Korngold’s Violin Concerto

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Korngold, Prokofiev and Tabakova with principal guest conductor Delyana Lazarova and violinist Alena Baeva.

Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus’ Comet
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major

c.8.15pm
Interval: Tom Service talks to musicologist Marina Frolova-Walker to explore 1940s film music, and the connections between Prokofiev, Korngold and the world of cinema during that decade, including Hollywood.

c.8.35pm
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Alena Baeva, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Delyana Lazarova, conductor

A symphony ‘on the greatness of the human soul’ and a cinematic concerto collide in a concert of widescreen orchestral soundscapes. ‘Utterly captivating’ violinist Alena Baeva is the soloist in Korngold’s Violin Concerto – a work imbued with all the sweeping romance and passion of the composer’s many film scores. Delyana Lazarova conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, a musical homecoming featuring one of the composer’s most darkly lyrical slow movements. Dobrinka Tabakova’s exhilarating fanfare Orpheus’ Comet launches the evening with a buzzing, fizzing homage to Monteverdi.