The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra returns under Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits to recall memories of music past. In Mason Bates’s evocative Auditorium, the orchestra is ‘possessed’ by a ghostly Baroque ancestor. Janáček’s rhapsodic suite Taras Bulba looks back to Czech folk music in three battle-charged episodes from Gogol’s novella. The bittersweet, poignant beauty of Elgar’s Cello Concerto draws on another conflict: the cataclysmic loss and suffering of the First World War.
Kirill Karabits © Konrad Ćwik
Programme
Mason Bates, Auditorium (16 min)
Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E minor (30 min)
Leos Janáček, Taras Bulba (23 min)
*PART OF Proms 2021