Back on stage
Under the patronage of the Swiss and German Music Councils, the Festival Strings will open the concert season with a post-lockdown audience on the Day of Music (June 21) in the concert hall of the Lucerne Culture and Convention Center.
On Music Day, which is celebrated every year on June 21, concerts will resume after months of standstill. The first concert with an audience is under the patronage of the Swiss Music Council and the German Music Council, which are also the sponsors of the day of action in Switzerland and Germany. The concert will be broadcast live by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast it with a time delay.
Concert program
"Back on stage!" | A "Steinway Prizewinner Concert"
21.06.2020, 20:00 | Lucerne (Switzerland), KKL Lucerne, Concert HallClaire Huangci, piano | Daniel Dodds, conductor and violin | Festival Strings Lucerne
Franz Schreker: Scherzo for string orchestra (1900)
Frédéric Chopin: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F minor op. 21, version for
String orchestra by Ilan Rogoff (2010)
Robert Schumann: Pictures from the East op. 66 (1849), version for string orchestra by Friedrich Hermann (1884)
Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for string orchestra in E major op. 22 (1876)
