Prom 58: Tchaikovsky, Janáček, Szymanowski and Linda Catlin Smith by Smith, Linda Catlin, Janáček, Szymanowski, Tchaikovsky, P. I., Van (2019/2019), Dirigent Ilan Volkov, Royal Albert Hall, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Folk songs and folk tales run through this programme from the BBC SSO and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov. A runaway success at its premiere, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.2 takes a different Ukrainian folk melody as the theme for each of its four movements, including the dizzyingly inventive finale, while a gruesome Czech legend provides the starting point for Janáček’s atmospheric orchestral ballad The Fiddler’s Child. Szymanowski’s exotic songs based on texts by the 14th-century Persian mystic poet Hafiz and a world premiere by Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith complete the concert.