Elizabeth Watts, Kathryn Rudge, Peter Auty, James Platt, Richard Pearce, Iain Farrington, The BBC Singers, David Hill

There is more faith in honest doubt,’ Rossini once said. In his ‘Little Solemn Mass’ – famously neither little nor solemn – he somehow captured that feeling in music whose joy is tinged with grief and anxiety, amid vocal writing of purity and pungency.

For this first ‘Proms at …’ matinee, in the stunning Old Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, the BBC Singers and David Hill present the Proms premiere of what the composer called ‘the last mortal sin of my old age’.