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.
Dmitry Smirnov, violin
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
Steve Reich: Violin Phase
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Béla Bartók: Sonata for solo violin, BB 124, Sz 117
Overview
Dmitry Smirnov loves crazy challenges. In his debut, he does more than combine two of the most demanding compositions for solo violin, Bach’s D minor Partita and Bartók’s Solo Sonata. He also intertwines them by shuttling back and forth between the two, playing the movements in alternation and thus creating an imaginary unity of a work that transcends the centuries. He will additionally frame this new construct with Steve Reich’s Violin Phase, a masterpiece of Minimalism from 1967. The result is a triple portrait of three unsentimental composers that at the same time highlights their idiosyncrasies: the rhetorically influenced beat of Bach’s musical language, Bartók’s archaic phrases, and Reich’s repetitive patterns. Smirnov, who was born in St. Petersburg in 1994 and studied with Rainer Schmidt in Basel, won the Tibor Varga Competition as well as the Concours de Lausanne and today works with Heinz Holliger and Giovanni Antonini. No question: he has one of the most unconventional minds among young violinists.
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