BBC Proms · SEASON 75
Prom 47: Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Episode 21 · 2021-09-10
- Documentary
Episode overview
Bach’s crowning masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion combines moments of extraordinary fragility and tenderness with raw choral power and explosive jubilation, bitter grief with passages of consolation. With double chorus and orchestra, its scope and ambition is vast – a piece made for the Royal Albert Hall. Following on from their gripping account of Handel’s Theodora in 2018, period-instrument ensemble Arcangelo and Director Jonathan Cohen return to the Proms, joined by a glittering line-up of soloists including Roderick Williams and rising star Stuart Jackson.
180 minutes
Season 75 episodes
1. First Night of the Proms: Part 12021-07-30
2. First Night of the Proms: Part 22021-07-30
3. Prom 4: An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra2021-08-01
4. Prom 8: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra2021-08-05
5. Prom 5: Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales2021-08-06
6. Prom 2: The Golden Age of Broadway2021-08-07
7. Prom 10: Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB2021-08-08
8. Prom 14/15: Stravinsky from Memory2021-08-13
9. Prom 17: Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart2021-08-15
10. Prom 20: To Soothe the Aching Heart (A Night at the Opera)2021-08-19
11. Prom 22: Nubya Garcia2021-08-20
12. Prom 26: Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra2021-08-22
13. Prom 28: Chineke! Orchestra2021-08-26
14. Prom 29/30: Joshua Bell's Seasons: Vivaldi vs Piazzolla2021-08-27
15. Prom 34/35: Family Prom - The Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons2021-08-29
16. Prom 31: George Lewis & Beethoven2021-09-02
17. Prom 25: Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra2021-09-03
18. Prom 38: Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists2021-09-05
19. Prom 42: John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London2021-09-09
21. Prom 47: Bach’s St Matthew Passion2021-09-10
22. Last Night of the Proms 2021 - Part 12021-09-11
23. Last Night of the Proms - Part 22021-09-11
