Richard Bratby

Enter the parallel universe that is the Lucerne Festival

The performances by Argerich, Blomstedt and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra had my head spinning

Out of this world: the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt conducting, Martha Argerich on piano. Credit: © Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival 
issue 29 August 2020

There wasn’t going to be a Lucerne Festival this year. The annual month-long squillion-dollar international beano got cancelled, along with the rest of Europe’s musical life, round about the time that we were all starting to get bored of banana bread. Then suddenly, in late July, it was on again.

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