Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Korngold鈥檚 Violin Concerto as part of a programme which also sees the Bournemouth SO perform Prokofiev鈥檚 Fifth Symphony and music from Britten鈥檚 'Peter Grimes'. Selected pieces broadcast on 91热爆 Four on 13 and 30 August.
Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Korngold鈥檚 Violin Concerto as part of a programme which also sees the Bournemouth SO perform Prokofiev鈥檚 Fifth Symphony and music from Britten鈥檚 'Peter Grimes'. Selected pieces broadcast on 91热爆 Four on 13 and 30 August.
A musical snapshot of 1945 鈥� a world emerging from the haze of war into the neon glow of Hollywood and new-found hope. Three contrasting works sum up the spirit of this charged year: Britten鈥檚 Peter Grimes, reinventing English opera; Prokofiev鈥檚 Fifth Symphony, striving after the 鈥榞randeur of the human spirit鈥�; and Korngold鈥檚 Violin Concerto. Hailed in his youth as a 鈥榞enius鈥� and a 鈥榤iracle鈥� by no lesser figures than Mahler and Puccini respectively, Korngold鈥檚 reputation still rests mainly on his luscious film music. The Violin Concerto combines his instinct for melody (themes are borrowed from four of his finest film scores) with classical virtuosity and structural elegance. The soloist here is Proms regular Nicola Benedetti, a passionate champion of this unaccountably neglected work.
