| Set List | 'Che in Ciel', H Donna,
'Christ Lag in Todes Banden', Bach,
'Dixit Dominus', Handel |
| 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 52 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.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handels vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus, a concerto for choir that blazes with virtuosity and colour.
Its paired with Bachs Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, a fiery, dramatic setting of Luthers popular hymn.
Mezzo-soprano h2. Ann Hallenberg is the soloist in the young Handels cantata of praise to the Virgin Mary, Donna, che in cie, containing music the composer later borrowed for his opera Agrippina.
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/),
Digital Photographs |