Kavakos Plays Tchaikovsky

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBCSO conducted by Sakari Oramo in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos, plus Scriabin's Symphony No. 2 and Dani Howards's Signal.

Dani Howard: Concerto for Brass, ‘SIGNAL’ (BBC co-commission: world premiere)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major

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Interval: Rosamund Bartlett is a British writer, scholar and translator specialising in Russian literature. She talks to Martin Handley about who Scriabin was.

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Alexander Scriabin: Symphony No. 2 in C major

Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi (Conductor)

‘Impeccable’ Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for one of the great Romantic concertos. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is a deeply personal work, laden with the emotions of a failed marriage. Tender and melancholic, with tempestuous outpourings, it’s a piece that wears its heart on its sleeve. Bold colours frame this centrepiece: the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass, ‘SIGNAL’, showcasing the players of the BBC SO, and Scriabin’s Symphony No. 2, with its iconoclastic brilliance and spiritual vision.