Korngold The Sea Hawk

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabien Gabel in Herrmann, Blanchard, plus Korngold; and they premiere Ryan Latimer's Trumpet Concerto Bestia with soloist Selina Ott.

Recorded at the Barbican on 24th April 2026. Presented by Ian Skelly.

Bernard Herrmann: Suite from 'Vertigo'
Ryan Latimer: Bestia: Concerto for Trumpet & Orchestra (BBC Co-Commission and World Premiere)

Interval

Terence Blanchard: Suite from 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones'
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Sea Hawk

Selina Ott (trumpet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel (conductor)

In Hollywood, exiles and outsiders weaved American dreams, writing music that made the silver screen shine. Music from the golden age of the movies frames tonight’s concert, and from the haunted obsession of Bernard Herrmann’s classic Hitchcock score to Korngold’s The Sea Hawk – an all-action swashbuckler from Vienna’s brightest star – no emotion is off limits. It sounds glorious too – even without the pictures.

This is the first chance to hear music from Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, whose barnstorming run at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021 proved a major landmark in American music. Blanchard’s Grammy-winning “opera in jazz” explores a troubled childhood in 1980s Louisiana, while Ryan Latimer’s brand-new trumpet concerto with the young Austrian trumpeter Selina Ott takes its inspiration from the wildlife (real or imaginary) of Florida.