Name: Proms 2024 Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto
Start: 2024-08-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Sakari Oramo

Cellist

Senja Rummukainen

Cello

Mezzo-soprano

Jess Dandy

Alto

Others

BBC Symphony Chorus

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Proms 2024 Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Tranquil Abiding

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

The Cloud Messenger, Op.30

Rahul Karaguppi

Approved

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 and the gentle exhalations of Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding, inspired by Buddhist meditation.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble