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Making America: Oramo conducts Bartók & Korngold

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo

,Barbican Hall
Maria Duenas

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.

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Programme

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold   Violin Concerto
  • Bela Bartók   Concerto for Orchestra

Performers

  • Sakari Oramo   conductor
  • María Dueñas   violin

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