Das Schweizer Kammerorchester Festival Strings Lucerne hat zuletzt mit seiner Einspielung von Mozarts »Haffner-Serenade« und dem hochgelobten Album »Femmes« der Cellistin Raphaela Gromes auf sich aufmerksam gemacht. Für ihr neues Album »Eastbound« hat Festival Strings Lucerne unter Leitung von Konzertmeister Daniel Dodds ein besonders interessantes Programm ausgewählt.

YANG Jing was born in China at a time when the so-called Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976, had a major impact on her childhood. This wiped out all traditional, bourgeois culture to an extent that we can hardly believe even today. Mao's wife Jiang Qing postulated that only proletarian art and literature was acceptable, which for her only really began in 1963, with everything created before that being regarded as reprehensible and decadent. As one of the four leading figures of the Cultural Revolution, which was later dubbed the Gang of Four, she was largely responsible for the attempt to erase China's cultural heritage. Only so-called model plays, six Peking operas and two ballets, newly written for the purpose of public education, were permitted.

After having recorded Mozart’s last three violin concertos in 2014, Arabella Steinbacher, the Festival Strings Lucerne and its leader Daniel Dodds now complete the cycle by presenting Mozart’s less well-known, but equally enchanting Violin Concertos 1 & 2, together with his Adagio in E Major and Rondos in C Major and B-flat Major.