大象传媒

Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Ian Skelly

The 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony is joined by its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov for a lively evening of virtuoso music of Hungarian origin, from Franz List and Bela Bartok, alongside a great Romantic statement written in the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Johannes Brahms' Fourth Symphony.

Franz Liszt's Faust-inspired 'Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke', better known as the First Mephisto Waltz, presents a spirited musical account of diabolical fiddle-playing at a village Inn. Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins the orchestra for Bartok's Violin Concerto from 1938. Both technically dazzling and forward-looking it combines 12-tone melody with the folk dance idiom from Transylvanian fiddle music.

Bartok's concerto is constructed around an extensive and ingenious set of variations, which find a resonance in the concluding passacaglia variations to Brahms' Fourth Symphony, the final piece in this programme. A work which amalgamates techniques from historical counterpoint, much loved by Brahms, with the composer's characteristic romantic harmonies and lyrical melodies the Fourth Symphony is Brahms' ultimate achievement in the symphonic form.

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Bartok: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2

8.20 Interval

8.40
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov.

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