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BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 50

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Prom 50

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2011

Mozart

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Stephen Layton conducts Polyphony and the City of London Sinfonia in Mozart's Requiem.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Stephen Layton conducts a distinguished array of soloists, Polyphony and the City of London Sinfonia in Mozart's tragic masterpiece the Requiem.

BBC PROMS 2011

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Continuing the Proms Choral Sundays with Mozart's tragic masterpiece which was composed in the final months of his life and left unfinished at his death. Also on the programme is the young Benjamin Britten's tribute to his teacher, Frank Bridge, and a new work by Colin Matthews which arose out of what the composer describes as an obsession with the First World War. The work sets texts from the poet, Christopher Reid's Airs and Ditties of No Man's Land which have as their scenario the image of the corpses of two soldiers hanging on the barbed wire of no-man's-land. As they do so, scraps of song, memories and reflections pass through their minds. Stephen Layton conducts Polyphony, the group that he founded in 1986, along with the City of London Sinfonia of which he is now the Principal Conductor.

Mozart (compl. Süssmayr): Requiem in D minor 

Emma Bell (soprano)
Renata Pokupic (mezzo-soprano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Henk Neven (bass)
Polyphony
City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Layton (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 23rd August at 2.30pm.

BBC Proms: 2011

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 117th season of the BBC Proms.

Polyphony, the City of London Sinfonia under Stephen Layton in Britten, Matthews, Mozart

Stephen Layton conducts Polyphony, the City of London Sinfonia and soloists in a choral Prom, featuring music by Britten, Colin Matthews and Mozart

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