Parallel Universes by Byström, B., Sibelius, Schumann, Fra (2021/2021), Dirigent John Storgårds, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto lies at the heart of a Prom also featuring a new commission from Britta Byström inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark’s notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse’. Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman joins the BBC Philharmonic and Chief Guest Conductor John Storgårds for Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, which seemingly opens with the breath of a mystical legend and ends with what one commentator described as ‘a Polonaise for polar bears’.