Francisco Coll conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music from Spain

The Spanish conductor-composer Francisco Coll makes his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducting two of his own works. Aqua Cinerea – the title means evoking ash-grey water or perhaps even the image of ash falling as rain – is his magical first orchestral work written in 2005 when Coll was 19. Hímnica (2020) is a kind of passacaglia, or chaconne, in which a hymnic theme develops in different ways within one slow tempo.