Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Available for 29 days

Linton Stephens continues Radio 3's Proms Marathon with Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández making his Proms debut in Elgar’s concerto plus music by Webern and Walton from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Le Figaro called him a 'new cello genius'. Now prize-winning Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his Proms debut with Elgar's achingly passionate concerto. He joins Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a programme that measures out the griefs, conflicts and shifting identities of the 20th century, opening with Webern's lushly Romantic 1908 Passacaglia, whose sequence of intricate variations finds a ghostly echo in the finale of Walton's Second Symphony. Premiered in 1960, the latter work looks back rather than forwards, rejecting the avant-garde in favour of a dense, Expressionistic intensity. Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Anton Webern: Passacaglia Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor William Walton: Symphony No. 2 Pablo Ferrández (cello) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko (conductor)