Published on Sep 4, 2017

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: October 14-15, 2017

Venue: Concret Hall of NCPA

Prices: 380, 580, 680, 980, 1180, 1380, 1680

Features: One of the world's foremost musicians Riccardo Chailly will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra to perform at Concert Hall of NCPA on Saturday October 14 and Sunday October 15, 2017.

PROGRAMME

October 14

Strauss -- Also sprach Zarathustra
Strauss -- Tod und verklarung
Strauss -- Till Eulenspiegel

October 15

Beethoven -- Egmont Overture
Beethoven -- Symphony No. 8
Stravinsky -- Rite of Spring

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly has been the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s new Music Director since the summer of 2016. Born in 1953 in Milan, he studied at the Conservatories of Perugia, Rome, and Milan and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and began his career as an assistant to Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan. Chailly was appointed Music Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1980, and in 1988 he moved to the same position with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, which he helmed for 16 years. From 2005 until the summer of 2016, Riccardo Chailly served as head of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and since January 2015 he has been Music Director of La Scala in Milan. Chailly regularly conducts such leading European orchestras as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris. In the United States he has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As an opera conductor – in addition to his performances at La Scala – he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, Zurich Opera, the Bavarian and Vienna Staatsoper companies, Chicago Lyric Opera, and San Francisco Opera. Riccardo Chailly has received many prizes for his more than 150 CDs, including two Echo Klassik Awards (in 2012 and 2015). Gramophone magazine chose his account of the Brahms symphonies as Recording of the Year in 2014. Riccardo Chailly is a Grand’Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, Cavaliere di Gran Croce, and Cavaliere dell’Ordine del Leone d’Olanda. In 1996 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and in France he has been an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France since 2011.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
The summer of 2003 saw the birth of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which was founded by the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and by the Festival’s Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger. In creating the LFO, they established a link with the legendary elite orchestra for which Arturo Toscanini assembled acclaimed virtuosos of his time to create a magnificent ensemble, introducing it in a “Concert de Gala” in 1938, the year of the Festival’s founding. Abbado served as Music Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra up until his death in January 2014. Riccardo Chailly, who was appointed as his successor, inaugurated his tenure as the new Music Director in the summer of 2016 with two performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, thus concluding the Mahler cycle that Abbado had been unable to finish. The LFO comprises internationally acclaimed principals, chamber musicians, and music teachers, as well as members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Filarmonica della Scala. For the 2017 Summer Festival, Chailly will prepare three different programmes with them, presenting composers such as Richard Strauss, Felix Mendelssohn, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Igor Stravinsky, who were either not performed or seldom heard in previous Lucerne Festival Orchestra concerts. Many of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s performances over the last decade have been broadcast on television and then released on DVD. These have garnered such awards as the Diapason d’Or, the BBC Music Magazine Award, and the International Classical Music Award. The Lucerne Festival Orchestra has gone on tour to Rome, Vienna, Madrid, and Paris; to Baden-Baden, Hamburg, London, and New York; and to Ferrara, Moscow, Tokyo, and Beijing. In the fall of 2015 they undertook a major European tour led by Andris Nelsons.

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