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Elder Conducts ‘A Mass of Life’

Name: Elder Conducts ‘A Mass of Life’
Start: 2025-08-18T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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‘No other English composer offers more beauty in sound,’ Thomas Beecham said of Delius. There’s no more extravagant, impassioned or overwhelming a canvas for that beauty than A Mass of Life. Taking Nietzsche’s rapturous prose-poem Also sprach Zarathustra as a starting point, Delius imagined a secular Mass – a cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists celebrating the transcendent power and triumph of the human spirit in the face of death. Sir Mar...

Program

Frederick Delius - A Mass of Life

Participants

Roderick Williams

Singer

David Butt Philip

Singer

Sir Mark Elder

Conductor

Claudia Huckle

Singer

Jennifer Davis