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Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2018

Last Night of the Proms, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers and Chorus, plus soloists Gerald Finley and Jess Gillam.

The Last Night of the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers & Chorus, plus soloists Gerald Finley & Jess Gillam.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Presented by Ian Skelly and Georgia Mann

Hindemith: Neues vom Tage: OuvertΓΌre
Berlioz: LΓ©lio - Fantaisie sur La TempΓͺte' de Shakespeare
Roxanna Panufnik: Songs of Darkess, Dreams of Light (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Commission,World Premiere)
Stanford: Songs of the Sea
Stanford: The Blue Bird
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens

c.8.15pm
Interval: Georgia Mann and Ian Skelly look back at the last two months of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms in the company of guests, and Georgia Mann gets a sense of the excitement in the arena with some of the Prommers.

c.8.35pm
Saint-SaΓ«ns: Suite algΓ©rienne - Marche militaire francaise
Milhaud: Scaramouche
Rodgers: Soliloquy – Carousel
Arr Anne Dudley: World War 1 Songs:
Roses of Picardy
It's a long, long way to Tipperary
Keep right on to the end of the road
Keep the home fires burning
Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne arr Sargent: Rule Britannia!
Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance March No.1 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Parry arr Elgar: Jerusalem
Britten: The National Anthem
Trad arr Paul Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Gerald Finley (baritone)
Jess Gillam (saxophone)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Davis, the much-loved former Chief Conductor of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and a veteran steersman of the Last Night, returns to direct the greatest annual party in classical music. The popular nautical theme of traditional favourites by Henry Wood and Thomas Arne is extended in Stanford’s Songs of the Sea, featuring star Canadian baritone Gerald Finley.

Another British choral classic, Blest Pair of Sirens – honouring the β€˜harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse’ – joins Jerusalem in the centenary year of Hubert Parry’s death.

There’s a dash of Broadway in the touching β€˜Soliloquy’ from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, in which the wife-battering Billy finds new eloquence while vowing to change his ways, and a more mischievous streak in Milhaud’s delightful suite Scaramouche.

Roxanna Panufnik’s new commission, Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light, rounds off a series of over 40 world, UK or London premieres this season, continuing the forward-looking vision of Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood.

3 hours, 44 minutes

Last on

Sat 8 Sep 2018 19:15
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Paul Hindemith

    Neues vom Tage (Overture)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Fantaisie sur La Tempete de Shakespeare (Leilo)

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Songs of the Sea

    Performer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Bluebird

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Hubert Parry

    Blest Pair of Sirens

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Marche militaire Francaise (Suite algΓ©rienne)

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Soliloquy (Carousel)

    Performer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Anne Dudley

    World War 1 Songs (Medley)

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Henry Wood

    Fantasia on British Sea-Songs

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Thomas Arne

    Rule, Britannia!

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory')

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Hubert Parry

    Jerusalem

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Conductor: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Trad.

    The National Anthem

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Trad.

    Auld Lang Syne

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    A March-Jig (Four Irish Dances, no.1)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Percy Grainger.
    • Grainger: Piano Transcriptions: Pires Lane, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    A Slow Dance (Four Irish Dances, no.2)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Percy Grainger.
    • Grainger: Piano Transcriptions: Pires Lane, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Leprechaun's Dance (Four Irish Dances, no.3)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Percy Grainger.
    • Grainger: Piano Transcriptions: Pires Lane, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    A Reel (4 Irish dances Op.89)

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Grainger: Piano Transcriptions: Pires Lane, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Merry Wedding

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Constanze Backes. Singer: Nicola Jenkin. Singer: Frances Jellard. Singer: Susanna Spicer. Singer: Julian Podger. Singer: Paul Tindall. Singer: Colin Campbell. Singer: Stephen Charlesworth. Singer: Noel Mann.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Three Ravens

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Colin Campbell. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Sep 2018 19:15
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