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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 41: Elder conducts 'A Mass of Life'
Performance Date18 August 2025
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJennifer Davis,
Claudia Huckle,
David Butt Philip,
Roderick Williams - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus,
London Philharmonic Choir
ConductorsSir Mark Elder
Set List'A Mass of Life', Delius
(sung in German, with English surtitles)
Performance Notes‘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 Mark Elder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with soloists including baritone Roderick Williams and tenor David Butt Philip.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/20541Huckle; Claudia (fl 2013-); British contralto
DS/UK/21585Philip; David Butt (1980-); British operatic tenor
DS/UK/997Williams; Roderick (fl 1990s-); English bass-baritone
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/1004London Philharmonic Choir; 1947-; English choir
DS/UK/919Elder; Sir; Mark Philip (1947-); CBE; British conductor
DS/UK/24485Davis; Jennifer (fl. 2020s); Irish soprano
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