In the second edition of the three-day Mendelssohn Festival from 31 March to 2 April 2023, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly will present two concerts featuring works by three composer friends: Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and Frédéric Chopin.
  
   The first concert, on Friday, 31 March, is titled Mendelssohn & Chopin and will bring two youthful works by these composer friends to the stage: the First Symphony in C minor by Felix Mendelssohn, which he wrote when he was only 15, and the Second Piano Concerto in F minor by Frédéric Chopin, composed when the Frenchman was 19. The evening’s soloist will be the Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz, who won the 2005 Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Between the two works, Music Director Riccardo Chailly will conduct Franz Schubert’s Overture in the Italian Style in C major, D 591.
  
  The final concert of the Mendelssohn Festival will combine works by Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Joined by the MDR Radio Choir, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will perform Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony, Lobgesang (“Song of Praise”). The singers will be Lucerne soprano Regula Mühlemann, soprano Simona Šaturová, and tenor Allan Clayton. The young Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández will perform Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor.
  
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