2024 Program

This orchestra always goes all out. Whether playing softly or at full volume, etching a melody or building to a climax, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra teases out contrasts while eliciting the finest details from the score.

As part of their Spring Festival residency, the musicians of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra took a fresh look at the youngest of the three great composers of the Viennese Classical era: Ludwig van Beethoven. With Music Director Riccardo Chailly and Pablo Heras-Casado at the podium, they performed Beethoven’s First, Second, and Seventh Symphonies, as well as the Violin Concerto, with the emerging violin star Daniel Lozakovich as the soloist. In addition, a chamber concert of works by Dvořák and Tchaikovsky took us on a detour to Italy and America.

Later, during the Summer Festival, Mahler’s and Bruckner’s Seventh Symphonies and Schumann’s Second are on the program, along with stunning piano concertos by Clara Schumann, Edvard Grieg, and Sergei Rachmaninoff (to whom an entire evening will be devoted). Along with Riccardo Chailly, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Klaus Mäkelä will also conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and Leif Ove Andsnes, Alexander Malofeev, and Beatrice Rana will dazzle as piano soloists.