Name: Prom 44: Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D major
Start: 2022-08-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-08-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Sakari Oramo

Singer

Nardus Williams

Soloist

Bethan Langford

Robert Murray

Božidar Smiljanić

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Prom 44: Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D major

London

United Kingdom

BBC Proms

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 44: Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D major: Nocturnes Debussy (+1 More)

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Nocturnes

Mass in D major

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Ethel Smyth wasn’t especially religious: the text and images of the Catholic Mass simply thrilled her. ‘What words! What words!’ she exclaimed, and her monumental Mass in D major is one of the crowning glories of the British choral tradition. Following their widely admired 2019 recording (‘fiercely committed, highly persuasive’ – BBC Music Magazine) Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra give the first Proms performance since the composer’s own lifetime, with rising operatic star Nardus Williams heading an impressive quartet of soloists. Debussy’s Nocturnes begin the evening in a very different, but no less beautiful world – blurring the edges of sound itself to create music that seems to glow in the dark.

English

Prom 44: Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D major by Debussy, Smyth, From (2022/2022), Conductor Sakari Oramo, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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