CBSO: Korngold & Prokofiev

Wed 25 Feb View Venues, Dates & Times

This late-month City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra concert features three musical responses to world events. The programme commences with Iman Habibi’s Zhiân, a work composed as a  reaction to state brutality in Iran. 
The 10-minute piece is followed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto, written in 1945. Korngold had vowed to compose only film music until the Nazis were defeated, so the concerto was written  in response to the end of the Second World War.
The concert’s final work is Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, premiered in 1945. An optimistic composition, it was interpreted by many as a symbol of victory in the war.

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