

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poème Symphonique – Lucerne Festival Pulse
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+02:00)
- **Event Description**: Mahler Chamber Orchestra
MDR Radio Choir
Thomas Eitler-de Lint, chorus master
Thomas Adès, conductor
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano
Anna Dennis, soprano

György Ligeti: "Poème Symphonique" for 100 metronomes
Thomas Adès: "Concerto Conciso" for piano and ensemble
György Kurtág:"… quasi una fantasia …" for piano and groups of instruments dispersed in space, Op. 27, no. 1
Arvo Pärt: "Credo" for piano, mixed choir, and orchestra
Thomas Adès: "America – A Prophecy" for soprano, large orchestra, and chorus, Op. 19. Expanded version 

Three short piano concertos in one evening – each connecting past and present. In "Credo", Arvo Pärt takes up the famous C major Prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, pitting avant-garde compositional techniques against tonality and triads. György Kurtág – who turns 100 in February 2026 – takes inspiration from the freely unfolding design of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, Op. 27, in his fascinating spatial composition "...quasi una fantasia...", which distributes the instruments around the audience. And Thomas Adès, who will himself conduct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in his dazzling "Concerto Conciso", flirts with jazz, blues, and Baroque dance. In "America – A Prophecy", by contrast, he unfolds a dark vision of destruction involving the fall of Mayan culture at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors, with a soprano as the prophetic witness. Before all that, the concert opens with 100 ticking metronomes in György Ligeti's "Poème Symphonique", where they come to a stop one by one, until silence prevails. When the last metronome stops, "it feels like the end of life itself," says Víkingur Ólafsson.

Photo © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, concerts, festivals, jazz
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/mahler-chamber-orchestra-mdr-radio-choir-thomas-ades-vikingur-olafsson-anna-dennis/2340?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=lucerne-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Lucerne
- **state**: LU
- **country**: Switzerland
- **location**: KKL Luzern, Concert hall
- **lat**: 47.05101768673
- **long**: 8.3118436764057
- **full address**: KKL Luzern, Concert hall, Lucerne, Switzerland

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Lucerne Festival (https://allevents.in/org/lucerne-festival/4522077)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+02:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** KKL Luzern, Concert hall, Lucerne, Switzerland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Lucerne Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, concerts, festivals, jazz
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