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Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic conducted by Eva Ollikainen in music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Jean Sibelius. They are joined by Kian Soltani for Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Presented by Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: ARCHORA (20') (Â鶹Éç co-commission: world premiere)
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto (27')

20:30
Interval: The journalist and critic Andrew Mellor joins Tom McKinney to explore the music for Sibelius

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.2 (43')

Kian Soltani (cello)
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
Eva Ollikainen

Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal colours evoke emotions too deep for words. From his home in Finland, Sibelius created a symphony that has the grandeur and inevitability of a great river – though some have heard it as a stirring song of national awakening. And elemental forces are the very bedrock of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s inspiration. The Â鶹Éç Philharmonic, under Eva Ollikainen – a Finnish conductor with close links to Iceland – teams up with charismatic soloist Kian Soltani in Elgar’s hugely popular concerto, and gives the world premiere of a newly forged orchestral work by Iceland-born Anna Thorvaldsdottir, for whom composition is ‘a natural part of my life’.
Broadcast on Â鶹Éç Four on Sunday 14 August