Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Royal Albert Hall

In Holst’s 150th-anniversary year, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform his masterpiece The Cloud Messenger. We also hear Elgar’s ever-popular Cello Concerto, with Senja Rummukainen as soloist, and Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding

Programme

• Jonathan Harvey




• Tranquil Abiding(15 mins)




• Edward Elgar




• Cello Concerto in E minor(31 mins)




• INTERVAL




• Gustav Holst




• The Cloud Messenger(43 mins)

Performers

• 
  

  Jess Dandy

  
  

  contralto

  
  


• 
  

  Senja Rummukainen

  
  

  cello

  
  



• BBC Symphony Chorus




• BBC Symphony Orchestra



• 
  

  Sakari Oramo

  
  

  conductor

  
  

Composers

• Jonathan Harvey




• Edward Elgar




• Gustav Holst