Prom 10: Elgarβs Second Symphony
Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Music by Benjamin Britten, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Edward Elgar.
Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Music by Benjamin Britten, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Edward Elgar.
Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Benjamin Britten: Gloriana, Symphonic Suite
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto, βEarth, Sea, Airβ
c.8.15pm
INTERVAL: The score for Elgarβs Second Symphony is headed by a quotation from a poem by Shelley βRarely, rarely comest thou spirit of delightβ. To talk more about Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature at University College London. A regular guest on the radio programme In Our Time, his many books include Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries: Shelley.
c.8.35pm
Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major
Laura van der Heijden, cello
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
Ryan Wigglesworthβs feast of English music opens with Brittenβs suite of βbest bitsβ from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. Cheryl Frances-Hoadβs new climate change-themed Cello Concerto β premiered last year in Glasgow by tonightβs forces β takes inspiration from three disparate aspects of the natural world. Elgarβs Symphony No. 2 is considered by many to be the best ever written in England. βI have put my soul into it,β said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy.
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Benjamin Britten
Gloriana - Symphonic Suite Op.53a
Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth. -
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Concerto (Earth, Sea, Air)
Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth. -
Pau Casals
El Cant Dels Ocells
Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth. -
Edward Elgar
Symphony no. 2 in E flat major Op.63
Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth. -
Maurice Ravel
La parade
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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JeanβPhilippe Rameau
Chaconne (Les Indes galantes)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans BrΓΌggen.- Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite: Orchestra of the 18th Century, Bruggen.
- Philips.
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Louis Couperin
Suite in D minor - Gavotte
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Couperin: Dances From The Bauyn Manuscript.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
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François Couperin
Les goΓ»ts rΓ©unis
Performer: Jacqueline du PrΓ©. Performer: William Pleeth.- Warner.
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