Bomsori Kim plays Bruch

AUGUST DE BOECK
Dahomese Rapsodie

MAX BRUCH
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, G minor

PJOTR ILJITSCH TSCHAIKOWSKY
Symphony No. 5, E minor

ANTWERP SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SHIYEON SUNG Conductor
BOMSORI KIM Violin

The young, highly successful violinist Bomsori Kim comes from South Korea and dedicates herself to one of the most popular and melodically inventive of the great Romantic violin concertos, the first by Max Bruch. Conductor Shiyeon Sung is a star not only in her native country South Korea, where she is considered a pioneer on the podium. Before 2017, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra was the Royal Orchestra of Flanders and is one of the leading orchestras in multilingual Belgium. The 'Rhapsodie Dahoméenne' by Belgian late Romantic composer August De Boeck, which opens this concert, tells the story of street musicians from Dahomey in Africa who used to play on the Brussels market in days gone by. The finale is the poignant, tragic 5th Symphony by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the masterpieces of European Romanticism, which nevertheless leads "through night to light".

Tickets: € 29 – € 99

Introductory lecture: 6.15 p.m., Fördererlounge