Lucerne Festival 2017: Chailly conducts Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn

Synopsis

“What an evening. What a kickoff. The future of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – it has now begun.” This is how Peter Hagmann of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described Riccardo Chailly’s debut as the new artistic director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra last year. Chailly devoted himself in his second year in Lucerne to the works of composers that strongly influenced him during his conducting career. Among these are Felix Mendelssohn and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The program included Mendelssohn’s enchanting tone poems to Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" and Tchaikovsky’s "Manfred Symphony", based on the poem written by Lord Byron.

Additional Info

• No: 9518
• Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Felix Mendelssohn
• Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
• Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra
• Production year: 2017
• Run time: 01:40:00
• Producers: Accentus, ARTE G.E.I.E., SRF, Arte Concert, Lucerne Festival
• Format: HDTV 16:9