Summer-Festival: Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3
Overview
Intro
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Lukas Sternath | Scriabin | Rachmaninoff
The acclaimed Rachmaninoff cycle that Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra have been developing since 2019 comes to its culmination this evening. Chailly’s vision has been not only to present the celebrated warhorses — the Second and Third Piano Concertos and the Second Symphony — but also to champion rarely heard treasures. One such rarity is the early opera Aleko, which Rachmaninoff wrote as a 19-year-old student. From it, Chailly has assembled a suite of four symphonic movements that reveal the young composer’s extraordinary gifts. Pure sonic magic also awaits in the five Études-Tableaux, originally written for piano and for Rachmaninoff’s own virtuosic performances. But when his Italian colleague Ottorino Respighi asked permission to orchestrate them, Rachmaninoff agreed with enthusiasm. His openness to new ideas is evident as well in the Fourth Piano Concerto, whose sound world at times even brushes up on jazz. The Austrian pianist Lukas Sternath, born in 2001 and a multiple prizewinner who studied with Igor Levit, will be the soloist. And so, perfectly in keeping with this year’s Festival theme, we also encounter Rachmaninoff’s own “American Dream.”
Performers:
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Lukas Sternath, piano
Program:
18.30 Introduction to the Concert with Susanne Stähr (KKL Luzern, Auditorium, in German)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Rêverie, Op. 24
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40. 1941 version
Four symphonic pieces from the opera Aleko
Études-Tableaux, Op. 33, No. 4 and Op. 39, Nos. 2, 6, 7, and 9
orchestrated by Ottorino Respighi
Intermission at c. 20.20
| Contact address |
Lucerne Festival
Hirschmattstrasse 13 6003 Luzern +41 (0)41 226 44 00 info@lucernefestival.ch +41 (0)41 226 44 60 |
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| Location |
KKL Luzern Konzertsaal Europaplatz 1 6005 Luzern Switzerland |
| Event Homepage | https://www.lucernefestival.ch/de/programm/lucerne-festival-orchestra-riccardo-chailly-lukas-sternath/2369 |
| Price |
CHF 270.00 | 220.00 | 180.00 | 130.00 | 70.00 | 30.00
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Event dates
- 18 August 2026
Tickets from 24.03.2026 | 10 am (CET)
