Lucerne Festival in Summer 2015 - DVD

In 2014, all signs pointed to a new beginning at the Lucerne Festival. For the first time, the festival would take place without the incomparable Claudio Abbado, with the young Latvian Andris Nelsons leading the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Nelsons had already won the trust and respect of both listeners and performers in a moving memorial concert for Abbado in Lucerne. He is known internationally as one of the most gifted conductors of his generation.Now he was poised to lead the prestigious festival into a new era, he brilliantly mastered this Inchgreatest challengeInch (as he himself called it) of his career. The audience and the musicians responded with heart felt gratitude. InchHe is aware of every single player and carries us on an unbelievable wave of enthusiasmInch, according to concertmaster Sebastian Breuninger. Solo violist Wolfram Christ adds, InchNelsons accepts what is inherent in our orchestra and what comes from Abbado; he builds on it and makes it into something new.InchPicture DVD NTSC 16 9 Sound Formats DVD PCM Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1 Subtitles German (Original), French, English, Japanese, Korean.

In 2024, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra continued their acclaimed Rachmaninoff cycle with a concert spanning the composer's lifetime from the youthful freshness of the composer's earliest works like the rarely performed InchYouth SymphonyInch and his Piano Concerto No. 1, to the musical mastery and maturity of his last major work, the InchSymphonic DancesInch. Young piano prodigy Alexander Malofeev, in whose repertoire Rachmaninoff's music occupies a special place, gave his much-lauded Lucerne Festival debut as the soloist of the evening with an electrifying performance.

These four Salzburg Festival Opening Concerts are now available in a hardcover slipcase for a very attractive price! Top casts with Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker, Dorothea Roschmann, Elina Garanca, Klaus Florian Vogt, Rene Pape, Anna Prohaska, Anna Larsson and Johan Botha.