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.
Marmen Quartet
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
Salvatore Sciarrino: String Quartet No. 7
Johann Sebastian Bach: O vos omnes
György Ligeti: String quartet no. 1 "Metamorphoses nocturnes"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in E flat major, K428 (K421b)
Overview
The Marmen Quartet won two important competitions in 2019: the Canadian Banff Competition and the Concours de Bordeaux. The ensemble, which was founded in 2013 at the Royal College of Music in London, has been stirring up the quartet scene ever since. Not only do these four masterful virtuosos phrase as if from the same breath. They love to tell stories with their programs. In Lucerne, where the summer theme is “crazy” they will certainly do so when they play a madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo, the prince of Venosa and murderer of his unfaithful wife, who composed music so weird that you would think it came from the 20th century. Salvatore Sciarrino wrote his opera Luci mie traditrici about this “old master” – and competes with Gesualdo’s “craziness” by using excessive glissandi in his Seventh String Quartet. György Ligeti’s First Quartet was so controversial in Communist Hungary that he was not even allowed to have the work performed. And Mozart raised the genre to a new level with the six so-called “Haydn Quartets,” the third of which is heard here.
Strebi Stiftung Luzern – Partner Debuts
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