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London Medical Orchestra's Spring concert showcases the works of two musical giants, Mozart and Rachmaninoff, composed during their time abroad and in exile.
Lucy Hewson (violin) and Nichola Blakey (viola) are guest soloists in Mozart's iconic Sinfonia Concertante K 364, written when he was aged 23, during a European tour.
The second half of our concert features Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, his final masterpiece, composed in the USA after he fled Europe in 1939. Nostalgia permeates the work, with the composer referencing his own earlier works in poignant ways. The second movement, a distorted and grotesque waltz, builds relentlessly before evaporating into thin air, and the Finale, a chase sequence writ large, unfolds on a grand scale, building towards a symbolic victory of life over death.
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