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.
Kit Armstrong, 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
Clara Schumann: Variationen über ein Thema von Robert Schumann in fis, op. 20
Robert Schumann: 7 piano pieces in fughetta form op. 126
Robert Schumann: Geistervariationen in E flat major, "Ghost Variations", WoO 24
Franz Liszt: Le triomphe funèbre du Tasse, S 517
Franz Liszt: Széchényi, Teleki and Mosonyi from the Historical
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Portraits, S 205
Franz Liszt: Csárdás macabre, S 224
Overview
On 17 February 1854, Rose Monday, Robert Schumann, who was dressed only in a robe and felt slippers, joined the Düsseldorf carnival – but not to participate in the celebrations. He went straight for the pontoon bridge and threw himself into the Rhine, wanting to end his life. Although he was rescued by fishermen, he was admitted to the Endenich mental hospital as “mentally deranged.” On that fateful day, he was still working on his last composition, the Ghost Variations on a theme that the angels are said to have sung to him. Can one hear Schumann’s condition in this music? Kit Armstrong offers interesting answers in his “crazy” recital. He meanwhile couples that work with Clara Schumann’s Variations, Op. 20, which may have served as a model for her husband’s swan song. With his Piano Pieces in Fughetta Form, Armstrong will show that Schumann had pursued similarly crazy concepts before. And with works by Franz Liszt, he will showcase an eccentric piano artistry in which transgressions similarly abound.
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