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22 August 2026 Luzern (Lucerne) (Switzerland)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša | Ray Chen
Lucerne Festival Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hrůša - KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Program Info: Lucerne Festival Orchestra Jakub Hrůša, conductor Ray Chen, violin
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra appears in truly massive forces for this concert: Richard Strauss’s magnificently colourful An Alpine Symphony calls for 64 strings, quadruple woodwinds, eight horns onstage — and twelve more offstage — plus four trumpets and four trombones, two tubas, two harps, organ, celesta, and an enormous battery of percussion. Yet from this gigantic orchestral body Strauss draws the finest nuances as he depicts a mountain hike in 22 scenes. Hunting horns ring out, cowbells chime, the waterfall roars — and the Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša has a marvelous gift for making this sumptuous sonic fresco glow. Strauss was the superstar composer of his era, but in the 1920s he found a true rival in the young Erich Wolfgang Korngold. What might have happened had Korngold not been forced into exile in America, where he made his name in film music? Only in 1945 did he return to the classical repertoire with his luxuriant Violin Concerto. The Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen performs it here: the Huffington Post calls his playing “drop-dead gorgeous.”
Program Introduction to the Concert with Susanne Stähr (KKL Luzern, Auditorium, in German)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, the concerto has themes from the scores for the movies ANOTHER DAWN (1937), ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936) & THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937) Richard Strauss (1864–1949) - An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64
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