Performances of Choir of the Age of Enlightenment at BBC Proms

Sun 9 Aug 2026

• 19:00

  The OAE Plays Mozart and Haydn

  Royal Albert Hall

  Peter Whelan leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and massed forces in a musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna, featuring Haydn’s choral tour de force the ‘Nelson Mass’ as well as works by Mozart and Zelenka

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  Peter Whelan leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and massed forces in a musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna, featuring Haydn’s choral tour de force the ‘Nelson Mass’ as well as works by Mozart and Zelenka

  Programme

  • • • Jan Dismas Zelenka
      • Miserere in C minor(14 mins)
    • • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      • Masonic Funeral Music(5 mins)
      • Aria ‘Schon lacht der holde Frühling’(8 mins)
      • Aria ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!’(6 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Joseph Haydn
      • Mass in D minor, ‘Nelson Mass’(42 mins)

  Performers

  • Erin Morley

    soprano
    soprano
  • Helen Charlston

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Guy Cutting

    tenor
    tenor
  • William Thomas

    bass
    bass
  • Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
  • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
  • Peter Whelan

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Joseph Haydn

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