Inmo Yang plays Bartók’s First Violin Concerto

Joy, longing, and the kind of sorrow so bitter it turns into sweetness - you never know what a human heart can bear until you put it to the test.

The young Bartók poured all the pain of a doomed romance into his fiery First Violin Concerto.

Brahms, meanwhile, wrestled for years with a symphony that transformed personal tragedy into a triumph of hope, crowned with a melody to stir the soul.Pure passion, in other words, from Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and that goes double when the multi-award winning violinist Inmo Yang performs Bartók’s searing concerto.

First, though, a burst of joy from the Carpathian mountains.

Enescu’s exuberant 'Romanian Rhapsody' begins with a drinking song and ends with a knees-up.

Sakari Oramo loves it, and you’re about to hear why.