BBC Proms - Season 76 Episode 11 : Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius

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BBC Proms - Season 76 Episode 11 : Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius
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Title:BBC Proms - Season 76 Episode 11 : Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius
Genre: Documentary
Air Date: 2022-08-14
Season Number: 76
Episodes Number: 11
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Overview
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 Thorvaldsottir’s inspiration. The BBC Philharmonic, under Eva Kollinainen – 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 Thorvaldsottir, for whom composition is ‘a natural part of my life’.
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