Prom 34

T01755491072
Part of the BBC Proms.

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Archive :: production:T01755491072, concert:S359, venue:V221

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Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius

Primal urges - to live, love and be free - animate this concert from Eva Ollikainen and the BBC Philharmonic. Elgar's Cello Concerto combines a deep sense of mourning - possibly at the catastrophe of the First World War - with the most heartfelt, eloquent lyricism, while echoes of both Don Juan and Dante's Divine Comedyare woven through Sibelius' Second Symphony, a work torn between pastoral calm and restless disquiet, and later adopted as a symbol of Finnish national resistance and liberation. Award-winning Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's music has a tectonic quality, cracking and flickering with elemental force. Primordial energy itself is the inspiration for her ARCHORA, which receives its world premiere