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Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: The OAE and Peter Whelan are joined by Erin Morley, Helen Charlston, Guy Cutting and William Thomas to perform Haydn's 'Nelson Mass' and music by Mozart.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Zelenka: Miserere in C minor
Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Mozart: Aria ‘Schon lacht der holde Frühling’
Mozart: Aria ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!’

c. 7:45pm
Interval: Jeremy Summerly talks about the relationship between Haydn and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and guides us through the history and music of Haydn's Nelson Mass.

c. 8:05pm
Haydn: Mass in D minor, ‘Nelson Mass’

Erin Morley (soprano)
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
Guy Cutting (tenor)
William Thomas (bass)
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Peter Whelan (conductor)

A musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna. The threat to Austria from Napoleon’s army is vividly rendered in the turbulent opening of Haydn’s choral tour de force, the ‘Nelson Mass’, but it’s Nelson’s victory we hear in the celebratory ending. There’s brooding spiritual darkness from Zelenka’s Miserere and Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music – written in response to the deaths of two of the composer’s fellow Freemasons. Soprano Erin Morley is the soloist in two of Mozart’s showstopping ‘insertion’ arias.