| Main Performers | Stuart Jackson - Evangelist
Hugo Hymas,
Roderick Williams - vocals,
Jonathan Cohen - harpsichord, director |
| Set List | 'St Matthew Passion', Bach (sung in German) |
| Performance Notes | In 2021, the BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. With 46 concerts over 44 days, featuring 30 orchestras and ensembles and more than 2,000 musicians, this ambitious season promises a celebration of live music on a scale not seen since before the pandemic. From the power of a symphony orchestra to the sheer joy of a single performer on the Halls magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.
Bachs crowning masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion combines moments of extraordinary fragility and tenderness with raw choral power, bitter grief with passages of consolation, and explosive jubilation. With double chorus and orchestra, its scope and ambition is vast, a piece made for the Royal Albert Hall.
Following on from their gripping account of Handels Theodora in 2018, period-instrument ensemble Arcangelo and Director Jonathan Cohen return to the Proms, joined by a glittering line-up of soloists including Roderick Williams and rising star Stuart Jackson.
The season was shortened to six, rather than eight, weeks because of the financial risk to the BBC not knowing audience sizes due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Related Archival Material | Prospectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/) |