Prom 10

T210082872
Part of the BBC Proms.

Archive :: production:T210082872, concert:S339, venue:V221

Elgar's Second Symphony

Ryan Wigglesworth's feast of English music opens with Britten's suite of 'best bits' from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new climate change-themed Cello Concerto - premiered last year in Glasgow by tonight's forces - takes inspiration from three disparate aspects of the natural world. Elgar's Symphony No. 2 is considered by many to be the best ever written in England. 'I have put my soul into it,' said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy. There will be an interval

Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Other spaces: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	26th July 2024
To	26th July 2024
When	19:30
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Reviews

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Company

Company	Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Company	BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor	Ryan Wigglesworth

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