Special envoy to Lucerne
Every year, a compulsive love of symphonic music draws us to the Lucerne Festival as to a paradise of orchestras, whether it is the miraculous house phalanx founded by Claudio Abbado, or the great world formations that meet you between mid-August and mid-September at Lake Lucerne.
All this orchestral obsession, we have too neglected the other pillar of this festival which walks on two legs: contemporary creation, through the academy founded by Pierre Boulez and today led by Wolfgang Rihm.
It also has its own orchestra, the LFCO (Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra), where a hundred young musicians familiarize themselves with the musical languages of their time under the guidance of great creators.
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