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Prom 33: Mark Simpson, Dutilleux and Elgar
19:30 Tue 9 Aug 2016 Royal Albert Hall
Juanjo Mena and the 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic celebrate Dutilleux’s centenary with 'Tout un monde lointain …' for cello and orchestra, alongside Mark Simpson’s Israfel and Elgar’s Symphony No. 1.
Juanjo Mena and the 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic celebrate Dutilleux’s centenary with 'Tout un monde lointain …' for cello and orchestra, alongside Mark Simpson’s Israfel and Elgar’s Symphony No. 1.

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Proms interval talk: An Introduction to Elgar's First Symphony
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Proms interval talk: An Introduction to Elgar's First Symphony
Kate Kennedy and musicologist J.P.E. Harper Scott introduce Elgar's First Symphony.
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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 91Èȱ¬ 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 …’.

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