Dalia Stasevska conducts Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto

Helen Grime set out to pitch wild abandon against tender sensitivity when writing her Violin Concerto and few violinists deliver those qualities like Leila Josefowicz, who returns to the Orchestra for the UK premiere of Grime’s virtuosic, dreamlike concerto in one movement.

Before it, BBC SO Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska conducts Julian Anderson’s glittering nightscape Incantesimi and ends with music from her own country: the searing combination of fire and ice that is Sibelius’s First Symphony.