Nelson Mass at the BBC Proms

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A musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna. Peter Whelan directs Haydn's late masterpiece.

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.

Violinist Julia Kuhn and bass player Cecelia Bryggemyer playing in the playground at Acland burghley School

Japanese conductor Masaaki Suzuki conducts the OAE with singer Florian Stortz

OAE musicians run a workshop in a school classroom

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Sunday 9 August 2026, 19:00

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A musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna. Peter Whelan directs Haydn's late masterpiece.

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