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BBC Proms: Afterlife: Visions of the Beyond
Thu 23 Jul
|Royal Albert Hall
With the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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Time & Location
23 Jul 2026, 19:00 – 23:00
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AP, UK
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Music pierces the veil between heaven and earth in a spiritually charged concert that opens in contemplation and ends in the blaze of ascension and transfiguration. Voices are raised in prayer in Lili Boulanger’s haunting Vieille prière bouddhique, intensified in the rapt, intimate intercessions of Szymanowski’s Stabat mater. Unearthly beauty is revealed in Messiaen’s L’Ascension, before a dying man is raised to heaven in Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration.
Ryan Bancroft © Benjamin Ealovega
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