Vienna Philharmonic review — one of the highlights of this year’s Lucerne Festival

With 131 classical music events over 33 days the Lucerne Festival might seem comparable to the BBC Proms. It’s not. Ticket prices for the big concerts are jaw-dropping (up to £290, though with 67 free events), but for that money you get most of Europe’s top orchestras and conductors, every year.

And Jean Nouvel’s KKL concert hall, framed by lake and mountains, is still the most beautiful place to hear music in the world. There’s a good UK presence this year, with two Kanneh-Masons and several other British soloists. And I heard an invigorating Lucerne Festival Academy concert in which George Benjamin conducted his own well-crafted Concerto for Orchestra and then, generously, two modern pieces that made rather greater impact.

One was Luciano Berio’s Solo.