BBC Proms Season 2023 Episode 19 - Mozart's Great Mass at the Proms

Airdate: 2023-Sep-08

Episode summary:

John Butt conducts Baroque ensemble the Dunedin Consort in Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, recorded at the BBC Proms on Sunday August 6. They are joined on stage by an all-star roster of vocal soloists - Nardus Williams, Lucy Crowe, Jess Dandy, Benjamin Hulett and Robert Davies - for this much-loved work, which takes up the entire second half of the concert. for the first half, the ensemble performs a series of shorter pieces by JS Bach and CPE Bach, two men who inspired Mozart in the creation of his mighty Mass. Presented by Katie Derham, with guest Anna Lapwood.

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