Music of the Reformation Events
Sun 3 Sep 2017
- 13:00Royal Albert Hall
Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra bring authentic colour to some of Mendelssohn鈥檚 best-loved works, including the overture The Hebrides and the Fifth Symphony. Isabelle Faust is the soloist for the lyrical Violin Concerto.
Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra bring authentic colour to some of Mendelssohn鈥檚 best-loved works, including the overture The Hebrides and the Fifth Symphony. Isabelle Faust is the soloist for the lyrical Violin Concerto.
Programme
- Overture 鈥楾he Hebrides鈥� (鈥楩ingal鈥檚 Cave鈥�)(10 mins)
- Violin Concerto in E minor(27 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation'(27 mins)
Performers
- Isabelle Faustviolin
- Pablo Heras鈥怌asadoconductor
Composers
Also part ofProms 2017
Sat 26 Aug 2017
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Rising star conductor Jakub Hr暖拧a presents an all-Czech concert with the 麻豆社 SO and the 麻豆社 Singers. Smetana鈥檚 evocative tone-poem Ma vlast sits alongside Martin暖鈥檚 Field Mass and Suk鈥檚 Prague. This is music of protest, anger and national pride.
Rising star conductor Jakub Hr暖拧a presents an all-Czech concert with the 麻豆社 SO and the 麻豆社 Singers. Smetana鈥檚 evocative tone-poem Ma vlast sits alongside Martin暖鈥檚 Field Mass and Suk鈥檚 Prague. This is music of protest, anger and national pride.
Programme
- Hussite Chorale 'Kto啪 js煤 Bo啪i bojovn铆ci' (You Who Are Warriors of God)(2 mins)
- M谩 vlast 鈥� T谩bor
- M谩 vlast 鈥� Blan铆k
- Field Mass(26 mins)
- interval
- Hussite Overture(14 mins)
- The Excursions of Mr Brou膷ek 鈥� Song of the Hussites(4 mins)
- Prague(25 mins)
Performers
- Svatopluk Sembaritone
- 麻豆社 Singers (men's voices)
- Jakub Hr暖拧aconductor
Also part ofProms 2017
Sun 20 Aug 2017
- 15:30Royal Albert Hall
The 麻豆社 Singers and the City of London Sinfonia tell the Passion story as never before. Music from five centuries of Passion settings comes together, including works by Sch眉tz, J. S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo P盲rt and Sir James MacMillan.
Also part ofProms 2017 - 18:00Imperial College Union
An introduction to the music in tonight's Prom with the Revd Lucy Winkett.
- 19:45Royal Albert Hall
Bach specialist John Butt and his award-winning Dunedin Consort make their Proms debut with a performance of Bach鈥檚 St John Passion, a work of almost operatic immediacy. The soloists include Tim Mead, Sophie Bevan and Nicholas Mulroy.
Bach specialist John Butt and his award-winning Dunedin Consort make their Proms debut with a performance of Bach鈥檚 St John Passion, a work of almost operatic immediacy. The soloists include Tim Mead, Sophie Bevan and Nicholas Mulroy.
Programme
- St John Passion(130 mins)
Performers
- Nicholas MulroyEvangelist
- Matthew BrookJesus
- Sophie Bevansoprano
- Tim Meadcounter-tenor
- Andrew Tortisetenor
- Konstantin Wolffbass
- John Buttharpsichord/director
Composers
