Making America: Oramo conducts Bartók & Korngold

Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.

The concert opens with Betsy Jolas’s Latest, a celebration of musical freedom written by the composer in her 90s and a striking testament to her eternal youth.

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, is the 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' (Bachtrack).

Programme

Betsy Jolas Latest
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Performers

Sakari Oramo conductor
María Dueñas violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra