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The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

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BBC Proms: 2016

Tom Service

Marin Alsop

undefined Age of Enlightenment

BBC Proms Youth Choir

Tamara Wilson

Alisa Kolosova

Dmitri Pittas

Morris Robinson

Serena Cross

Oliver Macfarlane

BBC Proms: 2016: Verdi Requiem

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Verdi Requiem

09/09/2016

2016

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The 2016 Proms season draws to a close with Verdi's Requiem.

The Proms season draws to a close with Verdi's Requiem. Its fire and brimstone depiction of death and destruction never fails to appeal, most famously in the tumultuous Dies Irae.

The 2016 Proms season draws to a close with a bang not a whimper, with Verdi's thunderous Requiem. Marin Alsop is at the helm of the penultimate prom, conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

Tom Service introduces for television and talks to Marin Alsop backstage. The soloists lining up for Verdi's largest scale non-operatic work are soprano Tamara Wilson, mezzo-soprano Alisa Kolosova, Dimitri Pittas and bass Morris Robinson. 

The Requiem had its British premiere in 1875 at the Royal Albert Hall with the composer himself conducting and it is still packing the audiences in. Its fire and brimstone depiction of death and destruction never fails to appeal, most famously of all in the tumultuous Dies Irae.

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