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Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä | Augustin Hadelich

Name: Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä | Augustin Hadelich
Start: 2026-08-15T18:30:00
Location: KKL Luzern Concert Hall

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For his debut as this summer’s “artiste étoile,” Augustin Hadelich brings along a work from his adopted American homeland that he especially loves: the irresistibly beautiful Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber. He finds Barber’s musical language “highly emotional” and notes that the intensely expressive slow movement can send chills up and down your spine. But the virtuoso in Hadelich is challenged here too — above all in the finale: “It’s like a p...

Program

Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto

Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird. A fairy-tale ballet in two tableaux

Participants

Klaus Mäkelä

Conductor

Augustin Hadelich

Violin

Lucerne Festival

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1 dates (15 Aug - 15 Aug)

Aug

Sat

6:30 pm

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Lucerne, Switzerland

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