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Guillem Palomar and Jakob Raab © Nik Hunger

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Creating a new work

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On Air! Concert transmissions 2025

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Claudia Masika (pictured here at her 2022 performance) will return to "In the Streets" 2025 © Patrick Hürlimann / Lucerne Festival

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The sound of "In the Streets" 2025

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Not on the Abbey Road but in Pfeffikon LU: The Lucerne Festival team's third mission for Birdlife Luzern

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Third movement: Hedges and fences

Igor Levit performs with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra © Patrick Hürlimann / Lucerne Festival

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Piano Fest 2025 – a look back

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Jörg Widmann © Florian Ganslmeier

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“He's like a Swiss Army knife”

© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival

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Spring Festival 2025 – a look back

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Raymond Curfs, solo timpani player of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, takes part in the introduction for children by students of the CAS "Musik vermitteln" © Patrick Hürlimann / Lucerne Festival

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Beethoven for old and young

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Pierre Boulez strolls through Lucerne © Screencapture from the documentary "Inheriting the Future of Music"

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Boulez in Lucerne

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The Alban Berg Quartett at their first Lucerne performance, 1983 © Lucia Elser / Lucerne Festival

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"Cette sonorité n’existe pas en France"

Lorena Dellenbach performs a sign language poem which is transformed into a synthesizer solo © Diego Saldiva

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When music knows no limits

2010: Boulez conducts the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival

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Back on air: Gems from the archive with Pierre Boulez