ALBUMVivaldi & Tartini: Concerti del settecentoLucerne Festival Orchestra, Rudolf Baumgartner & Wolfgang Schneiderhan
ALBUMStravinsky: Le sacre du printemps - Chant funèbreRiccardo Chailly & Lucerne Festival Orchestra
ALBUMLuigi Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 9 In B Flat Major, G 482 - Antonio Vivaldi: Cello Concerto In E Minor, RV 40Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Rudolf Baumgartner & Pierre Fournier
ALBUMDinu Lipatti: The Definitive ProgrammeDinu Lipatti, Herbert von Karajan, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & The Philharmonia
ALBUMViolin Masterpieces: Yehudi Menuhin Plays Beethoven & BrahmsYehudi Menuhin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Philharmonia Orchestra & Lucerne Festival Orchestra
ALBUMBruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, WAB 101Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
ALBUMMusic in the Weimar Republic - Berlin 1929Bruno Walter, Berlin Philharmonic, Otto Klemperer, Staatskapelle Berlin, Erich Kleiber, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Lucern Festival Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini & Milan La Scala Orchestra
ALBUMLucerne Festival 2009 (Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3) [Live / Visual Album]Yuja Wang, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
ALBUMLucerne Festival 2007 (Mahler: Symphony No. 3) [Live / Visual Album]Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
ALBUMWilhelm Furtwängler Conducts Beethoven Piano ConcertosAdrian Aeschbacher, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic & Conrad Hansen
ALBUMPaul Kletzki - 1946Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Paul Kletzki
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"; Debussy: La MerLucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
ALBUMVocal Recital: Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth - Verdi, G. - Loewe, C. - Weber, C.M. Von - Mozart, W.A. - Bach, J.S. - Handel, G.F. - Beethoven, L. VanOrchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Heinrich Steiner, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Lea Piltti, Clemens Krauss, Vienna Philharmonic, Michael Raucheisen, Josef Krips, Isolde Ahlgrimm, Karl Maurer, Rupert Glawitsch, Karl Reznicek, RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin, Mario Rossi, Rudolf Moralt, Berlin Reichssenders Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Josef Niedermeyer, Walter Hoefermeyer, Irmgard Seefried, Leopold Ludwig, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Victor de Sabata, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Peter Klein & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
ALBUMBrahms: Concerto pour violon (Mono Version)Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler & Yehudi Menuhin
ALBUMBach: Concertos brandebourgeois Nos. 2, 3 & 5 (Mono Version)Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMBach: Six concertos brandebourgeois (Mono Version)Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMContinental CocktailLucerne Festival Orchestra
ALBUMItalian MoonlightLucerne Festival Orchestra & Ernst Falk
ALBUMMusique baroque (Mono Version)Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Rudolf Baumgartner & Wolfgang Schneiderhan
ALBUMMusic Of OffenbachLucerne Festival Orchestra & Ernest Falk
ALBUMBrahms: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77 (Mono Version)Yehudi Menuhin, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Wilhelm Furtwängler
Lucerne Festival Orchestra's Popular Music Videos
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: I. Andante - Allegro (Live)
Yuja Wang, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Lucerne Festival 2005 - Franz Schubert - Die Forelle
Alban Berg, Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Renée Fleming
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major: IV. Stürmisch bewegt (Live)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: II. Tema con variazioni (Live)
Yuja Wang, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: III. Allegro ma non troppo (Live)
Yuja Wang, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Opening Credits (Live)
Yuja Wang, Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major: I. Langsam. Schleppend. Wie ein Naturlaut – Im Anfang sehr gemächlich (Live)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major: II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (Live)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major: III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen (Live)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
End Credits (Live)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
About Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Artist Biography
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra is generally regarded as the finest ad hoc orchestra in the world. It is made up of members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as well as some of the leading soloists, chamber groups, and orchestral principals in Europe. It assembles every August for the three weeks of festival activities. The LFO also tours regularly and has appeared on many acclaimed recordings.
The LFO was founded in 2003 by conductor Claudio Abbado and the LFO's artistic and executive director Michael Haefliger. The orchestra serves as the resident performing ensemble at the annual Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, held every August; during festival events, the LFO performs at the KKL Luzern Concert Hall. Though its founding was relatively recent, the ensemble's roots go back to 1938 when Arturo Toscanini established an orchestra for the festival made up largely of Swiss musicians. It disbanded in 1993 and a second forerunner of the LFO followed shortly afterward, but it didn't survive, either. After leaving the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2002, Abbado, with the aid of Haefliger, was able to assemble a roster of renowned players for the festival's 2003 activities. He led them annually in performance until his death in 2014. The LFO was without a music director for the 2014 & 2015 seasons, but several conductors lead the orchestra, chiefly Andris Nelsons. Riccardo Chailly was named the music director beginning with the 2016 season.
Shortly after its creation, the LFO began making tours to major concert venues, including in Rome and Tokyo. In 2007, the LFO debuted at the London Proms and Carnegie Hall, but with an indisposed Abbado replaced by David Robertson and Pierre Boulez. Highly successful tours to Beijing and Vienna followed, and the orchestra's reputation was in meteoric ascent. By 2009, more than a few prominent reviewers were calling the LFO the greatest orchestra in the world. Critically acclaimed concerts in Madrid and Paris in 2010 further bolstered its stock. Among the more distinguished members of the orchestra have been clarinetist Sabine Meyer, violist Wolfram Christ, cellist Natalia Gutman, flutist Emmanuel Pahud, horn player Bruno Schneider, various members of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, and the entire Leipzig String Quartet.
Recordings of the LFO are available on such labels as EuroArts, Deutsche Grammophon, and EMI. Among the first recordings of the newly formed LFO was a 2004 Deutsche Grammophon release of Mahler's Second Symphony and Debussy's La Mer, derived from festival concerts given in 2003. Among its more lauded recordings are the 2010 EuroArts DVD of the Mahler Symphony No. 1 and the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto, with soloist Yuja Wang. In 2019, the LFO could be heard on albums of Richard Strauss' music on Decca and Bruckner's first and ninth symphonies on Accentus. ~ Robert Cummings & Keith Finke
Hometown
Lucerne, Switzerland
Genre
Classical
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