BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Prom plus chamber music from the Cheltenham Festival

Today's Classical Live includes another chance to hear Ryan Wigglesworth's recent Prom conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a feast of English music including highlights from Britten's 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. The programme also includes Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new climate-themed Cello Concerto and Elgar's magnificent Symphony No. 2 in E flat major.

To start today’s Classical Live, there will be exclusively recorded performances from the Cheltenham Festival. Violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Llŷr Williams perform Brahms Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, and cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia and pianist Naoko Sonoda perform Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel.

Additionally there will be music by composer Charles Gounod in a Radio France tribute to the late Belgian opera singer, Jodie Devos.

Charles Gounod
Ballet, excerpts from Act 5 of 'Faust' 
Orchestre National de France
Jesko Sirvend (conductor)

From the Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2024:

Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.78 ‘Regensonate’ 
Geneva Lewis (violin)
Llŷr Williams (piano)

Arvo Pärt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Santiago Canon-Valencia (cello)
Naoko Sonoda (piano)

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BBC PROMS
(first broadcast live on 26th July 2024)

Benjamin Britten
Gloriana – Symphonic Suite

Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Cello Concerto, ‘Earth, Sea, Air’

Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

Laura van der Heijden (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)