Tarmo Peltokoski is on the podium at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre for the opening concert of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s 51^st season, joined by Swedish virtuoso Daniel Lozakovich – making his debut with the orchestra. The programme opens with Sibelius’s remarkable Violin Concerto, a work at once bracingly virtuosic and deeply poetic, firmly entrenched in the composer’s unmistakably evocative sound world. The second half sees conductor and orchestra turn – in the composer’s 200^th anniversary year – to music by Anton Bruckner: his powerful final symphony, the ultimate tribute to the powerful faith that sustained him throughout his life, but left unfinished at his death in 1896.

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47

Anton Bruckner
Syphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 (Ed. Nowak)

Daniel Lozakovich, violin

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor