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BBC Proms: 2017: Prom 32: Britten, Brian Elias, Purcell and Elgar

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Prom 32: Britten, Brian Elias, Purcell and Elgar

09/08/2017

2017

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BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth with Leonard Elschenbroich, Toby Spence and Henry Waddington perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth with Leonard Elschenbroich, Toby Spence and Henry Waddington perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Britten: Ballad of Heroes
Brian Elias: Cello Concerto

c. 7.45pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Christopher Eccleston and Yolanda Vasquez perform readings and poems by the British volunteers of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. Britten's 'Ballad of Heroes' is dedicated to them. Dr Richard Baxell talks to presenter Clemency Burton-Hill about the history. Recorded as a Proms Extra earlier with an audience at Imperial College Union. 
Producer, Karen Holden 

c. 8.10pm 
Purcell, arr Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt
Elgar: Enigma Variations 

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Henry Waddington (bass)
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Ryan Wigglesworth joins the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales for a programme that spans four centuries, from Purcell's dramatic choral motet 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei', to the world premiere of Brian Elias's Cello Concerto, whose intricate, spiral structure creates a dream-like musical narrative.
The concert opens with Britten's most overtly political work - an impassioned musical stand against fascism that anticipates the composer's War Requiem; and reaches its culmination with Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, which includes the much-loved 'Nimrod'. 
 
Producer Tim Thorne.

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