Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
Performers
| David Butt Philip | Tenor |
| James Rutherford | Bass |
| National Youth Choir of Great Britain | |
| Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | |
| Kirill Karabits | Conductor |
A concert of musical legends and fairy tales. Based on an ancient Mesopotamian text, Prokofiev’s 1917 mini-cantata Seven, They Are Seven is a disquieting work that conjures both the fantasies and the realities of the Russian Revolution. Divine wrath crashes down upon Mesopotamia in Walton’s choral spectacular Belshazzar’s Feast – whose premiere in 1931 was conducted by Malcolm Sargent, later chief conductor of the Proms – while morality gets altogether more ambiguous in Strauss’s richly scored fairy-tale allegory Die Frau ohne Schatten (‘The Woman Without a Shadow’).
Tickets £7.50 - £40.
