Elgar’s Cello Concerto

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Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto was his last major work for orchestra. Composed in the aftermath of the First World War, the work is contemplative and melancholy, representative of the author’s great depression in wake of the War's destruction of his previous reality.

He found peace as he fled to his woodland home in Sussex, and would later pour his every emotion into the concerto. In contrast with his previous works, such as his earlier Violin Concerto, Elgar's Cello Concerto is distant and harsh, as opposed to the cheer of those works he had written previously.

Cellist Asier Polo and conductor José R. Pascual-Vilaplana will perform this impressive work alongside the Barcelona Symphony Band. See the performance live at L’Auditori, or tune in online from the comfort of your own home.

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