BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 5 - Bruch's First Violin Concerto (320kbp .mp3)


01. Coleridge-Taylor - Ballade (11')
01a. Introduction to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
02. Bruch - Violin Concerto No.1 (25')
02a. Outro to Coleridge-Taylor and intro to Bruch
02b. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 5 - Interval
Emily MacGregor joins Tom McKinney in the Radio 3 Presenter's box, to discuss her pick of the Proms coming up in the next few days.
03. Brahms - Hungarian Dances Nos.1, 3 and 10 (7')
03a. Outro to Brahms, Intro to Bartok
04. Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra (36')

Bomsori (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

South Korean star violinist Bomsori makes her Proms debut with Bruch’s much-loved First Violin Concerto – the ‘richest’ and ‘most seductive’ of all the concertos for the instrument, according to 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim.

The folk music that runs through Bruch’s concerto also pulses through Brahms’s lively Hungarian Dances and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra – a musical tour de force that takes listeners from ‘sternness’ to ‘life-assertion’. This season’s focus on the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor begins with the composer’s lyrical, Elgar-inspired Ballade. Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in her Proms debut.