Orozco-Estrada and the Vienna Phil embrace Dvořák and Korngold

By Mark Pullinger, 05 September 2019

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“good old-fashioned, central European manners”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 4 September 2019

Dvořák, The Noon Witch (Polednice), Symphonic poem, Op.108

Korngold, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35

Tárrega, Recuerdos de la Alhambra (arr. Ricci)

Dvořák, Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op.95

Strauss, Ohne Sorgen, (Without a Care) Polka, Op.271

Leonidas Kavakos, Violin

Vienna Philharmonic

Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Conductor

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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