BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 34 - Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius (3120kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC 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.

01. Anna Thorvaldsdottir -  Archora (20') (BBC co-commission: world premiere)
01a. Introduction to Prom 34
02. Elgar - Cello Concerto (27')
02a. Introduction to Elgar’s Cello Concerto
02b. Outro to Elgar’s Cello Concerto
03. Lovely Minka, I must part [Ukranian trad.] [ encore]
Music Arranger: Kian Soltani.
03b. Interval, Prom 34
The journalist and critic Andrew Mellor joins Tom McKinney to explore the music for Sibelius
04. Sibelius - Symphony No.2 (43')

Kian Soltani (cello)
BBC 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 BBC 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’.

First broadcast:  11 August 2022
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