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Violinist Alina Ibragimova is known for her honest, direct relationship with both the pieces she performs and her audiences. Béla Bártok's Violin Concerto No. 1 is an expressive still image of a young composer in love who has just discovered the treasure trove of Hungarian folk songs on which to form his own tone language. The First Symphony of Polish composer Witold Lutosławski marks the culmination of his early creative period. The piece, which combines momentum and sudden turns, looks both backwards to the role models of the composer’s youth – Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Bartók – and forwards with the rich sound and unique dramaturgy that became the hallmark of the composer.