Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

2 Aug 2021, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Mon 2 Aug 2021 Next Event

19:30 Mon 2 Aug 2021 Royal Albert Hall

Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales reveal how composers as varied as Purcell, Brahms and Elizabeth Ogonek have turned to the hypnotic repeated pattern of the ‘chaconne’.

Programme

- - Henry Purcell
  - Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s Lament)(4 mins)arr. Stokowski
- - Elizabeth Ogonek
  - Cloudline(15 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere
- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor(19 mins)
- - interval
- - Johannes Brahms
  - Symphony No. 4 in E minor(39 mins)

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About This Event

Musical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season’s Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight’s concert really begins with Bach. A lilting chaconne from his Cantata No. 150 underpins the finale of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, and the latter’s elegant synthesis of heart and head is itself the inspiration for American composer Elizabeth Ogonek’s Cloudline, a lyrical homage to ancient musical forms and techniques. The chaconne’s repeating patterns are echoed elsewhere in the circling bass line of Purcell’s powerful Lament from Dido and Aeneas. Cellist Guy Johnston is the soloist in anniversary-composer Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No .1.

Broadcast on BBC Four on Friday 6 August