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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 56: Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’
Performance Date30 August 2025
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersHilary Cronin - soprano
Hugh Cutting - counter-tenor
Stuart Jackson - tenor
Orchestra or BandIrish Baroque Orchestra
ChoirsIrish Baroque Chorus
ConductorsPeter Whelan
Set List'Alexander’s Feast (1742 version)', Handel,
(sung in English)
Performance NotesAward-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra, praised for their ‘stylish verve’ and ‘rich insight and charisma’, make their Proms debut with a Handel rarity that celebrates the power of music itself. Alexander’s Feast is an oratorio of operatic intensity, setting John Dryden’s poem about the musician Timotheus, who stirs Alexander the Great to destructive revenge. The piece is heard for the first time at the Proms in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2025/83BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 56: Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’30 August 2025
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/22866Jackson; Stuart (fl.2013); British tenor
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