Lost to the World Daniel Lozakovich & Hélène Mercier

• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): 14 Romances, Op. 34:
• 1 Rachmaninoff: 14 Romances, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise (Arr. Press for Violin and Piano) 06:39
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): La plus que lente, CD 128, L. 121 (Arr. Roques for Violin and Piano):
• 2 Debussy: La plus que lente, CD 128, L. 121 (Arr. Roques for Violin and Piano) 04:50
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): 3 Mélodies, Op. 7:
• 3 Fauré: 3 Mélodies, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. Casals for Violin and Piano) 03:25
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: 12 Romances, Op. 21:
• 4 Rachmaninoff: 12 Romances, Op. 21: No. 7, How Fair This Spot (Perf. by Violin and Piano) 02:25
• Claude Debussy: Préludes, Livre I, CD 125, L. 117:
• 5 Debussy: Préludes, Livre I, CD 125, L. 117: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin (Arr. Hartmann for Violin and Piano) 02:32
• Philippe Sarde (b. 1948): La chanson d'Hélène (Arr. Ducros for Violin and Piano):
• 6 Sarde: La chanson d'Hélène (Arr. Ducros for Violin and Piano) 02:43
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): 6 Pieces, Op. 19:
• 7 Tchaikovsky: 6 Pieces, Op. 19: No. 4, Nocturne (Arr. Lozakovich for Violin and Piano) 04:00
• Claude Debussy: Petite suite, CD 71, L. 65:
• 8 Debussy: Petite suite, CD 71, L. 65: I. En bateau (Arr. Choisnel for Violin and Piano) 03:53
• Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950): Youkali (Perf. by Violin and Piano):
• 9 Weill: Youkali (Perf. by Violin and Piano) 02:31
• Joseph Kosma (1905 - 1969): Autumn Leaves (Arr. Borsarello for Violin and Piano):
• 10 Kosma: Autumn Leaves (Arr. Borsarello for Violin and Piano) 03:35
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Te Deum, HWV 283 "Dettingen":
• 11 Handel: Te Deum, HWV 283 "Dettingen": XIV. Prayer. "Vouchsafe O Lord" (Arr. Flesch for Violin and Piano) 03:56
• Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962): Prelude and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani:
• 12 Kreisler: Prelude and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani 06:12
• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Rückert-Lieder:
• 13 Mahler: Rückert-Lieder: No. 3, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Arr. Lozakovich for Violin and Piano) 07:00
• Total Runtime 53:41

Info for Lost to the World

A profoundly personal and curated new recording by violinist Daniel Lozakovich, joined by pianist Hélène Mercier, inspired by his own reflections on childhood and the redemptive power of music.

It combines cornerstones of the Romantic repertoire with rare incursions into chanson.

The sound of Lozakovic's violin, characterised by extraordinary expressiveness and virtuosity, combined with Mercier's mastery of the piano, will create a harmony that will touch the heart.

Under exclusive contract with Warner since 2024, Lozakovich delves into the musical experiences of his childhood on his album Lost to the World. The album title, borrowed from Friedrich Rückert's famous poem ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ (I have lost touch with the world), reflects the human experiences of loneliness and seclusion as prerequisites for dialogue with one's own soul.

Daniel Lozakovich performs the instrumental exchanges with Canadian-French pianist Hélène Mercier. ‘We've known each other for more than ten years,’ says the violinist. ‘After our concert in Kyrgyzstan, my mother's birthplace, I felt sincerity and a unique personal touch from the very first moment. That connection has remained unbroken ever since.’ It comes to fruition in a unique way on Lost to the World in a programme that combines well-known classical works such as Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, Fauré's Après un rêve and Debussy's La fille aux cheveux de lin, building a bridge to chanson classics such as Philippe Sarde's La chanson d'Hélène, Vladimir Cosmas' Autumn Leaves and Kurt Weill's Youkali. As the quintessence of this very personal album, Rückert's eponymous poem is heard at the end in Gustav Mahler's well-known setting.

Daniel Lozakovich, violin
Hélène Mercier, piano

Daniel Lozakovich
whose majestic music-making leaves both critics and audiences spellbound, was born in Stockholm in 2001 and began playing the violin when he was almost seven. He made his solo debut two years later with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Vladimir Spivakov in Moscow, and before long had performed with, among others, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, the Orchestre National de France and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He began studying with Professor Josef Rissin at the Karlsruhe University of Music in 2012, and since 2015 has been mentored by Eduard Wulfson in Geneva.

Lozakovich made his international breakthrough in May 2016, when he hit the headlines worldwide as winner of the Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition and, soon after, as returning soloist with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in the closing concert of the XV Moscow Easter Festival. He went on to win a string of other prizes, including the 2017 “Young Artist of the Year” award at the Festival of the Nations (Germany), the 2017 “Young Talent” award at the Premios Excelentia (Spain) and the 2019 “Promising Young Artist” award at the Premios Batuta (Mexico).

Lozakovich has gone on to appear as soloist with such leading orchestras as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and with some of the world’s most eminent conductors, including Semyon Bychkov, Neeme Järvi, Klaus Mäkelä, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, Lahav Shani, Leonard Slatkin, Nathalie Stutzmann and Robin Ticciati. Among his chamber music partners, meanwhile, are Emanuel Ax, Sergei Babayan, Khatia Buniatishvili, Renaud Capuçon, Seong-Jin Cho, Martin Fröst, Daniel Hope, Shlomo Mintz and Maxim Vengerov.

He signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in June 2016, soon after his 15th birthday, a deal that made him the youngest member of DG’s family of artists. Shortly before this, he had been invited by fellow DG artist Daniel Hope to join him in recording a selection of Bartók’s Duos for two violins for Hope’s My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin album. His first full recording for Deutsche Grammophon, made with the Kammerorchester des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks, was released in June 2018 and featured Bach’s two concertos for violin and orchestra (BWV 1041 and 1042), and his Partita No.2 in D minor BWV 1004 for solo violin. It was a great success, reaching No.1 in the French Amazon charts (all music categories), and No.1 in Germany’s classical album chart.

None but the Lonely Heart, Lozakovich’s second album, was released in October 2019. Dedicated to the music of Tchaikovsky, it includes the Violin Concerto, recorded live with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and Spivakov, the Méditation for violin and orchestra and arrangements of two vocal works, Lensky’s Aria from Eugene Onegin and the song from which the album takes its name: the Romance, Op.6 No.6, “None but the lonely heart”.

Lozakovich next joined forces with Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with a live recording of the composer’s Violin Concerto, released as a visual e-album in June 2020 and on CD three months later.

The violinist’s latest album, Spirits, was released digitally in April 2023. It pays tribute to seven of the most iconic violinists of the 20th century, reflecting their virtuosic style in works by Elgar, Debussy, Falla, Gluck, Brahms and Kreisler. “What a gorgeous sense of musicality and beautiful vibrato,” wrote violinist.com’s reviewer. “Daniel Lozakovich, 22, just keeps getting better, if that is possible.”

Recent and upcoming highlights of Lozakovich’s schedule include his debut at the BBC Proms last summer, with the Brahms Violin Concerto; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, K216, at the Berlin Philharmonie; the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at La Scala, Milan, and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (10 July); a Rachmaninoff and Brahms recital with Antoine Tamestit, Klaus Mäkelä and Yuja Wang at the Verbier Festival (19 July); and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer at the Edinburgh Festival (10 August).

Daniel Lozakovich plays both the “ex-Baron Rothschild” Stradivari, on generous loan on behalf of the owner by Reuning & Son (Boston) and Eduard Wulfson, and the Le Reynier Stradivarius (1727), kindly loaned by the LVMH group.

Hélène Mercier
Born in Montreal, Hélène Mercier starts her piano studies at the age of six and quickly wins re-cognition by getting first honours at the Quebec and Canadian Music Competitions in piano solo and piano-violin. She is also an award winner of the Prague International Chamber Music Competition.

At the age of fifteen, she enters Dieter Weber’s class at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She later studies at the Juilliard School in New York with Sasha Gorodnitski, after having been awarded a scholarship subsequent to her admissions audition. She then goes to France where she studies under Pierre Sancan of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and with Germaine Mounier at the Ecole Normale de Musique. She also works with Maria Curcio, Stanislav Neuhaus, and in chamber music, with Gidon Kremer and Henryk Szeryng .

Hélène Mercier participates frequently in prestigious festivals in France, among which those held in Aix-en-Provence, Menton, Colmar, Nohant, Evian, Reims, La Chaise-Dieu, Lille, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse and Radio-France in Montpellier. She is also heard at France-Musique, Radio Classique, France-Culture, Radio-Suisse-Romande, Radio-Canada and CBS in USA. In Europe and in North America, she regularly performs as soloist and chamber music player : in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Salle Pleyel and the Salle Gaveau, in London at Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre, in Germany at the Konzerthaus of Berlin and at the Gewandhaus of Leipzig,in Prague at the Rudolfinum, in Brussels at the salle Flagey and the Conservatory, in Italy at the Villa Medici, in Milan at the Teatro Dal Verme, at the Piccolo Teatro and the Conservatory, at the Music Academy of Sienna, in the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara, at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa,in Torino at the Lingotto Auditorium and the Teatro Regio, at the Echternach International Music Festival in Luxembourg, in Athens and Tessaloniki at the Megaron Hall….and elsewhere, in Geneva, Monte-Carlo, Madrid, Moscow, Warsaw, Sofia, Bergen,Finland, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver,Washington and New York. She is also invited to play with several different orchestras: amongst others,with the Prague Philharmonia,with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra,with the Brescia-Bergamo Festival Orchestra,with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic,with the Minnesota Orchestra,with the Forth Worth Symphony. In Paris, she performs under the direction of Zubin Mehta with the Israël Philharmonic Orchestra and under the direction of Kurt Masur at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. She also plays with the Russian National Orchestra and the National Philharmonic of Russia conducted by Vladimir Spivakov and in Canada with the orchestras of Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal under the direction of Charles Dutoit,Trevor Pinnock and Long Yu.In China,she performs in Shanghai with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra conducted by Long Yu.With the Orchestre de Paris, under the direction of Semyon Bychkov, she plays the Triple Concerto of Beethoven with Natalia Gutman and Salvatore Accardo.She records with the BBC Philharmonic under the direction of Edward Gardner and with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi and Sir Andrew Davis.

She performs with the violinist Vladimir Spivakov in Paris, Saint Petersburg, Montreal, at the Festival of Colmar and the Festival of Evian.

She performs with the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in Copenhagen and Paris.

In Japan, she plays with the New Japan Philharmonic under the direction of Seiji Ozawa.

At the request of the conductor Kurt Masur, she joins the Gewandhaus Quartet of Leipzig for a series of concerts. She also performs with the Leipzig Quartet, the Moscow Virtuosi soloists,with the violinists Renaud Capuçon,Olivier Charlier,Augustin Dumay,Ivry Gitlis, Laurent Korcia, Julian Rachlin and the cellists Gautier Capuçon,Henri Demarquette, Truls Mork and Kian Soltani. Her activities in chamber music flourish as well with the two pianos formation where she plays with different pianists :Boris Berezovsky,Frank Braley,Khatia Buniatishvili,Brigitte Engerer,Cyprien Katsaris,Louis Lortie,Bruno Rigutto.

With Louis Lortie, six recordings for Chandos featuring works from Ravel,Mozart,Schubert, Poulenc, Rachmaninov Saint Saens and Vaughan Williams have gathered the most outstanding reviews across the world. The prestigious London magazine Gramophone ranked them as among the « TOP SIX » in their Quarterly Retrospect and Editor’s choice. The Penguin Guide awarded them the highest distinction: « The Rosette ».Their recording with the Vaughan Williams Concerto for two pianos received the « Diapason d’or ».Their last album released in 2022 is the first of a Debussy integral of works for 2 pianos 4 hands.

With the violinist Vladimir Spivakov, she has recorded an album dedicated to Ernest Chausson, under the label “Capriccio”. This recording has collected a considerable success both by critics and public and it has received the “Choc” of “Le Monde de la Musique”.

With Cyprien Katsaris, she has recorded an album dedicated to Schumann and Brahms and one under the label Warner Classics featuring Brahms 16 Walzes and 21 Hungarian Dances.

With Alain Lefèvre, she released an album dedicated to the composer André Mathieu under the label Warner Classics.

Hélène Mercier is “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”.

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