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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 75

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 75: Part 1: Prom 75 (part 1): Last Night of the Proms

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Prom 75 (part 1): Last Night of the Proms

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 75 (part 1): Last Night of the Proms

2013

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The Last Night of the Proms, with music by Wagner, Bernstein, Britten, Massenet and Handel

Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present the Last Night of the Proms. Marin Alsop conducts the BBC SO in a work by Anna Clyne, plus Wagner, Bernstein, Britten, Massenet and Handel.

The Last Night of the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Nigel Kennedy

The Last Night begins with a celebratory new work by Anna Clyne and includes a rare performance of Britten's 1967 overture for chorus and orchestra, The Building of The House, a touch of Broadway magic and the sound of a glass ceiling being broken as Marin Alsop takes charge of her first Last Night. Nigel Kennedy and Joyce DiDonato are the star soloists in a programme that picks up sea-faring themes from Bantock and George Lloyd and includes a transatlantic flavour.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein


Anna Clyne: Masquerade (BBC commission: world premiere)
Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - overture
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Britten: The Building of the House
Bernstein: Candide - 'Make Our Garden Grow'
Massenet: Chérubin - 'Je suis gris! je suis ivre!'
Handel: Xerxes - 'Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù'
Rossini: La donna del lago - 'Tanti affetti in tal momento!'

9:00pm Interval

9:20pm
Bernstein: Candide - overture
Verdi: Nabucco - 'Va, pensiero' (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
Arlen: Over the Rainbow
Monti: Csárdás
Trad. arr. Chris Hazell: Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Rodgers: Carousel - 'You'll never walk alone'
Bantock: The Sea Reivers
Lloyd: HMS Trinidad March
Arne: Rule, Britannia!
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory')
Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem
Britten: National Anthem

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Nigel Kennedy (violin)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor).

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 75

Prom 75

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 119th season of the BBC Proms.

Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present the traditional Last Night of the Proms celebrations.

Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present the traditional Last Night of the Proms celebrations, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop and violinist Nigel Kennedy

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