An exciting lesson in rhetoric with Mozart and Maestro Antonini Chief conductor Michael Sanderling is looking to uphold the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester’s chamber symphony tradition as it moves towards large-scale repertoire. The aim is to “complement long musical lines and endless cantabile with the rhetoric so intrinsic to the music of Moza…

An exciting lesson in rhetoric with Mozart and Maestro Antonini Chief conductor Michael Sanderling is looking to uphold the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester’s chamber symphony tradition as it moves towards large-scale repertoire. The aim is to “complement long musical lines and endless cantabile with the rhetoric so intrinsic to the music of Moza…

Cello melancholy in Elgar and triumph in Dvořák Imagine an entire orchestra of seasoned musicians listening intently to a 19-year-old teenager. That will be the case when South Korean Jaemin Han, born in 2006, plays Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. The cellist came to international attention in 2021 w…

Cello melancholy in Elgar and triumph in Dvořák Imagine an entire orchestra of seasoned musicians listening intently to a 19-year-old teenager. That will be the case when South Korean Jaemin Han, born in 2006, plays Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. The cellist came to international attention in 2021 w…

Young stars in core repertoire by Beethoven and Brahms What do classical music, chess, cinema, history and football have in common? The answer: the 28-year-old Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, who was born in Paris to Chinese parents and combines all of these interests with a glittering career as a pianist. He not only won the 2021 Chopin Compet…

Young stars in core repertoire by Beethoven and Brahms What do classical music, chess, cinema, history and football have in common? The answer: the 28-year-old Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, who was born in Paris to Chinese parents and combines all of these interests with a glittering career as a pianist. He not only won the 2021 Chopin Compet…

Musical patchwork family on Mother’s Day Our Mother’s Day concert proves that early and modern music need not be opposites, but can be combined in myriad ways to form a kind of patchwork family. Even the overtures in this stylistically diverse programme are not afraid to sit side by side. There is sighing and unrest in Giovanni …

Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli take the audience on a sonorous journey through eleven cities that are particularly close to Batiashvili’s heart. From Chaplin to Legrand to Piazzolla – classical music meets jazz, tango and film music. The performance is accompanied by an impressive screen projection that brings the stories…

Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli take the audience on a sonorous journey through eleven cities that are particularly close to Batiashvili’s heart. From Chaplin to Legrand to Piazzolla – classical music meets jazz, tango and film music. The performance is accompanied by an impressive screen projection that brings the stories…