Name: Prom 50: Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass
Start: 2024-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Jakub Hrůša

Orchestra

Czech Philharmonic

Instrumentalist

Mao Fujita

Piano

Singer

Soprano

Corinne Winters

soprano

Mezzo-soprano

Bella Adamova

alto

Tenor

David Butt Philip

tenor

Bass

Brindley Sherratt

baritono

Christian Schmitt

Organ

Prom 50: Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 50: Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass: Vojenská symfonieta, op. 11 Kaprálová (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Vojenská symfonieta, op. 11

Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33

Glagolitic Mass

Paul Koneri

Approved

About This Event
For their second consecutive night at the Proms, Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic bring to life the blazing fanfares, raw outcries and hushed humility of Leoš Janáček’s unparalleled Glagolitic Mass. Inspiration for the work struck the composer in a misty wood. ‘Its moist scent was the incense,’ he wrote. ‘I felt a cathedral grow out of the giant expanse of woods ... Now I hear the voice of each arch-priest in the tenor solo, a maiden angel in the soprano – and in the choir I hear our people.’ Experience the power of Janáček’s galvanising work alongside two other Czech masterpieces, Dvořák’s fiendish Piano Concerto and a first Proms performance for the Military Sinfonietta by the tragically short-lived Vítězslava Kaprálová, a sometime pupil of Bohuslav Martinů.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble