LUCERNE FESTIVAL at Easter

It’s hard to imagine a brighter flourish to start off the new festival year: the radiant C major of Mozart‘s “Linz” Symphony and Schumann’s Second – and Claudio Abbado, who brings his Orchestra Mozart to Lucerne for the first time. Mozart will also be heard when the King’s Consort take on the Requiem and Maria João Pires performs the stirring D minor Piano Concerto. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien will continue with their thrilling Handel performances, András Schiff conducts Bach’s B minor Mass, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Chorus will be led by Mariss Jansons and Bernard Haitink in symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, and Bruckner as well as Janáček’s “Glagolitic Mass.” What lovelier place is there to set the mood for Easter than Lucerne?