Lucerne Festival Historic Performances

A series from audite and the Lucerne Festival featuring recordings previously unavailable, from the first six decades of the Festival, which began in 1938 with a "Concert de Gala" led by Arturo Toscanini. The sound documents are taken from the archives of SRF Swiss Radio and Television, which has regularly broadcast the Lucerne concerts from the very beginning. They have been acoustically restored with great care and supplemented by materials and photos from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL: a sounding history of the festival.