Prom 9: Le Cercle de l’Harmonie

22 Jul 2016, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 22 Jul 2016 Next Event

19:30 Fri 22 Jul 2016 Royal Albert Hall

The French early music ensemble brings Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony and Mozart’s Symphony No.39 to the Proms, in their first appearance at the festival. Jérémie Rhorer conducts.

TV & Radio

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Programme

- - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  - Symphony No. 39 in E flat major(29 mins)
- - Felix Mendelssohn
  - Concert aria 'Infelice'(13 mins)
- - interval
- - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  - Concert aria 'Ah, lo previdi', K272(13 mins)
- - Felix Mendelssohn
  - Symphony No 4 in A major 'Italian'(27 mins)

Performers

Rosa Feola
soprano
soprano
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Jérémie Rhorer’s energetic period-instrument ensemble makes its Proms debut along with fast-rising soprano Rosa Feola. The orchestra opens with Mozart’s vigorous Symphony No. 39, the first of the composer’s final trilogy.

Just like Mozart, Mendelssohn had an uncanny way of balancing head and heart in complex musical arguments, as heard in the thrusting brilliance of his Fourth Symphony, the ‘Italian’, tinged with poetry and romance.