Michael Sanderling conducts Schreker and Beethoven

In one of the highlights of the 2024 Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, set in the stunning Swiss Alps, the world-class Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor Michael Sanderling take on the lushly harmonic Intermezzo for String Orchestra by Austrian composer Franz Schreker, a once-prominent figure whose work has been rediscovered and reappraised following decades of obscurity, and Beethoven's glorious Symphony No. 7—perhaps less widely heard than the Fifth and Ninth, but no less masterful in the élan of its outer movements and the heart-stopping emotion of its famous Allegretto, whose implacable rhythms feel as elemental as life and death.