Violinist with altitude

Published on: 02.09.2024

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Christoph Streuli takes us on a tour of Lucerne, the city of his birth. He shows us the school of music, beautifully situated above Lake Lucerne, and unpacks the secrets of the second violin section. And he explores a hypothetical question - what if Bedřich Smetana’s work My Fatherland had been written about Switzerland, instead of the composer’s native Czech Republic?

Video: Adam Janisch, Tobias Möller

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A concert in which all those instruments that (almost) never play the melody finally get to play - that’s what happened in Lucerne at the school concert with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and their low-pitched instruments. Horn player Sarah Willis joined the audience in the search for Lucerne’s low-pitched superstar.

Behind the music: Violinist with altitudeChristoph Streuli in Lucerne

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