17 Dec 2025, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle Stuttgart
Presentation of the new Festival Strings Lucerne album with Xavier de Maistre. With works by Handel, Guilmant and others.
After a long time, the grand master of the harp, Xavier de Maistre, is finally back: with dazzling solo works from the Baroque and early Romantic periods, from a time when the harp was recognised as a truly royal instrument.
The Festival Strings Lucerne's new album with Xavier de Maistre and music by George Frideric Handel, whose hymn from "Judas Maccabaeus" seems strangely familiar, because we know it as the melody of the Advent hymn "Daughter of Zion, rejoice", is being celebrated.
Artists
Xavier De Maistre, harp
Festival Strings Lucerne
Daniel Dodds, conductor & violin
Program
George Frideric Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from "Solomon" HWV 67
John Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan (1596), arr. for strings
Alexandre Guilmant: Paraphrase on the victory chorus from Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus", arr. for chamber orchestra by M. Braun
George Frideric Handel: Harp Concerto in B flat major HWV 294
George Frideric Handel: Organ concerto in F major HWV 293, arr. for harp and orchestra
François-Adrien Boieldieu: Harp concerto in C major op. 82, version for string orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade for string orchestra in C major op. 48
