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Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra Prom plus chamber music from the Cheltenham Festival

Current Â鶹Éç New Generation Artists at this year’s Cheltenham Festival plus the Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth at the Â鶹Éç Proms, introduced by Elizabeth Alker

Today's Classical Live includes another chance to hear Ryan Wigglesworth's recent Prom conducting the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a feast of English music including highlights from Britten's 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. The programme also includes Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new climate-themed Cello Concerto and Elgar's magnificent Symphony No. 2 in E flat major.

To start today’s Classical Live, there will be exclusively recorded performances from the Cheltenham Festival. Violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Llŷr Williams perform Brahms Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, and cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia and pianist Naoko Sonoda perform Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel.

Additionally there will be music by composer Charles Gounod in a Radio France tribute to the late Belgian opera singer, Jodie Devos.

Charles Gounod
Ballet, excerpts from Act 5 of 'Faust' 
Orchestre National de France
Jesko Sirvend (conductor)

From the Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2024:

Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.78 ‘Regensonate’ 
Geneva Lewis (violin)
LlÅ·r Williams (piano)

Arvo Pärt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Santiago Canon-Valencia (cello)
Naoko Sonoda (piano)

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Â鶹Éç PROMS
(first broadcast live on 26th July 2024)

Benjamin Britten
Gloriana – Symphonic Suite

Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Cello Concerto, ‘Earth, Sea, Air’

Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

2 hours, 58 minutes

Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    3 Dances from Faust (Act 5 Ballet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jesko Sirvend.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Santiago Cañón-Valencia. Performer: Naoko Sonoda.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata No 1 in G major, Op 78

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: LlÅ·r Williams.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Gloriana - symphonic suite

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.
  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Cello Concerto, 'Earth, Sea, Air'

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.
  • John Dowland

    M. John Langtons Pavan (Lachrimae, or Seven Tears)

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Dowland - Lachrimae.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Mon 29 Jul 2024 13:00