"It really is a new world, isn't it?", said Elgar of his first symphony. It begins this season's cycle at the Royal Albert Hall , London of all three of his symphonies and is contrasted with one of the great romantic cello concertos and a moving homage to the dead of Katyn in Poland.
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Panufnik Katyn Epitaph
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
8.20 Gossip from Giggleswick
Of Edward Elgar 's friends, Charles William Buck - a Yorkshire doctor - was one of the most influential. For
50 years, he shared the composer's disappointments and rejoiced in his triumphs. Using the rich legacy of their letters, Kenneth Shenton explores a friendship which thrived as much on their mutual love of the great outdoors as it did on music, with composer and doctor both revelling in gossip from Giggleswick.
8.40 Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat Repeated Thursday 2pm