BBC Proms 2019: Prom 1 – First Night of the Proms
Janáček’s monumental Glagolitic Mass launches the BBC Proms with thunderous spiritual drama. Karina Canellakis conducts the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and BBC Singers in one of the 20th century’s great choral masterpieces.
Programme
Zosha Di Castri
Long Is the Journey – Short Is the Memory (15 mins)
BBC commission: world premiere
Antonín Dvořák
The Golden Spinning Wheel(28 mins)
INTERVAL
Leos Janáček
Glagolitic Mass(43 mins)
Final version 1928 Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1930