Filmed at Wrocław’s National Forum of Music, this concert showcases the expressive and virtuosic playing of violinist Bomsori Kim. Together with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic and its Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, she begins with music by Wieniawski, himself an exceptional violinist. His Concert Polonaise is full of challenges for the soloist, its bravura passages alternating with more lyrical moments. Written six years after the 1859 premiere in Paris of Gounod’s opera Faust, the Fantaisie brillante comprises five contrasting episodes, with rich and varied writing for the violin throughout. Orchestra and conductor then perform the Leonore Overture No.3, which distils in dramatic style all the darkness and light of Beethoven’s only opera. Finally Bomsori Kim returns to the stage for another work for violin and orchestra inspired by operatic themes, Waxman’s dazzling Carmen Fantasie, which started life as part of his score for the 1946 film Humoresque.

Henryk Wieniawski
Concert Polonaise in D major, op.4
Fantaisie brillante on themes from Gounod’s Faust, op.20
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No.3, op.72b
Franz Waxman
Carmen Fantasie

Bomsori Kim violin
NFM Wrocław Philharmonic
Giancarlo Guerrero

Photo: ©Karol Sokolowski/ NFM