Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.
Sakari Oramo, conductor
María Dueñas, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto
Bela Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
When Europe’s greatest composers fled from war and tyranny, they rebuilt their careers in the USA – singing of hope, loss and defiance from the shores of a new world. Korngold’s Violin Concerto finds the spirit of Vienna in the Hollywood Hills, while Bartók created an epic display of courage, sorrow and life-affirming brilliance in his dazzling Concerto for Orchestra.
Korngold’s concerto, in particular, is a perfect showcase for the award-winning Spanish violinist María Dueñas. 'With her gorgeous sound – dense, warm and brilliant – and her immaculate technique, Dueñas is already at the top' wrote Bachtrack, and it’s hard to imagine a lovelier upbeat to Bartók’s roof-raising orchestral spectacular: a personal favourite of BBC Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Sakari Oramo.
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