Prom 28: The Tallis Scholars
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© Eric Richmond
Thursday 4 August
10.00pm – c. 11.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Chamber music, Choral music and singing events
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Victoria
Dum complerentur (5 mins) -
Victoria
Lamentations for Good Friday (15 mins) -
Victoria
Officium defunctorum (Requiem) (42 mins) -
Lobo
Versa est in luctum cithara mea (5 mins)
(encore)
- The Tallis Scholars
- Peter Phillips conductor
About this event
A moving and evocative Late Night experience as the Tallis Scholars return to celebrate an anniversary composer - Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Who better to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Tomás Luis de Victoria than the Tallis Scholars, long established under conductor Peter Phillips as among the world's finest interpreters of Renaissance polyphony?
Celebrating a composer who featured in their very first Proms appearance in 1988, the focal point tonight is the magisterial Office for the Dead of which they made a much-praised recording some years ago.
The Spanish master's exceptional expressive charge is achieved with a directness of musical means which sets his work apart from that of contemporaries active in England and Italy.
Comparisons have been drawn with the equally intense religious paintings of Velázquez and El Greco. This promises to be a moving and evocative Late Night experience.
There will be no interval
Broadcasts
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Radio
Listen to repeat on 5 January 2012 from 10pm on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Sound on the website. Listen online for 7 days after broadcast.
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Events on Thursday 4 August
- Proms Plus Intro: Strauss's Four Last Songs
5.15pm – c. 6.00pm - Prom 27: Robin Holloway, Strauss & Brahms
7.00pm – c. 9.05pm - Prom 28: The Tallis Scholars
10.00pm – c. 11.15pm
Comment number 1.
Colin04SSSS MMMMMMMMMMMM 00002011 - 22:August
As expected, ruined by the yack, yack, yack between each piece. Did anyone ever think about running it for 90 minutes without these unwanted intrusions? No, though not.
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Comment number 2.
pekinese05SSSS MMMMMMMMMMMM 00002011 - 20:August
Glad someone else feels like me. Every year it's the same and I've complained before but they take no notice. Why don't they get it? If we were there we wouldn't have someone blethering away every minute they're not actually playing. It's not as if they are telling us anything we don't know already. If they must do it, please give us the ability to switch it off.
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