He is now only in his mid-20s, the elegant Viennese pianist who has been a regular guest at the Heidelberger Frühling since 2023. Lukas Sternath's path to becoming an early matured interpreter of expansive masterpieces such as Schubert's late sonatas, a wide-awake chamber musician and a superior designer of virtuoso literature - all of this was and can be followed up close here. The recital on the final day brings the extremely interesting juxtaposition of Schubert's luminous A major sonata with the kaleidoscopic soundscapes of Franz Liszt, who knows how to pull out all the stops of diabolical demons in his reading of the "Inferno" from Dante's "Divine Comedy". The great thing about it is that pianistic pyrotechnics and poetic sensibility always come together.

At 10:00: Concert introduction "Notenschlüssel" (made possible by the Heidelberger Frühling Freundeskreis)