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Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and music from Dudamel and his orchestra's native Venezuela - an off-road trip and an odyssey across the entire country.

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and music from Dudamel and his orchestra's native Venezuela - an off-road trip and an odyssey across the entire country. "On foot, bike, or on a 4x4 vehicle," says Ricardo Lorenz, "good parts of my childhood and adolescence were spent off-roading in the vast and wild countryside of Venezuela"- and that inspired his concert opener called "Todo Terreno" - "All Terrain". In his "Odyssey" concerto for the small Latin American guitar called the cuatro, Gonzalo Grau imagines his soloist Jorge Glem taking a musical journey from his birthplace, Cuman谩 on Venezuela's eastern coast, to Dudamel's home town of Barquisimeto in the west of the country.

Live from the Barbican Hall, London. Presented by Ian Skelly.

Ricardo Lorenz: Todo Terreno
Gonzalo Grau: Odisea
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

Jorge Glem (Venezuelan cuatro)
Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

Release date:

2 hours, 14 minutes

On radio

Thu 16 Jan 2025 19:30