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Korngold was an Austrian wunderkind who took his considerable talents to Hollywood just as war broke. There he wrote film scores of new scope and invention, ‘wordless operas’ as he called them.

The season closes with the lush colours of Korngold and the bristling intensity of Mahler’s fifth symphony.

Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us to talk about his past as a dancer and his connection to the music of his homeland, America.

A programme that delights in dance and young romance, with a new work by Sir Karl Jenkins for the brilliant saxophonist and musical evangelist, Jess Gillam.

The symbolism of Bach’s St Matthew Passion