Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, Londres, Greater London, SW7 2AP, Royaume-uni
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de London
Festival: BBC Proms
Artistes
This season’s sequence of Choral Sundays kicks off with arguably the grandest statement in British music, Havergal Brian’s ‘The Gothic’, a gargantuan work that earned an entry in the Guinness Book of Records under ‘Longest Symphony’.
Completed in the 1920s but unplayed until 1961, its most famous outing came in 1966, when Sir Adrian Boult presided over a BBC-sponsored rendition at the Royal Albert Hall. Its Proms debut features not one but two orchestras and a raft of choirs. Even Mahler never contemplated a work on quite this scale, although he too found inspiration in Goethe’s Faust.
Completed in the 1920s but unplayed until 1961, its most famous outing came in 1966, when Sir Adrian Boult presided over a BBC-sponsored rendition at the Royal Albert Hall. Its Proms debut features not one but two orchestras and a raft of choirs. Even Mahler never contemplated a work on quite this scale, although he too found inspiration in Goethe’s Faust.
