Name: BBC NOW 2022-23 Season Elgar Cello Concerto
Start: 2022-11-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre (Bangor University)

Admin

BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Conductor

Gergely Madaras

Orchestra

Cellist

Santiago Cañon Valencia

Cello

BBC NOW 2022-23 Season Elgar Cello Concerto

Bangor

United Kingdom

Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre (Bangor University)

Prichard-Jones Hall

Public

Concert

In Memory

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, op. 56 ("Scottish")

Saurav Kumar

Approved

Premiered by BBC NOW, Andrew Lewis’ In Memory is a reflection on life with dementia, and the experiences of those who care for them. Extracts from recorded conversations with family carers are woven into the fabric of the piece, forming its melodies, harmonies and rhythms. Rhapsodic melodies accented by pizzicato allusions lead the way to virtuosity and British bravado in Elgar’s much-loved Cello Concerto, although his post WW1 moroseness is never far from the surface, with assertive yet austere themes, a jaunty energy and meditative qualities.

From stormy developments and vivacious scherzo’s to sentimental songfulness and sprinklings of Midsummer Night’s Dream-esque fairy dust, Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony was inspired by the composers 1829 trip to Scotland. Characterized by a fierce energy, cunning countermelodies and vivid pictorial qualities, Mendelssohn sketched much of the work following a trip to the ruins of Holyrood, although he didn’t complete the work for over 10 years. To conduct we are delighted to introduce audiences across Wales to the prodigiously talented Hungarian conductor, Gergely Madaras.

English

BBC NOW 2022-23 Season Elgar Cello Concerto by Lewis, Andrew, Elgar, Mendelssohn, From (2022/2022), Conductor Gergely Madaras, Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre (Bangor University), Bangor, United Kingdom

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