María Dueñas, Antonio Pappano & the COE: Lalo & Dvořák

Vibrant rhythms, magnificent melodies and virtuoso performances: Antonio Pappano conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in an irresistible programme uniting music from Western and Eastern Europe. Spanish violinist María Dueñas is the soloist in Édouard Lalo's brilliant Symphonie Espagnole – a concerto in all but name, composed for Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate. For the second half, conductor and orchestra whisk us across the continent to Czechia for a set of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances: a glorious conspectus of folk melodies and rhythms presented in sparkling orchestral guise.