SEASON OPENING WITH MAHLER’S RESURRECTION SYMPHONY
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Program
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Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (*1971)
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Torso – Epitaph | 13’
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Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
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Symphony No. 2 Resurrection Symphony in C minor, GMW 30 | 90’
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Event Description
Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony is the flagship of this season. With this work, Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling sets course for monumental orchestral forces: more than 100 musicians, choir and two soloists come together in a large-scale undertaking of extraordinary dimensions – a journey of around ninety minutes from solemn funeral march to overwhelming resurrection finale.
With Anna Lapkovskaja in the “Urlicht” of the fourth movement, Lucerne’s star soprano Regula Mühlemann, the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and the Collegium Vocale zu Franziskanern Luzern, the season opens with a powerful vocal statement. In doing so, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester places a clear emphasis on vocal-symphonic works, which run like a thread through the season.
The concert opens with a work by Swiss composer Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini. His “Torso – Epitaph” is a contemporary response to Mahler’s Second Symphony: a tremendous orchestral intensification is drawn back into a lament – a prelude to the funeral rites with which Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony begins.
The opening concert thus becomes an exceptional event from the very start of the season: monumental, powerful and existential.
ILLUSTRATED CONCERT INTRODUCTION
6:30 PM | Illustrated Concert Introduction
With students of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Music)
Hannah Schoepe (Host)
Important Ticket Information
Thank you for your interest in the concert City Lights.
In a first phase, this offer is reserved for young people and young adults U28. U28 means: born in 1998 or later. Thanks to the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation, we can offer tickets free of charge for this target group.
If you were born in 1997 or earlier, we look forward to welcoming you at the concert the following day, Thursday, 21 May.