Closing Concert of the Lucerne Festival– Vienna Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel' – LIVE IN HD VIA SATELLITE
Saturday 18 September at 5.30pm

Runtime: 145mins

PROGRAMME
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): Overture to "La gazza ladra" (1817)
Julián Orbón (1925-1991): "Tres versiones sinfónicas" (1954)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Divertimento for Orchestra (1980)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): "Pavane pour une Infante défunte" (1899; 1910),
"Boléro" (1928)

SUMMARY The finale for this year's Lucerne Festival in Summer couldn't be more colourful. Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic will frame their concluding concert with the sound of drums. Rossini's fizzy Overture to "The Thieving Magpie" begins with a snare drum solo, while Ravel's famous "Boléro" is based on a metrical pattern played unrelentingly by this instrument, which builds into a flagrantly erotic wave of energy. With these two pieces as pillars, the concert will also include Cuban composer Julián Orbón's "Versiones Sinfónicas," which pays homage to three different sound worlds: the Spanish dance of the pavane, medieval processional song, and Afro-Caribbean music. Rhythmic drive also plays a key role in Leonard Bernstein's Divertimento, composed in 1980 for the centennial of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and combining such dances as the waltz, mazurka, and samba, as well as the blues.

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Gustavo Dudamel came to international attention in 2004 when he won the first Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg. In the following seasons he made his first appearances with several leading orchestras, including the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. In 2007 he was awarded the Premio de la Latindad, in 2008 the Harvard University "Q" Prize, and in 2009 The City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize.

Vienna Philharmonic On March 28, 1842, members of what was then the Court Opera Orchestra gave a concert under the baton of music director Otto Nicolai in Vienna's Grand Ballroom. This marked the birth of the Vienna Philharmonic. Among the highlights of the Vienna Philharmonic's activities are its famed New Year's concerts, its summer-long residency at the Salzburg Festival, and the tours of the United States and Japan, as well as appearances in London, Paris and Lucerne.