Spohr, The Last Judgement
CUMS Chorus
Faust Chamber Orchestra
Mark Austin, conductor
Rosalind Coad, soprano
Anna Harvey, mezzo-soprano
Bradley Smith, tenor
Adam Green, baritone
A rare performance of Spohr’s oratorio, hugely popular with audiences in the nineteenth century until the First World War. Spohr was a leading musician of his age – virtuoso violinist, a friend of Beethoven, the first conductor to use a baton, and the inventor of rehearsal letters. His unique blend of Romanticism and Handel-like choral writing is now being rediscovered by performers and audiences alike.
TICKETS: £25, £21, £18; students: £10; available from LSO St Luke’s Box Office. Tel: 020 7638 8891; web: www.barbican.org.uk or lso.co.uk/whats-on
Please note: this concert will also be performed on Sunday, 6 March at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
