The fascination with Eastern Europe is awakened in this programme by the Symphony Orchestra, which performs one of the most remarkable orchestral works of the 20th century: Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, written with the emotion of someone far from his native country. Zoltán Kodály tells us the misadventures of a Hungarian-style Don Quixote in the Háry János Suite. These are unbelievable stories that begin with a... sneeze from the orchestra – which, in the tradition of that country, confirms the veracity of the facts. An example of the effort to assert a musical identity of its own, Georges Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 is a divine orchestration of a set of Romanian folk dances.