Capuçon Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Altinoglu performs Varèse, Stravinksy, Debussy, and, with soloist Gautier Capuçon, Dvorak's Cello Concerto.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version)
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor

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Interval: The writer Philip Clark talks to Ian Skelly about the impact of the United States of America, and particularly the soundscape of New York, on the music of the French-born avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse.

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Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Edgard Varèse: Amériques

Gautier Capuçon (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

One hundred years since wailing siren, whip and wind machine announced the arrival of Varèse’s Amériques in the concert hall, the Proms celebrates this exhilarating urban hymn to the composer’s adopted home of New York City. Alain Altinoglu traces the vibrant dialogue between Europe and America, pairing music from the Old World and the New. The languorous sensuality of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune contrasts with the clean architectural lines of Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments – at once ancient and modern. Composed during his time in the USA, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto is a nostalgic homage to his Bohemian roots.