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ѿý Proms at Dewsbury

Music by Rachmaninov, Dora Pejačević and Lara Weaver performed by Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman live from Dewsbury as part of the ѿý Proms.

Former ѿý Young Musician of the Year Laura van der Heijden and pianist Jâms Coleman present a programme of 20th- and 21st-century music for cello and piano. Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata is a work suffused with the mystical spirit of Russian Orthodoxy. That spiritual journey in sound becomes a spatial one in Lara Weaver’s A Thing That Holds – an exploration of the cello as a vessel that contains and releases. This season’s spotlight on Croatian composer Dora Pejačević continues with the composer’s Cello Sonata, with echoes of Brahms and Mendelssohn running through its melody-filled movements. The concert opens with Rachmaninov’s lyrical Vocalise.

Rachmaninov, arr. Raphael Wallfisch: Vocalise
Pejačević: Cello Sonata

INTERVAL: Ian McMillan talks to fellow poet Helen Mort

Lara Weaver: A Thing That Holds
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata

Laura van der Heijden, cello
Jâms Coleman, piano

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2 hours, 14 minutes

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op.34

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Sonata for cello & piano in E minor

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
  • Lara Weaver

    A Thing That Holds

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Sonata for cello & piano in G minor, Op.19

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
  • Claude Debussy

    Beau Soir

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère L’oye; Boléro; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales; Pavane Pou.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Biches - suite (Rondeau)

    Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Poulenc: Les biches Suite, Les animaux modèles Suite & Sinfonietta.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Aug 2023 15:00

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