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Prom 41: Sherlock Holmes – A Musical Mind
Part of the Proms 2015 Series
Add to my Calendar 16-08-2015 15:30 16-08-2015 17:30 36 Prom 41: Sherlock Holmes – A Musical Mind The Proms salutes a crime-fighting violin virtuoso who wrote a pioneering study of Dutch sacred music, tussled with a contralto from the Warsaw Opera and used Offenbach to outwit a pair of jewel thieves. This Proms matinee celebrates music that conjures up the world of Sherlock Holmes: works by Paganini, Lassus and Wagner which Conan Doyle tells us Holmes loved, and the film and TV scores written for him - from Miklós Rózsa’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes to David Arnold and Michael Price’s music from the BBC’s Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Special guests include Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, as well as mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, who explores the repertoire of Holmes’s nemesis, the opera singer Irene Adler. Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Performers
Mark Gatiss – Actor
Christine Rice – mezzo-soprano
Jack Liebeck – violin
Matthew Sweet – Presenter
Barry Wordsworth – Conductor
Stile Antico
BBC Concert Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series
Programme Note
The Proms salutes a crime-fighting violin virtuoso who wrote a pioneering study of Dutch sacred music, tussled with a contralto from the Warsaw Opera and used Offenbach to outwit a pair of jewel thieves. This Proms matinee celebrates music that conjures up the world of Sherlock Holmes: works by Paganini, Lassus and Wagner which Conan Doyle tells us Holmes loved, and the film and TV scores written for him - from Miklós Rózsa’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes to David Arnold and Michael Price’s music from the BBC’s Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Special guests include Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, as well as mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, who explores the repertoire of Holmes’s nemesis, the opera singer Irene Adler.