Dvorák’s New World

Sat 7 Feb 2009 7:00pm at Symphony Hall

Michal Dworzynski credit Chris Christodoulou

Was there ever a more evocative, nostalgic work than the New World Symphony? Right from the opening bars it is clear that the composer’s thoughts were more of his beloved Bohemia than of the exciting city of New York in which he found himself. Rachmaninov also had his moments of homesickness after he moved to the USA, but the bubbly brilliance of his ever-popular Paganini Rhapsody makes it one of his most extrovert works.
Sometimes musicians simply choose to ignore their surroundings: Prokofiev’s equally brilliant first symphony was composed, amazingly, against the stormy background of the Russian Revolution!

£9.50, £13.50, £17.50, £21.50, £24, £28, £32

Michal Dworzynski – conductor
Alexander Kobrin – piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 (Classical) 15’
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini 25’
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9
(From the New World) 40’

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