SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major “Romantic”
With numerous collaborations with ensembles around the world and holding chief positions across three continents simultaneously—America with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Europe with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, and Oceania with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra—Jaime Martín has established himself as one of the most internationally acclaimed conductors of our time. The Cantabrian maestro returns to our series at the helm of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to present a programme that transports us into the Romantic era through the music of Camille Saint-Saëns and Anton Bruckner.
With Akiko Suwanai—the youngest artist ever to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and a First Prize winner at both the Paganini International Violin Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Competition—we will hear the Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 by Camille Saint-Saëns, a work of considerable technical demands and radiant lyricism, composed in 1880 for Pablo Sarasate.
Remaining in the final decades of the nineteenth century, the evening concludes with Anton Bruckner’s “Romantic” Symphony, a work the notably perfectionist composer revised repeatedly over the years before its successful premiere in 1881 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter.
