Friday, 8/16/2024
at 6:30 PM



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The ideal material for the curious: Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony, with which Riccardo Chailly and his Lucerne Festival Orchestra open the festival summer, presents a puzzle. It begins with a dark and pessimistic tone, and concludes with ostentatious optimism and exuberant jubilation. How do these elements fit together? Mahler's aim was to construct a whole world with his symphonies – and that includes the bright as well as the dark sides of life. This is why he showcases unrelenting march rhythms as well as paradisiacal visions in the Seventh. He makes the specters cackle maliciously and then revels in waltz-like bliss. The black romanticism comes to the fore in the dance of death in the scherzo, but then sweet love voices sound in the "Andante amoroso", delicately accompanied by harp, mandolin, and guitar. In the finale, Mahler finally pulls out all the stops of pomp and festivity: with a timpani intro and fanfares, a jubilant chorale, and pealing bells. Since its founding over twenty years ago, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has been a first-rate Mahler orchestra. With over a hundred participants, they offer a spectacle for the ears. And of course, there is also much to see.

Program
Streich | Mahler

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