Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) | Danse macabre | |
Guy Barker | The Lanterne of Light (BBC commission: world première) | |
Orff, Carl (1895-1982) | Carmina Burana: O Fortuna |
Performers
Charles Mutter | Violin |
Alison Balsom | Trumpet |
Olena Tokar | Soprano |
Thomas Walker | Tenor |
Benjamin Appl | Baritone |
Southend Boys' and Girls' Choirs | |
BBC Symphony Chorus | |
London Philharmonic Choir | |
BBC Concert Orchestra | |
Keith Lockhart | Conductor |
This year’s free Prom is an ideal opportunity to introduce family and friends to classical music. Carmina burana is as musically inventive as it is irreverent – a choral cantata based on a medieval text charting the joys, fickleness and excesses of human life. The BBC Concert Orchestra’s Composer-in-Association Guy Barker provides a new concerto for trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom and the orchestra’s own Charles Mutter is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s devilish Danse macabre.
Free Prom