Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Juraj Valčuha

More than a touch of fin de siècle pervades the Great Hall in this concert by the Konzerthausorchester under its Principal Guest Conductor Juraj Valčuha, with Webern's idyll "Im Sommerwind" and the fantastically orchestrated symphonic poems by Richard Strauss dedicated to two human archetypes. By the time the composer put together the suite from his 1911 operatic masterpiece "Der Rosenkavalier" in 1945, the world had long since become a different place. In between, Korngold, former Viennese piano prodigy and from 1934 film composer in Hollywood, composed his Violin Concerto as an emigrant in the USA.