p. 28

17.00 | E

A Concert for Everyone

Modern 1

Concert Introduction

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 3 Composer Seminar Mon 20.08. 10.00/ 12.00 | CR 18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

Sir András Schiff | Miklós Perényi

Tue 21.08.

10.00/ Composer Seminar 12.00 | CR

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

p. 56

17.30 | E

In the Streets – Opening Concert

Music groups from all around the world

p. 29

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 29

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Lisa Batiashvili

p. 29

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

p. 56

18.00 | AS In the Streets

Music groups from all around the world

p. 30

18.20 | LS

Brass Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

p. 30

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 6

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Elsa Dreisig

p. 30

10.00/ Composer Seminar 12.00 | CR

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

p. 56

12.15 | LK

Ryu Goto | Michael Dussek

p. 31

18.00 | AS In the Streets

Music groups from all around the world

p. 32

18.20 | LS

Bavarian Radio Choir

p. 32

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 7

Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Bernard Haitink | Sir András Schiff

p. 32

10.00/ Composer Seminar 12.00 | CR

with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann et al.

p. 56

18.00 | AS In the Streets

Music groups from all around the world

p. 33

18.30 | A

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 33

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 8

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Bavarian Radio Choir | Riccardo Chailly

p. 33

10.00/ In the Streets 18.00 | AS

Music groups from all around the world

p. 34

11.00 | LS

Modern 2

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher

p. 34

11.00/ Young Family Concert 15.00 | KT

“Domande – Fragen” (“Questions”)

p. 35

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

17.00 | I

Hosted by the Buvette

selected Festival artists

p. 36

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

p. 36

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 5 Composer Seminar Wed 22.08. 10.00/ 12.00 | CR

Thu 23.08.

Fri 24.08.

Sat 25.08.

40min

Debut 1

40min

Concert Introduction

18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 9

Sat 25.08.

we spoke: percussion | Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Fritz Hauser

p. 37

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

Liturgical Service for the Church Consecration Festival

Luzerner Kantorei | Choir and Instrumentalists of the Collegium Musicum Luzern | Eberhard Rex | Sergei Aprischkin

p. 43

we spoke: percussion | Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Fritz Hauser

p. 39

Patricia Kopatchinskaja | Sol Gabetta | Soloists of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Dan Tanson

p. 40

11.00 | KM Child & Play & Art

“Designing Animals” Workshop

p. 41

Music groups from all around the world

p. 40

13.00 | KM Instrument Presentation for Children

“Meet the Instruments” with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI

p. 41

13.00 | LS

Special Event Day − Concert 3

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher | Participants in the Conducting Fellowship

p. 42

14.30 | LS

Special Event Day − Concert 4

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher | Participants in the Conducting Fellowship

p. 42

14.30 | A

NZZ Podium

Alma Deutscher | Sol Gabetta | Norbert Gstrein | Martin Meyer | Margrit Stamm

p. 43

16.30 | KS Special Event Day − Concert 5

21st Century Orchestra | Ludwig Wicki

p. 44

19.30 | KS Special Event Day − Concert 6

Fritz Hauser

p. 45

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | François-Xavier Roth | Sol Gabetta

p. 46

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 10

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | James Gaffigan | Daniil Trifonov

p. 46

12.15 | LK

Debut 2

Anna Hashimoto | Florian Mitrea

p. 47

18.20 | LS

40min

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher

p. 48

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | François-Xavier Roth | Sol Gabetta

p. 48

Alma Deutscher | Isabel Charisius | Ivo Haag | Rebecca Krynski Cox

p. 49

22.00 | KS Modern 3

Sun 26.08. 14.30 | T 17.00 | JK

Sun 26.08. 9.45 | KKL Special Event Day − Concert 1

Special Event Day

11.00 | KS

Mon 27.08. 18.20 | LS

Tue 28.08.

Special Event Day − Concert 2

In the Streets

40min

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 11 Wed 29.08. 12.15 | LK

“Wunderkind” Debut 1

Wed 29.08. 14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

40min

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Participants in the Composer Seminar | Wolfgang Rihm

p. 50

Berlin Philharmonic | Kirill Petrenko

p. 50

Debut 3

Sheku Kanneh-Mason | Isata Kanneh-Mason

p. 51

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 52

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 13

Berlin Philharmonic | Kirill Petrenko | Yuja Wang

p. 52

12.15 | KM Visavis

Fritz Hauser | Sylwia Zytynska

p. 53

18.20 | LS

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | conductors | soloists

p. 53

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Yefim Bronfman

p. 53

“Senegalliarde”

p. 54

11.00 | MH Cosmos Stockhausen 1

Pierre-Laurent Aimard | Tamara Stefanovich

p. 55

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

15.00 | LS

Modern 4

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI | Participants in the Conducting Fellowship and the Composer Seminar | Wolfgang Rihm

p. 56

17.00 | I

Hosted by the Buvette

selected Festival artists

p. 57

17.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Peter Eötvös and Mark Sattler (in German)

p. 57

18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 15

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher | Pierre-Laurent Aimard | Tamara Stefanovich

p. 57

22.00 | KS Late Night

Central Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra | Joseph Sieber

p. 58

Cosmos Stockhausen 2

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Lin Liao | David Fulmer | dancers

p. 59

13.00 | A

Film

“Karlheinz Stockhausen: Lecture on HU”

p. 59

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds | Leia Zhu

p. 60

18.20 | LS

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 12 Thu 30.08. 12.15 | LK 18.30 | A

Fri 31.08.

40min

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 14

September 2018 Sat 01.09.

11.00/ 15.00 | N

Sun 02.09. 11.00 | LS

Young Family Concert

14.30 | KS Afternoon Concert

Sun 02.09. 15.00 | A

Panel Discussion

Kathinka Pasveer | Peter Eötvös | Wolfgang Rihm | Thomas Ulrich

p. 59

17.00 | LS

Cosmos Stockhausen 3

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Peter Eötvös | dancers

p. 59

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 61

Munich Philharmonic | Valery Gergiev | Leonidas Kavakos

p. 61

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI

p. 62

Munich Philharmonic | Valery Gergiev

p. 62

Paul Huang | Orion Weiss

p. 63

St. Petersburg Philharmonic | Yuri Temirkanov | Sergei Redkin

p. 64

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 16 Mon 03.09. 18.20 | LS

40min

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 17 Tue 04.09. 12.15 | LK

Debut 4

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 18 Wed 05.09. 12.15 | LK

“Wunderkind” Debut 2

Lionel Martin | Luisa Schwegler

p. 65

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 66

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam | Daniele Gatti | Anett Fritsch

p. 66

Dmitry Masleev

p. 67

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 19 Thu 06.09. 12.15 | LK

Debut 5

Fri 07.09.

Sat 08.09.

40min

p. 68

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 69

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 21

Vienna Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst | Sol Gabetta

p. 69

20.00 | LT Music Theater 1

“Opera Without Text”

p. 70

11.00 | KM Homage à Klaus Huber

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

p. 71

14.00 | A

Film

“El pueblo nunca muere”

p. 71

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

16.00 | MH Cosmos Stockhausen 4

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Pierre-Laurent Aimard | Dirk Rothbrust

p. 72

17.00 | I

selected Festival artists

p. 73

18.30 | A

Concert Introduction

Hosted by the Buvette

Sat 08.09.

with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 73

18.30 | KS Symphony Concert 22

Vienna Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst | Kian Soltani

p. 73

21.00 | N

Modern 5

we spoke: percussion | SoloVoices | soloists

p. 74

21.00 | LT

Music Theater 2

“Kindertotenlieder”

p. 75

Symphony Concert 23

English Chamber Orchestra | Wolfram Christ | Anuk Steffen

p. 76

11.00 | MH Cosmos Stockhausen 5

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

p. 77

14.30 | T

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

17.30 | A

Sun 09.09. 11.00 | KS

Concert Introduction

Young Puppet Theater

p. 78

p. 79

London Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Sir Simon Rattle | Matthias Pintscher | Duncan Ward with Susanne Stähr (in German)

p. 78

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 25

London Symphony Orchestra | London Symphony Choir | Sir Simon Rattle | soloists

p. 80

12.15 | LK

Debut 6

Rolston String Quartet

p. 81

18.20 | LS

40min

Young Performance

p. 82

London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle | Krystian Zimerman

p. 82

21.00 | LS

Mon 10.09. 18.30 | A

Tue 11.09.

Cosmos Stockhausen 6

Cosmos Stockhausen 7

Concert Introduction

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 26

p. 80

Wed 12.09. 12.15 | LK

“Wunderkind” Debut 3

Dmitry Ishkhanov

p. 83

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

18.00 | KM Eyes & Ears

Fritz Hauser | Patrick Steffen

p. 84

18.20 | LS

Dan Tanson and surprise guests

p. 84

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 27

Boston Symphony Orchestra | Andris Nelsons | Baiba Skride

p. 84

12.15 | LK

Debut 7

Sebastian Bohren | José Gallardo

p. 85

18.20 | LS

40min

Martina Brodbeck | Fritz Hauser

p. 86

Boston Symphony Orchestra | Choirs | Andris Nelsons | Susan Graham

p. 86

Thu 13.09.

40min

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 28

Fri 14.09.

Sat 15.09.

Sun 16.09.

12.15 | KM Visavis

Fritz Hauser | Peter Conradin Zumthor

p. 87

19.30 | KS Symphony Concert 29

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Marin Alsop | Sol Gabetta

p. 87

14.30 | T

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

16.30 | KS Symphony Concert 30

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla | Gidon Kremer

p. 88

19.30 | LK Chamber Music 3

casalQuartett

p. 89

21.00 | LT

Music Theater 3

Fritz Hauser | Barbara Frey | Brigitte Dubach

p. 90

11.00/ 15.00 | LS

Young Performance

“HEROÏCA”

p. 91

14.00 | KM Eyes & Ears

Fritz Hauser | Judith Albert

p. 92

14.30 | T

Young Puppet Theater

“The Land of Dreams”

p. 22

15.30 | A

Panel Discussion

Peter Zumthor | Fritz Hauser

p. 92

Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco | Men’s Choir of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo | Gianluca Capuano | Claudia Blersch | Cecilia Bartoli et al.

p. 92

Young Puppet Theater

17.00 | KS Symphony Concert 31

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

Main Sponsors

Theme Sponsor Concert Sponsors

Clariant | Dr. Christoph M. Müller and Sibylla M. Müller | Franke | KPMG AG

Co-Sponsors

Foundations

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation – Partner räsonanz Donor concert Fritz Gerber Foundation – Partner Fritz-Gerber-Award Hilti Foundation – Partner Orchestra Camp

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.

Organization Honorary Board

Alain Berset, 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 City of Lucerne

Board of Trustees of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Honorary Chairman Jürg R. Reinshagen

Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Board of Trustees Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann, Chairman | Otto Wyss, Treasurer | Elisabeth Oltramare | Dr. Michel Stadlin | Corinna von Schönau-Riedweg 16

Directorship

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

Artistic Office

Commercial Management

C O N C E R T S A N D E V E N T S 17

Friday, 17 August A Concert for Everyone 17.00 Europaplatz

“The future of music lies in the hands of young players such as these”

Sir Simon Rattle

Free admission

National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain Glenn D. Price conductor Edward Gregson Fanfare from The Sword and the Crown ca. 3’

George Frideric Handel Overture from the Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 | ca. 6’ Kenneth Hesketh Danceries | ca. 16’ Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story | ca. 20’ Malcolm Arnold Sarabande from the ballet Solitaire ca. 3’

Adam Gorb Awayday | ca. 7’ William Walton Crown Imperial | ca. 7’ This concert has no intermission

The young generation should of course have the honors of kicking off the “Summer of Childhood.” With an open-air performance on the Europaplatz, right in front of the KKL Luzern, the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain will get us in tune for the Opening Concert to follow with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA and Riccardo Chailly. The ensemble comprises more than 60 musicians between the ages of 14 and 21, and for their first Festival performance they are bringing along assorted hits from their homeland. Their catchy program ranges from festive fanfares, beginning with Music for the Royal Fireworks by that migrant to London, George Frideric Handel, to such modern British masters as William Walton, whose beloved march Crown Imperial was played at the coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II and also at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. They will also take a detour to America with dances from the ever-young West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated by the music world in 2018.

“Every genius is a big child” Arthur Schopenhauer

Friday, 17 August Opening Concert 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 350/300/240/170/100/50 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18301

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Lang Lang piano Igor Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks. Concerto in E-flat major for Chamber Orchestra

ca. 16’

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

ca. 33’

Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Fairy-tale ballet in two scenes (original version from 1909-10) ca. 50’

30th anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s Lucerne debut

Fairy-tales are a leitmotif running through the 2018 Festival Summer, which is devoted to the theme of “Childhood.” Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA will open the proceedings with an excursion into the world of Russian fairy-tale as they focus on Igor Stravinsky’s flamboyantly colorful and lushly orchestrated Firebird, with which the composer launched his career overnight. The titular bird is here the deus ex machina who frees Prince Ivan Czarevich and the beautiful Czarina from captivity in the garden of the evil wizard Kashchei as a reward to the Prince for his goodheartedness. Decades later, another magical garden, the wondrous Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., inspired Stravinsky to compose his neoclassical concerto of the same name. Meanwhile, we will hear music from the classical era itself with Mozart − a composer who even as a mature adult retained something childlike, as when he would play anything that came under his fingers like a piano: his hat and bag, his table and the chairs.

Nestlé S.A. – Main Sponsor

Saturday, 18 August Young Family Concert 14.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event no. 18302

“The lofty art of music is no longer a social luxury” José Antonio Abreu, Founder of El Sistema

Orchestra Camp of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Ulysses Ascanio conductor “Superar Suisse and Friends” Ludwig van Beethoven 4th movement from the Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | ca. 11’ Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor ca. 2’

Gioachino Rossini Overture to Guillaume Tell | ca. 12’ Dmitri Shostakovich Waltz No. 2 from the Suite No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra ca. 4’

Johann Strauss Senior Radetzky March, Op. 228 | ca. 3’ 20

for ages 7 and up This concert has no intermission

Film 11.00 | stattkino Free admission Kinders (“Childrens”) [in German] Film by Arash and Arman Riahi (Austria 2016) Panel Discussion on the Orchestra Camp 12.30 | stattkino Free admission

In collaboration with the Institute for Social-Cultural Development of the Hochschule Luzern

The “Summer of Childhood” in 2018 initiates an important project that has the generation of tomorrow in mind. In the coming years, before the start of each Summer Festival, an orchestra camp in cooperation with Superar Suisse will be held, which is made possible by the Hilti Foundation. The camp will invite children and teenagers from a wide variety of backgrounds in whose countries free music support is made possible in a model inspired by the El Sistema initiative in Venezuela. In Lucerne they will prepare a symphonic program over the course of a week, which they will then present in the large KKL Concert Hall. The uniqueness of these young instrumentalists will be heard, valued, and supported, creating a productive atmosphere in every respect. The shared music-making will motivate them to transcend themselves and overcome barriers. At the same time, they will be immersed in the exciting world of the Festival, get a glimpse behind the scenes, and be able to share inspiration with the musicians of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, who at the same time will be rehearsing for their own performances. Hilti Foundation – Partner Orchestra Camp

“When Edith Mathis sings, you believe her” Peter Hagmann in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Saturday, 18 August Chamber Music 1 16.00 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18303

Edith Mathis recitation Rafael Fingerlos baritone Sascha El Mouissi piano Robert Schumann Dichterliebe, Op. 48 and other selected Lieder Heinrich Heine Poems from the Lyrisches Intermezzo This concert has no intermission This concert ends at approx. 17.30

Edith Mathis is one of Lucerne’s most famous “daughters.” In the middle of the 1960s, she rose to become an internationally acclaimed Mozart soprano. Mathis worked with all the great figures of her time, from Karl Böhm to Herbert von Karajan, and she inspired audiences in New York, London, Munich, Vienna, Paris, Glyndebourne, and Salzburg. But even those who never experienced her live and know only her recordings enjoy the charm of this lyrical, warm voice, laced with silver at the top of its range. Edith Mathis possessed the lofty art of sounding natural, and since she also knew how to sing in a way that made the texts clearly intelligible, she was predestined for the art of lieder singing, which she taught from 1992 to 2006 at the University of Music in Vienna. Edith Mathis celebrated her 80th birthday on 11 February – and LUCERNE FESTIVAL now pays homage with a chamber concert. Rafael Fingerlos, a baritone who was born in 1986 in Austria, will sing Schumann’s Dichterliebe, based on the poetry of Heinrich Heine, and Edith Mathis will recite the poet’s verses between each song.

Saturday, 18 August Young Puppet Theater 17.00 Pavillon Tribschenhorn Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event nos. 18455 & 18475

“There is no age in which you experience everything with such insane intensity as in childhood” Astrid Lindgren

Puppet Theater PETRUSCHKA: Marianne Hofer concept, puppetry, and sand painting Jenny Scherer puppetry Jodok Vuille cello Stefanie Burgener piano Robert Hofer set design and staging technology “Das Traumland” (“The Land of Dreams” [in German]) Performed and drawn in the sand by the Puppet Theater PETRUSCHKA Featuring music by Edvard Grieg, Sergei Prokofiev, and Jodok Vuille premiere ca. 60’

A co-production with the Puppet Theater PETRUSCHKA for ages 5 and up

This event has no intermission

Additional Performances Until 30 September 2018 always on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 14.30 (exception: no performance on 22 August and 19 September) Additional performances on Friday, 21 and 28 September, both at 19.30, and on Sunday, 23 September, at 11.00

A little girl is so caught up in playing that she completely forgets her surroundings. All of a sudden, the puppets with which she has been playing come to life, and the story she was imagining becomes real. The good sorcerer suddenly appears in front of her. The evil sorceress has stolen from him the key to the Land of Dreams, from which she has banished him − along with music, for music gives the sorcerer his magical power. Which is why he asks the little girl to look for the key for him in the Land of Dreams and to bring it to him so that he can return there. The little heroine decides to help the sorcerer and embarks on an ambitious journey… For years the imaginative productions of Puppet Theater PETRUSCHKA have been a regular part of our summer programming for young listeners. The puppets and scenery are designed in loving detail. Live musicians provide appropriate sonic backgrounds. Plus, there is the artful sand painting of Marianne Hofer…

“Everyone was gripped and delighted”

Felix Mendelssohn after the world premiere of the Great C major Symphony

Saturday, 18 August Symphony Concert 1 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18306

Chamber Orchestra of Europe Bernard Haitink conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Felix Mendelssohn Overture to The Fair Melusine, Op. 32 ca. 10’

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

ca. 26’

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944 Great

ca. 60’

Alina Ibragimova

Franz Schubert’s international reputation as a symphonist has Felix Mendelssohn largely to thank. For it was Mendelssohn who led the world premiere of Schubert’s Great C major Symphony in 1839, 11 years following the early death of his Austrian colleague. Through this trail-blazing act, he disproved the commonly held prejudice that Schubert was merely a master of the art of the song. After the premiere, Robert Schumann, who had tracked the score down amid Schubert’s papers, wrote: “All these instruments are human voices and immeasurably spirited, and this instrumentation, and these lengths, these heavenly lengths, like a novel in four volumes.” For their first performance this summer, Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, who have formed a dream team since 2008, will juxtapose the two former child prodigies: Schubert and Mendelssohn – both of whom share the sound of the soul. The soloist will be the Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova, of whose performance of the Mendelssohn concerto the Guardian noted: “You feel you are hearing it for the first time.” Nestlé S.A. – Main Sponsor

At the Buvette 17.00 Inseli Open-air concert with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI

Saturday, 18 August Modern 1 21.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18305

“Voice and percussion were the first vocal utterances of human beings” Fritz Hauser

Basler Madrigalisten (Raphael Immoos chorus master) contrapunkt chor (Abélia Nordmann chorus master) Percussion Trio Klick: Fritz Hauser, Lucas Niggli and Peter Conradin Zumthor percussion Brigitte Dubach lighting Fritz Hauser overall artistic direction “Chortrommel” Ten world premieres by Olivier Cuendet, Fritz Hauser, Christian Henking, Leonardo Idrobo, Vera Kappeler, Lucas Niggli, Katharina Rosenberger, Denis Schuler, Mike Svoboda, and Helena Winkelman ca. 80’

production in collaboration with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and Kaserne Basel 24

This concert has no intermission Fritz Hauser

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Chortrommel – the title (lit., “Choirdrum”) evokes the idea of a hybrid creature: half-human and half-instrument. And this hybrid creature has been brought to life by the Swiss percussionist and composer Fritz Hauser. For the first concert of his Lucerne retrospective as composer-in-residence, he combines 12 vocal soloists from the Basler Madrigalisten with the large-scale contrapunkt chor from Muttenz and a percussion trio. Out of this archaic combination of voice and percussion, there emerges a nearly 100-member ensemble, a giant mobile instrument. Hauser has selected nine composers to write works for this unusual scoring, each lasting four to seven minutes. He will join them together with some musical transitions of his own and with choreographic elements, a spatial concept, and lighting design to create an organically unified work.

“I want to give pleasure” Richard Strauss on Schlagobers

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Jonathan Nott conductor Renaud Capuçon violin

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Sunday, 19 August Symphony Concert 2 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 107 | Event no. 18308

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Claude Debussy Jeux. Poème dansé

ca. 20’

Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 ca. 35’

Richard Strauss Suite from the ballet Schlagobers, Op. 70 ca. 50’

Concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

What child has not dreamed of finally being allowed to eat as many sweets as they want to? Richard Strauss set this dream to music in 1924 with his ballet score Schlagobers. In this work, he has a group of confirmation candidates celebrate in a Vienna cake shop, where Princess Pralinée, Prince Cocoa, Don Sugar, and the army of marzipan, gingerbread, and a giant bundt cake await them. Even if cheerful waltzes and polkas are danced, such overindulgence is not left unpunished – the whipped cream (the meaning of “Obers”) ensures in particular that the children will soon enter an altered state. Things become more erotic in Claude Debussy’s Jeux, a musical tennis match among three young people who look for a ball that has gone missing and, as the dusk sets in, seductively brush up against each other as if by chance… But the focus of this matinee with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, is Jean Sibelius and his famous Violin Concerto, whose crystalline sounds are in the best hands with Renaud Capuçon.

Sunday, 19 August Chamber Music 2 14.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“I take great joy in this project”

Sol Gabetta

Ticket prices 120/90/60 Seating map 6, p. 108 | Event no. 18331

Matthias Goerne baritone Sol Gabetta cello Kristian Bezuidenhout piano Robert Schumann Five Pieces in the Folk Tone, Op. 102 ca. 18’

Johannes Brahms Two Songs, Op. 91 ca. 12’

Franz Schubert Auf dem Strom (“On the Stream”) D 943 | ca. 9’ Ludwig van Beethoven Adelaide, Op. 46 ca. 7’

Robert Schumann Die Löwenbraut (“The Lion’s Bride”) Op. 31, no. 1 ca. 9’

and other works

Worship Service Themes 10.00 Matthäuskirche Ecumenical worship service on the Festival theme of “Childhood” with Marcel Köppli and Marco Schmid Musical Direction: Stephen Smith

Sol Gabetta can be relied on to astonish. As here, when she launches her residency as the 2018 Summer Festival “artiste étoile” with a chamber concert the likes of which you will not have heard before. She will appear in collaboration not only with the South African pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, a specialist on the fortepiano, but also with the baritone Matthias Goerne. Cello and voice – how does that work? − you may ask, but for Gabetta it is precisely the unorthodox combination that is so interesting. Not by coincidence, she has realized a similar program with the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, titled Dolce Duello. “I am fascinated by Goerne’s voice,” remarks Gabetta. “His uncompromising way of approaching music has deeply influenced me.” The three will perform various lieder with obligato instrumental accompaniment, some of them original works, some of them arranged by Alexander Schmalcz expressly for this performance. Also to be heard are Schumann’s highly Romantic Five Pieces in Folk Tone for cello and piano.

“Mozart is good for me” Lang Lang

Sunday, 19 August Symphony Concert 3 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18304

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Lang Lang piano Igor Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks. Concerto in E-flat major for Chamber Orchestra

ca. 16’

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

ca. 33’

Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Fairy-tale ballet in two scenes (original version from 1909-10) ca. 50’

30th anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s Lucerne debut

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart is considered the epitome of the child prodigy. He was only six years old when he wrote down his first compositions and was admired all over Europe at princely courts for all kinds of tricks, such as playing “blind” at a covered keyboard. For his part, Lang Lang also began his training at a very young age. He was two years old when he saw the cartoon series Tom and Jerry on television and was so inspired by how the cat Tom played Liszt that he could not be dragged away from the piano afterward. Yet like Mozart, Lang Lang suffered from an ambitious father who compelled him to do daily exercises. His legendary dexterity is the fruit of this discipline, yet the Chinese pianist can do a great deal more and knows exactly what he wants to do and what to leave aside. After being stricken by tendonitis of the left hand in the spring of 2017, Lang Lang decided to take a break and has since devoted himself chiefly to Bach. And Mozart, with whose moving C minor Concerto he now makes his comeback.

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Visavis 16.00 | Kunstmuseum Luzern Admission is free with a museum ticket Fritz Hauser | TBA Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Monday, 20 August Symphony Concert 4 – räsonanz Donor Concert 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Always play as if your life depended on it”

György Kurtág

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 108 | Event no. 18309

Chamber Orchestra of Europe LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Heinz Holliger conductor Sir András Schiff piano Miklós Perényi cello Arnold Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9

ca. 23’

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 27, no. 1 Sonata quasi una fantasia ca. 16’

Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, no. 2 Sonata quasi una fantasia ca. 15’

György Kurtág … quasi una fantasia …, Op. 27, no. 1 ca. 10’

Double Concerto, Op. 27, no. 2 ca. 18’

Sir András Schiff

Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Heinz Holliger in conversation with Mark Sattler (in German)

Heinz Holliger COncErto? Certo! cOn soli pEr tutti (… perduti? …)! | ca. 20’

With the new series räsonanz, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation has set itself the task of supporting contemporary orchestral music, including an annual concert at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. Kicking it off was Wolfgang Rihm’s work Requiem-Strophen, which was heard at the 2017 Easter Festival. The series now continues with György Kurtág and two works that were conceived as “spatial music.” Individual instrumental groups are thereby distributed in the hall – the listeners thus are located within the musical events. Since Kurtág refers specifically to Ludwig van Beethoven and both of his similarly named Op. 27 piano sonatas with one of these compositions, … quasi una fantasia …, Sir András Schiff, the soloist for the Kurtág, will also intersperse these two works. And the conductor Heinz Holliger will be heard with one of his own scores: COncErto? Certo! cOn soli pEr tutti (… perduti? …)! which he wrote for the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. The COE is not only coded into the title but, naturally, on hand to perform it.

räsonanz Donor Concert. An initiative of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, in cooperation with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and musica viva of Bavarian Radio

“I am God”

Tuesday, 21 August Symphony Concert 5 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Alexander Scriabin

Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18310

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Lisa Batiashvili violin Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

ca. 45’

Claude Debussy La Mer ca. 24’

Alexander Scriabin Le Poème de l’extase, Op. 54

ca. 20’

Special experiences await you at this concert: “It was like a bath of ice, cocaine, and rainbows,” remarked the American writer Henry Miller of the effect made on him by Alexander Scriabin’s orgiastic orchestral fantasy Le Poème de l’extase. No wonder, when it comes to a composer regarded as a visionary who touched on the very limits of madness. Scriabin even saw himself as a kind of Prometheus and declared: “The world lives in my consciousness, as my act of creation.” Claude Debussy also experienced a mystical moment when he conceived his impressionist tone poem La Mer. With this music, he wished not to create a musical depiction of the roaring waves and sparkling water but rather to reflect the impression that the play of the waves awakened within him. Impressive in any case is how Lisa Batiashvili performs the Brahms Violin Concerto. According to the Guardian, she is a gifted storyteller, while the Wiener Standard praised her bright violin sound, comparing it to “a ray of light.”

Opening Concert of “In the Streets” 17.30 Europaplatz Music groups from all around the world Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Wednesday, 22 August Symphony Concert 6 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18311

“The most beautiful thing that I have written”

Anton Bruckner on the Adagio of his Ninth Symphony

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Elsa Dreisig soprano David Robert Coleman Looking for Palestine for soprano and orchestra Swiss premiere ca. 15’

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

“In the Streets” 18.00−22.00 Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all around the world 40min “Hommage à Philip Jones” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Brass Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Anton Bruckner dedicated his Seventh Symphony to King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his Eighth to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. But who might continue this illustrious series with the Ninth and be crowned with its dedication? The only one to come into question was the dear God himself, whom Bruckner in fact did choose as the dedicatee of his symphonic swan song – for it was to him alone, the Almighty, that he ultimately owed his artistic gifts. With its religious allusions, Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth is a deeply heartfelt testimony of faith, a prayer and confession in the face of death. Juxtaposed with this masterwork of late Romanticism, Daniel Barenboim will present a novelty for soprano and orchestra that was composed by the British David Robert Coleman, who was born in 1969. Looking for Palestine is its title, and it sets texts from the memoirs of the same name by the American-Palestinian author and actress Najla Said, the daughter of Edward Said, with whom Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 1999.

“Impeccable technical credentials and a personal musical flair” Lorin Maazel on Ryu Goto

Thursday, 23 August Debut 1 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18312

Ryu Goto violin Michael Dussek piano Robert Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121 ca. 32’

Kaija Saariaho Tocar for violin and piano ca. 7’

Claude Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor

ca. 15’

Henri Wieniawski Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 15 ca. 13’

This concert has no intermission

Is this what comes to mind when you think of a young star violinist? Ryu Goto has a Black Belt in karate, graduated with a degree in physics from Harvard, plays guitar, and is inspired by Jimi Hendrix. That’s one side of the coin. On the other are his performances with the New York and the Munich Philharmonics, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. As the son of two violinists and the younger brother of the American-Japanese virtuosa Midori, Ryu, who was born in 1988, grew up with violin music. At the age of three, he began studying the instrument and performed as a seven-year-old child prodigy at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo. His champions have included such conductors as Lorin Maazel and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and he has also worked with Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jonathan Nott, and the composer Tan Dun. In Lucerne Ryu Goto will introduce himself with works by composers from Schumann to Saariaho.

Thursday, 23 August Symphony Concert 7 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18313

“Everyone plays it – but not very well”

András Schiff on Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto

Chamber Orchestra of Europe Bernard Haitink conductor Sir András Schiff piano Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a ca. 13’

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 ca. 37’

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 Pastoral ca. 45’

“In the Streets” 18.00−22.00 Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all around the world 40min “Totally vocal” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Bavarian Radio Choir

The major Beethoven cycle that Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe performed during the 2008-09 season at LUCERNE FESTIVAL ranks among the ultimate highlights in recent Festival history. For that project, Haitink not only drew on the sum of a half-century of experience with this composer – he also explored new ground with the latest research findings, such as the fast tempo indications of Beethoven’s scores. “Haitink knows how to enliven every detail and to make the subtlest distinctions,” wrote the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. “You have the impression that you are hearing and experiencing everything there is in this music. How powerfully the energies bounce off each other, set loose with such fabulous transparency for the ears! With a clarity that is also due to the virtuosic, wide-awake listening and intelligent shared thinking of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.” Now, in the summer of 2018, comes an “encore,” with the enchanting Pastoral as the main work. And before it, Sir András Schiff will show how the real Beethoven should sound with the First Piano Concerto.

“The future will say what is a classic”

Friday, 24 August Symphony Concert 8 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Claude Debussy

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18314

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Bavarian Radio Choir (Howard Arman chorus master) Riccardo Chailly conductor Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

ca. 10’

Trois Nocturnes ca. 26’

Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé. Ballet in one act ca. 55’

30th anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s Lucerne debut

What happens when children grow up and become adults? For their second program, which is inspired by Impressionism, Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA dedicate themselves to the phenomenon of puberty and adolescence. Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, which will be heard in its complete ballet version, recounts the fate of two young shepherds. Both of them grew up without parents, but now, as 13- and 15-year-olds, they discover love together. Ravel, who himself always retained a bit of the child throughout his life, composed this enchanting music for the Ballets Russes, which premiered the work in 1912 − the same year, incidentally, when they also staged Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, which also evokes the Mediterranean world of shepherds, nymphs, forest spirits. Debussy’s Trois Nocturnes may have provided a direct model for Daphnis, since its last movement calls for a women’s choir to sing the seductive song of the Sirens as wordless vocalises. Ravel’s score uses the exact same technique as well.

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“In the Streets” 18.00−22.00 Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all around the world Concert Introduction 18.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Saturday, 25 August Modern 2 11.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

“The complex diversity of our world is a clincher”

Matthias Pintscher

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18365

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Matthias Pintscher conductor “Genesis”: Seven Settings Based on the Book of Genesis Swiss premiere | ca. 70’ Chaya Czernowin On the Face of the Deep Marko Nikodijević dies secundus Franck Bedrossian Vayehi erev vayehi boker Anna Thorvaldsdottir Illumine Joan Magrané Figuera Marines i boscatges Stefano Gervasoni Eufaunique 34

Mark Andre riss 1 This concert has no intermission

“In the Streets” 10.00−12.00 & 18.00−22.00 Lucerne’s Old City Music groups from all around the world

Let there be light! The biblical story of Creation, which describes the birth and childhood of our planet, has always inspired composers. Just think of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation. Matthias Pintscher and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY will present a contemporary setting of the Book of Genesis that was written for the 2016-17 season to mark the 40th birthday of the Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain. Seven composers from the same number of countries each wrote a new, approximately ten-minute work corresponding to one of the seven days of Creation – from primeval Chaos to God’s final day of rest. But they reflect not only the Old Testament’s report of how the universe came to be but also their own creative activity: the process of musical imagination. An unusual joint project and at the same time a dazzling panorama of composition in the present day.

“We have innate questions” Jostein Gaarder

Saturday, 25 August Young Family Concert 11.00 & 15.00 Kleintheater Luzern Ticket prices CHF 20/10 Event nos. 18441 & 18442

Raissa Avilès guitar Alfonso D’Angelo piano Vicky Papailiou accordion Eleonora Savini violin Kate Hannah Weinrieb vocalist Sébastien Davis direction and musical conception Urs Mösch staging Christoph Siegenthaler lighting Dante Carbini video Anna Manz costumes “Domande – Fragen” (“Questions”) A comical-philosophical concert with the Teatro Dimitri ca. 50’

A co-production with the Teatro Dimitri for ages 8 and up This concert has no intermission 35

Where does the world come from? How is it that I am alive? What is time? Children ask the truly radical questions. Questions that we as adults often put aside – maybe because they frighten us, because we do not know the answers and the view stretches into the unfathomable. “The only thing that we need to become good philosophers is the ability to marvel,” the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder has observed. And he has frequently given expression to this belief, whether in his young adult classic Sophie’s World or in the picture book Questions Asked. The latter forms the starting point of Domande – Fragen (“Questions”). Five people stand on the stage, not knowing one another and not even speaking the same language. But they understand how to communicate with one another: through laughter, looks, music. And − in a state of wonder and playfulness − they discuss existential questions that appear on a wall. Questions that perhaps have no answers but which it is still important to ask. Because they invite you to embrace the world.

Saturday, 25 August Symphony Concert 9 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“The most significant symphonist after Beethoven” Wagner on Bruckner

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18315

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Riccardo Chailly conductor Richard Wagner Overture to Rienzi ca. 12’

Overture to The Flying Dutchman ca. 11’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 ca. 70’

30th anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s Lucerne debut

At the Buvette 17.00 Inseli Open-Air Surprise Concert

Anton Bruckner was at work on his Seventh Symphony and had just composed the climax of the slow second movement when the dreadful news reached him: Richard Wagner, the “master of all masters,” as Bruckner reverently called him, had died on 13 February 1883. Bruckner responded promptly and designed the Adagio’s coda as a poignant dirge in C-sharp minor, using a quartet of Wagner tubas, the instruments that his idol had developed for the Ring of the Nibelung. Yet even beyond that, the Seventh shows in many other details to whom Bruckner owed his vocation as a composer: above all in the hard-to-miss allusions to Tannhäuser, which had awakened him to the music of Wagner. But does Wagner himself always sound like Wagner? With the Overture to Rienzi, Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA put preconceptions to the test. For this early work of Wagner astonishes with its luster, vim, and an Italianate quality that some may not expect from the champion of the music of the future who was yet to emerge.

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“The idea of Rundum is the dissolution of time and space” Fritz Hauser

Saturday, 25 August Modern 3 22.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18316

we spoke: percussion: Serge Vuille, Julien Annoni, Olivier Membrez, and Camille Émaille percussion Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Brigitte Dubach lighting Fritz Hauser percussion and artistic direction Fritz Hauser Rundum for large ensemble world premiere Commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

ca. 60’

This concert has no intermission

Imagine you are sitting down to enjoy a concert – and the stage is empty. Or at least, almost empty. Instead, the musicians are spread throughout the entire hall, up in the galleries and balconies, in the organ loft, surrounding the audience. What’s more, they do not remain in a fixed position but move around – and as they do, the sound also moves. Composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser has often let specific spaces ignite his creative imagination. Now, the KKL Luzern’s “Salle blanche,” one of the most beautiful and finest-sounding concert halls in the world, serves as the starting point for a unique spatial experience in which Hauser dissolves the classic front-forward situation of conventional concerts. “Rundum is a sonic experience without rhythm or pulse,” he explains. “Rundum consists of sustained sounds and noises that swell and decay. There are no solos. There are no melodies or intentional changes of harmony. Rundum hovers in the space like a mobile.”

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Special Event Day | 26 August Concert 1 – Mitschraffieren (“Community Drawing”) 9.45 KKL Luzern, Foyers and Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 15/10 (with discount) Event no. 18401

we spoke: percussion Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Brigitte Dubach lighting Fritz Hauser Gong and artistic direction Fritz Hauser Schraffur für das KKL Luzern (Crosshatching for the KKL Luzern) A performance with approximately 300 participants from Central Switzerland Commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL ca. 45’

For the opening of the Special Event Day in 2018, and in keeping with this year’s Festival theme, composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser again takes up an experience from days of childhood: crosshatching (Schraffieren). For drawing up and down with a pencil – applied to trace objects or to fill out a surface − produces noises, notes and overtones, crescendi and diminuendi. In other words: music. Fritz Hauser has in fact realized a complete series of Schraffuren for a wide variety of musicians and spaces. Now, together with more than 300 participants of all ages, he will jointly explore the diverse surfaces of the KKL Luzern, making the entire building – walls, stairs, railings − resound with music. The performance begins in the central foyer: from there, different groups will fan out and explore very different playing sites before everyone joins together again in the Concert Hall. With instruments and sound objects, they will create a fascinating culminating sonic stream inside it, ultimately leading to a shared decrescendo to rediscover silence. Come join in! Seeking 600 hands for Mitschraffieren (“Community Drawing”). More information and application form at: lucernefestival.ch/schraffur The “Fritz Hauser Package” 20% discount off a minimum of three different concerts with composerin-residence Fritz Hauser: lucernefestival.ch/hauser (cannot be combined with the “Special Event Day Package”)

The Special Event Day Package! If you reserve a minimum of three Special Event Day concerts, you will receive a 20% discount off each ticket. You can purchase your Special Event Day Package by telephone or in writing. All information can be found on the order form. This package may not be combined with the Fritz Hauser Package. The Special Event Day for Young Listeners Children and primary, secondary, vocational, and university students up to and including 29 years of age can purchase discounted tickets for the Special Event Day at CHF 10.

Special Event Day

A day full of music based on the Festival theme of “Childhood” − for young and old Partner of the Special Event Day Dr. Christoph M. Müller and Sibylla M. Müller

Special Event Day | 26 August Concert 2 – Family Concert 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 50/10 (with discount) Event no. 18402

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Sol Gabetta cello Soloists of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Dan Tanson narrator (in German) Camille Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals Duos for violin and cello by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Julien-François Zbinden, Maurice Ravel, Jörg Widmann, Giuseppe Giamberti, Erwin Schulhoff, Jean-Marie Leclair, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach for ages 5 and up This concert has no intermission This concert ends at approx. 12.15 ten | Look | Lis e ther g o T – Enjoy cert n at the Co

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“In the Streets” World music groups will make the Europaplatz resound Exact timing will be announced later. Free admission

Camille Saint-Saëns was actually intending to continue working on his Third Symphony in the winter of 1886, but a project occurred to him that simply turned out to be a lot more fun: “But it really is a delight!” he wrote apologetically to his publisher. And within a few days he composed a “grande fantaisie zoologique,” his famous Carnival of the Animals. In it, plump elephants perform a graceful, elfin dance to quotes from Berlioz and Mendelssohn, and turtles locomote in slow motion to Offenbach’s Can-Can … The work was premiered at the carnival party of a cellist friend, but Saint-Saëns withdrew the score shortly after. Was he afraid that he had insulted his colleagues with his satire? An ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA will present this pearl of musical humor at a Family Concert on the Special Event Day. “Artiste étoile” Dan Tanson will narrate a story to fit the music. And Sol Gabetta, this summer’s second “star artist,” will be joined by her “predecessor” Patricia Kopatchinskaja to create a country festival filled with dance and birdsong.

Special Event Day | 26 August “Meet the Instruments” The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI introduce their instruments for everyone ages 6 and up

Instrument Presentation for Children 13.00−16.00 Kunstmuseum Luzern Admission is free with a museum ticket

The recorder is and remains the “gateway drug” number one when it comes to music. But there are of course many, many other instruments. And children from the age of six and up can get to know them in our Special Event Day Instrument Presentation. For three hours, young musicians from the ranks of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI will introduce their own instruments in the Kunstmuseum Luzern, naturally with lots of music. They will give ten-minute presentations showing all the things that timpani, trombones, etc. can do, what they sound like, how they work, and what crazy sounds they can also produce. It goes without saying that the crucial questions will be explained in the process: are my arms long enough to play the deepest strings on the harp? How heavy is a tuba in fact? And how much air do you need to produce a note from this monster?

Child & Play & Art 11.00–18.00 Uhr | Kunstmuseum Luzern, Liftraum (3rd floor) Admission is free with a museum ticket For families: we will together design animals for the grand Paradieshimmel in the Carnival of the Animals exhibition.

Special Event Day | 26 August Concerts 3 & 4 – Mittendrin 13.00 & 14.30 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket prices CHF 15/10 (with discount) Event nos. 18403 & 18404

Be in the thick of things instead of just being there!

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Matthias Pintscher conductor Participants in the Conducting Fellowship conductors Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY piano 13.00: György Kurtág Stele for large orchestra 14.30: Bernd Alois Zimmermann Dialoge. Concerto for two pianos and orchestra Both concerts have no intermission

Normally, the roles are clearly divvied up: the orchestra sits on the stage, the audience in the hall. But on the Special Event Day, everything is different, and you are suddenly in the thick of things instead of just being there. Two concerts will allow you to take a seat between the musicians and experience everything from a completely new perspective: the orchestra’s perspective. For once, you will not only listen to the sounds but also simultaneously observe at close range how they are produced. What signs does the conductor give, how do the musicians communicate and interact with one another – or how do they pass the time when they have nothing to do? And since music from the 20th century is on the program, there will be much to observe indeed. Yet that’s not all: both concerts are designed as one-hour-long moderated workshops. Each work in question will be heard twice, with elucidations between each performance.

Special Event Day | 26 August

“Nature wants children to be children before they become adults”

NZZ Podium 14.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Ticket prices CHF 30/10 (with discount) Event no. 18367

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Childhood – Biotope of the Origin” Panel Discussion (in German) with Alma Deutscher violinist, pianist, and composer Sol Gabetta cellist Norbert Gstrein writer Margrit Stamm education researcher Moderation: Martin Meyer director of the NZZ Podium

Margrit Stamm

Childhood is the name for a place we long for and a timeless age, but the concept of childhood has not always been there. Not that in the past children were not children, but they did not have an identity of their own as a unique period in human life. It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century, with his idealistic vision of humanity, who first liberated children and gave them a self of their own, but in the process also made them into objects to be trained and brought up. Utopia found its fulfillment in play, yet once the first patterns of domesticity had been learned, children got a dose of life’s seriousness. Anyone who thinks back on their childhood encounters this blend of freedom and coercion. How long the days were, and what wonders the world held! The daydreams were sweet, the friendships eternal! Yet there were also family, home, and school, where you had to fit in. Today the worlds of children are again shrinking – under the pressure of technologies that adults use to recapture childhood.

Liturgical Service for the Church Consecration Festival 17.00 Jesuitenkirche Luzerner Kantorei | Choir and Instrumentalists of the Collegium Musicum Luzern | Eberhard Rex | Sergei Aprischkin John Rutter Mass of the Children

Special Event Day | 26 August Concert 5 – Film with Live Music 16.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 50/10 (with discount) Event no. 18405

21st Century Orchestra Ludwig Wicki conductor Charlie Chaplin The Kid silent film 1921 screenplay, direction, and music by Charlie Chaplin ca. 70’

This performance has no intermission

The tramp Charlie finds an abandoned baby next to the trash cans, with a note on which the suicidal mother asks whoever finds it to care for “the orphan.” Charlie takes the child with him, gives him the name John, and brings him up, though under adverse conditions, in poorhouses and emergency shelters. Until five years later, when the mother unexpectedly shows up, who in the meantime has become a celebrated opera star and has moreover committed herself to charitable goals … The Kid, filmed in 1921, was Chaplin’s first feature film and much more than a comedy. His own childhood, which he spent as the son of a mentally ill mother in the London slums, played an important role when he wrote the screenplay. But Chaplin was not only the author, director, and lead actor of this legendary movie: he also composed its music, which will be performed live on the Special Event Day by the 21st Century Orchestra under Ludwig Wicki in the KKL Luzern, in front of the giant screen. An unforgettable experience for the eyes, ears, and soul.

Special Event Day | 26 August

“I find it exciting when percussion doesn’t sound like percussion”

Concert 6 − Solodrumming 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 50/10 (with discount) Event no. 18406

Fritz Hauser

Fritz Hauser percussion Barbara Frey direction Brigitte Dubach lighting Fritz Hauser Solodrumming

ca. 60’

This concert has no intermission

Fritz Hauser is a Minimalist. He understands that deliberate restriction gives rise to abundance. A crescendo that swells steadily blossoms into a complex sonic cosmos and ultimately dies down again. Or a persistent, delicately modulated roll on the snare drum from which a pulse gradually emerges – that may be enough. The Swiss percussionist and composer relies on seemingly simple gestures, uses a reduced set of instruments, and lets the silence sink in – thus creating arches of great coherence and percussive concision. His sonic explorations are always precisely planned and yet grow out of the moment. “Even improvising musicians try to find their way back to an energy and openness that characterizes children and their imaginations,” observes Hauser. To conclude Lucerne’s Special Event Day, he will present a two-part solo program: first he takes on “classical percussion.” Then he will be joined by the director Barbara Frey (who herself was once the drummer in a band) to examine the relationship between humans and instruments.

The “Fritz Hauser Package” 20% discount off a minimum of three different concerts with composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser: lucernefestival.ch/hauser (cannot be combined with the “Special Event Day Package”)

Monday, 27 August Symphony Concert 10 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Rachmaninoff’s Russian soul is very close to me”

Daniil Trifonov

Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 4, p. 107 | Event no. 18317

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra James Gaffigan conductor Daniil Trifonov piano Anatoly Lyadov Kikimora, Op. 63 ca. 8’

Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 ca. 27’

Sergei Prokofiev Suite from the ballet Cinderella, Op. 87, arranged by James Gaffigan ca. 40’

40min “Gabetta’s Discovery” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Sol Gabetta, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and François-Xavier Roth explore Martinů’s First Cello Concerto

He is the wizard of pianists. Anyone who experienced Daniil Trifonov during last year’s Summer Festival in Lucerne, when he played Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, or, more recently, in his homage to Chopin at the 2017 Piano Festival, will be able to report on the marvelous music-making that happened. People were astonished by the virtuosity of Trifonov, whose hands know no limits and who can lead his audience simultaneously into an exceptional emotional state through his soulful tone, rapt sounds, and feverish frenzy. Now comes the continuation, as Trifonov plays Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto – thus devoting himself to a composer to whom he feels uniquely related. Yet wizardry is not always magical; it can even be gruesome, as James Gaffigan and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra will show with Anatoly Lyadov’s tone poem Kikimora, about a sinister old woman from Slavic legend who drives people to madness. On the other hand, a fairy-tale happy ending awaits us with Prokofiev’s enchanting ballet score to Cinderella, in which the heroine blissfully finds her way to her prince.

“Feeling that has melted into love”

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart on the clarinet

Tuesday, 28 August Debut 2 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18318

Anna Hashimoto clarinet Florian Mitrea piano Norbert Burgmüller Duo for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 15

ca. 10’

William Hurlstone Four Characteristic Pieces ca. 12’

Johannes Brahms Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F minor, Op. 120, no. 1 ca. 20’

Sigismund Toduţă Suita de cântece și dansuri ca. 10’

Arthur Benjamin Le Tombeau de Ravel ca. 12’

Claude Debussy Première Rapsodie

ca. 8’

This concert has no intermission

“Keep an eye on this young artist,” wrote a critic in the American magazine Fanfare in his review of hearing Anna Hashimoto’s CD A Touch of France, praising her “lovely, firm tone,” “superbly controlled legato,” and perfect sound in all registers. Born in 1989, the Japanese clarinetist, who grew up in Great Britain and studied with Michael Collins at the Royal Academy of Music in London, has won numerous renowned competitions and has performed as a soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, and the Japan and New Japan Philharmonics. For her Lucerne debut, Anna Hashimoto has chosen two milestones of the clarinet repertoire: Debussy’s First Rhapsody and Brahms’s F minor Sonata. But she will also pay homage to the Festival theme when she performs Arthur Benjamin’s Tombeau de Ravel, her favorite piece from her own childhood, and, with Norbert Burgmüller and William Hurlstone, presents two child prodigies (“Wunderkinder”) who died all too young.

Tuesday, 28 August Symphony Concert 11 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“But Bizet! A good mood incarnate!” Camille Saint-Saëns

Ticket prices CHF 170/150/110/90/60/30 Seating map 3, p. 107 | Event no. 18319

Mahler Chamber Orchestra François-Xavier Roth conductor Sol Gabetta cello Béla Bartók Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz 113 ca. 26’

Bohuslav Martinů Cello Concerto No. 1, H 196 ca. 27’

Georges Bizet Jeux d’enfants. Petite suite d’orchestre ca. 12’

Joseph Haydn Symphony in G minor, Hob. I:83 La Poule ca. 25’

40min “A Work Comes into the World: Eötvös’ Reading Malevich” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Matthias Pintscher

“I have decided to champion Martinů’s First Cello Concerto in front of the public,” explains Sol Gabetta – adding the reason why: “This concerto is simply magnificent, both in its musical substance and as a work for cello. The orchestral writing is lush, the themes, which are based on Bohemian folk melodies, are extremely appealing, and I find its rhythmic structures in particular highly interesting.” So Martinů is naturally one of the pieces that Gabetta will play for Festival audiences in Lucerne as “artiste étoile.” Folk music-like moments, this time Hungarian in origin, will also be heard in Bartók’s Divertimento at the start of this concert. But after intermission, François-Xavier Roth and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will lead us into the realm of childhood. In Bizet’s Jeux d’enfants, we encounter dolls, spinning tops, and soap bubbles, before it all culminates in a thrilling galop. And the program ends with a detour to a chicken farm in Haydn’s La Poule, one of his Paris symphonies, complete with pecking sounds supplied by the oboe.

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“I, a new Mozart? How boring!” Alma Deutscher

Wednesday, 29 August “Wunderkind” Debut 1 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18320

Alma Deutscher violin and piano Isabel Charisius viola Ivo Haag piano Rebecca Krynski Cox soprano Alma Deutscher Allegro moderato in D major for Violin and Piano | ca. 8’ Johann Sebastian Bach Gavotte en Rondeau for solo violin from the Partita BWV 1006 | ca. 3’ Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in F-sharp minor, K. 25 | ca. 3’ Alma Deutscher Rondino in E-flat major for Piano Trio | ca. 4’ Andante in D major for Piano Trio | ca. 8’ Three arias from Cinderella for Soprano and Piano | ca. 13’ Improvisations | ca. 10’ This concert has no intermission

No other young musician of our time has so often been labeled a “child prodigy” as the British Alma Deutscher, who was born in 2005. She began playing piano at the age of two; the following year, she commenced violin lessons. And she makes her Lucerne debut with both instruments. But there’s more, for Alma Deutscher also composes. She has produced trios, sonatas, a violin concerto, and even a full-length opera: Cinderella, which was premiered in 2016 in Vienna. And she has won prominent champions, especially Sir Simon Rattle. Alma loves the musical language of the Classical and Romantic eras. Which is why it bothers her when listeners or critics try to count the dissonances in her works. “I hope that in ten years’ time, it will not be considered a crime to want to compose beautiful music,” she recently declared in an interview with the Standard. And her desire for the future? “That my concertos and symphonies that I still want to write will be performed by the Vienna Philharmonic in the Musikverein.”

“Euphoria, great joy, deep respect”

Wednesday, 29 August Symphony Concert 12 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Kirill Petrenko following his appointment

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18321

Berlin Philharmonic Kirill Petrenko conductor Richard Strauss Don Juan, Op. 20 ca. 18’

Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 ca. 25’

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

60th anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic’s Lucerne debut

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

The start of a new era: officially, not until 2019 will Kirill Petrenko embark on his tenure as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, but he is already conducting the orchestra in their two concerts here this summer, when the Philharmonic celebrates the 60th anniversary of its LUCERNE FESTIVAL debut. With the 46-year-old Petrenko, the Philharmonic has chosen one of the most charismatic star conductors to be its leader. Petrenko is a tremendously radiant bundle of energy who can inspire the musicians to veritable heights, in the process literally bringing the audience to their feet. At the same time, he is an uncompromising seeker of the truth who breathes music, which is why he studies each score meticulously, down to its finest detail. The result is that even such frequently performed works as Beethoven’s dancelike Seventh Symphony or the rapturous tone poems of Richard Strauss, which have long been part of the Berliners’ core repertoire, sound as fresh and rejuvenated as if they had just been composed.

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“No one in the orchestra looks like you” Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Thursday, 30 August Debut 3 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18322

Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Isata Kanneh-Mason piano Luigi Boccherini Cello Sonata in A major, G. 4

ca. 8’

Francis Poulenc Cello Sonata, Op. 143 ca. 24’

Johannes Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 ca. 30’

This concert has no intermission

A string quartet that for the most part comprises siblings – that happens more often than one might think, as with the Hagen and Schumann Quartets. But the British family Kanneh-Mason may well be entirely unique, for all seven children are musicians and perform together. The most successful of them is the third oldest, who was born in 1999: the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award in 2016, the first musician of color in 38 years. His career has skyrocketed, leading to performances with the BBC Proms, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. “Technically superb and eloquent in his expressivity, Kanneh-Mason held the public spellbound,” wrote The Guardian, while The Times has praised his powerful, thrilling playing and his exquisite phrasing. In Lucerne, this rising star will introduce himself, along with his sister Isata at the piano (his senior by three years), in a program of works by Boccherini, Poulenc, and Brahms.

Thursday, 30 August Symphony Concert 13 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“My musical legacy”

Franz Schmidt on his Fourth Symphony

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18323

Berlin Philharmonic Kirill Petrenko conductor Yuja Wang piano Paul Dukas La Péri, ou La Fleur d’immortalité

ca. 20’

Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 ca. 32’

Franz Schmidt Symphony No. 4 in C major ca. 50’

60th anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic’s Lucerne debut

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

What could be worse for parents than having to face the death of their own child? The Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, one of the last of the Romantics, had to endure this traumatic experience when his only daughter, Emma, passed away in March 1932. He subsequently wrote a kind of Requiem with his Fourth Symphony, which includes elegiac laments, a wide-ranging funeral march, and, at the end, a celebration of farewell: “a dying in beauty,” as Schmidt said, “with the whole of one’s life passing in review.” Kirill Petrenko will perform this seldom-played work with the Berlin Philharmonic. They will also be joined by the Chinese hypervirtuosa Yuja Wang in Sergei Prokofiev’s most popular Piano Concerto, the spirited Third. The program begins in the world of Persian fairy-tale with Paul Dukas’s ballet score to La Péri from 1911, which recounts the story of a good fairy who is half-angel, half-human. And this Impressionist-flavored piece by no means needs to yield ground to Dukas’s better-known The Sorcerer’s Apprentice …

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“He could play with children like a child himself” Sofia Kashkina on Tchaikovsky

Friday, 31 August Symphony Concert 14 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 220/190/150/ 110/70/30 Seating map 3, p. 107 | Event no. 18324

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor Yefim Bronfman piano Joseph Haydn Symphony in F minor, Hob. I:49 La passione ca. 25’

Franz Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S 125 ca. 22’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

ca. 42’

Concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra 53

Untrammeled passions will be set loose by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in this concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of his Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Haydn’s eccentric F minor Symphony, which not coincidentally carries the title La passione, represents pure Sturm und Drang in music: unruly, overheated, and arousing. Tchaikovsky’s Fourth, the first of his “symphonies of destiny,” in which Fate breaks in again and again with relentless trumpet fanfares, is even more passionate. No surprise that this work deals with “the fateful power that prevents our pursuit of happiness.” And for Tchaikovsky, that meant what he called his “predilection”: his same-sex nature, which was legally persecuted in Imperial Russia. Franz Liszt’s great passion, meanwhile, was for the piano, which he described as “my ego, my language, my life. To it I consign all of my desires, my dreams, my joys and sorrows.” And the resulting music will be demonstrated by the American star pianist Yefim Bronfman, who will play Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto.

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Visavis 12.15 | Kunstmuseum Luzern Admission is free with a museum ticket Fritz Hauser | Sylwia Zytynska 40min “Prayers for Dance-Mimes: Stockhausen’s Inori” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

Saturday, 1 September Young Family Concert 11.00 & 15.00 Neubad

“My projects should be entertaining”

Dan Tanson

Ticket prices CHF 20/10 Event nos. 18452 & 18453

Eleonora Savini violin and movement Estelle Costanzo harp and movement Ibra Ndiaye dance, percussion, and movement Dan Tanson and Pietro Gaudioso staging and choreography Senegalliarde A poetic music theater work featuring excerpts from works by Claude Debussy, Jacques Ibert, John Cage, and Béla Bartók, along with traditional music from Senegal Production in collaboration with Jeunesse − Musical Youth of Austria for adults and kids ages 5 and up This performance has no intermission 54

Dan Tanson

An unusual trio takes the stage: a friendly giant from a distant land, a mysterious weaver, and a child who can practice magic. More is not yet to be revealed, except for this: all three undergo an exciting story that will artfully weave together music, dance, theater, and acrobatics, making the audience of children marvel until the end, with many twists and turns along the way. Senegalliarde was conceived and staged by the Luxembourg director Dan Tanson. He develops imaginative music theater pieces for young listeners and is thus an ideal “artiste étoile” for the 2018 “Summer of Childhood” in Lucerne − and is already best-known to Festival audiences through such successful past productions as Drumblebee, Goldmädchen, and HEROÏCA (see p. 91). The same holds for Eleonora Savini, who played first violin in HEROÏCA and in Goldmädchen, and for her Italian compatriot, the harpist Estelle Costanzo, who also took part in HEROÏCA. The third member of the bunch meanwhile makes his Festival debut: Ibra Ndiaye, a tremendously virtuosic drummer and dancer from Senegal.

“We are there as music is created, step by step” Wolfgang Rihm on Mantra

Saturday, 1 September Cosmos Stockhausen 1 11.00 Kirchensaal MaiHof Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18325

Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich piano Marco Stroppa sound design Karlheinz Stockhausen Mantra for two pianists and ring-modulated pianos ca. 70’

This concert has no intermission

It is with one of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s most-important works that Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich will open the “Cosmos Stockhausen” series, an homage marking the 90th birthday of the late composer, who died in 2007. Along with their instruments, the two pianists in Mantra have to operate antique cymbals and woodblocks and even two ring modulators as well, which result in amazing electronic transformations of the piano sound. The creative sparks truly fly here. What holds the music together is a memorable melodic design: the “mantra” indicated by the title, which Stockhausen subjects to continual new metamorphoses. He called this approach “formula composition” and would later pursue it in Inori as well (see p. 59), seeing it quite symbolically: “Naturally the unified construction of Mantra is a musical miniature of the unified macrostructure of the cosmos.”

The “Stockhausen Package” 20% discount on three different concerts in the “Cosmos Stockhausen” series: lucernefestival.ch/stockhausen

Saturday, 1 September Modern 4 15.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

“Academy is dialogue”

Wolfgang Rihm

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18368

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI Participants in the Conducting Fellowship and the Composer Seminar Wolfgang Rihm direction Composer Seminar Performance This concert has no intermission

Composer Seminar with Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann, et al. 20 – 24 August | always 10.00−11.30 and 12.00−13.30 KKL Luzern, Clubrooms 7-8 Auditors: CHF 30/120 (day pass/course pass)

How does the emerging generation of composers compose? You will find out in this concert of this year’s Composer Seminar. And you will witness a creative openness that is as attuned to the present as to the past, and to completely different musical genres, arts, and media − while at the same time arriving at a musical language that is unique and always individual. Three years ago, when he took over as head of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, Wolfgang Rihm launched the Composer Seminar to encourage an “encounter between creative young people and performers.” In the first part, which is open to the public (see times indicated in left column) composers will discuss their works in a joint meeting. They will subsequently rehearse their scores with an ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI and the young conductors of the Conducting Fellowship in order to present a moderated concert to the Festival public. Thus they will acquire valuable feedback for the practical implementation of their musical ideas.

“Dialogues across the ages” Bernd Alois Zimmermann on Dialoge

Saturday, 1 September Symphony Concert 15 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 108 | Event no. 18327

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Matthias Pintscher conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich piano György Kurtág Stele for large orchestra ca. 13’

Peter Eötvös Reading Malevich for orchestra world premiere Commissioned as part of the “Roche Commissions”

ca. 25’

Máté Bella Lethe for string orchestra ca. 16’

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Dialoge. Concerto for two pianos and orchestra

ca. 18’

The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY presents a “Hungarian connection” spanning three generations. The new work by Peter Eötvös concerns the Russian painter Kasimir Malevich. Eötvös’s compatriot Máté Bella, his junior by four decades, was inspired by Greek mythology to write his enormously sensual-sounding Lethe, about the “stream of forgetting,” for string orchestra. Stele, written in 1994, is the first orchestral work by György Kurtág, the great master of small forms, into which he channeled his grief over the loss of a friend, creating an expressive music of memory. And Dialoge by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2018, is also an homage: to Claude Debussy, another composer whose anniversary is being marked this year. But along with Debussy, Mozart, jazz elements, and the ancient Pentecostal hymn Veni, creator spiritus appear in Zimmermann’s concerto for two pianos, which abounds in quotations and allusions.

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At the Buvette 17.00 Inseli Open-Air Surprise Concert Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium Peter Eötvös in conversation with Mark Sattler (in German)

Saturday, 1 September Late Night 22.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18451

“The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress ʼem up”

George Gershwin

Central Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra Joseph Sieber conductor Markus Güdel lighting Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice ca. 11’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet. Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare ca. 20’

George Gershwin An American in Paris ca. 18’

Late into the night with a young Swiss orchestra and three always-young classical music hits. The Central Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (CSYO) was founded six years ago by Joseph Sieber and Markus Güdel and today can count on a pool of around 130 musicians between 14 and 26 years of age. The CSYO previously appeared at the 2015 Easter Festival, when they performed the project Liturgia. Now they trace a span from Romanticism to jazz – beginning with what is probably the most-famous magic apprentice before Harry Potter. Paul Dukas transformed Goethe’s popular ballad into a colorful orchestral scherzo that shows the composer himself to be a veritable sorcerer with sound. Literature also provides the source for Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, a tribute to Shakespeare’s “star-crossed lovers.” Meanwhile, George Gershwin’s love letter to the city of Paris closes the program. The American calls for honking car horns along with a bit of homesickness, mixing jazz and blues melodies into his musical cityscape.

“How something comes into being, how something exists, how something passes” Wolfgang Rihm on Inori

Sunday, 2 September Cosmos Stockhausen 2 & 3 11.00 & 17.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket price CHF 50 Event nos. 18628 & 18629

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Lin Liao and David Fulmer conductors (11.00) Peter Eötvös conductor (17.00) Jamil Attar, Emmanuelle Grach, Winnie Huang, and Diego Vásquez dance Karlheinz Stockhausen Inori. Adoration for two soloists and large orchestra

ca. 70’

This concert has no intermission

Peter Eötvös

“The new function of music must be a religious one,” declared Karlheinz Stockhausen in his early years. Yet it was not until the 1970s, intensified through his encounter with East Asia and Zen Buddhism, that the spiritual orientation of his creative work clearly manifested itself … and unsettled Stockhausen’s avant-garde colleagues, who were completely fixated on the political dimension of art. In Inori (the title is Japanese and means “prayer, invocation”), two dance-mimes are enthroned high above the 89-member orchestra on a scaffold. From there they highlight the music with prayer gestures that Stockhausen borrowed from different religions and for which he developed his own notation. But to rehearse these ritualistic movement processes needs time. And so two young dancer couples have been preparing since last summer for both Lucerne performances, instructed by Alain Louafi and Kathinka Pasveer, who collaborated closely with Stockhausen himself.

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The “Stockhausen Package” 20% discount on three different concerts in the “Cosmos Stockhausen” series: lucernefestival.ch/stockhausen Programs related to Inori Auditorium | Free admission 13.00 | Film Stockhausen: Lecture on HU 15.00 | Panel discussion with Kathinka Pasveer, Peter Eötvös, Wolfgang Rihm, and Thomas Ulrich

Sunday, 2 September Afternoon Concert 14.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Tickets only available starting 20 August from the Stadthaus Luzern (Hirschengraben 17)

“Nature’s digressions from her own rule” Immanuel Kant on “Wunderkinder”

Festival Strings Lucerne Daniel Dodds violin and musical direction Leia Zhu violin Béla Bartók Petite Suite, Sz 105 world premiere of version for string orchestra by Jay Schwartz ca. 10’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E major, K. 261 ca. 8’

Niccolò Paganini La Campanella from the Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7 arranged by Valentin Stadler ca. 8’

Niels Wilhelm Gade Noveletter in F major, Op. 53 60

ca. 19’

Of all of the “Wunderkinder” (child prodigies) who are performing at the 2018 Summer Festival, she is the youngest. When Leia Zhu, a British musician with Chinese roots, joins the Festival Strings Lucerne to perform Mozart’s E major Adagio and Paganini’s La Campanella, she will be 11 years old. And yet she can already look back over a long career, for Leia began studying the violin when she was three and gave her first public concert the following year. Since then, she has garnered prize after prize and has been invited to perform by many renowned institutions, such as the Salzburg Festival, the Würzburg Mozart Festival, and the Musical Olympus in St. Petersburg, as well as the Berlin Philharmonie and the major concert halls in London. The afternoon concert begins in an animated Hungarian mood with Béla Bartók’s Petite Suite, which draws on six dances from the Balkan region. At the end comes a trip to Denmark with Gade’s Op. 53 Novelletter: poetic music by a Romantic who – as Robert Schumann put it – knew how to combine “Nordic character” with the “dedication of mastery.”

“As if you were seeing old, glowing church windows” Alfred Einstein on Anton Bruckner

Sunday, 2 September Symphony Concert 16 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18332

Munich Philharmonic Valery Gergiev conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 ca. 38’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, WAB 104 Romantic 1878-80 version edited by Leopold Nowak ca. 68’

Leonidas Kavakos

How free is a composer? Shostakovich’s career developed within the Stalinist system, which demonized his music as “neurotic” and “cacophonous,” only to then praise him once again and confer the highest honors. But Shostakovich could not always get what was really important to him performed. He even had to withdraw his First Violin Concerto, which musically reflects his tricky situation, when he was again ostracized in 1948. Not until 1955 was the work performed in public. For the soloist, this is one of the most challenging concertos in the entire repertoire – ideal therefore for Leonidas Kavakos, a violinist of unlimited possibilities. The Austrian Anton Bruckner was faced with very different expectations when he composed his Fourth Symphony. Because at the time program music was in demand, he claimed to have depicted knights and horses, hunters in the forest, and a folk festival in this Romantic Symphony. Yet Bruckner’s music permits many associations – no bounds are set to imagination.

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

Monday, 3 September Symphony Concert 17 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Thoroughly Russian”

Mstislav Rostropovich on Petrushka

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18333

Munich Philharmonic Valery Gergiev conductor Anatoly Lyadov The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62 ca. 9’

Igor Stravinsky Petrushka (version from 1911) ca. 36’

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35 ca. 46’

40min “Musician’s Choice” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI

He is the hero of puppet theater – and he has many names: Mr. Punch in England, Pierrot in France, Kasperle in Germany (Chaschperli in Swiss German), and, in Russia, Petrushka. Igor Stravinsky devoted a thrilling ballet score to his adventures, where he has him appear at a fair in St. Petersburg, with organ-grinder melodies, popular French tunes, and waltzes. The fact that Petrushka suffers humiliation in his struggle for the favor of the beautiful Ballerina over his rival, the dashing Moor, only makes him all the more human. And everyone is happy for him when at the end he thumbs his nose at all his adversaries. Valery Gergiev couples this tragicomic story with two fairy-tale classics: the poetic Enchanted Lake by Anatoly Lyadov, whom Stravinsky once described as the “pianissimo composer,” and the splendidly orchestrated tone poem Scheherazade by Stravinsky’s teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which leads us right into the dazzling world of A Thousand and One Nights.

“On the stage I can be myself” Paul Huang

Tuesday, 4 September Debut 4 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18334

Paul Huang violin Orion Weiss piano Antonín Dvořák Sonatina in G major, Op. 100

ca. 15’

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

ca. 30’

Eugène Ysaÿe Rêve d’enfant, Op. 14 ca. 4’

César Franck Violin Sonata in A major ca. 28’

This concert has no intermission

“It’s not hard to see why the violinist Paul Huang walked away with an Avery Fisher Career Grant,” according to The Washington Post. “Huang possesses a big, luscious tone, spot-on intonation and a technique that makes the most punishing string phrases feel as natural as breathing.” The Taiwanese-American violinist, who was born in 1990, has been making a sensation since 2009, when he won the Tibor Varga Competition in Sion; two years later, he triumphed at the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York, and in 2017 he received the Lincoln Center Award. He has performed with the Mariinsky Orchestra and with the Houston and Detroit Symphonies. It so happens that playing the violin was not a matter of love at first sight for him: when his mother took him at the age of four to a rehearsal, he thought the instrument was awful. Only three years later, when the family attended a violin recital, did his passion ignite. Which is why Paul Huang’s advice to hopeful emerging artists is: “Go to concerts!”

Tuesday, 4 September Symphony Concert 18 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18335

“He was like a child made out of porcelain”

Tchaikovsky’s governess Fanny Dürbach

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Yuri Temirkanov conductor Sergei Redkin piano Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov “The Three Miracles” from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57 ca. 10’

Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 ca. 35’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Suite from the ballet The Nutcracker, Op. 71, arranged by Yuri Temirkanov ca. 35’

Yuri Temirkanov

“Children need fairy-tales,” the psychologist Bruno Bettelheim observed in his 1976 bestseller, The Uses of Enchantment. Fairy-tales take us to dream worlds and awaken the imagination, but they also appeal to our sense of responsibility, for they separate good from evil. Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic take Bettelheim at his word, presenting two popular musical fairy-tales in this “Summer of Childhood.” Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan has become world-famous thanks to its speedy “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker gave us some of classical music’s greatest hits, including the “Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy” and “Waltz of the Flowers.” And it included the first-ever use of a brand-new instrument: the celesta, bell-like in clarity. A fairy-tale actually came true for the young pianist Sergei Redkin when he played two piano concertos by Prokofiev at the 2017 Summer Festival. He was immediately invited to return. This time Redkin will play “Rach 2,” Rachmaninoff’s legendary Second Piano Concerto.

“The most important thing in chamber music is friendship” Lionel Martin

Wednesday, 5 September “Wunderkind” Debut 2 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18336

Lionel Martin cello Luisa Schwegler piano Sergei Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119

ca. 24’

Claude Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor

ca. 11’

Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm

ca. 7’

Igor Stravinsky Serenata from the Suite italienne ca. 4’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pezzo capriccioso in B minor, Op. 62 ca. 7’

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When a young musician not yet 14 is accepted into the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, you can pretty much consider that the equivalent of a knighthood. The cellist Lionel Martin, who was born in 2003 in Filderstadt in southern Germany, received this honor in February 2017 – and the famous violin virtuosa has been his mentor ever since. Martin, who spent his first years in Australia, already knew at three that he wanted to learn to play the cello. He had his first lessons at the age of five with Joseph Hasten, who to this day serves as a guide, and since then he has won a series of first prizes at the “Jugend musiziert” National Competition in Germany, as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He has additionally garnered awards from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the German Music Life Foundation, and the Bechstein Foundation. Before making his LUCERNE FESTIVAL debut, which he does with Luisa Schwegler at the keyboard (who is only two years older), Lionel Martin also appeared as the soloist in several orchestral concerts: for example, in May 2017 with the Stuttgart Philharmonic under Dan Ettinger, with whom he played Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.

Wednesday, 5 September Symphony Concert 19 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“O Master, I worship you!!!”

Bruckner to Wagner (1882)

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18337

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Daniele Gatti conductor Anett Fritsch soprano Richard Wagner Prelude to the third act of the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ca. 8’

Alban Berg Five Orchestral Lieder, Op. 4, based on postcard texts by Peter Altenberg ca. 12’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103 Third version from 1889 in the Leopold Nowak Edition ca. 60’ 66

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

Anton Bruckner dedicated the mighty Third Symphony to his great idol, Richard Wagner, “the unreachable, world-famous, and sublime master of poetry and music.” The close connection between the two is easy to hear musically, even if Bruckner deleted 15 literal Wagner quotes that appeared in the first version of the Third when he revised the score. But in terms of their personalities, both composers were worlds apart. Wagner was a revolutionary and visionary, a bon vivant living an extravagant lifestyle who was even courted by royalty such as Ludwig II, King of Bavaria. The submissive Bruckner on the other hand fawned before any superior personality, lived for a time in bitter poverty, and often had to read hateful invectives against himself. Daniele Gatti and his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will stage a summit meeting of these two brothers in spirit who were nonetheless so unalike. And between their works we hear the singer Anett Fritsch, Salzburg’s acclaimed Donna Elvira and Figaro Countess, in Alban Berg’s aphoristically concise Altenberg Lieder.

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“20% talent, 60% application, 20% luck” Dmitry Masleev on the key to success

Thursday, 6 September Debut 5 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18338

Dmitry Masleev piano Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Selections from the Piano Pieces, Op. 72 ca. 27’

Sergei Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14

ca. 18’

Franz Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole, S 254 ca. 14’

This concert has no intermission

In 2015 Dmitry Masleev triumphed at the famous International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow – thus succeeding Daniil Trifonov. The jury was thrilled, praising not only his brilliance and flawless technique but his lyrical qualities and the naturalness of his playing as well. This young pianist commands “a musicality almost bordering on the metaphysical,” wrote the Neue Musikzeitung. Born in 1988 in Ulan-Ude, Siberia, Masleev grew up listening to the recordings of Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels. But when it comes to the art of phrasing, he believes he has learned mostly from singers, for example, from Nicolai Gedda. In the meantime, Dmitry Masleev has appeared at the major piano summits, such as the Ruhr Piano Festival and La Roque d’Anthéron; he has played at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Paris Philharmonie, and the Gasteig in Munich; and he has concertized with the Bamberg Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse. In Lucerne he will introduce himself with three of his favorite composers.

Thursday, 6 September Symphony Concert 20 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“It is my best work”

Gustav Mahler on his Seventh Symphony

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p.106 | Event no. 18339

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Daniele Gatti conductor Anton Webern Langsamer Satz ca. 10’

Johann Sebastian Bach Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci from the Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering), BWV 1079, orchestrated by Anton Webern ca. 8’

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor ca. 80’

40min “Adventures in Spatial Music: Stockhausen’s Gruppen” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall London Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Sir Simon Rattle | Matthias Pintscher | Duncan Ward

Through the night into the light is the path that Gustav Mahler traces in his Seventh Symphony, which contemporaries in fact nicknamed as “Nachtwanderung” (“A Walk at Night”). Mahler himself described two of its movements as “night-music pieces.” In the first, he was inspired by Rembrandt’s famous painting The Night Watch. But in the second, an “Andante amoroso,” he strikes up a remarkable serenade, adding guitar and mandolin to his orchestral palette. And yet what comes after that is music of bright sunlight, in the purest C major, with pounding timpani, a march, and tolling bells. Even today this “affirmative” finale is able to excite the passions. Did the brooding Mahler really mean this seriously? Daniele Gatti and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam will decode this Mahlerian riddle. And they will preface the Seventh with another “love song,” the Langsamer Satz (“Slow Movement”) by the Mahler admirer Anton Webern, which the latter composed after he had won his future wife: an early work of Romantic exuberance in its emotions that hardly sounds like Webern.

“Counterpoint is only the means to an end”

Friday, 7 September Symphony Concert 21 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Anton Bruckner

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18340

Vienna Philharmonic Franz Welser-Möst conductor Sol Gabetta cello Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIb:1 ca. 26’

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, WAB 105 ca. 75’

How it all started: when “artiste étoile” Sol Gabetta performed with an orchestra for the first time, at the tender age of ten, she played Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major. Her musical partner back then was the Symphony Orchestra of Córdoba, but ever since she has performed the work in the widest variety of situations, whether historically informed or with modern instruments, with small ensembles or large orchestras. “The fact that I can now play it in Lucerne with the Vienna Philharmonic is an honor for me,” she remarks. In the second part of the evening, Franz Welser-Möst will conduct Anton Bruckner’s contrapuntal masterpiece, the Fifth Symphony, which he composed in the mid-1870s. At the time, Bruckner had just been appointed a lecturer at the Vienna University, and he wanted to prove that he was worthy of the position with all manner of polyphonic sophistication. Of course, you don’t have to have studied the art of the fugue to be overwhelmed by Bruckner’s sonic universe. The mighty, climactic waves he wrote into this music make it thrilling for just about any listener. Credit Suisse – Main Sponsor

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

“A congenial duo”

Friday, 7 September Music Theater 1 20.00 Luzerner Theater

Graz’s Kleine Zeitung on Heydenaber & Bodó

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21st Century Orchestra Chorus of the Luzerner Theater Klaus von Heydenaber and William Kelley musical direction Viktor Bodó staging Márton Ágh set design Fruzsina Nagy costumes Gábor Keresztes sound design With Sofia Borsani, Lukas Darnstädt, Adrian Furrer, Gianna Lunardi, Robert Maszl, Vuyani Mlinde, Diana Schnürpel, Yves Wüthrich et al. Klaus von Heydenaber Opera Without Text world premiere Co-production of the Luzerner Theater and LUCERNE FESTIVAL additional performances until November 2018 70

For the opening of the 2018-19 season at the Luzerner Theater, a new genre will be explored in a boundary-crossing production between opera, drama, and dance in collaboration with the 21st Century Orchestra: Opera Without Text, an experimental exploration by the German composer Klaus von Heydenaber, who was born in 1982. The plot: The Office for Affairs of Death is as hardworking as it is hyper-organized. It is decided here who dies, and when. But one day, on account of a blackout, the Office’s plans are thwarted. Four people who are already being examined by the pathologist come back to life. Due to the system error, they unexpectedly gain time in this world. In this staging by the multiple-award-winning Hungarian theater wizard Viktor Bodó, Klaus von Heydenaber’s first composition of music theater becomes a comic-absurd and cinematically lavish stage event in which words are the only thing missing.

“I cannot imagine a music without transcendence” Klaus Huber

Saturday, 8 September Homage à Klaus Huber 11.00 Kunstmuseum Luzern Admission is free with a museum ticket

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Wolfgang Rihm introduction Klaus Huber selected chamber music works

In October 2017, just a few weeks before his 93rd birthday, Klaus Huber died. He was one of the leading composers of our time. As a teacher, he influenced Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa, Michael Jarrell, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Wolfgang Rihm, and Johannes Schöllhorn, to name just a few of his students. LUCERNE FESTIVAL dedicates a two-part homage to commemorating Klaus Huber, whose oeuvre is familiar to Festival audiences through numerous performances here. This homage will focus on the small and large alike. Participants in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY will prepare important works of chamber music by Huber, while his “opus summum,” the political oratorio Erniedrigt – geknechtet – verlassen – verachtet …, will be shown via the film El pueblo nunca muere (“The People Will Never Die”), which combines recordings of the work’s world premiere in 1983 in Donaueschingen with documentary material and which was made in close collaboration with the Swiss composer (see sidebar).

Film 14.00 | KKL Luzern, Auditorium Free admission El pueblo nunca muere. A film version of Klaus Huber’s Erniedrigt – geknechtet – verlassen – verachtet … Film by Mathias Knauer (Switzerland 1985 | 62’)

Saturday, 8 September Cosmos Stockhausen 4 16.00 Kirchensaal MaiHof

“Start from scratch, with no regard for the ruins”

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18342

Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Dirk Rothbrust percussion Marco Stroppa sound staging Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge Electronic music ca. 13’

Refrain for three players ca. 12’

Zyklus for one percussionist ca. 15’

Kontakte for electronic sounds, piano, and percussion ca. 35’

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In his later years, Karlheinz Stockhausen claimed that he came from the planet Sirius. In fact, he was born in 1928 near Cologne and experienced the horrors of the Hitler regime and the Second World War as an adolescent. His mother was murdered in the Nazis’ euthanasia program, his father was killed on the Eastern Front, and he himself looked after the dying in a military hospital. No wonder that, after the war, he became one of the most uncompromising minds of the musical avant-garde, advocating a radical departure from sullied tradition, as these four works show. In Gesang der Jünglinge, Stockhausen fused the human voice with electronic sounds for the first time, while also applying the idea of spatial music to create a pioneering work in 1956 that changed the music world. Kontakte builds on this, combining sonorities produced in the studio with live instrumental ones to generate a dazzling sonic storm, while Zyklus from 1959 experiments with controlled chance and has the percussionist choose his own way through the score.

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

“The lovely monster”

Johannes Brahms on his Second Symphony

Saturday, 8 September Symphony Concert 22 18.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18343

Vienna Philharmonic Franz Welser-Möst conductor Kian Soltani cello (winner of the 2018 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award) Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 ca. 42’

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 ca. 45’

Kian Soltani

When Antonín Dvořák was working on his Cello Concerto, he learned that his sister-in-law Josefina had a fatal illness. She had been his dearest love when he was young, yet she had rejected the destitute composer back then and chose a well-off count instead. Dvořák then married her younger sister, Anna; but now, knowing that Josefina was about to die, he incorporated her favorite song into the Concerto’s Adagio as a final tribute. And after her death, he extended the work with a melancholy coda. Born in 1992 to a Persian musical family in Bregenz, Kian Soltani, winner of this year’s Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, is an ideal interpreter of this late-period Dvořák score thanks to his rich sound and deeply musical temperament. Meanwhile, Brahms’s contemporaries thought they heard blue skies and sunshine in his Second Symphony, which was composed in the summer of 1877 amid the idyllic setting of the Wörthersee. But Brahms himself insisted that he was “a severely melancholy person” and suggested publishing the score with a precautionary “black border” for mourning. Credit Suisse – Main Sponsor

At the Buvette 17.00 Inseli Open-Air Surprise Concert Concert Introduction 17.30 KKL Luzern, Auditorium with Susanne Stähr (in German)

Saturday, 8 September Modern 5 21.00 Neubad

“One listens inside of the sound”

Karlheinz Stockhausen on Stimmung

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18345

we spoke: percussion (Hauser) Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke, Leslie Leon, Rebecca Ockenden, and Barbara Schingnitz voices (Hauser) SoloVoices (Stockhausen): Svea Schildknecht soprano Anne-May Krüger and Francisca Näf mezzo-soprano Jean-Jacques Knutti tenor Christian Zehnder baritone Jean-Christophe Groffe bass Florian Bogner sound design Brigitte Dubach lighting Fritz Hauser Klangkörper. Stimmen – Schlagzeug – Raum world premiere ca. 70’

Karlheinz Stockhausen Stimmung for six vocalists (Paris version)

ca. 70’ SoloVoices

The “Fritz Hauser Package” 20% discount off a minimum of three different concerts with composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser: lucernefestival.ch/hauser

Six singers sit in a circle, as around a campfire, and sing a single chord: Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote Stimmung (which means both “tuning” and “mood”) in 1968 on Long Island, and the proximity of American Minimalism and the hippie movement is obvious. (“Flower children” also naturally belong to Lucerne’s “Summer of Childhood.”) Along with Stockhausen’s electronic experiments, works such as this one made him a source of inspiration beyond the new-music scene as well. The Icelandic pop elf Björk, for example, has remarked that Stimmung is her favorite Stockhausen piece because it “is only vocal, using the voice as a sound and exploring the nuances of it in a microscopic way, rid of the luggage of the opera tradition or any other vocal disciplines, styles, or techniques.” For the first part of this double concert, composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser will present a collage of old and new works that explore the distinctive sonic qualities of percussion and voice, making use of the entire Neubad as an “actor”: both the reverberant acoustics of this former swimming pool and its winding corridors.

“Without children, the world would be a desert” Jeremias Gotthelf

Saturday, 8 September Music Theater 2 21.00 Luzerner Theater, Box Tickets available starting on 25 February only from the Luzerner Theater | t +41 (0)41 228 14 14 (due to vacation, the Luzerner Theater is closed from 25 June until 19 August)

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Clemens Heil conductor Benedikt von Peter staging Matthew Herbert sound design Márton Ágh space and costumes Sarah Alexandra Hudarew mezzo-soprano Jason Cox baritone “Kindertotenlieder” Gustav Mahler’s song cycle staged in the Luzerner Theater Box Premiere A coproduction of the Luzerner Theater and LUCERNE FESTIVAL Additional performances until 5 October 2018

Clemens Heil

His wife Alma warned: “You are tempting fate,” when, in 1901, Gustav Mahler began to set five poems by Friedrich Rückert that dealt with the writer’s pain over the deaths of two of his children. And, as it turned out, in 1907, three years after finishing the composition, Mahler would also lose his own daughter Maria. Mahler’s lieder, which are both expressive and melancholically spooky, form the basis for a project in the small venue of the Luzerner Theater known as the Box. The internationally sought-after British sound researcher and sample avant-gardist Matthew Herbert and the Hungarian Márton Ágh, whose stage spaces evoke hyperrealistic worlds, join with music director Clemens Heil and director Benedikt von Peter to design a scenario of a fictional world in which there are no longer any children, any future. Mahler’s songs speak eloquently of loss, sighs, and falling into silence, and will reverberate in Matthew Herbert’s sound design, as the world falls apart – and, with it, the composition.

Sunday, 9 September Symphony Concert 23 11.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 120/100/80/70/50/30 Seating map 5, p. 108 | Event no. 18347

“A grown child of alarming naïveté”

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English Chamber Orchestra Wolfram Christ conductor Anuk Steffen narrator (in German) Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Cassation in G major, K. 63 ca. 24’

Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 Symphonie classique ca. 15’

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Symphony in E-flat major, K. 16 ca. 13’

Sergei Prokofiev March in B-flat major, Op. 99 arranged by Otfried Büsing ca. 3’

Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 ca. 25’ 76

Anuk Steffen

Prokofiev’s most-famous work is a symphonic fairy-tale for children: the indestructible story of the intrepid Peter and the evil wolf that is captured and handed over in triumph to a zoo. Born in 2005, the Swiss actress Anuk Steffen, who became famous in 2015 as Heidi in the film version of the Spyri novel by Alain Gsponer, will narrate from a new perspective: that of a child. Prokofiev’s catchy music also allows listeners to get to know the instruments of the orchestra. The flute plays the bird, the oboe is the duck, the clarinet represents the cat, Grandfather is characterized by the bassoon, and Peter himself by the strings. Wolfram Christ, well-known to Festival audiences as principal violist of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, will additionally conduct Prokofiev’s Symphonie classique, an early stroke of genius by the composer. And he will present two works by the child prodigy Mozart: his very first Symphony, composed when he was eight, and the K. 63 Cassation from five years later.

“Everything he conceived was human, felt”

Pierre-Laurent Aimard on Karlheinz Stockhausen

Sunday, 9 September Cosmos Stockhausen 5 11.00 Kirchensaal MaiHof Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18346

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstücke I−XI ca. 75’

A milestone indeed: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke (Piano Pieces) are a mountainous massif of new music, especially the early Numbers I to XI, which were composed in the 1950s and 1960s. Stockhausen characterized them as “drawings,” because he could focus here “on the possibilities of an instrument, a player with his ten fingers and two feet,” and in this concentrated framework could address fundamental compositional problems. Stockhausen explored unusual ways of playing and echo nuances, sampled overtone effects by having keys muted and then struck, and went far beyond conventional pianism. “The sounds ricochet from the top to the bottom of the piano, as if the instrument were a pinball machine,” observes the American music critic Alex Ross. And the French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who worked closely with Stockhausen for years, remarks: “In each of his Klavierstücke, Stockhausen develops a new parameter. He experimented constantly, radically, and systematically from piece to piece.”

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Sunday, 9 September Cosmos Stockhausen 6 & 7 18.30 & 21.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

“All music after 1950 comes from Gruppen” György Kurtág

Ticket price CHF 30 Event nos. 18363 & 18364

London Symphony Orchestra Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Sir Simon Rattle conductor Matthias Pintscher conductor Duncan Ward conductor Karlheinz Stockhausen Gruppen for three orchestras ca. 25’

This concert has no intermission

Matthias Pintscher

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Twice is better than once – that holds true indeed for the complex scores of the 20th and 21st centuries. Yet it is not just for that reason that you can hear Karlheinz Stockhausen’s trail-blazing Gruppen two times in one evening, but also because the work, which was premiered in 1958 in Cologne, is designed as spatial music. Three orchestras, totaling 109 musicians, surround the audience in a horseshoe configuration. They “play – each under its own conductor – sometimes independently and in different tempi; from time to time they meet in a common audible rhythm; they may call to and answer one another; one may echo another; for a while only music from the left, from the front, or from the right may be heard,” explained the composer. It is therefore very stimulating to hear Stockhausen’s Gruppen twice in a row, each time from a different auditory perspective. Between the two performances, two other key works of new music by Olivier Messiaen and Luigi Nono will be played in the main concert hall of the KKL Luzern (see next page).

“Wake up the ears, the eyes, the human mind” Luigi Nono

Sunday, 9 September Symphony Concert 24 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 90/60/30 Seating map 6, p. 108 | Event no. 18348

London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor (Messiaen) Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Matthias Pintscher conductor (Nono) Olivier Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum for winds and percussion ca. 24’

Luigi Nono No hay caminos, hay que caminar … Andrei Tarkovsky for seven orchestra groups ca. 25’

This concert has no intermission

Sir Simon Rattle

For Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Gruppen (see previous page), the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY will join the London Symphony Orchestra to form a “super-ensemble.” In this concert, they will perform back-to-back. In his haunting homage to the Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, his very last orchestral work, Luigi Nono distributes the musicians into seven groups spread across the entire Concert Hall, has the sounds go back and forth, and even gives space to silence. Olivier Messiaen, meanwhile, addresses the audience with the cumulative momentum of 34 wind players and a rich range of percussion. His Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum sounds powerful, blocky, indeed monumental, the entire work lacking the soft coloration of strings and ideally performed in cathedrals or in the open air in nature, according to the composer. Commemorating those who had fallen in both world wars, Messiaen created not gloomy funeral music but a powerfully resounding credo: “And I await the resurrection of the dead.”

Monday, 10 September Symphony Concert 25 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Ravel was a child”

Hélène Jourdan-Morhange, friend of the composer

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18349

London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Choir Sir Simon Rattle conductor Magdalena Kožená l’Enfant Patricia Bardon Maman, la Libellule, un Pâtre, la Bête Jane Archibald le Feu, la Princesse, le Rossignol Anna Stéphany la Bergère, la Chatte, la Tasse Chinoise, l’Ecureuil Elizabeth Watts la Chouette, la Chauve-souris, une Pastourelle Sunnyboy Dladla la Théière, le Petit Vieillard, la Rainette Gavan Ring l’Horloge, le Chat David Shipley le Fauteuil, l’Arbre Maurice Ravel Ma mère l’Oye Ballet version ca. 28’

Shéhérazade

ca. 18’

L’Enfant et les Sortilèges ca. 45’

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

Maurice Ravel felt most at ease in the society of children. He loved to crouch down and play with them, tell them stories, or track down mechanical puppets at fair stalls to give them. No wonder, then, that in his creative work, several scores have a reference to childhood. In three delicate orchestral songs, for example, he lets the narrator Scheherazade lead us into the fantastic world of the East. In his “pièces enfantines,” Ma mère l’Oye, which he originally wrote as a four-hand piano suite for two children, he sets famous fairy-tales to music. But with his one-act opera L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Ravel may have portrayed himself in the lead role of the stubborn child who has no desire to do his homework and just sticks out his tongue at his mother. However, when the child is left alone as a punishment, remarkable things start happening: all the objects around him begin to come to life and pester him − the furniture, the dishes, even the chimney fire. Maurice at home, on his own.

“Really, a charming young man” Nadezhda von Meck on Claude Debussy

Tuesday, 11 September Debut 6 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18350

Rolston String Quartet: Luri Lee and Jeffrey Dyrda violins Hezekiah Leung viola Jonathan Lo cello Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor ca. 26’

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

ca. 30’

This concert has no intermission

At the Banff Centre for Arts, idyllically situated in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, the Rolston String Quartet was born in 2013 when two graduates of the Glenn Gould School of Music joined with two other students to form an ensemble, taking their name from the founder of the Institute, the violinist Thomas Rolston. Three years later, in 2016, the four won the acclaimed Banff International String Quartet Competition and began their brilliant career, which by now has taken them across North America, Europe, and Israel, with performances at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and even in the historic castle of Prince Esterházy in Eisenstadt. Since the fall of 2017 they have been associated as quartet-in-residence with the Yale School of Music. The Rolston String Quartet will now make its debut in Lucerne with Debussy’s elegant String Quartet – and with Tchaikovsky’s first contribution to the genre, whose famous Andante cantabile moved the writer Leo Tolstoy to tears.

Tuesday, 11 September Symphony Concert 26 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Simply wonderful music”

Simon Rattle on Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18351

London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor Krystian Zimerman piano Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety ca. 36’

Antonín Dvořák Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 ca. 35’

Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta ca. 24’

Krystian Zimerman

40min “When the Notes Dance: HEROÏCA” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Young Performance

It all started with Aunt Clara. One day, she discarded her old piano and left it in the house of her brother, Samuel Bernstein. From that moment on, his son, the sick, pale Lenny, changed completely. “Suddenly I found my world,” recalled Bernstein. “I became very strong inside and became athletic and won medals and cups for diving. It all happened together and that changed my life. Because you see the secret of it is I found a universe where I was secure: that’s music.” And so he rose to become not only a celebrated star conductor but also a sensationally successful composer. For example, with his Second Symphony, The Age of Anxiety, a piano concerto in disguise, which the Bernstein admirer Sir Simon Rattle has chosen for his concert marking the 100th anniversary of the master. The soloist will be none other than the great Krystian Zimerman, Bernstein’s favorite pianist during his final years. In the second half, Rattle will indulge his love of Czech music with Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances and Janáček’s Sinfonietta.

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“Dmitry is rather cool” Nina Tichman on her student

Wednesday, 12 September “Wunderkind” Debut 3 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18361

Dmitry Ishkhanov piano Robert Schumann Arabeske in C major, Op. 18 ca. 8’

Five selections from the Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 ca. 17’

Robert Schumann/Franz Liszt Liebeslied (Widmung [“Dedication”]), S 566 ca. 4’

Felix Mendelssohn Andante cantabile e Presto agitato, WoO 6 ca. 9’

Three Songs without Words ca. 8’

Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14

ca. 7’

This concert has no intermission

Born in Moscow in 2005, Dmitry Ishkhanov, who moved with his parents to Malta as a child, has already won so many piano competitions that he cannot even list them all. Since 2014 he has been studying at the Cologne Music Academy, the youngest pupil in its history. In the following year, he made his debut as a soloist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, with which he played Mozart’s Lützow Concerto. In 2016 he represented Malta at the Eurovision Young Musicians and thrilled with Kabalevsky’s Third Piano Concerto. He has also appeared at several acclaimed events, such as the Ruhr Piano Festival, ClaviCologne, the Washington International Piano Festival, and, at the invitation of Vladimir Spivakov, at Moscow Meets Friends. “Dmitry arrives fun of verve for every lesson,” says his teacher in Cologne, the American pianist Nina Tichman. “He’s very focused on and serious about his daily practicing and his concerts, but then, he’s just a child, and that’s something to which we also pay special attention.”

Wednesday, 12 September Symphony Concert 27 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Shostakovich thought constantly of death” Andris Nelsons

Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18352

Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons conductor Baiba Skride violin Leonard Bernstein Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) for violin, string orchestra, harp, and percussion

ca. 30’

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 ca. 62’

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Leonard Bernstein had an endless supply of talents, and these he possessed in abundance. Arthur Rubinstein once remarked on these in a slightly wicked way when he said that Bernstein was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists.” But Bernstein need not shy away from comparisons as a composer among composers – such is the realization lately being underscored during this anniversary year of 2018, which marks the centenary of Bernstein’s birth and is bringing reassessments of many of his works. Andris Nelsons and Baiba Skride will prove the point with Serenade, a five-movement Violin Concerto from 1954. In the second part of the program, the fabulous Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Shostakovich’s most devastating Symphony, the Fourth, with its eerie coda of 236 measures in which we hear the throbbing rhythm of a heartbeat that comes to a rest at the end. Shostakovich was unable to premiere this very personal work until after Stalin’s death, 25 years after completing the score; at the time when it was composed, this music might have cost him his life.

“Playing the violin is a top sport” Sebastian Bohren

Thursday, 13 September Debut 7 12.15 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 30 Event no. 18353

Sebastian Bohren violin José Gallardo piano Igor Stravinsky Divertimento

ca. 20’

Ludwig van Beethoven Twelve Variations on Mozart’s Se vuol ballare, WoO 40 ca. 12’

Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004

ca. 15’

Richard Strauss Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18

ca. 30’

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The Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren, who was born in 1987 in Winterthur, has quite old-fashioned views − they happily set him apart from those who are obsessed with making a reputation fast and with good sales figures. “A violin life lasts a long time,” he says, adding that he hopes to still be playing at eighty. He has little use for crossover pieces with pop songs like Bohemian Rhapsody or film music: “That’s just like fast food.” Still, he has made a career: for example, he recently played Britten’s Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and concertized with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, and the Basel Symphony Orchestra. And his four CDs have garnered the finest reviews. For his Lucerne debut program, Bohren has selected some pieces to accentuate the summer theme of “Childhood”: “Beethoven wrote his Mozart Variations at fourteen, Strauss his Violin Sonata at seventeen,” he explains. Stravinsky’s Divertimento makes reference to Tchaikovsky, and Bach’s Chaconne is – could it be otherwise? – one of Bohren’s favorite works.

Thursday, 13 September Symphony Concert 28 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 320/270/220/150/80/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18354

“Something the world has not yet heard!”

Gustav Mahler on his Third Symphony

Boston Symphony Orchestra Women of the Gewandhaus Choir Gewandhaus Children’s Choir Andris Nelsons conductor Susan Graham mezzo-soprano Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor ca. 100’

This concert has no intermission

40min “Cellodrums: Improvisations for Cello and Percussion” 18.20 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Martina Brodbeck | Fritz Hauser

Nothing more and nothing less than a depiction of the world is what Gustav Mahler intended to create with his Third Symphony, the most extensive of all his works. In six movements, his musical story of Creation covers a hierarchical span from the rocky formations of inanimate nature through plants, animals, and humans to the highest form of existence, divine love. Children, the epitome of innocence, are given a prominent position in this scheme: Mahler introduces them in the fifth movement in the form of a boys’ choir intoning the ringing of the bells and thus symbolically underscoring what “the Angels tell me” – a “music of the heavens” that is already close to Paradise. The Third is a deeply felt, personal work. Which is why Mahler himself was convinced that “only I will be able to conduct it…” On this last point, history has fortunately contradicted the composer, as Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will splendidly prove, together with two choruses from Leipzig and the American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.

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“A tiger is lurking in this instrument” Sol Gabetta on her Goffriller cello

Friday, 14 September Symphony Concert 29 19.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall Ticket prices CHF 240/200/150/100/60/30 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18355

London Philharmonic Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor Sol Gabetta cello Edward Elgar Suite from The Wand of Youth, arranged by Marin Alsop ca. 7’

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

ca. 30’

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major

ca. 55’

Sol Gabetta

To conclude her appearances as “artiste étoile” at the 2018 Summer Festival, Sol Gabetta will present her “warhorse”: the Cello Concerto by Edward Elgar, written exactly 100 years ago, whose note of nostalgic melancholy continues to inspire audiences around the world. Gabetta performs this work 15 to 20 times a season, and she even played it when she made her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2014 and, in 2016, when she opened the BBC Proms. “In no other concerto has my approach evolved more strongly,” she remarks. The conductor Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic will present a less-well-known work by Elgar at the beginning of the concert: The Wand of Youth, in which the composer draws on melodies that he had composed as a child and young man – an ideal contribution to the Festival theme of “Childhood.” Meanwhile, the main work of the evening will be Mahler’s melodically rich First Symphony, which recounts a tragic love story: from the awakening of feelings through the greatest euphoria and then disillusionment to final redemption. The joy and sorrow of love at their most moving … KPMG AG – Concert Sponsor

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Saturday, 15 September Symphony Concert 30 16.30 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“It is said that every second Lithuanian is a chorus master”

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 2, p. 106 | Event no. 18356

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conductor Gidon Kremer violin Antonín Dvořák Othello. Concert Ouverture, Op. 93 ca. 14’

Mieczysław Weinberg Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 67 ca. 30’

Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World ca. 45’

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

At the beginning of the 1890s, Antonín Dvořák became an obstetrician, so to speak. Ironic that he, a Czech, should be the one to explore what an authentically American musical language should sound like. It was for this purpose that he was assigned to head the new National Conservatory of Music in New York, where he taught composition and worked with the Conservatory Orchestra. But Dvořák also immersed himself in the folk music heritage that he discovered in the United States. He had Negro spirituals sung to him and studied the melodies of Native Americans. All of what he learned flowed into his most-famous symphony, the Ninth, which is nicknamed From the New World. And the fact that it sounds at times more Bohemian – what does that matter? For music is indeed a universal language, as will be proved in this concert by a British orchestra with the Latvian star violinist Gidon Kremer and a Lithuanian maestra. Born in 1986, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, whose first experiences were as a chorus master, has arguably become the most successful woman conductor and performs for her third time now at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. Clariant – Concert Sponsor

“What are all other child prodigies beside him?”

Ignaz Moscheles on the young Felix Mendelssohn

Saturday, 15 September Chamber Music 3 19.30 Lukaskirche Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18362

casalQuartett: Felix Froschhammer and Rachel Späth violins Markus Fleck viola Andreas Fleck cello Wolfgang Amadé Mozart String Quartet in C major, K. 170

ca. 15’

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga String Quartet No. 1 in D minor

ca. 23’

Alma Deutscher Rondo for String Quartet

ca. 6’

Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 ca. 30’

“Wunderkinder” gathered together. Felix Mendelssohn was eighteen when he created his Second String Quartet, Arriaga composed his first contribution to the genre at seventeen, and Mozart was fifteen when he produced his K. 170 C major Quartet. But surpassing all three when it comes to age is Alma Deutscher, who was only eight years old when she wrote her Rondo for String Quartet in 2013. With this program, the Casal Quartet will prove that all of these youthful works were created with a high level of mastery. “Would you also use a pacemaker made by a fifteen-year-old or have yourself represented in court by someone so young?” This provocative question is simply not transferable to the realm of art. As Goethe once asserted: “The musical talent may well manifest itself earliest of all, for music is something innate and internal, which needs little nourishment from without, and no experience drawn from life.” Though his exclusion of such factors may be questioned – else why would we need music conservatories?

Saturday, 15 September Music Theater 3 21.00 Luzerner Theater

“I simply cannot exhaust an instrument”

Fritz Hauser

Ticket price CHF 50 Event no. 18357

Fritz Hauser percussion Barbara Frey staging Brigitte Dubach lighting Fritz Hauser Trommel mit Mann ca. 60’

This performance has no intermission

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When you think of a percussionist, the vast arsenal of instruments that surrounds this musician onstage immediately presents itself to your inner eye: bongos and bells, rattles and rainsticks, tamtams and triangles. During the performance, he or she must sprint back and forth among these in a way that is reminiscent of extreme sports. But there’s another kind of percussion. In his solo performance Trommel mit Mann (Drum with Man), written in 2001 in collaboration with the director Barbara Frey, composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser concentrates on the essential. A man in short pants, resembling a child who has yet to experience the world, sits onstage in front of a drum. Otherwise, nothing, no props, no text. But then Hauser takes the drumsticks in his hands and begins … to play, to transform rhythms into sounds and sounds into colors, to explore volume levels, to compress and to stretch out time itself. From a simple starting point, a captivating exploration of the world through percussion evolves, one which simultaneously involves an “engagement with one’s own creativity,” as the Basler Zeitung put it.

“Children hear with their hearts” Dan Tanson

Sunday, 16 September Young Performance 11.00 & 15.00 KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall Ticket prices CHF 20/10 (adults/children) Event nos. 18450 & 18454

Young Performance: Eleonora Savini violin Caleb Salgado double bass Rozenn Le Trionnaire clarinet Deepa Goonetilleke horn Kevin Austin trombone Estelle Costanzo harp João Carlos Pacheco percussion Dan Tanson and Laura van Hal concept and staging Emilie Cottam costumes Stephan Choner lighting “HEROÏCA” Seven Musical Heroes Going Wild featuring music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Fauré, Gustav Holst and others

ca. 50’

for ages 7 and up This concert has no intermission

Reunion for a breakout show! It was four years ago that HEROÏCA premiered, the first production by Young Performance. Seven young musicians arm themselves with their instruments and take the stage. The trombone wants to play violin, the clarinet duly wants to pound the drums – how can that go well? HEROÏCA gets the notes to dance, transforming a classical concert into a stage show for listening viewers. And it has thrilled young and old not only in Lucerne but on tours that have taken HEROÏCA throughout Switzerland and to such venues abroad as the new Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and the Philharmonie in Cologne; it also won the acclaimed Young Ears Prize in 2014. The Luxembourgian Dan Tanson invented and staged the whole thing. Since he is our “artiste étoile” in the “Summer of Childhood” in 2018, HEROÏCA comes back to where it began, on the shores of Lake Lucerne. For everyone who has not yet seen this thrilling musical spectacle. And for all who would like to see and be enchanted by it once again.

Sunday, 16 September Symphony Concert 31 17.00 KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

“Rossini is like champagne” Cecilia Bartoli

Ticket prices CHF 290/240/190/130/70/40 Seating map 1, p. 106 | Event no. 18360

Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco Men’s Choir of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo Gianluca Capuano conductor Claudia Blersch staging Cecilia Bartoli Angelina Edgardo Rocha Don Ramiro Alessandro Corbelli Dandini Carlos Chausson Don Magnifico Martina Janková Clorinda Rosa Bove Tisbe José Coca Alidoro Gioachino Rossini La cenerentola Dramma giocoso in two acts Semi-staged performance Performance ends at ca. 20.30

Cecilia Bartoli

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“How wonderful!” remarked Cecilia Bartoli when she produced and sang in Rossini’s La cenerentola in Monte Carlo in February 2017. “I thought that was an evening of superlatives. We all wanted the same thing and were in absolute harmony – that’s the secret for a really good performance. Everyone brings their passion to it, but they also take incredible pleasure in doing so.” It was with Rossini that the mezzo-soprano began her professional life at the age of 19. For this return to the “patron” of her career, she even founded her own ensemble, Les Musiciens du Prince, with Prince Albert of Monaco as patron. And with this troupe she will now crown the 2018 Summer Festival and bring it to a fairy-tale close as Rossini’s Cinderella. “At the end of this evening of opera, Bartoli is still spinning about in her wedding dress as if intoxicated, lofting her coloratura notes effortlessly to the top of the house: a Cecilia surround-sound system,” reported Norddeutsche Rundfunk, adding: “It is a passionate, clever, world-class evening – an evening of shooting stars.”

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new works are given their premieres as part of the Summer Festival. The Adecco Group has been a Main Sponsor of the Summer Festival since 2017. It additionally supports the increase in the Festival’s international presence, especially the activities of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA in Asia, thus enhancing the worldwide reputation of the Festival. Zurich Insurance Company Ltd (Zurich) has made it a primary goal to enable access to classical music for a broad public. The free “40min” concert series underscores this commitment with numerous events in Lucerne Hall. Theme Sponsor LUCERNE FESTIVAL traditionally focuses each summer on ageneral theme that shapes the programming and choice of works. For 2018 this theme is “Childhood.” The focus is on composers who have dealt intensively with children and with childhood, whose works take on child-related themes and evoke the poetry of childhood – but also on numerous projects that are specifcally aimed at children and that spotlight the audience of tomorrow. Vontobel supports LUCERNE FESTIVAL as 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.

Sharing the Concert Experience The Young Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Do you want to immerse yourself more thoroughly in the world of classical music and share your impressions with other people? The Young Friends are a network of young adults up to age 39 who are interested in music and culture. We organize shared trips to the concert hall at reduced ticket prices, which are supplemented with a varied program of related events. You can obtain more information by writing jungefreunde@lucernefestival.ch.

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Ticketing Information DATES FOR TICKET SALES Summer Festival | 17 August – 16 September 2018 Online ticket sales begin on Mail and fax sales begin on Telephone sales begin on

5 March 2018, 12.00 noon (Swiss time) 8 March 2018 15 March 2018, 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 | lucernefestival.ch TICKET SALES AT THE BOX OFFICE

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Ticket Sales Throughout the Year – Across Switzerland As soon as online sales begin on 5 March 2018 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. 103. During the Summer Festival Throughout the Summer Festival, you can purchase tickets daily from 10.00 am until the end of the evening concert’s intermission by visiting the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ticket window at the KKL Luzern’s main entrance (on the lake side). This includes tickets for Summer Festival events as well as for events in the Piano Festival. Ticket Purchases Directly at the Concert If you decide to attend a concert at the last minute, you can purchase tickets (as available) 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.

DISCOUNTS & SPECIAL OFFERS Discounted Tickets for Students and KulturLegi Holders University students, high school students, vocational students, and JTC members up to the age of 29 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 lucernefestival.ch/students. Special Offer: “Look | Listen | Enjoy – Together at the Concert” What could be better than introducing young ones to the secrets of classical music? When a ticket is purchased for selected events, adults will receive two equivalent free tickets for their youthful companions. More information on p. 5 and at lucernefestival.ch/ look-listen-enjoy (where you can also find the selection of concerts available for this special offer). 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.

Audio and Video Recording For all LUCERNE FESTIVAL events, customers are strictly prohibited from making visual or audio recordings, including even for private use. Failure to comply will result in expulsion from the event venue. LUCERNE FESTIVAL makes audio and/or video recordings of certain performances. With the purchase of a concert ticket, the customer understands that LUCERNE FESTIVAL also uses recordings in which it is possible that he or she may appear. Cloakroom It is mandatory to use the cloakroom in the KKL Luzern, which is free of charge. A limited number of lockers is also available in the cloakroom area. Please note that, for security reasons, bags and other objects that are larger than 40x25x25cm in size must be left in the cloakroom before entering the concert halls. 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. General Terms & Conditions The General Terms & Conditions may be found at lucernefestival.ch.

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New at LUCERNE FESTIVAL USE THE QR CODE TO PURCHASE TICKETS DIRECTLY As a new feature, you will see a QR code associated with each event of our Festival programming. You can scan this using the QR code reader on your smartphone and directly access the corresponding concert page on our website. This will make purchasing a ticket even easier. READ YOUR CONCERT PROGRAM BOOKLET BEFORE THE CONCERT Now you can purchase your program booklet online in PDF form starting about seven days before the event in question. Each concert’s detail page on our website has a direct link where you can purchase and download the PDF.

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WHATSAPP NEWS FOR STUDENTS Which concerts have tickets still available for students at the box? What’s on at the Festival for primary, secondary, and university and vocational students? Use our WhatsApp News feature to be informed up to date. How does it work? Simply add a contact for our number +41 (0)79 385 36 53 and send the message “Start” using WhatsApp.

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 Binnigerstrasse 152 | CH–4123 Alschwil Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm | Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm BERN tonträger music & more Schweizerhofpassage | Spitalgasse 38 | CH–3011 Bern Mon, 1.00 pm to 6.30 pm | Tue – Fri, 9.00 am to 6.30 pm | Sat, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm LUCERNE KKL Box Office (train station entrance) Europaplatz 1 | CH–6002 Luzern Mon – Fri, 9.00 am to 6.30 pm | Sat, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Musik Hug Luzern Luzernerstrasse 45 | CH–6030 Ebikon Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 6.30 pm | Sat, 9.00 am to 4.00 pm

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 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 ST. GALLEN Musik Hug St. Gallen Fürstenlandstr. 96 | CH–9014 St. Gallen Tue – Fri, 10.00 am to 7.00 pm | Sat, 10.00 am to 5.00 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

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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SOUNDZZ.Z.ZZZ…Z Visual Art Meets Music: “Soundzz.z.zzz…z” Combines the Arts The winner of the 2018 “Soundzz.z.zzz…z” Competition will present his project during the Summer Festival. In cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Luzern

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

SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne

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Lucerne Blues Festival

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10 – 18 November 2018 www.bluesfestival.ch

Blue Balls Festival

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17 – 25 November 2018 www.lucernefestival.ch

LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Summer

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6 – 14 April 2019 www.lucernefestival.ch

World Band Festival Lucerne

Fumetto – International ComixFestival Lucerne, 6 – 14 April 2019 www.fumetto.ch

22 – 30 September 2018 www.worldbandfestival.ch

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Getting There ARRIVAL VIA BUS AND TRAIN: YOUR CONCERT TICKET IS ALSO VALID AS A TRAVEL TICKET! Free rides within the Passepartout System When you visit the Festival you can travel in Lucerne for free: Your concert ticket may also be used on the day of the performance for a free ride to and from the venue within the Passepartout-Zone 10 (2nd class). Valid from 3 hours before the start and up to 3 hours after the end of the performance. Arrival and Departure by Train: 40% Rebate in the Swiss Rail Network As a concertgoer you can receive a discount of 40% for 1st or 2nd class for a round trip to Lucerne. (The concert ticket must be presented to the inspector on the train.) With the halffare card, the trip will cost only 30% of the full fare. This special ticket must be purchased at a Swiss Rail ticket counter, by calling the Rail Service line at 0900 300 300 (CHF 1.19/minute in the Swiss telephone network), or online at the SBB ticket shop (sbb.ch/lucernefestival) before beginning your trip. ARRIVAL VIA CAR The KKL Luzern is located right next to Lucerne’s main train station. Owing to the parking and traffic situation, we recommend using public transportation during the Festival season. Guests who travel by car are advised to observe the city’s parking guidance system and to take the bus from the parking garages to the KKL Luzern.

The parking garages are indicated in the adjacent map; you can find additional information at parking-luzern.ch. Park & Ride Several train stations outside the City of Lucerne offer Park & Ride for rail travel to Lucerne. The following stations are especially convenient and provide ample parking: Sursee, Rotkreuz, Zug, Wolhusen, Arth-Goldau, and Sarnen. Would you like to learn more about Lucerne and its surrounding area? Are you in need of accommodation? Tourist Information Tourist Information Luzern Zentralstrasse 5 | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 (0)41 227 17 17 Accommodation Lucerne’s Tourist Office can help you find accommodation. Central reservations no.: t +41 41 227 17 27 | luzern@luzern.com

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Erleben Sie ein Künstlergespräch und hochkarätigen Konzertgenuss Programm 16.30 bis 17.30 Uhr – Künstlergespräch NZZ-Musikkritiker Christian Wildhagen führt ein exklusives Gespräch mit Michael Haefliger, Intendant des Lucerne Festival, über sein Schaffen und Wirken (KKL Auditorium) 18.30 bis 19.15 Uhr – Konzerteinführung Susanne Stähr, leitende Dramaturgin des Lucerne Festival, führt in das Konzert ein (KKL Auditorium) 19.30 bis ca. 21.30 Uhr – Sinfoniekonzert Das Lucerne Festival Orchestra und der Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks spielen unter der Leitung von Riccardo Chailly Werke von Debussy (Prélude à l‘après-midi d‘un faune / Trois Nocturnes) und Ravel (Daphnis et Chloé)-(KKL Konzertsaal)

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

Õ Ameron Hotel Flora Cascada Hotel Château Gütsch Continental-Park Des Balances Grand Hotel Europe Hofgarten Monopol Rebstock Wilden Mann Birdland Hotel, Sempach-Station Jagd-Schloss, Merlischachen Palace Hotel, Bürgenstock Parkhotel, Zug Schloss-Hotel, Merlischachen Seehotel Kastanienbaum Seehotel Sternen, Horw Winkelried, Stansstad

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

H H H H

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

077 406 43 31 041 418 47 47 041 375 85 64 041 419 46 46 041 410 24 74 041 329 12 12 041 624 66 77

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

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

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

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HOSPITALITY AND DESIGN BY JEAN NOUVEL THE HOTEL, SEMPACHERSTRASSE 14, 6002 LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND PHONE +41 41 226 86 86, WWW.THE-HOTEL.CH

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Renaissance Lucerne Hotel, Pilatusstrasse 15, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland Phone +41 41 226 87 87, www.renaissance-luzern.ch

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Our festival package: We serve you a preconcert aperitif on our lake side terrace, The hotel‘s launch then speeds you across the bay to the KKL concert hall and brings you back afterwards to enjoy a composition conjured up by our chef. Per person from CHF 110.00 incl. 3 to 5 course menu, boat transfer and parking Reservation: T +41 41 419 09 09

Classic and Class

With an atmospheric overnight stay in the first building in the park, close to the KKL part of top festival enjoyment. BTW … and orders for aperitifs or tasty Ticino-style dishes in the Bellini Locanda Ticinese taken up until 11 p.m. Hotel Continental Park Murbacherstrasse 4 | CH-6002 Lucerne | T +41 41 228 90 50 | hotel@continental.ch | continental.ch

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

Where history comes alive In all our award-winning rooms you will discover a story of a former hotel guest of the last 170 years. Experience a five-star overnight stay at the festival hotel.

www.schweizerhof-luzern.ch

Telefon +41 (0)41 410 0 410

PIANO FESTIVAL 17 − 25 NOVEMBER 2018

Info: lucernefestival.ch

First-class tones. sbb.ch/lucernefestival PUBLIC TRANSPORT TICKET WITH

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Supporting Organizations Official Rail Carrier

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

Image Credits p. 1, 59, 61, 63, 84, 85, and 86: photos Marco Borggreve – p. 2 top, 19, 35, 36, 80, 91, and 96/97: photos Peter Fischli/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 2 bottom: photo Archives of the Stockhausen Foundation for Music, Kürten – p. 3 top, and 40: photos Uwe Arens – p. 3 bottom 30, and 50: photos Monika Rittershaus – p. 4 top, 24, and 37: photos Priska Ketterer – p. 4 bottom, 5 top, 32, 38/39, 41, 48, 53, 62, 69, 77, and 94/95: photos Priska Ketterer/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 5 bottom, and 57: photos Patrick Hürlimann/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 20: photo Superar – p. 21: photo Manuel Lopez – p. 22: photo Marianne Hofer – p. 23: photo Eva Vermandel – p. 25: photo Enrique Pardo – p. 26, and 87: photos Julia Wesely – p. 27: photo Robert Ascroft/Sony Classical – p. 28: photo Nicolas Brodard – p. 29: photo Mat Hennek – p. 31: photo E. Miyoshi – p. 33, 42, 56, and 78: photos Stefan Deuber/LUCERNE FESTIVAL – p. 34: photo Felix Broede – p. 43: photo Marco Zanoni – p. 44: The Kid © Roy Export p.A.p. – p. 45: photo Andreas Zimmermann – p. 46: photo Dario Acosta – p. 49: photo Alex Nightingale – p. 51: photo Glen Thomas –p. 52: photo The Prodigy – p. 54: photo Anouk Antony – p. 55: photo Neda Navaee – p. 58: photo Thomas P. Krähenbühl – p. 64: photo Maria Slepkova – p. 66: photo Kristin Höbermann – p. 67: photo Dmitry Masleev – p. 70: photo 21st Century Orchestra – p. 71: photo Harald Rehling – p. 72: photo Werner Scholz/Archives of the Stockhausen Foundation for Music, Kürten – p. 73: photo Juventino Mateo – p. 74: photo Neal Banerjee – p. 75: photo David Röthlisberger/Kevin Graber – p. 79: photo Oliver Helbig – p. 81: photo Tianxiao Zhang – p. 82: photo Hirimochi Yamamoto – p. 83: photo Thomas Hanses/ EBU – p. 88: photo Lutz Jaekel – p. 89: photo Frans Jansen – p. 90: photo Beat Presser – p. 92: photo Silvia Lelli – p. 119: photo Georg Anderhub/LUCERNE FESTIVAL

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Addresses | Publishing Credits LUCERNE FESTIVAL Hirschmattstrasse 13 | P.O. Box | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 (0)41 226 44 00 | f +41 (0)41 226 44 60 info@lucernefestival.ch | lucernefestival.ch Ticketing & Visitor Information LUCERNE FESTIVAL | P.O. Box | CH–6002 Luzern t +41 (0)41 226 44 80 | f +41 (0)41 226 44 85 ticketbox@lucernefestival.ch | lucernefestival.ch Publisher | LUCERNE FESTIVAL Foundation | lucernefestival.ch Executive and Artistic Director | Michael Haefliger Editing and Content | Susanne Stähr, Malte Lohmann English Language Editor and Translator | Thomas May Design | Isabelle Gargiulo Layout and Execution | Denise Fankhauser Advertising | Bettina Jaggi Printing | Engelberger Druck AG, Stans This program was published in February 2018 and is subject to alteration without prior notice. Printed prices are subject to correction. 128

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