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A richly illustrated history of Lucerne’s legendary Festival from its founding in 1938 until today [in German only]

The much-anticipated book about the Festival: Erich Singer has written the first comprehensive history of what is today Europe’s most significant concert festival – from its founding in the summer of 1938 up to the present. Using substantial source material for his research, Singer sheds light on the highlights, crises, and key turning points of the Festival, right up to its current status. He addresses cultural-political contexts, considers the shifts in focus between regionalism and internationalism, and presents the perspectives of contemporary observers of the Festival and its performers. This richly illustrated book contains previously unpublished source material, including documents and photographs both of those who have shaped the Festival and of its influential artists. [available in German only]

Erich Singer, who was born in 1943 in eastern Switzerland, was initially a conductor and orchestral musician in Basel and a music teacher in Lucerne. From 1980 to 1990 he served as director of concert artists’ agencies and held a position in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL’s artistic and editorial department. From 1992 to 1995 he was head of its artistic office, later serving as head of music editorial (until 2006). Since then he has been a freelance editor. Singer has published many writings on music.

Lucerne 2019, 268 pages, numerous illustrations

Erich Singer's wide-ranging history of the Festival is finally available in English. Originally published in German in 2014 and richly illustrated, this is the first book to document Europe's most significant orchestral festival comprehensively, from its founding in the summer of 1938 to the present day. The German edition has become the standard work. For this shortened international edition, the author has revised and updated the material.

Erich Singer, who was born in 1943 in eastern Switzerland, was initially a conductor and orchestral musician in Basel and a music teacher in Lucerne. From 1980 to 1990, he served as the director of concert artists’ agencies and held a position in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL’s artistic and editorial department. From 1992 to 1995, he was head of the Festival's artistic office, later serving as head of music editorial (until 2006). Since then he has been a freelance editor. Singer has published many writings on music.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101 (Vienna version 1890/91)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109

(Recorded live in Lucerne, August 2012 & August 2013)

Robert Casadesus
Vienna Philharmonic (Brahms) | Swiss Festival Orchestra (Mozart)
Carl Schuricht

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Piano Concerto in B-flat major, K. 595

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1961 & 1962)

Swiss Festival Orchestra | Paul Hindemith (Mozart) | Ferdinand Leitner (Henze) | Bernard Haitink (Martin) | Wolfgang Schneiderhan violin | Irmgard Seefried soprano (Martin)

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Violin Concerto in A major, K.219
Hans Werner Henze
Violin Concerto No. 1
Frank Martin
Magnificat (1967/68 version)

(Recordings: Luzern, 1952, 1964 & 1968)

Paul Kletzki
Schweizerisches Festspielorchester

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 7 in B minor, D. 759 Unfinished
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Ouverture No. 3

(recording: Lucerne, 1946)

Annie Fischer
Philharmonia Orchestra | Carlo Maria Giulini
Leon Fleisher
Swiss Festival Orchestra | George Szell

Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1960 & 1962)

Pierre Fournier
Swiss Festival Orchestra | István Kertész
Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF | Jean Martinon
Festival Strings Lucerne | Matthias Bamert

Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
Camille Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Pablo Casals
El cant dels ocells

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1967, 1962 & 1976)

Wilhelm Furtwängler
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Elsa Cavelti | Ernst Haefliger | Otto Edelmann
Lucerne Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

(Recording: Lucerne, 1954)

Rafael Kubelík
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Irmgard Seefried
Swiss Festival Orchestra

Béla Bartók
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

(Recording: Lucerne, 1962)

Claudio Abbado
Vienna Philharmonic | Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 7 in B minor, D. 759 Unfinished
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1978 & 1988)

George Szell
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Swiss Festival Orchestra

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1969 & 1962)

Isaac Stern
Swiss Festival Orchestra | Ernest Ansermet | Lorin Maazel

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1958 & 1956)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

Richard Strauss
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Op. 30
Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28
Dance of the Seven Veils from the opera “Salome," Op. 54

(Recorded: Lucerne, August 2017)

Clara Haskil
Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer
Robert Casadesus
Vienna Philharmonic | Dimitri Mitropoulos

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 73

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1959 & 1957)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, WAB 104 Romantic

(Recording: Tokyo, october 2006)

Brass Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Lutz Köhler

Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on Bald Mountain (arranged by Andreas Tarkmann)
Songs and Dances of Death (arranged by Steven Verhaert)
Pictures at an Exhibition (arranged by Elgar Howarth)

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Pierre Boulez

Anton Webern
Passacaglia, Op. 1
Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30
Igor Stravinsky
Le Chant du Rossignol
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Vienna Philharmonic | Karl Böhm

Paul Hindemith
Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra

Anton Bruckner 
Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 
 
(Recordings: Lucerne, 1964 & 1970)

Géza Anda
Swiss Festival Orchestra
Clara Haskil (Bach)
Herbert von Karajan (Bach) | Ferenc Fricsay (Bartók 2) | Ernest Ansermet (Bartók 3)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in C major, BWV 1061

Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 2, Sz. 95

Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz. 119
 
(Recordings: Lucerne, 1955, 1956 & 1965)

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Rafael Kubelík conductor

Joseph Haydn

Symphony No. 99 in E-flat major, Hob.I:99

Arnold Schönberg

Piano Concerto, Op. 42

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1968)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Sophie Koch

Igor Stravinsky
Le Faune et la Bergère, Op. 2
Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3
Feu dʼartifice, Op. 4
Chant funèbre, Op. 5 (Weltersteinspielung)
Le Sacre du printemps

(Aufnahme: Luzern, August 2017)

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CD 1

Pierre Fournier

Schweizerisches Festspielorchester | István Kertész
Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF | Jean Martinon
Festival Strings Lucerne | Matthias Bamert

Dvořák Cellokonzert h-Moll op. 104

Saint-Saëns Cellokonzert Nr. 1 a-Moll op. 33

Casals El cant dels ocells

CD 2

Nathan Milstein

Schweizerisches Festspielorchester | Igor Markevitch | Ernest Ansermet

Mendelssohn Violinkonzert e-Moll op. 64

Dvořák Violinkonzert a-Moll op. 53

CD 3

Wolfgang Schneiderhan

Schweizerisches Festspielorchester | Paul Hindemith | Ferdinand Leitner | Bernard Haitink

Mozart Violinkonzert A-Dur KV 219

Henze Violinkonzert Nr. 1

Martin Magnificat (Fassung von 1967/68)

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Karl Böhm | Wiener Philharmoniker

Hindemith Konzert für Holzbläser, Harfe und Orchester

Bruckner Sinfonie Nr. 7 E-Dur WAB 107 

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Rafael Kubelík | Schweizerisches Festspielorchester | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Irmgard Seefried

Bartók Herzog Blaubarts Burg

CD 3

Armin Jordan | Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Dame Felicity Lott

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune | Six épigraphes antiques

Roussel Suite Nr. 2 aus dem Ballett Bacchus et Ariane op. 43

Chausson Poème de l’amour et de la mer

In der CD-Reihe «Historic Performances» erscheinen Luzerner Konzertmitschnitte prägender Festspielkünstler*innen. Die Originalbänder sind klanglich sorgfältig restauriert und um eine ausführliche Dokumentation ihres historischen und künstlerischen Stellenwerts sowie um Fotos und historische Materialien aus dem Archiv von Lucerne Festival ergänzt – eine klingende Festspielgeschichte.

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Herbert von Karajan: The Early Lucerne Years, 1952–1957

Géza Anda (Bach), Clara Haskil (Bach), and Robert Casadesus (Mozart) piano
Nathan Milstein violin (Brahms)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Swiss Festival Orchestra

Herbert von Karajan conductor

works by J.S. Bach (Concerto for Two Pianos in C major, BWV 1061), Mozart (Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491), Beethoven (Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 Pastoral & Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93), Brahms (Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 & Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98) and Honegger (Symphony No. 3 Liturgique)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2013)

CD 1
Clara Haskil | Otto Klemperer
Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466
Robert Casadesus |Dimitri Mitropoulos
Beethoven Piano Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 73
(Recordings: Lucerne, 1959 & 1957)

CD 2
Isaac Stern | Lorin Maazel
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Isaac Stern | Ernest Ansermet
Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112
(Recordings: Lucerne, 1958 & 1956)

CD 3
George Szell
Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
(Recordings: Lucerne, 1969 & 1962)

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Armin Jordan | Dame Felicity Lott (Chausson)

Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Albert Roussel
Suite No. 2 from the ballet Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43

Claude Debussy 
Six épigraphes antiques (orch. Ernest Ansermet)

Ernest Chausson
Poème de l’amour et de la mer

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1988 & 1994)

Edith Mathis | Karl Engel

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Das Veilchen, K. 476 | Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte, K. 520 | Abendempfindung an Laura, K. 523 | Dans un bois solitaire, K. 308 (295b) | Der Zauberer, K. 472

Béla Bartók
Dorfszenen. Slowakische Volkslieder, Sz 78

Johannes Brahms
Five Lieder from 42 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33

Robert Schumann
Nine Lieder from Myrthen, Op. 25

Richard Strauss
Schlechtes Wetter, Op. 69, no. 5 | Die Nacht, Op. 10, no. 3 | Ach, Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden, Op. 21, no. 3 | Meinem Kinde, Op. 37, no. 3 | Hat gesagt – beibt’s nicht dabei, Op. 36, no. 3

Hugo Wolf
Auch kleine Dinge from Italienisches Liederbuch

(Recording: Lucerne, 3 September 1975)

Nathan Milstein
Swiss Festival Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (Mendelssohn) | Ernest Ansermet (Dvořák)

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

(Recordings: Lucerne, 1953 & 1955)

Swiss Festival Orchestra
Wilhelm Furtwängler

CD 1:
Robert Schumann
Overture to the Dramatic Poem Manfred, Op. 115
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 Eroica

CD 2:
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 4 inn D minor, Op. 120

(Performances recorded in Lucerne on 26 August 1953)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

Maurice Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
La Valse
First and Second Suites from Daphnis et Chloé
Boléro

(recorded in Lucerne, August 2018)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Tölz Boys’ Choir | Claudio Abbado | Anna Larsson

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3 in D minor

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2007)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado | Magdalena Kožená

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major
Rückert-Lieder

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2009)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2006)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7 in E minor

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2005)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2010)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado | Christine Schäfer

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Selected Arias
Symphony in D major, K. 385 Haffner
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture and Incidental Music to Egmont

(Recordings: Lucerne, August 2011 & 2012)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Bavarian Radio Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Claudio Abbado | Anna Prohaska | Sara Mingardo | Maximilian Schmitt | René Pape

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Requiem in D minor, K. 626

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2012)

Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar | Claudio Abbado | Anna Prohaska

Sergej Prokofjew
Scythian Suite, Op. 20
Alban Berg
Lulu Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique

(Recording: Lucerne, März 2010)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado | Hélène Grimaud

«A Russian Night»
Works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2008)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly | Denis Matsuev

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Étude-Tableau in A minor, Op. 39, no. 2
Vocalise, Op. 34, no. 14 (orchestral version)
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

(Recorded in Lucerne, August 2019)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, WAB 105

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2011)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado | Alfred Brendel

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2005)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture in D minor, Op. 81
Arnold Schoenberg
Interlude and “Song of the Wood Dove” from Gurre-Lieder
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 Eroica

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2013)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Claude Debussy
La Mer
Suite from Le Matyre de Saint-Sébastien

& Documentary The History of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2003)

Documentaire Inheriting the Future of Music. Pierre Boulez and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

Live Concert Recording (Lucerne, Summer Festival 2014) & Documentary

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Riccardo Chailly

Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to and excerpts from the Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opp. 21 and 61
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op. 58

(recording made in Lucerne, August 2017)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Herbert Blomstedt | Martha Argerich

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 1
in C major, Op.15

Synphony No.2
in D major, Op.36

Synphony No.3
in E-flat major, Op 55 "Sinfonia eroica"

(recording: Lucerne, August 2020)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado

Ludwig van Beethoven
Incidental music to Egmont, Op. 84 | Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 Sinfonia eroica
Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture in D minor, Op. 81
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 5, WAB 105
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Requiem in D minor, K. 626 | Symphony in C major, K. 425 Linz | Mass in C minor, K. 139 (114 ^a/47^a) (“Waisenhaus”) | Misera, dove son! – Ah, non son io che parlo, K. 369 | Ah, lo previdi! – Ah, t’invola, K. 272 | Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!, K. 418
Arnold Schoenberg
Excerpts from Gurre-Lieder
Franz Schubert
Mass in E-flat major, D 950

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Mao Fujita

Sergej Rachmaninow (1873–1943)

Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 c-Moll op. 18

Sinfonie Nr. 2 e-Moll op. 27

(Aufnahme: Luzern, August 2022)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Bavarian Radio Choir| Latvian Radio Choir | Orfeón Donostiarra | Tölzer Knabenchor | Riccardo Chailly | Ricarda Merbeth | Christine Goerke | Anna Lucia Richter | Sara Mingardo | Mihoko Fujimura | Andreas Schager | Peter Mattei | Samuel Youn

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, Symphony of a Thousand

(Recorded in Lucerne in August 2016)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Andris Nelsons | Matthias Goerne

Gustav Mahler
Selected Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
(Rheinlegendchen, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, Das irdische Leben, Urlicht, Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt, Revelge, Der Tamboursg’sell)
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

(recording: Lucerne, August 2015)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Bavarian Radio Choir | Andris Nelsons | Sara Mingardo

Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16
Rhapsody for contralto, male chorus, and orchestra, Op. 53
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2014)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Andris Nelsons | Isabelle Faust | Bruno Ganz

Franz Schubert
«Allegro moderato» from Symphony No. 7 in B minor, D. 759 Unfinished
Alban Berg
Violin Concerto To the Memory of an Angel
Gustav Mahler
Finale from Symphony No. 3 in D minor

(Recording: Lucerne, April 2014)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Claudio Abbado | Yuja Wang

Sergej Prokofjew
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D major

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2009)

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA | Orféon Donostiarra | Claudio Abbado | Eteri Gvazava | Anna Larsson

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor Resurrection

(Recording: Lucerne, August 2003)

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