In cooperation with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, audite presents outstanding concert recordings of noted festival artists. The aim of this edition is to make available treasures, most of them previously unavailable, from the first six decades of the Festival, which began in 1938 with a "Concert de Gala" led by Arturo Toscanini. The sound documents are taken from the archives of SRF Swiss Radio and Television, which has regularly broadcast the Lucerne concerts from the very beginning. They have been acoustically restored with great care and supplemented by materials and photos from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL: a sounding history of the festival.

Heinz Holliger's interpretations of Schumann's compositions are based on his nearly lifelong occupation with the work, thinking, personality and fate of this composer. The cliché of Schumann the weak orchestrator is refuted in Holliger's recordings through feathery-light verve and a detailed, subdivided orchestral sound, lending transparency and lightness to the opulent scores.
With this series of the complete orchestral works of Robert Schumann, comprising all the symphonies (including both versions of the Fourth) as well as all the overtures and concertos (part V with the concert pieces is unfortunately sold out and no longer part of this series!!!), the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under the direction of Heinz Holliger succeeds in making a refreshing and well-founded correction of the widespread image of Schumann.