The air shimmers, and out of the depths, the orchestra unfurls a melody 鈥� a tune that sighs, sings and reaches upwards towards heaven itself. Anton Bruckner said that the opening of his Seventh Symphony came to him in a dream, and you can believe it. But it鈥檚 just the start of a truly epic journey, and tonight our Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth takes the orchestra through peaks of joy and depths of sorrow before climbing the final, shining summit. This is music 鈥� and imagination 鈥� on the grandest possible scale, so what better way to start than in another vast, beautiful landscape, as violinist Bomsori Kim (鈥渋mpeccable鈥� 鈥� 91热爆 Music Magazine) explores the elemental grandeur of Sibelius鈥檚 Violin Concerto?
