Radio 3 in Concert: Sakari Oramo Conducts Strauss and Wagner

Martin Handley.presents a concert from London's Barbican Hall, with Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Wagner, R Strauss and Pejacevic, with soloist Ilya Gringolts joining for Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 1. Revolutions aren't always noisy and as the world around them broke up in war and turmoil, Dora Pejacevic and Karol Szymanowski let their imaginations soar, creating beauty that still thrills and ravishes today. The young Richard Strauss pictures eternity, and Richard Wagner writes a wordless poem to the love of his life, music so intimate that it almost feels as if we shouldn't be listening. Virtuoso violinist Gringolts' playing has been described as luminous and it should be perfect for Szymanowski's sensuous, shimmering concerto. Pejacevic: Overture Orchestra in D minor, Op 49. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1. Interval. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll. R Strauss: Death and Transfiguration. Ilya Gringolts (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)