November 2015
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founded in 2003 by Claudio Abbado (1933–2014), is comprised of acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians and music professors, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at its core.
The orchestra unites every summer in the Swiss city of Lucerne, and then gathers again in autumn to tour together. Previous years have brought the Lucerne Festival Orchestra to Rome, London, New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing and other international capitals.
This year, the orchestra tours Europe with eight concerts under the direction of Andris Nelsons. The young Latvian conductor led the orchestra in 2014, and also conducted the LFO at the Lucerne Festival in Summer 2015.
In all cities – Ferrara, Hamburg, Dortmund, Paris, Luxemburg, Madrid and Vienna – the second part of the concert will feature Mahler’s Symphony no. 5, which the orchestra presented earlier this year at the Lucerne Festival.
The first part of the concert differs by city: In Ferrara and Paris, Martha Argerich plays Prokofiev’s piano concerto no. 3; in Hamburg, Dortmund and Luxembourg, Rudolf Buchbinder plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 1; and in Madrid and Vienna, the orchestra plays Mozart’s Symphony no. 36 (Linz Symphony).
