Name: Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams
Start: 2018-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Conductor

Edward Gardner

Cellist

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Cello

Baritone

Alexandre Duhamel

Baryton

Soprano

Sophie Bevan

Singer

Neal Davies

Bass-Baritone

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Others

BBC Symphony Chorus

Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

For the Funeral of a Soldier

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

Grant us peace

Approved

War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus – part of this season’s musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A precursor to Britten’s War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams’s cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger’s choral miniature Pour les funérailles d’un soldat.

Elgar’s much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble