Name: Proms 2024 Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony
Start: 2024-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth

Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Singer

Laura van der Heijden

Cello

Proms 2024 Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Gloriana

Cello Concerto

Symphony No. 2 in E♭ Major, op. 63

Rahul Karaguppi

Approved

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 ever written in England. ‘I have put my soul into it,’ said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble