Prom 10 - Elgar's Second Symphony

Prom 10 - Elgar's Second Symphony (Concert) production archive for QTIX code T210082872. Details of all Prom 10 - Elgar's Second Symphony archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S339

Archive Listings

26 Jul 24

Royal Albert Hall
Inner London, Greater London
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Prom 10 - Elgar's Second Symphony archive

Part of the BBC Proms. 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

Creatives/Company

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

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