BBC Proms 2021

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BBC Proms: 2021: Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

2021

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Live BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Guy Johnston

Live BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto with Guy Johnston before closing with Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No .1 with Guy Johnston, before closing with Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Purcell, arr. Stokowski: When I am laid in earth (Dido’s Lament) 
c. 7.35pm
Elizabeth Ogonek: Cloudline (BBC co-commission: world premiere)
c. 7.50pm
Saint‐Saëns: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 33

c. 8.10pm
Interval: Katy Hamilton talks to Nicola Heywood Thomas about tonight's programme and looks forward to highlights of the week ahead. 

c. 8.35pm
Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98

Guy Johnston (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Musical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season’s Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight’s concert really begins with Bach. A lilting chaconne from his Cantata No. 150 underpins the finale of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, and the latter’s elegant synthesis of heart and head is itself the inspiration for American composer Elizabeth Ogonek’s Cloudline, a lyrical homage to ancient musical forms and techniques. The chaconne’s repeating patterns are echoed elsewhere in the circling bass line of Purcell’s powerful Lament from Dido and Aeneas. Cellist Guy Johnston is the soloist in anniversary-composer Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No 1.

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