ALBUMBach: The Art of Fugue (Arr. for String Orchestra) - Honegger: Prelude, Arioso Et Fughette Sur Le Nom De Bach (Arr. for String Orchestra)Festival Strings Lucerne & Achim Fiedler
ALBUMWebern & Schubert: Works for String OrchestraFestival Strings Lucerne & Achim Fiedler
ALBUMHaydn & Boccherini: Cello ConertosCollegium Musicum Zurich, Mstislav Rostropovich, Festival Strings Lucerne, Paul Sacher, Pierre Fournier & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMBach: Cantatas IIFestival Strings Lucerne, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMBaroque FestivalWolfgang Schneiderhan, Claude Starck, Festival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMBach: Grand Overture, Op. 18, No. 1, W. C26 - Mozart: Piano Concerto, No. 12, K. 414 - Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for String QuartetAndrea Bacchetti, Festival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMFestival Strings Lucerne ● Rudolf Baumgartner, conductor : Vivaldi ● Purcell ● Bach ● Mozart ● BartholdyPierre Fournier, Rudolf Baumgartner, Festival Strings Lucerne, Mieczysław Horszowski, Pauls Ezergalis & Roger Pyne
ALBUMPurcell: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day; The Married BeauFestival Strings Lucerne, Rudolf Baumgartner, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras
ALBUMShostakovich, Kokkonen, Martin, Schoeck: Meister des XX. JahrhundertsRudolf Baumgartner & Festival Strings Lucerne
ALBUMUrs Joseph Flury: Concertino venetiano, Violinkonzert in D, Sonate für Violine solo & Suite nostalgique für Violine und KlavierUrs Joseph Flury, Ruggiero Ricci, Gérard Wyss, Festival Strings Lucerne, Kammerensemble von Radio Bern, Rudolf Baumgartner & Theo Hug
ALBUMAlbinoni: Adagio - Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue - Bach: Air - Purcell: ChaconneFestival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMMozart: Piano Concertos No. 13 & No. 20 and Piano Sonata K. 280Clara Haskil, Ferenc Fricsay, Festival Strings Lucerne, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMMusik in Luzern: Works for String OrchestraFestival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMBach: KlavierkonzerteMartin Stadtfeld, Festival Strings Lucerne & Achim Fiedler
ALBUMMozart: Flute ConcertosJames Galway, Festival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMBach: Concertos, BWV 1044, 1055 & 1056 (Mono Version)Festival Strings Lucerne, Rudolf Baumgartner & Ralph Kirkpatrick
ALBUMBach: Cantate, BWV 202 - Respighi: Il tramonto - Mozart: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 (Stereo Version)Festival Strings Lucerne, Rudolf Baumgartner & Irmgard Seefried
ALBUMBach: Cantate, BWV 202 - Respighi: Il tramonto - Mozart: Divertimento, K. 138 (Mono Version)Irmgard Seefried & Festival Strings Lucerne
ALBUMBach: Six concertos brandebourgeois (Stereo Version)Festival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner
ALBUMBach: Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Stereo Version)Festival Strings Lucerne, Rudolf Baumgartner & Ralph Kirkpatrick
ALBUMDas italienische Settecento: Serie A. Das Konzert (Mono Version)André Jaunet, Festival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner
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About Festival Strings Lucerne
Artist Biography
The Lucerne Festival Strings are among Switzerland's best-known orchestral ensembles, touring widely and performing a wide variety of repertory. The group is especially noted for its large catalog of recordings, which dates back to the 1950s and includes pioneering releases of Baroque music.
The Lucerne Festival Strings was founded in 1956 and gave its first performance at the Lucerne International Music Festival on August 26 of that year. The group's co-founders were conductor Rudolf Baumgartner, violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and Lucerne Festival director Walter Strebi. Baumgartner, who remained the music director until 1998, named the group and, envisioning a busy touring schedule for the new ensemble, suggested that it always use the English words Festival Strings, altering only the word order (Festival Strings Lucerne) for French- and German-speaking audiences. At home, the group has maintained a close relationship with the Lucerne Conservatory and performs at the KKL Lucerne Concert Hall.
The Lucerne Festival Strings programmed mostly Baroque music in its early years, not a common thing in the 1950s, but it later added contemporary music to its mission and has premiered more than 100 works, including those by Frank Martin, Iannis Xenakis, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Almost from the beginning, the group attracted international-caliber soloists, including violinist David Oistrakh, cellist Pablo Casals, and pianist Clara Haskil. With a core of 21 musicians, the orchestra takes on additional players for larger works, and since the 2010s, it has often performed symphonic repertory. It should not be confused with the seasonal Lucerne Festival Orchestra, to which it is unrelated. The Lucerne Festival Strings has had only three directors over its long history; Baumgartner was succeeded by Achim Fiedler, and violinist-conductor Daniel Dodds took up the baton in 2012.
The Lucerne Festival Strings' notably vast catalog of recordings, dating back to the 1950s, includes early LPs featured Baroque music that appeared on the Deutsche Grammophon label's Archiv imprint, which had a pioneering role in the marketing of Baroque music recordings. In the digital era, the group has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, RCA, and, as of 2020, Warner Classics, where the Lucerne Festival Strings backed violinist Midori in her first-ever recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61. ~ James Manheim
Hometown
Lucerne, Switzerland
Genre
Classical
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