Lucerne Festival Beethoven Boulez Beyond

Aug 21, 2013

On Sunday, August 25, Pablo Heras-Casado will conduct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as part of an all-day music marathon that celebrates 75 years of the Lucerne Festival. There will be a delayed broadcast of the concert by SRF, and the free webcast will be available to watch on-demand for one week thereafter. Also, Radio SRF 2 Kultur will cover the day’s festivities. The performance, which takes place in the Konzertsaal at 1:00pm, is the first of three the Spanish conductor will lead at the groundbreaking Swiss festival, founded in 1938 in the gardens of Tribschen by Arturo Toscanini.

Pablo will lead the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra on September 7 in two works by festival Artistic Director Pierre Boulez: Cummings ist der Dichter and Le Soleil des eaux. He will also lead the orchestra and violinist Caroline Widmann in the Swiss premiere of Dieter Amman’s Unbalanced stability – a work for violin and chamber orchestra. Two days later on September 9, Pablo directs a concert program that focusses on the music of the 20th century, including select works by Anton Webern, Stravinsky’s Le Roi des Etoiles, Béla Bartók’s Cantata profana, Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite for Orchestra, Op. 30 and Luciano Berio’s Corale (on Sequenza VIII).