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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony
Performance Date26 July 2024
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersLaura van der Heijden - cello
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsRyan Wigglesworth
Set List'Gloriana – symphonic suite’, Britten,
'Cello Concerto, ‘Earth, Sea, Air’', Cheryl Frances-Hoad,
INTERVAL,
'Symphony No. 2 in E flat major', Elgar
Performance NotesRyan 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.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/45BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 10: Elgar’s Second Symphony16 July 2024
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/24348van der Heijden; Laura (7 April 1997); British cellist
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