The St. Karl Church, designed by Fritz Metzger, is a Roman Catholic parish church in the city of Lucerne. It is one of the most important buildings of Catholic church architecture of the 20th century in Switzerland. It is the first concrete church in Central Switzerland and is considered the first work of modern church architecture in Lucerne.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja / Igor Levit et al.
St. Karl Kirche,
Lucerne, Switzerland
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7:30 PM
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Type: Classical Concert
City: Lucerne, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:30
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Festival
Lucerne Festival "Beethoven Farewell" 2020
Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Igor Levit Will Focus on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Legacy in the Inaugural Fall Weekend.
Programme
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet no. 1 in E minor, "Kreutzer Sonata"
Márton Illés: Én-kör III (I-Circle) for violin and cello
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin sonata No. 9 in A major, 'Kreutzer', Op.47
Overview
The Kreutzer Sonata is Beethovenʼs most famous violin sonata: a work that calls for the highest virtuosity, “scritta in uno stilo molto concertante, quasi come d’un concerto,” as the composer noted on the title page. But this is also a work about emotional extremes: Beethoven’s music is explosive, not bothering to show any consideration for manners.
No wonder that this sonata has had a remarkable afterlife in the arts. The Russian author Leo Tolstoy took it up in his novella of the same name. It tells of the rabidly jealous Pozdnyshev, who murders his wife because she has played this “dreadful piece” all too ecstatically with a violinist – as a kind of musical love-making. Tolstoyʼs story, in turn, inspired the Czech composer Leoš Janáček to write a string quartet. At the opening of our special Fall Weekend, all three works will be juxtaposed together. And there’s more: Kopatchinskaja provides new musical commentary with her own score and a composition by the Hungarian Márton Illés. Tolstoy’s wife Sofia also has her say with her novel Whose Fault?, which she wrote as a response to her husband’s novella.
Venue Info
St. Karl Kirche - Lucerne
St. Karlistrasse 23, 6004
St. Karlistrasse 23, 6004
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Lucerne, Switzerland
Starts at: 19:30
Duration: