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The Lucerne Easter and Summer Festival Programme 2005 out

23 November 2004

Hot from the press and available now: The LUCERNE FESTIVAL, EASTER 2005 and LUCERNE FESTIVAL, SUMMER 2005 programmes. LUCERNE FESTIVAL, EASTER 2005 12 March to 20 March A series of ten concerts featuring a blend of sacred and concert music will be launching the new LUCERNE FESTIVAL season, focusing hearts and minds during this Lenten period – by means of passion music, requiems and masses, as well as suites and lieder – on thoughts of suffering and mourning, death and quietude. As orchestra-in-residence, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra will be featured in two concerts. For the choral evening, chief conductor Mariss Janson is presenting Antonín Dvorák’s Requiem in B Minor, and the orchestra’s symphony concert will comprise Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with Thomas Hampson (bariton) as soloist, together with Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor. Playing on period instruments, Le Concert des Nations under the baton of Jordi Savall will be putting on Early Music works by Lully, Marais, J.S. Bach and Handel. And the focus will be on sacred music when the Concentus Musicus Vienna and Arnold Schoenberg Choir, under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, play Haydn’s brilliant Mariazeller Mass and Mozart’s Vespers. LUCERNE FESTIVAL, SUMMER 2005 « New Frontiers » 11 August to 18 September Taking the concept of «New Territories» as its guiding theme the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, SUMMER 2005 will be focusing on musical discoveries in the history of music, on times when «new territories» were penetrated and frontiers crossed, on upheavals and key moments in music history. Under the baton of Pierre Boulez and the composer-in-residence Helmut Lachenmann, the second incarnation of the highly acclaimed LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, too, will be looking to the Festival’s theme for inspiration. The 2005 Roche Commission was awarded to the Chinese composer Chen Yi and, as tradition demands, the Cleveland Orchestra will be performing the world premiere of her work. This will be the third time, no less, that Claudio Abbado opens the Festival with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. This one-off combination of conductor and orchestra will be performing six symphonic and five chamber music concerts in Lucerne before making way for other world-class orchestras. Alongside the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the series of symphony concerts will principally showcase the orchestras-in-residence, namely, the Cleveland, Royal Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. The Festival’s star soloists, baritone Thomas Quasthoff and violinist Christian Tetzlaff, will be demonstrating their wide-ranging interpretational skills in a variety of concert forms. The Festival will also be presenting the winner of the 2005 «Prix CREDIT SUISSE Jeunes Solistes». November 22, 2004 Sabine Mühlberg LUCERNE FESTIVAL Leiterin Public Relations Hirschmattstrasse 13 CH-6002 Luzern T: +41 (0)41 226 4443 (direkt) T: +41 (0)41 226 4400 F: +41 (0)41 226 4460 www.lucernefestival.ch s.muehlberg@lucernefestival.ch