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Here’s your lowdown on today’s BBC Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Hungry for more Proms content? Visit our bumper 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong> for all the essential information on the 2024 Proms concerts. These are taking place both at the Royal Albert Hall and at other venues across the UK including Nottingham, Aberdeen and Bristol. We’ve got all the details you need: performers, times, ticket prices and more. <\/p> Today’s Prom, Prom 19, features a performance of Edward Elgar<\/a><\/strong>‘s noble Cello Concerto, undoubtedly one of the greatest cello concertos of all time<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Elgar’s only cello concerto, it’s one of the most famous of all the works for cello in the classical repertoire. It owes some of its fame to the great cellist\u00a0Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9<\/a><\/strong> who, before her tragically early death, set down some memorably dramatic performances of this highly charged, emotional masterpiece. Composed after the First World War, it has a melancholy, contemplative feel.\u00a0Du Pr\u00e9\u2019s 1965 recording\u00a0with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli brought the work the fame and admiration it deserved, and remains one of the best recordings of the Elgar cello concerto<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Famously, the great Russian cellist\u00a0Mstislav Rostropovich<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0stopped performing the work after he heard du Pr\u00e9\u2019s recording. \u2018My pupil, Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9, played it much better than I,\u2019 he observed. The work got a memorable performance at the 2019 BBC Proms, with star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason<\/a><\/strong> as the soloist. <\/p>What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>