大象传媒

Highlights from the 2019 Lucerne Festival, launched by the Everest of piano concertos. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in an all-Rachmaninov programme, in which Russian virtuoso pianist Denis Matsuev tackles the towering 55,000 notes of the Third Piano Concerto. Plus star violinist Leonidas Kavakos moves to the conductor's podium for Beethoven at the 2019 Verbier Festival.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30
with Denis Matsuev (piano)
2.45pm
Vocalise (orchestral version)
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conductor Riccardo Chailly

3.40pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Leonidas Kavakos

The first of five Afternoon Concert programmes featuring concerts from the 2019 Lucerne Festival and its fellow Swiss festival in Verbier. Featuring:
- Bernard Haitink conducting his very last concert ever: the Vienna Philharmonic playing Beethoven and Bruckner
- Kirill Petrenko conducting Tchaikovsky with the Berlin Philharmonic
- Riccardo Chailly and Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin conducting Mahler, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich with the Verbier Festival Orchestra - whose members are drawn from the world's top orchestras
- Four leading soloists: pianist Denis Matsuev and Emanuel Ax, and violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Leonidas Kavakos - who also conducts the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.