This legendary piano concerto is considered to contain the most notes per time in the solo part. Khatia Buniatishvili is not impressed by such superlatives: “She shapes her solo part with great expressiveness, but never loses the balance between fervent intensity and intelligent control over her playing,” is what BR Klassik wrote admiringly about her recording of Sergei Rachmaninov’s famous 3rd Piano Concerto.

Virtuosity, after all, is never an end in and of itself for the Georgian-French pianist, but is always at the disposition of her extraordinary emotionality.

With Honegger’s wildly sporty “Rugby” and Stravinsky’s dance-like “Petrushka”, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande has added two more pieces to the program that are as expressive as they are complex.

74 musicians from around 20 nations form an orchestra with international charisma. As the orchestra in residence at the KKL Luzern, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester represents the music city of Lucerne on international tours.

The Arthur Waser Prize is being awarded for the fifth time; this year it goes to the 25-year-old clarinettist Jonathan Leibovitz from Israel. He will make his debut with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra with Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto.

Yoav Levanon, who began his professional piano studies at the age of three, has just turned 18 and already has an impressive list of awards, competitions and concerts to his credit.

Highlights include his debut in the United Kingdom at St Martin in the Fields in London, recitals at the Boulezsaal Berlin, in Munich and Paris, as well as concert appearances at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

The music truck is the mobile venue of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Based on the idea that the audience listens to the orchestra in the concert hall, the orchestra makes its way through central Switzerland.