Lucerne Festival Orchestra on tour: Concert at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Closing off its 2024, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra gave its long-awaited debut concert at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

The concert was conducted by the orchestra's musical director Riccardo Chailly and featured Sibelius' Violin Concerto (with soloist Daniel Lozakovich) and the "Symphonic Dances" by Rachmaninoff.

The iconic Elbphilharmonie, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and inaugurated in 2017, has quickly established itself as one of Hamburg's landmark monuments. Due to its "vineyard architecture", the large concert hall with its 2,100 seats has the unusual feature that, despite its size, no audience member sits more than 30 meters away from the conductor's podium.

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra captured the hearts of the Hamburg audience. One listener took to social media to write us the following message: "This joy of making music together was more than wonderfully transferred to us in the audience. Thank you for that! That's. How. You. Music."

After the concert, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra celebrated the conclusion of a successful tour with a little backstage party.

And with that, we say goodbye and thank our readers for following along to our journey to Paris and Hamburg!