Dvorak's 8th Symphony

Mark Wigglesworth conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performing Dani Howard's Coalescence, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, with star soloists Stephen Waarts and Timothy Ridout, and Dvorak's 8th Symphony.

Recorded on 15th April at Lighthouse in Poole, and presented by Ian Skelly.

Dani Howard: Coalescence
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K.364

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Dvořák: Symphony No.8 in G major

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Waarts (violin)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Dani Howard's work Coalescence was composed in 2024 and explores the concept of mankind's attempt to outsmart nature, featuring real church bells as a warning sign from nature. Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante is one of his most dramatic and highly melodic concertos, drawing the solo violin and viola into a deep musical conversation. To end the concert is Dvořák's 8th Symphony, which was composed in 1889 to mark his election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Arts. Often described as his most sunny work, it is also full of drama, melancholy, nostalgia and joy.

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