Dvořák 8 - Alexandra Soumm & Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen

With much bravado, violinist Alexandra Soumm links the zest for life of Mozart and Dvořák to the subtlety of Vaughan Williams Met Allerheiligen and Armistice is November the month to remember what was and to commemorate what should never have happened. Vaughan Williams, marked by the horrors of the Eerste Wereldoorlog, remembers better times with melancholy. In his music, he seeks a way out of the madness of war through stillness, tenderness, and poetry, in a typically English pastoral sound world. Mozart and Dvořák, on the other hand, burst with zest for life and happy memories of home. Mozart in the Viennese way, Dvořák with a warm wink to his Bohemian roots.