麻豆社

Live at the 麻豆社 Proms: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Music by Benjamin Britten, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Edward Elgar.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Benjamin Britten: Gloriana, Symphonic Suite
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto, 鈥楨arth, Sea, Air鈥�

c.8.15pm
INTERVAL: The score for Elgar鈥檚 Second Symphony is headed by a quotation from a poem by Shelley 鈥淩arely, rarely comest thou spirit of delight鈥�. To talk more about Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature at University College London. A regular guest on the radio programme In Our Time, his many books include Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries: Shelley.

c.8.35pm
Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

Laura van der Heijden, cello
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth鈥檚 feast of English music opens with Britten鈥檚 suite of 鈥榖est bits鈥� from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. Cheryl Frances-Hoad鈥檚 new climate change-themed Cello Concerto 鈥� premiered last year in Glasgow by tonight鈥檚 forces 鈥� takes inspiration from three disparate aspects of the natural world. Elgar鈥檚 Symphony No. 2 is considered by many to be the best ever written in England. 鈥業 have put my soul into it,鈥� said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy.