Synopsis

Charles Hazlewood presents the inaugural of fourteen Promenade concerts to be broadcast by BBC4 from London’s Royal Albert Hall. This evening, Charles Mackerras, a highly respected interpreter of eighteenth-century music, conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a performance of Joseph Haydn's *The Creation*, sung in German. The soloists are soprano Christiane Oelze, tenor Paul Groves, and bass John Relyea. Joining Charles Hazlewood for the interval is Nicholas Kenyon, Director of t