"As if it were written for her"

Conductor: Adam Hickox
Violin: Vilde Frang

Program
Grażyna Bacewicz: Overture
Belá Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

About the concert
Finally, world star Vilde Frang is back on stage in Olavshallen with us in the TSO and with Adam Hickox on the podium. This time to delight the audience with one of the great violin concertos of the 20th century.

Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 is both passionate, expressive and powerful - a real challenge for any violinist, but Bachtrack describes Vilde's performance of it "as if it were written for her" and describes a concert where she captivates and captivates the audience with her naturalness and emotional presence.

Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 is seen by many as his most successful work, and although it may be his most international and universal, the Czech element still lurks in the background. Dvorak himself wanted to shake the world with this symphony and he succeeded – this is both his most dramatic and emotional work.

The concert opens with an overture for orchestra written in 1943 during the German occupation by Polish Grażyna Bacewicz. She has written a dynamic and energetic work with great timbre richness that also contains a musical version of the Morse code for victory: “dot dot dot dash”.