{"id":42869,"date":"2022-08-26T00:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/watched\/prom-34-thorvaldsdottir-elgar-and-sibelius\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:12:12","slug":"prom-34-thorvaldsdottir-elgar-and-sibelius","status":"publish","type":"traktivity_event","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/watched\/prom-34-thorvaldsdottir-elgar-and-sibelius\/","title":{"rendered":"Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"poster-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bkFiAfvqRubyxgKuL2xyqNOZ33Q-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal colours evoke emotions too deep for words. From his home in Finland, Sibelius created a symphony that has the grandeur and inevitability of a great river \u2013 though some have heard it as a stirring song of national awakening. And elemental forces are the very bedrock of Anna Thorvaldsottir\u2019s inspiration. The BBC Philharmonic, under Eva Kollinainen \u2013 a Finnish conductor with close links to Iceland \u2013 teams up with charismatic soloist Kian Soltani in Elgar\u2019s hugely popular concerto, and gives the world premiere of a newly forged orchestral work by Iceland-born Anna Thorvaldsottir, for whom composition is \u2018a natural part of my life\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal colours evoke emotions too deep for words. From his home in Finland, Sibelius created a symphony that has the grandeur and inevitability of a great river \u2013 though some have heard it as a stirring song of national awakening. And elemental forces are the very bedrock of Anna Thorvaldsottir\u2019s inspiration. The BBC Philharmonic, under Eva Kollinainen \u2013 a Finnish conductor with close links to Iceland \u2013 teams up with charismatic soloist Kian Soltani in Elgar\u2019s hugely popular concerto, and gives the world premiere of a newly forged orchestral work by Iceland-born Anna Thorvaldsottir, for whom composition is \u2018a natural part of my life\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","trakt_type":[2459],"trakt_genre":[],"trakt_year":[2849],"trakt_show":[2850],"trakt_season":[3047],"trakt_episode":[2483],"class_list":["post-42869","traktivity_event","type-traktivity_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","trakt_type-tv-series","trakt_year-2849","trakt_show-bbc-proms","trakt_season-3047","trakt_episode-2483"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/traktivity_event\/42869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/traktivity_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/traktivity_event"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"trakt_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trakt_type?post=42869"},{"taxonomy":"trakt_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trakt_genre?post=42869"},{"taxonomy":"trakt_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trakt_year?post=42869"},{"taxonomy":"trakt_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trakt_show?post=42869"},{"taxonomy":"trakt_season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trakt_season?post=42869"},{"taxonomy":"trakt_episode","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trakt_episode?post=42869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}