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Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Jörg Widmann | Michael Engelhardt

Name: Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Jörg Widmann | Michael Engelhardt
Start: 2026-08-16T18:30:00
Location: KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Lucerne Festival

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The very first concert of the Lucerne Festival Academy under its new Artistic Director, Jörg Widmann, will be loud, wild, and unrestrained. Anyone who is lulled by the subtitle “Poème dansé” to associate Wolfgang Rihm’s Tutuguri with an elegant ballet score in the style of Debussy may be in for quite a shock. With explosive brass eruptions, ominously pulsing rhythms, blood-curdling screams, and a final drum barrage from six percussionists lasting...

Program

Wolfgang Rihm - Tutuguri. Poème dansé

Participants

Jörg Widmann

Conductor

Christoph Sietzen

Percussion

Markus Güdel

Lighting Designer

Maxime Le Saux

Sound Designer

Lucerne Festival

Producer

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1 dates (16 Aug - 16 Aug)

Aug

Sun

6:30 pm

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Lucerne, Switzerland

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