BBC Proms 2020 Season - The Manchester Camerata [2005] (320kbps .mp3)

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

BBC Proms: Our series exploring the Proms archives continues with a performance from 2005 marking the Manchester Camerata’s debut at the festival. Kate Royal returned for her third Proms visit to sing a pair of Mozart arias, having won the Kathleen Ferrier Award the previous summer. Michael Tippett’s Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round, which draws on British music from across the centuries, was an apt inclusion in the centenary year of the composer’s birth. Beethoven’s sparkling Eighth Symphony contrasts with his ballet overture in praise of the Greek-mythical creator of mankind.

01. Beethoven - Overture - The Creatures of Prometheus
01a. Introduction to the Manchester Camerata prom
02. Tippett - Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round
02a. Introduction to Tippett’s Divertimento
03. Mozart - Concert arias
i.  ‘Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia’, K582
ii. ‘Bella mia fiamma … Resta, o cara’, K528
03a. Introduction to Mozart’s concert arias
04. Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 in F major
04a. Introduction to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in

Kate Royal (soprano)
Manchester Camerata
Douglas Boyd (conductor)

(From the BBC Proms 2005, 27 July)