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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Johannes Brahms – Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, Op.15
~ Interval ~
Leoš Janáček – Glagolitic Mass (original version, reconstructed P. Wingfield)
Performers
Barry Douglas – piano
Mlada Khudoley – soprano
Yulia Matochkina – mezzo-soprano
Mikhail Vekua – tenor
Yuri Vorobiev – bass
Valery Gergiev – Conductor
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
‘In the tenor solo I hear a high priest,’ Janáček said of his Glagolitic Mass, ‘in the soprano solo a girlish angel and in the chorus our people.’ These elements,combined with organ and orchestra, yield a huge, passionate secular oratorio celebrating life, nationhood and peace.
In the first half Barry Douglas, whose relationship with the Proms goes back almost 20 years, returns with Brahms’s elemental First Piano Concerto - a work that distils all the conflict of the composer’s relationship with the troubled Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.