Prom 3: Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists

Time: 7.00pm - c9.40pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £6-£27.50 price code A or Prom for £5

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner has long championed French Baroque music. Tonight's excerpts from Rameau's stage works include dazzling dance sequences with specially created choreography by the Paris-based Compagnie Roussat-Lubek, and feature players from the Buskaid Soweto String Project, which brings high-level string training to young underprivileged South Africans. This is contrasted with the austerely sacred world of Campra's neglected Requiem Mass.

Campra

Messe de Requiem (50 mins)

Interval

Rameau

Music from Zaïs, Dardanus, Les fêtes d'Hébé & Les Boréades (25 mins)

Dances from Platée & Hippolyte et Aricie (15 mins)

Music from Castor et Pollux, Naïs & Les Boréades (24 mins)

Anders Dahlin Tenor
Katharine Fuge Soprano
Lawrence Wallington Bass
Julia Doyle Soprano
Marc Molomot Tenor
Nicholas Mulroy Tenor
Matthew Brook Bass
Rosemary Nalden Director
Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble

Dance For All
Rosemary Nalden director
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Compagnie Roussat-Lubek
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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