Browse: Lucerne Festival Historic Performances (series)

Forceful, cleanly articulated and with a poetically charged Intermezzo, it’s a performance that shows Fischer to have been a notably strong, intellectual player. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

Audite have worked miracles in bringing such presence to this live 1954 recording. Despite some minor imperfections of orchestral ensemble, Furtwängler's Brucknerian interpretation grips attention... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

To hear these live performances is a real treat… The distinctive sonority of the Czech Philharmonic, its idiomatic sense of light and shade and it rhythmic subtlety brings out flexibility and... — International Record Review, November 2013 More…

Fischer-Dieskau is on magnificent form. [Seefried’s singing] has devastating poignancy. The Swiss Festival Orchestra plays admirably. A version […] to be heard. — International Record Review, September 2014 More…

Audite’s release of a 1955 recording with Milstein and the Swiss Festival Orchestra under Ernest Ansermet marks a ‘first’ in the discography of Ansermet…The sound is acceptable throughout, save... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

The great cellist in Lucerne Festival broadcasts, slightly outshone in the Dvorak by the orchestra under Istvan Kertesz but joyfully fluent in the Saint-Saëns. — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Considering that these performances originate from the mid-1950s, they are in remarkably good sound and form very welcome additions to the violinist’s discography. — MusicWeb International, 28th October 2013 More…