Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

“This Beethoven interpretation will not be forgotten in a hurry,” was the verdict of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Daniel Lozakovich’s debut with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in March 2024, attesting to his “spotlessly clean and enraptured” playing. The orchestra went on tour with the young virtuoso to Paris and Hamburg the following fall with the Sibelius Violin Concerto on the program. And it is this work that the violinist will now also perform with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra when he returns to the Festival. It is Lozakovich’s favorite piece: “Sibelius knew how to do more with the violin than any other composer,” he says, adding a personal reference: “I was born in Stockholm. For me, the concerto’s Nordic atmosphere is very moving.” Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, which Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling will present in the second half of the evening, also goes straight to the heart with its unsparing soul-searching. It makes bare the composer’s inner conflict between the yearning for happiness and the merciless power of Fate, “which hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles.”