It was to have been the highlight of this summer’s festival but, officially ‘for artistic reasons’, Claudio Abbado has cancelled the biggest concert of his life and replaced it with Mozart’s Requiem. Privately, we understand that health considerations played a part in his decision. Here’s the press announcement: LUCERNE FESTIVAL hereby announces that [...]
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They announced it in Davos, where the fat cats congregate and the arts pick up the crumbs, but this project seems to have everything: high-quality performance, in an area of dire need,. Here’s the press release, just in: LUCERNE FES... Read Post
Louis Langrée, of whom few Americans had heard when he became the music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in 2002, is now a known quantity to New York audiences. His opening concert of the 2008 festival, which I attended... Read Post
There is widesspread discomfort among music lovers about the Lucerne Festival’s late cancellation of Mahler’s eight symphony. Here’s a protest from a Mexican couple whose summer has been ruined. Michael Haefliger and Friederike ... Read Post