Conductor Claudio Abbado has resurrected the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. “For musicians and audiences alike, Mr. Abbado’s return was also the stuff of emotion. Last year he stepped down after 13 years as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. But more pertinently, after a diagnosis of stomach cancer in 2000 he is again in good health and, at 70, has proven strong enough to lead a new orchestra. It is something he is practiced at doing.”