Name: Proms 2014 Prom 17: Rameau – Grands Motets
Start: 2014-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

William Christie

Soprano

Rachel Redmond

Katherine Watson

Tenor

Reinoud Van Mechelen

Cyril Auvity

Singer

Cyril Costanzo

Bass

Marc Mauillon

Baritone

Proms 2014 Prom 17: Rameau – Grands Motets

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Private

Concert

Deus noster refugium, RCT 13

In convertendo

Quam dilecta tabernacula, RCT 15

Arshiya Banu

Approved

Returning for its second concert this season, Les Arts Florissants is joined by founder-conductor William Christie for a Late Night Prom that transforms the Royal Albert Hall into the gilded splendour of the Chapel Royal at Versailles, combining choir, orchestra and soloists for Rameau’s 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.

English

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