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Prom 50: Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass

Name: Prom 50: Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass
Start: 2024-08-28T18:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall

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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 a...

Program

Antonín Dvořák - Piano Concerto in G minor

Leoš Janáček - Glagolitic Mass

Composer

Vítězslava Kaprálová - Military Sinfonietta

Participants

David Butt Philip

Singer

Christian Schmitt

Organ

Brindley Sherratt

Singer