Lucerne Festival Strings
The Lucerne Festival Strings are an internationally renowned chamber orchestra that works closely with the Lucerne Conservatory and the Hochschule Luzern since its founding - is connected music for many years as "Ensemble in Residence". They were by Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner 1956 at the International Music Festival in Lucerne (now Lucerne Festival ) founded and initially led later as conductor of Rudolf Baumgartner in the wake until 1998 by the concertmaster's chair. Successor as artistic director from 1998 until summer 2012 Achim Fiedler. Since the 2012/2013 season of Australian -Swiss violinist Daniel Dodds has held the artistic director. " Principal Guest Artist " of the ensemble is Daniel Hope. 1986 Rudolf Baumgartner built the " Foundation Lucerne Festival Strings ", which took over as publicly funded, non-profit corporation, the ownership over the ensemble. Managing Director since 2009, Hans -Christoph Maurus chat.
Work
The Lucerne Festival Strings began in the first year of its existence, with recordings for the German Grammophon, with whom she joined an exclusive contract, to acquire an excellent reputation internationally. From the late 1950s, the Festival Strings Lucerne were among the pioneers of the "Archive " series of Deutsche Grammophon, which at the time records made history in the first publication of works of forgotten or barely known composers especially of the Baroque such as Giuseppe Tartini (1959). In addition to numerous recordings below for Decca, Denon euro disc and the orchestra produced in recent years for CDs Oehms Classics and Sony Classical. The recording of the Bach piano concertos with pianist Martin Stadtfeld (2006 ) received in 2007 ECHO Klassik. Recently published in rhythm admissions with works by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak and Britten and Mendelssohn ( a recording of the complete string symphonies on 3 CDs: " reference recording " The Cultural Mirror, Jan 2010).
Founded in 1956, the orchestra regularly a guest at the International Music Festival in Lucerne and supervised by 1959-1970 here exclusively the " Musica Nova " series. Over 100 works by composers such as Jean Françaix, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Peter Mieg, Sándor Veress, Iannis Xenakis and Krzysztof Penderecki, the ensemble was able to bring its world premiere.
Among the soloists with whom has worked the orchestra include: Yehudi Menuhin, Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Henryk Szeryng, Arthur Grumiaux, Pablo Casals, Pierre Fournier, Clara Haskil, Wilhelm Kempff, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Anne- Sophie Mutter, Pinchas Zukerman, Gidon Kremer, Leonidas Kavakos or recently Sabine Meyer, Maxim Vengerov, James Galway, Albrecht Mayer and Mischa Maisky.