Prom 26: Late Night Serpent and Fire – 2.08.18

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

22:15
Royal Albert Hall

Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (excerpts)
Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
Henry Purcell: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
Christoph Graupner: Dido, Queen of Carthage (excerpts)
Antonio Sartorio: Julius Caesar in Egypt (excerpts)
Matthew Locke: The Tempest – Curtain Tune
George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar in Egypt – ‘Che sento? Oh Dio! … Se pietà di me non senti’
Dario Castello: Sonata No. 15 in D minor
Francesco Cavalli: Dido – 'Rè de' Getuli altero … Il mio marito'
Johann Adolf Hasse: Mark Antony and Cleopatra – ‘Morte col fiero aspetto’
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in C minor, Op. 6 No. 8

Anna Prohaska soprano
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini conductor


Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska joins Italy's leading early music ensemble for a programme that takes inspiration from two great queens, Cleopatra and Dido, who proved endlessly fascinating to Baroque composers. Operatic arias are framed by some of the period's most vital instrumental works.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Much of this is new to me.

[doversoul1]

Much of this is new to me.

More details and samplers.

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8166166--serpent-fire

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

More details and samplers.
https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/cl...--serpent-fire

Many thanks. Just what the doctor ordered.

[LMcD]

Can somebody please explain the significance of 'Serpent and Fire'?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can somebody please explain the significance of 'Serpent and Fire'?

Presumably referring to the fates of the two Queens featured - Cleopatra for the Serpent, and (contrary to Purcell/Tate's "laid in earth") Dido for the fire?

<diDoh!> except that in Cavalli's opera, she meets someone else after Aeneas' heinous behaviour and she goes off to live happily ever after!

[doversoul1]

Bump.
Tonight 10.15 pm

[BBMmk2]

What a great Prom this should be!

[CallMePaul]

What a great Prom this should be!

I for another am looking forward to this! I always enjoy the byways of Baroque vocal music.

[edashtav]

Superlatives are insufficient...

What a great Prom this should be!

It was. To mangle the conductors words: it was an efficient, effective concert of marvellously affective baroque music. Anna Prohaska was in stunnining form and Antonioni had polished Il Giardino Armonico’s playing so that it sparkled like a Rolls Royce prepared not for one but two Queens. My stand-out concert of what is a very fine Proms season. Unforgettable, it will be an unforgotten occasion.

[BBMmk2]

It was. To mangle the conductors words: it was an efficient, effective concert of marvellously affective baroque music. Anna Prohaska was in stunnining form and Antonioni had polished Il Giardino Armonico’s playing so that it sparkled like a Rolls Royce prepared not for one but two Queens. My stand-out concert of what is a very fine Proms season. Unforgettable, it will be an unforgotten occasion.

Very much agree with you edash! Need to listen again.

[doversoul1]

The sort of a concert that makes me grin from ear to ear while I listen. Most enjoyable. I see what it means when people say the RAH being cavernous. Hasn’t HIPP come a very long way!?

[bluestateprommer]

What a great Prom this should be!

Indeed it was, over iPlayer (and no doubt in the RAH for those lucky to be there), which I caught just before the 30-day deadline. Absolutely splendid concert, wonderful work all around from AP, GA and Il Giardino Armonico.