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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Mark Simpson – Israfel
Henri Dutilleux – Tout un monde lointain ...
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – Symphony No 1 in A flat major
Performers
Juanjo Mena – Conductor
Johannes Moser – cello
BBC Philharmonic
Other concerts in this Series
Programme Note
In his First Symphony, unveiled in Manchester in 1911, Edward Elgar saw beyond the recession in which Britain was languishing to express a ‘massive hope for the future’. The symphony’s noble main tune appears fragile at first. But when it returns at the end, it’s carried home by an ecstatic orchestra filled with a spirit of uplifting optimism.
The BBC Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor also present the London premiere of a work by its Composer in Association Mark Simpson and the marriage of modernity and beauty that is Dutilleux’s cello concerto ‘Tout un monde lointain …’.