Dvorak and Korngold at the Proms

Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony, with its wistful slow movement, is the centrepiece of the second concert from the Vienna Philharmonic – a programme of Central European works that showcases the orchestra’s distinctively rich sound.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada pairs it with the composer’s colourful, folk-infused tone-poem The Noonday Witch, in which a mother’s threats inadvertently summon a witch into her home.
Cinematic drama is also a hallmark of Korngold’s richly orchestrated and unashamedly romantic Violin Concerto, performed here by soloist Leonidas Kavakos.

Programme
Antonin Dvorak The Noonday Witch (14 mins)
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1896

Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto (26 mins)

interval

Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’ (43 mins)

Performers
Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Vienna Philharmonic

Andrés Orozco‐Estrada, conductor