Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Concert Hall
Dates: September 20, 2009    11:00
Price:  VIP    480    380    280    180    100 RMB 

Programme Introduction

Lucerne Festival
With deep-rooted art and music culture, the City of Lucerne is a renowned Festival City and famous for its Lucerne Music Festival, which attracts over 100,000 music lovers across the globe throughout the three seasons annually. Lucerne Festival looks back on a long tradition of own orchestras that began in 1938 with Arturo Toscanini and the legendary Concert de Gala. Nowadays, Lucerne Festival has already become one of the most important music festivals, both in Switzerland and internationally. The Festival is composed of three separate occasions every year: at Easter, in Summer and at the Piano.

In 2009, on the initiative of Maestro Claudio Abbado and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger, this world-renowned festival is for the first time coming to China in September and will hold a series of orchestra concerts, chamber music concerts with other activities such as master classes at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the top sanctuary of music in China.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
When Claudio Abbado and Michael Haefliger founded the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which has opened the summer season every year since 2003, they were, in a way, harking back to the birth of the Lucerne Festival in 1938. At that time, Arturo Toscanini first brought together an elite orchestra to play the legendary "Concert de Gala." With this model in mind, in 2009, renowned soloists will once again converge under the leadership of Claudio Abbado to work on and perform selected pieces from the symphonic repertoire. The core of the orchestra is drawn from the fifty members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Performing as principals will be such musicians as violinist Kolja Blacher; violist Wolfram Christ; cellists Jens Peter Maintz and Clemens Hagen; and double bass player Alois Posch. Wind soloists will include flautist Jacques Zoon, horn player Bruno Schneider and trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich.

Programs
Mozart     Oboe Quartet in F major, K370
　Solo Flute: Lucas Macias Navarro
　Violin: Raphael Christ
　Viola: Wolfram Christ
　Cello: Clemens Hagen

Mozart     Flute Quartet No.1 in D major, K285
　Solo Flute: Jacques Zoon
　Violin: Lorenza Borrani 
　Viola: Simone Jandl  
　Cello: Iseut Chuat

Widmann       Quartet for Strings No 3. "Jagdquartett"

Mendelssohn     String Quartet in a minor, Op.13
　Leipziger String Quartet:
　Violin: Stefan Arzberger  
　Violin: Tilman Büning 
　Viola: Ivo Bauer 
　Cello: Matthias Moosdorf 
 
 
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