The Reformed Lukaskirche (Church of St. Luke) is but a few minutes’ walk from the main train station, right next to the popular Lucerne park known as the Vögeligärtli. The building, which features an imposing outside staircase and a stunning tower, was designed between 1933 and 1935 by the Lucerne-based architects Alfred Möri and Karl-Friedrich Krebs. Shortly before they had created the Villa Senar in Hertenstein for the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff – another example of early Modernism. Dominating the interior of the Lukaskirche are the colorful stained-glass windows that Eduard Renggli executed from the designs of Louis Moillet.
Zee Zee, piano
Church of St. Luke,
Lucerne, Switzerland
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Festival: Lucerne Summer Festival 2021
Type: Classical Concert
City: Lucerne, Switzerland
Starts at: 12:15
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Festival
Lucerne Summer Festival 2021
Four weeks of more than 100 concerts: International classical music stars in the heart of Switzerland.
Programme
Arnold Schoenberg: 3 Pieces for piano, Op.11
Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage I (Suisse), S 160 no.6: Vallée d'Obermann
Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Troisième année: Les jeux d'eaux à la villa d'Este, S 163 no. 4
Franz Liszt: Tarantella, S 162, no. 3 from Années de pèlerinage
Overview
The Chinese pianist Zee Zee has constructed a wonderful program on the theme of “crazy.” With Arnold Schoenberg’s Op. 11 Piano Pieces, which dispense with conventional musical “grammar,” she presents what is probably the most momentous “madness” in music history: the leap into atonality. Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit revolves around a demonic spirit that robs people of their sleep – and at the same time calls for a crazed level of virtuosity. This is required by the works of Franz Liszt as well: for example in the Tarantella, a crazy Italian folk dance that is performed to the point of frenzy, as if the dancers had been bitten by a tarantula. Zee Zee, who studied with Leon Fleisher and was advised by Alfred Brendel, won the Gina Bachauer Competition and has already performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. The latter’s principal conductor Paavo Järvi called her “one of the most extraordinary pianistic talents I have ever encountered.”
Venue Info
Church of St. Luke - Lucerne
Morgartenstrasse 16
Morgartenstrasse 16
Important Info
Festival: Lucerne Summer Festival 2021
Type: Classical Concert
City: Lucerne, Switzerland
Starts at: 12:15