Mäkelä plays cello in trio with Yuja and boy wonder

Mäkelä plays cello in trio with Yuja and boy wonder

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

August 02, 2023

Power couple Yuja Wang and conductor Klaus Mäkelä adopted young violinist Daniel Lozakovich for a Rachmaninov trio at the Verbier Festival.

Comments

  • no power, just celebrity says:

    so he can do ’em all ? power conductor, power cellist, power yuja conqueror? come on, it get s really annoying ..

    • zayin says:

      He’s a capable cellist.

      If he weren’t the music director of Paris and the Concertgebouw, no big time artist would play chamber music with him (certainly not Yuja, even as a boyfriend).

      • Emil says:

        Per his Wikipedia page, he’s been a soloist with several Finnish orchestras, presumably all as a teenager (before his conducting career took off). Who’s to say he wouldn’t be a world-class soloist if he hadn’t gone into conducting?
        Very few artists manage to be both professional instrumentalists and conductors on top level. Some conduct from the keyboard/violin, sure. But all the others put one above the other, and rely on either career to prop up the other.

      • RW2013 says:

        How many conductors are not capable anythings?

      • Nigel Goldberg says:

        But he is…..

    • Sue Sonata Form says:

      And he’s clearly the reason for the very revealing dress – this time – which she lifts at the back so you can see what’s underneath.

      From my reading of this performance the younger Mäkelä is calling the shots!!

  • Anon says:

    Lozakovich is 22 now. He’s not a “boy”.

  • Farah says:

    “Boy” is a result of extensive Gergiev’s patronage. Interestingly, what does Lozakovich think about Gergiev’s support to putin regime and war?

  • Marc says:

    So many “wonders”…

  • Sue Sonata Form says:

    Absolutely gorgeous! And Yuja is wearing a Rolex!! What’s not to love??

  • Joel Lazar says:

    Nice to hear the “other” Rachmaninoff trio….

  • IP says:

    Only the Malakai boy was missing

  • Niva Yaron says:

    This fantastic trio is an example to what Verbier festival brings us from time to time.

  • Officer Krupke says:

    Sublime.
    How infuriating for all the prehistoric harpies that usually haunt these comment feeds extolling the virtues of the records they scream that can’t be bettered.

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