Lucerne Festival 2009 at BBC

Luzern Festival at BBC

Louise Fryer presents the beginning of a week of recordings from the 2009 Lucerne Festivals. Since 2003, with the extraordinary group of hand-picked players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado has inspired legendary performances. Today features both the LFO and its smaller sibling, the Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

n. 1

Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor

George Benjamin: A Mind of Winter
Claire Booth, soprano
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor

Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major (Op. 61)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor

Schubert: Variations in E minor on 'Trockene Blumen' from Die schone Mullerin
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra:
Jacques Zoon, flute
Kirill Gerstein, piano

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major
Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor.

n. 2

Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri (Op. 50)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Op. 34)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Op. 14)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor.

n. 3

Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B flat major
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Most, conductor

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major (D.944) "Great"
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Most, conductor.

n. 4

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major (K.622)
Jorg Widmann (clarinet)
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Sylvain Cambreling, conductor

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major (Op.26)
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra:
Kolja Blacher, violin
Wolfram Christ, viola
Clemens Hagen, cello
Kirill Gerstein, piano

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major (Op. 26)
Yuja Wang, piano
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor.