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Innocence and experience

Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Walton's First Symphony and Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice. They are joined by Zlatomir Fung for Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Live from the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Presented by Tom McKinney

We join the BBC Philharmonic live in Nottingham for a programme that explores the sorrow and uncertainty of two of England's best loved composers between the First and Second World Wars. Walton was living with confusion and bitterness at the end of a close relationship as he started work on his First Symphony, but had found new love as he embarked on the last movement; the bitterness and anger of the first three movements is as heart-on-sleeve as the breathless wild energy of the fourth. The loss felt in Elgar's Cello Concerto makes the personal public and also reflects his sense of a changing world at the end of the First World War. Rising star Zlatomir Fung joins the orchestra as soloist in this performance. Unruly magic opens the programme; Goethe's poem inspiring Dukas's graphic portrayal of The Sorcerer's Apprentice getting into ever deeper water with plenty of ambition but too little knowledge.

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Elgar: Cello Concerto

8.15pm
Music Interval (CD)

Walton: Symphony No.1

Zlatomir Fung (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Thu 20 Oct 2022 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto

    Performer: Zlatomir Fung. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Roger Sacheverell Coke

    Preludes Op.34

    Performer: Simon Callaghan.

  • William Walton

    Symphony No 1

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • John Tavener

    The Veil of the Temple (Mother of God, Here I Stand) [improvisation by S. Datta]

    Composer: Soumik Datta. Performer: Soumik Datta. Orchestra: O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hugo Ticciati.
    • White Light: The Space Between.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    By the waters of Babylon

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Performer: Emma Tring. Performer: Katherine Nicholson. Performer: Ben Durrant. Performer: Jamie W. Hall. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenné.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in E major BWV.854 (Bk 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Oct 2022 19:30
    BBC Radio 3