Elgar’s Cello Concerto
Jean-guihen Queyras takes to the Proms stage in Elgar’s sublime Cello Concerto, accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and led by Edward Gardner. Elgar wrote this piece in the wake of World War One, the conflict that inspired the other pieces in this programme: Lili Boulanger’s choral miniature, ‘Pour les funérailles d’un soldat’, and Vaughan Williams’s cantata, Dona nobis pacem. Soprano Sophie Bevan and bass-baritone Neal Davies feature as soloists. BBC Four; 2 September