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Recital Lang Lang

Lucerne Festival

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Wed, 20 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm

KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

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Wed, 20 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm (CEST)

KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Lucerne, Switzerland

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Recital Lang Lang
Lang Lang, piano

Gabriel Fauré: Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50
Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in F minor, Op. 7, no. 3
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 17, no. 1
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in E minor, Op. 17, no. 2
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, no. 4
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in C major, Op. 24, no. 2
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B minor, Op. 24, no. 4
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in D-flat major, Op. 30, no. 3
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 30, no. 4
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in C major, Op. 33, no. 3
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33, no. 4
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in D major, Op. 33, no. 2
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 59, no. 3
Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44

For his recital, the Chinese keyboard magician Lang Lang travels to France, to Poland — and into the heart of German Romanticism. The program begins with a tribute to the fin-de-siècle salon culture of Paris, where Gabriel Fauré was the undisputed darling of high society. He charmed his listeners with pieces such as the enchanting "Pavane", a marvel of melancholy beauty. Kapellmeister Kreisler, a character invented by the German poet E.T.A. Hoffmann, had more of a penchant for the grotesque. Robert Schumann portrayed this colorful literary figure in his Kreisleriana and in fact considered the eight fantasies comprising the cycle to be his finest work for piano. Schumann had great admiration for his contemporary Frédéric Chopin and marveled at the dances with which Chopin commemorated his Polish homeland during his Parisian exile. Schumann summed up the explosive political power hidden in these miniatures in a famous observation: "Chopin's works are cannons buried under flowers." With no fewer than twelve mazurkas and the heroic F-sharp minor Polonaise, Lang Lang evokes the history of the Polish resistance against the Russian occupiers.

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Recital Lang Lang, 20 August | Event in Lucerne | AllEvents
Recital Lang Lang
Wed, 20 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm