The Lucerne Festival honours Friedrich Cerha with a concert performance of Spiegel I-VII. Composed from 1960-61 and first performed in 1971, the cycle is widely considered as one of the composer’s major works, indeed of post-war Austrian music altogether.

Tonight Matthias Pintscher conducts the Swiss première of Spiegel I-VII with the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy.

We talked to Friedrich Cerha about his music: