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Live at the 麻豆官网首页入口 Proms: the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by David Bates, perform Mozart鈥檚 Requiem along with works by Rameau and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Live at the 麻豆官网首页入口 Proms: the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by David Bates, play Mozart鈥檚 Requiem and works by Rameau and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie 鈥 Bruit de tonnerre and Ritornello
Dardanus 鈥 Tambourins I & II
Castor et Pollux 鈥 鈥楾ristes appr锚ts鈥

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Rameau: Dardanus 鈥 鈥楲ieux funestes鈥
Plat茅e 鈥 Orage
Les Indes galantes - Suites d鈥檕rchestre: Entr茅e les Sauvages: III. Chaconne (脿 deux clavecins)

8.10: Interval: Petroc Trelawny and guests talk about the music in tonight's programme, and look at the work of the National Youth Chamber Choir.

Mozart: Requiem (compl. Sussmayr)

Samantha Clarke, soprano
Claudia Huckle, contralto
Nick Pritchard, tenor
William Thomas, bass
National Youth Chamber Choir
Britten Sinfonia
David Bates, conductor

鈥楧idn鈥檛 I tell you that I composed the Requiem for myself?鈥 Mozart may (or may not) have spoken those words on his death bed, but his choral masterpiece, the Requiem, commissioned by a mysterious cloaked figure, certainly offers a transfiguring experience. Written in the last month of Mozart鈥檚 life, it contrasts the fear of death with radiant hope and balances dark drama with sublime simplicity. It鈥檚 sung tonight by a cast of rising-star soloists, joined by some of the UK鈥檚 most talented young voices, the National Youth Chamber Choir. As a prelude, the concert鈥檚 first half includes a short symphony by Mozart鈥檚 contemporary Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges 鈥 the first composer of African ancestry to make waves in Europe 鈥 and a selection of dances arias and storm-evocations drawn from operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau, the leading music-dramatist of this day.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Hippolyte et Aricie - Bruit de tonnerre

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Hippolyte et Aricie - Ritornello

    Performer: William Thomas. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Dardanus - Tambourins I & II

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Castor et Pollux - 'Tristes apprets'

    Performer: Samantha Clarke. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Symphony No 2 in D major

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Dardanus - 'Lieux funestes'

    Performer: Nick Pritchard. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Platee - Orage

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Indes galantes - Chaconne

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • Ben Parry

    Aldeburgh Carol

    Choir: The National Youth Chamber Choir. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • APPLE MUSIC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem: Lacrymosa (Fragment of Mozart's original)

    Choir: SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart. Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Conductor: Risto Joost.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mozart: Requiem K626/Kyrie K341: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem (compl. Sussmayr)

    Choir: National Youth Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: David Bates.
  • The Cinematic Orchestra

    To Believe (feat. Moses Sumney)

  • Michael League

    Sintra

    Ensemble: Snarky Puppy. Orchestra: Metropole Orkest. Conductor: Jules Buckley.
  • Moses Sumney

    Neither / Nor

    Performer: Moses Sumney.
  • Vernon Duke

    April in Paris

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Performer: Louis Armstrong.
  • Walter Donaldson

    Love me or leave me

    Performer: Nina Simone. Performer: Jimmy Bond. Performer: Al 'Tootie' Heath.
  • Cole Porter

    Always true to you (in my fashion)

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Buddy Bregman Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Aug 2021 19:30

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