Guy Johnston & Charlotte Bray talk about Charlotte's new cello concerto, Falling in the Fire, commissioned by the BBC and written specially for Guy, to be debuted as part of this year's BBC Proms. Prom 39: Haydn, Charlotte Bray and Mahler BBC Proms Website: The latest in the series of Proms cello concertos is a powerful new work from Charlotte Bray, an expression of 'moral outrage' at the destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, last summer, after which 'everything changed' in the composer's compositional outlook.
Yshani Perinpanayagam, piano