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BEETHOVEN PURE – PIANO & CHOIR

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BEETHOVEN PURE – PIANO & CHOIR

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Performers

Thu, 3. December 2026 | 19:30 Uhr
KKL Luzern, Konzertsaal
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Program

  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

    • Overture to the opera Coriolan, Op. 62 | 8’

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    • Fantasy for Piano, Choir and Orchestra Choral Fantasy in C minor, Op. 80 | 19’

  • Intermission: approx. 25 min.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 | 36’

    • (Concert duration: approx. 1 hr 20 min.)

Symphony Concerts

Event Description

At the centre of this Beethoven evening are the Third Piano Concerto and the Choral Fantasy – two works that make Beethoven’s dramatic force and his utopian idea of community tangible in different ways.

The Third Piano Concerto is in C minor, a key that in Beethoven often stands for tension, energy and existential drama. Its heroic tone is answered in the slow movement by a remote, almost otherworldly calm.

In the Choral Fantasy, the perspective widens. The work begins with a piano solo and gradually grows into a great tutti with orchestra, soloists and choir. At the end stands a hymn to “peace and joy” – and with it an early form of the hymn to joy that Beethoven would later make world-famous in the Ninth Symphony.

David Fray, one of the most distinctive pianists of our time, is the soloist. Lars Corijn conducts the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie.

CONCERT INTRODUCTION

6:30 PM | Concert Introduction by Dr Felix Diergarten

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