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Proms 2024
30 Jul 2023, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2023 Prom 20: Korngold’s Violin Concerto

Prom 20: Korngold’s Violin Concerto
Prom 20: Korngold’s Violin Concerto
19:30 Sun 30 Jul 2023 Royal Albert Hall
The Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Gimeno present Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo suite alongside Prokofiev’s fiery Third Symphony and the hyper-Romantic Violin Concerto by Korngold – whose opening sounds strangely like the original Star Trek theme…
The Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Gimeno present Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo suite alongside Prokofiev’s fiery Third Symphony and the hyper-Romantic Violin Concerto by Korngold – whose opening sounds strangely like the original Star Trek theme…

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Cinematic drama stalks through a concert that opens with Bernard Herrmann’s suite from his score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and continues with the luscious Romanticism of Korngold’s richly melodic Violin Concerto, for which the composer – a former child prodigy – borrowed themes from his own Golden Era Hollywood scores. No stranger to the stage, if not the screen, Prokofiev in his Third Symphony drew on music from his hypnotic Symbolist opera The Fiery Angel to create a work heavy with bells, cymbals, sinister dances and flashes of musical moonlight. Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno makes his Proms debut, leading the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra.

Image: Vadim Gluzman © Marco Borggreve

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Proms 2023