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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 44: Belshazzar's Feast
Performance Date20 August 2019
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersGerald Finley - vocal
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsOrfeo Catala,
Orfeo Catala Youth Choir,
London Symphony Chorus
ConductorsSir Simon Rattle
Set List'Les bandar-log 16’', Koechlin,
'Amériques (original version,1921) 25’', Varese,
INTERVAL
'Belshazzar’s Feast 34’', Walton
Performance NotesSir Simon Rattle conducts a concert of sonic spectacle, bringing one of the great English oratorios together with an American orchestral classic.

Walton’s choral masterpiece Belshazzar’s Feast gets the Proms treatment with a 300-strong choir and Canadian baritone Gerald Finley as soloist.

More than 10 percussionists are needed to bring Varese’s Amériques – a celebration of the modern city in sound – to life, while Charles Koechlin’s Jungle Book inspired Les bandar-log transports listeners to the primeval forest, where all the noise comes from the monkeys.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2019/),
Programme (RAHE/1/2019/),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2019/),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2019/)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£105, £6 gallery and arena standing
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/2y92YNT2ULW4w
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/2019/31BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season Mini-Guide19 July - 14 September 2019
RAHE/1/2019/82BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 44: Belshazzar's Feast20 August 2019
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11719BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season 75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/890Finley; Gerald (1960-); Canadian baritone
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/4838Orfeo Catala; 1891-; Spanish folk choir
DS/UK/1021London Symphony Chorus (LSC); London Symphony Orchestra; 1966-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1388Rattle; Sir; Simon Denis (19 January 1955); OM CBE; British conductor
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