ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Kobekina / Poschner

The life stories of Mieczysław Weinberg and Erich Wolfgang Korngold are prime examples of the upheavals of the 20th century. Together with Anastasia Kobekina, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Markus Poschner, will perform Weinberg’s Cello Concerto. Weinberg, who survived the Holocaust and later suffered under Stalinist persecution, found in this work a musical language of great human depth. Korngold emigrated to the USA, where he went on to become a successful film score composer in Hollywood. With his only symphony – which ends triumphantly, was composed after the Second World War and is dedicated to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt – he draws on Viennese traditions such as the symphonic works of Mahler and Bruckner.