BBC Four’s series features two exciting new arrivals during January. First, we’re off to Salford’s MediaCityUK, where performs Max Bruch’s much-loved Violin Concerto No. 1, the ‘richest’ and ‘most seductive’ of all concertos for the instrument, according to the 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim. That’s followed by a performance of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’, composed during the composer’s sojourn in America and featuring themes from spirituals and roots music. Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic.
