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Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony

Name: Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony
Start: 2024-07-26T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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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...

Program

Benjamin Britten - Gloriana – Symphonic Suite

Cheryl Frances-Hoad - Cello Concerto

Edward Elgar - Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

Participants

Ryan Wigglesworth

Conductor

Laura van der Heijden

Cello

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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