Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Festival: BBC Proms
Dates/times in London time zone
| Sunday 07 September 2025 | 19:30 |
Programme
| Gipps, Ruth (1921-1999) | Death on the Pale Horse, Op.25 | |
| Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16 | |
| Bliss, Arthur (1891-1975) | The Beatitudes |
Performers
| Elizabeth Watts | Soprano |
| Laurence Kilsby | Tenor |
| Lukas Sternath | Piano |
| BBC Singers | |
| BBC Symphony Chorus | |
| BBC Symphony Orchestra | |
| Sakari Oramo | Conductor |
Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, with its heart-on- sleeve melodies and intimate lyricism. The piece is framed by two musical products of war: a haunting elegy by Vaughan Williams’s pupil Ruth Gipps, inspired by a William Blake illustration of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and anniversary-composer Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, a cantata composed for the reopening in 1962 of Coventry Cathedral – part Passion, part howl of human loss, part musical prayer for a ‘troubled world’.
Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee). On sale 17 May 2025.
