BBC Proms 98

Synopsis

James Naughtie introduces a concert of popular Baroque music, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall on 17 August. Christopher Hogwood conducts the Academy of Ancient Music, with the Choir of New College, Oxford, in a programme including Zadok the Priest and Water Music by Handel and Bach's Violin Concerto in E. With soloists Andrew Manze (violin) and Emma Kirkby (soprano), who sings the Vivaldi motet Nulla in Mundo Pax, which featured in the film Shine.