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Prom 17: Rameau – Grands Motets
Part of the Proms 2015 Series
Add to my Calendar 29-07-2014 22:00 30-07-2014 00:00 36 Prom 17: Rameau – Grands Motets In its second Proms appearance this year, the Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants returns at full strength with its conductor William Christie. While its earlier Proms Chamber Music concert marked 250 years since Rameau’s death with the composer’s small-scale chamber works, in this Late Night Prom the Royal Albert Hall is transformed into the gilded splendour of the Chapel Royalin Versailles, combining choir, orchestra and soloists for Rameau’s grands motets. Most celebrated for his theatrical works, here Rameau proves his skill at sacred drama. Exuberant choruses give way to the meditative lyricism of solo movements, chromatic embellishments keeping the music constantly poised between joy and sadness. There will be no interval Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Deus noster refugium
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Quam dilecta tabernacula
Jean-Philippe Rameau – In convertendo Dominus
Performers
Rachel Redmond – soprano
Katherine Watson – soprano
Reinoud Van Mechelen – high tenor
Cyril Auvity – tenor
Marc Mauillon – baritone
Cyril Costanzo – Bass
William Christie – Conductor
Les Arts Florrisants
Other concerts in this Series
Programme Note
In its second Proms appearance this year, the Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants returns at full strength with its conductor William Christie. While its earlier Proms Chamber Music concert marked 250 years since Rameau’s death with the composer’s small-scale chamber works, in this Late Night Prom the Royal Albert Hall is transformed into the gilded splendour of the Chapel Royalin Versailles, combining choir, orchestra and soloists for Rameau’s grands motets.
Most celebrated for his theatrical works, here Rameau proves his skill at sacred drama. Exuberant choruses give way to the meditative lyricism of solo movements, chromatic embellishments keeping the music constantly poised between joy and sadness.
There will be no interval