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Proms 2024
3 Aug 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Prom 19
Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto
19:30 Sat 3 Aug 2024 Royal Albert Hall
In Holst’s 150th-anniversary year, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform his masterpiece The Cloud Messenger. We also hear Elgar’s ever-popular Cello Concerto, with Senja Rummukainen as soloist, and Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding
In Holst’s 150th-anniversary year, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform his masterpiece The Cloud Messenger. We also hear Elgar’s ever-popular Cello Concerto, with Senja Rummukainen as soloist, and Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding

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Deeply in love and enlightened by Sanskrit literature, Gustav Holst embarked upon what many consider his true masterpiece. The Cloud Messenger recounts an ancient tale in which a man sends a message of love to his distant wife via a passing cloud. It drew from the composer a rich and passionate work charting love’s trials and rewards. This performance, marking 150 years since Holst’s birth, comes after Elgar’s ever-popular, bittersweet Cello Concerto and the gentle exhalations of Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding, inspired by Buddhist meditation.

Broadcast live on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

Senja Rummukainen © Eeva Suutari