Festival history on CD
To mark its 75th anniversary, the Lucerne Festival is releasing a series of historical recordings.
The Lucerne International Music Festival was founded 75 years ago, today's Lucerne Festival. To mark this anniversary, the festival, in cooperation with the label audite the new CD series Lucerne Festival Historic Performances. Three recordings with unique concerts from sixty years of festival history will be released later this year: the first CD features two live recordings of piano legends Clara Haskil and Robert Casadesus. Their musical partners are Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the Vienna Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos. This is the Lucerne debut of the Vienna Philharmonic, who nowadays traditionally perform the closing concerts of the summer festival. The second release contains rare live recordings with the violinist Isaac Stern and the Swiss Festival Orchestra from the 1950s. The third CD presents concert recordings of George Szell with the Swiss Festival Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 and 1969. The series will be continued in the coming years.
All the recordings in the series come from the archives of Swiss radio and television and are being made available for the first time.
CD 1 (aud. 95.623, July 2013)
Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer Conductor | Clara Haskil Piano
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Piano Concerto in D minor KV 466 (1959)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Dimitri Mitropoulos Conductor | Robert Casadesus Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major op. 73 (1957)
CD 2 (aud. 95.624, August 2013)
Swiss Festival Orchestra | Ernest Ansermet Conductor | Isaac Stern Violin
Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz. 112 (1956)
Swiss Festival Orchestra | Lorin Maazel Conductor | Isaac Stern Violin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op. 35 (1958)
CD 3 (aud. 95.625, September 2013)
Swiss Festival Orchestra | George Szell Conductor
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68 (1962)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | George Szell Conductor
Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 in G major op. 88 (1969)
