Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko, with violinist Baiba Skride.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 in G minor ('Winter Daydreams')
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
(Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 1 is an opulent nocturnal fantasy from a composer enchanted by the soundworlds and peoples of North Africa and the southern Mediterranean, and inspired by the ‘amorous conflagration’ of Tadeusz Miciński’s poem ‘May Night’.)
(Note: Royal College of Music at 5.45pm, a Proms Plus Literary event. Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, and poet Paul Farley discuss one of the most influential poets of the 1930s – Louis MacNeice, who worked with Benjamin Britten during his time as a BBC producer.)