TCHAIKOVSKY’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
Antonín Dvořák
Carnival Overture
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Inmo Yang violin
BBC Philharmonic
Pre-concert talk: Free, one hour before the concert.
“Stinking Music” was how one Brahms-loving critic described Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
(the two were big rivals), but audiences have gone on to prove him really rather wrong, the concertos’ sweeping melodies, radiance and cheerful demeanour winning them over time and again. Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical take on the Arabian Nights is very different in
feel - sensual, mysterious, richly-spiced and effortlessly beautiful.
