Programme

• • • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    • Ballade in A minor, Op. 33
    • Max Bruch
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
    • INTERVAL
    • Johannes Brahms
    • Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
    • Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F major
    • Hungarian Dance No. 10 in F major
    • Béla Bartók
    • Concerto for Orchestra

Performers

• Bomsori Kim, violin

• BBC Philharmonic

• Anja Bihlmaier

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.