Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	16th August 2015
To	16th August 2015
When	15:30
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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Date of change: 3 Jun 15 - T547134286

Prom 41 - Sherlock Holmes - A Musical Mind

Work:: Prom 41 (S5972)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Sherlock Holmes - A Musical Mind (T547134286)

The Proms salutes a crime-fighting violin virtuoso who wrote a pioneering study of Dutch sacred music, tussled with a contralto from the Warsaw Opera and used Offenbach to outwit a pair of jewel thieves. This Proms matinee celebrates music that conjures up the world of Sherlock Holmes: works by Paganini, Lassus and Wagner which Conan Doyle tells us Holmes loved, and the film and TV scores written for him - from Mikl?s R?zsa's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes to David Arnold and Michael Price's music from the BBC's Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Special guests include Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, as well as mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, who explores the repertoire of Holmes's nemesis, the opera singer Irene Adler. Finish time approx. 17:30

Performer	Mark Gatiss (actor)
Performer	Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
Performer	Jack Liebeck (violin)
Performer	Matthew Sweet (presenter)
Performer	Stile Antico
Company	BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor	Barry Wordsworth

Listing:: L2077482401

Sherlock Holmes - A Musical Mind

The Proms salutes a crime-fighting violin virtuoso who wrote a pioneering study of Dutch sacred music, tussled with a contralto from the Warsaw Opera and used Offenbach to outwit a pair of jewel thieves. This Proms matinee celebrates music that conjures up the world of Sherlock Holmes: works by Paganini, Lassus and Wagner which Conan Doyle tells us Holmes loved, and the film and TV scores written for him - from Mikl?s R?zsa's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes to David Arnold and Michael Price's music from the BBC's Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Special guests include Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, as well as mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, who explores the repertoire of Holmes's nemesis, the opera singer Irene Adler. Finish time approx. 17:30

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