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BBC Proms: 2016: Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms

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Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms

10/09/2016

2016

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2016, Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Last Night of the 2016 Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Last Night of the 2016 Proms. Leading soloists join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers conducted by Sakari Oramo.

The Last Night of the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and Chorus, and soloists headed by Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez in a Last Night that also showcases a hand-picked selection of young singers in Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music. 

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny 

Tom Harrold: Raze (BBC commission: world premiere)
Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
Borodin: Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances (Act 2)
Rossini: La Cenerentola - Si, ritrovarla io giuro
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore - Una furtiva lagrima
Offenbach: La Belle Hélène - Au mont Ida 
Britten: Matinées musicales
Jonathan Dove: Our revels now are ended

8.25pm INTERVAL: Petroc Trelawny and Clemency Burton-Hill look back at the last two months of the BBC Proms in the company of guests, and Georgia Mann gets a sense of the excitement in the arena with some of the Prommers.

8.50pm
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Donizetti: La Fille du régiment - 'Ah! mes amis'
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory' 
Arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Arne: Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)
Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
The National Anthem (arr. Britten) 

Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) 
Francesca Chiejina, Eve Daniell, Lauren Fagan, Alison Rose (sopranos) 
Claire Barnett-Jones, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Anna Harvey, Katie Stevenson (mezzo-sopranos) 
Trystan Llyr Griffiths, Oliver Johnston, Joshua Owen Mills, James Way (tenors) 
Bragi Jónsson, Benjamin Lewis, James Newby, Bradley Travis (basses) 
BBC Proms Youth Ensemble 
BBC Singers 
BBC Symphony Chorus 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Sakari Oramo conductor.

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