Prom 75 - Last Night of the Proms 14.09.19

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

19:15 Saturday 14 September 2019
Royal Albert Hall

Daniel Kidane: Woke
Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat – Suite No. 2
Edward Elgar: Sospiri
Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon
Georges Bizet: Carmen – ‘L’amour est un oiseau rebelle’ (Habanera)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah – ‘Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix’
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos – ‘O don fatale’
Giuseppe Verdi: Aida – Triumphal March
Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld – overture
Percy Grainger: Marching Song of Democracy
Elizabeth Maconchy: Proud Thames
Harold Arlen: The Wizard of Oz – ‘Over the Rainbow’
Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Thomas Arne: Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)
Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
Unknown: The National Anthem (arr. Britten)
Trad., arr. Paul Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Jamie Barton mezzo-soprano
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor

From orchestral dances and marches to songs and arias, Offenbach’s light-footed musical comedy to Verdi’s operatic tragedies, world premieres to traditional favourites, this year’s Last Night of the Proms is a spectacular climax to the world’s greatest classical music festival.

Charismatic American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, whose lustrous voice has established her as one of the most exciting performers of her generation, joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to lead the musical celebrations.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As it's Henry Wood's year, might it not have been appropriate to have used his Rule Britannia, rather than Sir Malcolm's?

Also, perhaps the Grainger piece should be renamed "Marching Song of Proroguing".

[oddoneout]

Essential Classics for night birds...

[Alison]

What a crazy programme when you think about it.

[Pulcinella]

Oops: wrong date in the header, Alpie!

I usually watch on TV: hard not to get caught up in it, and I often enjoy the conductor's speech. But this year I shall be at Opera North's production of Martinu's The Greek Passion in Leeds.

[LMcD]

Oops: wrong date in the header, Alpie!

I usually watch on TV: hard not to get caught up in it, and I often enjoy the conductor's speech. But this year I shall be at Opera North's production of Martinu's The Greek Passion in Leeds.

I'm afraid I find it all too easy not to get caught up in it - I can't remember the Last Time I watched the Last Night. But I hope that those present/listening/watching enjoy it, if only because it might offer temporary relief from UNOWOT …!

[oddoneout]

I'm afraid I find it all too easy not to get caught up in it - I can't remember the Last Time I watched the Last Night. But I hope that those present/listening/watching enjoy it, if only because it might offer temporary relief from UNOWOT …!

Agreed on both points.

[DracoM]

Last Night cannot come too soon for me.

[Bella Kemp]

It might be appropriate if they played the Marching Song of Democracy backwards.

[John Locke]

It might be appropriate if they played the Marching Song of Democracy backwards.

Two birds with one stone?

[DracoM]

And an American soloist? Erm.............? 'Rule Britannia'.......erm....? Really?

[cloughie]

And an American soloist? Erm.............? 'Rule Britannia'.......erm....? Really?

Over singing and over here!

[Bryn]

Over singing and over here!

I don't remember such xenophobic renting when this occurred:

Nor when Willard White took up the challenge.

[cloughie]

I don't remember such xenophobic renting when this occurred:

I didn’t know Kiri was American!

[Bryn]

I didn’t know Kiri was American!

Neither is she British. That is the point.