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Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

BBC Proms 2024

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo perform Elgar, Jonathan Harvey, and Holst's the Cloud Messenger with the BBC Symphony Chorus.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo perform Elgar, Jonathan Harvey, and Holst's the Cloud Messenger with the BBC Symphony Chorus and contralto Jess Dandy.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Martin Handley

Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

c. 8.20pm
INTERVAL: Writer Kate Kennedy joins Martin to explore some of Holst's lesser-known works

c. 8.40pm
Gustav Holst: The Cloud Messenger

Jess Dandy (contralto)
Senja Rummukainen (cello)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Deeply in love and enlightened by Sanskrit literature, Gustav Holst embarked upon what many consider his true masterpiece. The Cloud Messenger recounts an ancient tale in which a man sends a message of love to his distant wife via a passing cloud. It drew from the composer a rich and passionate work charting love’s trials and rewards. This performance, marking 150 years since Holst’s birth, comes after Elgar’s ever-popular, bittersweet Cello Concerto - with soloist Senja Rummukainen making her Proms debut - and the gentle exhalations of Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding, inspired by Buddhist meditation.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Sat 3 Aug 2024 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Concerto in E minor

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Gustav Holst

    Neptune, the Mystic (The Planets Op.32)

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: The Planets Op.32; Egdon Heath Op.47.
    • TELDEC.
    • 7.

  • Gustav Holst

    Beni Mora Suite Op.29`1

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gustav Holst

    Scherzo (A Moorside Suite)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Chandos.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Cloud Messenger Op.30

    Performer: Jess Dandy. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No. 12 in B-Flat Major, K. 172: II. Adagio

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
    • Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. III.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 117.

Broadcast

  • Sat 3 Aug 2024 19:30
    BBC Radio 3

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