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A Prom from a century ago: A recreation of The Last Night of the Proms from 1910.

We have a special concert today from the 2010 BBC Proms which takes us back one hundred years to the Last Night of the Proms of 1910. 

We’ll enjoy the popular music of the time from composers such as Dorothy Forster who had one of the hits of that year with her song Mifanwy. We’ll hear an arrangement of Paganini’s virtuosic Moto Perpetuo by Percy Pitt, who was instrumental in getting the fledgling BBC involved with the Proms, as well as featuring old favourites such as Sir Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March no 4, which has endured across the century.  

We also pay tribute to the driving force behind the Promenade concerts, who conducted this very Prom one hundred years ago - Sir Henry Wood.

Wagner: Overture  - The Flying Dutchman
Beethoven: Rondino for wind octet
Paganini: Moto Perpetuo, arr. Percy Pitt 
Dvorak: Humoresque orch. Henry Wood
German: Merrie England – Who were the Yeomen of England
Forster: Mifanwy
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 4

BBC Concert Orchestra 
Conductor: Paul Daniel (pictured above)

The Prom is presented by Louise Fryer with her guest, the writer and broadcaster Andrew Green.

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