Cellist Guy Johnston performs Benjamin Britten’s Cello Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, at the BBC Proms this summer.
Fifty years since Benjamin Britten’s death, former BBC Young Musician winner Guy Johnston brings the composer’s Cello Symphony to the Proms. Originally written for Mstislav Rostropovich, it’s the composer at his most intense: a tour de force for the soloist, set against a brooding, often eerie orchestral backdrop.
The concert will also feature the UK Premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen Suite, and Sibelius’s Symphony No.2
Tuesday 28th July, 7pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
Guy Johnston
Programme:
Mark‐Anthony Turnage – Festen Suite
Benjamin Britten – Cello Symphony (with Guy Johnston)
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Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 2 in D major
📸 – Frances Marshall