Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Lucerne School of Music, Kriens, Switzerland

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2:30 PM

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Important Info

Festival: Lucerne Summer Festival 2021

Type: Classical Concert

City: Kriens, Switzerland

Starts at: 14:30

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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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

Pierre Boulez: Initiale

Overview

Works by Arnau Brichs, Tyson Davis, Lanqing Ding, Theo Finkel, Anton Koshelev, Guillem Palomar, Daniil Posazhennikov, and Senay Uğurlu

Wolfgang Rihm has given the young participants in this year’s Composer Seminar an unusual instrumentation to work with: seven brass players with harp, piano, and two percussionists. What a variety of timbres is possible! The particular makeup of this formulation, however, is not random but is based on Pierre Boulez’s Initiale, a virtuoso brass fanfare that the founder of the Lucerne Festival Academy wrote for the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1987. The piece will open a concert in which you can encounter a wide range of examples of the emerging generation of composers, for variety is what matters to Rihm. His goal is “to promote distinctiveness rather than a seeming adherence to conventions, whether avant-garde or reactionary.” And because few people are able to talk about music with such illumination – about what its creators intended and what listeners perceive – Rihm himself will offer guidance through this survey of works and introduce each composer and their works during the concert.

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