Lord Byron in the Bernese Oberland – Mariinsky II
Symphony Concert
Saturday, 25 August 2018
7.30 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent
He is quite simply the youngest musician ever recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. But this is no coincidence: a regular guest of the Verbier Festival, Daniel Lozakovich made his debut in 2009 already with Vladimir Spivakov’s Moscow Virtuosi, and recorded a first CD of Bartók Duos in 2015 with Daniel Hope under the same yellow label. Present on music scenes the world over, he is replacing David Garrett (injured) this summer in Tchaikovsky’s Concerto, having just released his first solo album dedicated to J.S. Bach’s Concertos. The second half of the programme will feature a work rarely heard: Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred” Symphony, a great fresco in four acts based on the dramatic poem bearing the same title by Lord Byron and following the programme conceived by the composer’s mentor, Mili Balakirev. It is the story of a man living in seclusion in the heart of the Alps who is tortured by his own sense of guilt for an unmentionable offense committed in the past.
daniel lozakovich, Violin
Mariinsky Orchestra St. Petersburg
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) | |
| Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 | 40' |
| – Interval – | |
| «Manfred Symphony» in B Minor, Op. 58 | 60' |
| 120' | |
| CHF 160 / 135 / 95 / 65 |