Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Johan Dalene

His compatriot from Finland Lotta Wennäkoski wrote her celebratory orchestral flourish Flounce for the Last Night of the Proms in London in 2017, when it got the party started in style. After that, Nordic violinist of-the-moment Johan Dalene joins the orchestra for a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a heart-rending song of love for soloist and orchestra.

Prokofiev was no stranger to orchestral frivolity and celebration - or to melodic expressions of love and emotion. Both blossom occasionally in the composer’s Symphony No. 6, but the mood here is altogether more serious. It was the era of the Cold War, of Stalin’s post-war grip on power, when Prokofiev wrote his symphony - a score that plays its emotional cards close to its chest, but whose dark subterranean stirrings and tender elegies have a power and poignancy of their own.

Related concert recordings at Bergenphilive:
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (BFUng)
Peter Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Peter Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5