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22 May 2026 London (United Kingdom)
Making America: Oramo conducts Bartók & Korngold
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo - Barbican Hall
Program Info: BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo, conductor María Dueñas, violin
Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.
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.
Programme Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Violin Concerto, the concerto has themes from the scores for the movies ANOTHER DAWN (1937), ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936) & THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937) Bela Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
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