Tonight, Guy Johnston performs Britten’s Cello Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall conducted by Sakari Oramo as part of the BBC Proms.
“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.”
Full programme:
Turnage – Festen Suite (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)
Britten – Cello Symphony
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Sibelius – Symphony No. 2 in D major