Prom 72 - Last Night of the Proms 2022

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Last Night of the Proms 2022
19:15 Saturday 10 September 2022 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Grażyna Bacewicz: Overture for Orchestra
Trad: Deep River (arr. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
Karl Davydov: At the Fountain
James B. Wilson: 1922
Wagner: Tannhäuser – ‘Dich, teure Halle’
Grieg: 12 Songs, Op. 33 - 'Våren''
Sibelius: Snöfrid
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn; Intermezzo
Verdi: Macbeth – ‘Vieni! t'affretta!’
Ian Farrington: A Party with Auntie (world premiere)
Doreen Carwithen: ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) Overture
Emmerich Kálmán: ‘Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland’
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras – Cantilena
Valentin Siyvestrov: Prayer for Ukraine
Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Arne: Rule, Britannia!
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
Parry (orch. Elgar): Jerusalem
The National Anthem (arr. Britten)
Trad: Auld Lang Syne

Lise Davidsen (soprano)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Harriet Walter (actor)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s nothing quite like the Last Night of the Proms – the happiest annual celebration in the classical music calendar. BBC Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska returns to host a concert that stars soprano Lise Davidsen and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in party pieces by Verdi, Wagner and Coleridge-Taylor, as well as a salute to a century of innovation from rising British composer James B. Wilson – before giving the 2022 BBC Proms a send-off with all the traditional Last Night favourites. Until next year!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've adjusted the programme list slightly. The BBC website compiler gives the impression that Deep River was an original composition by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

[PhilipT]

For those planning to Prom, the Hall have published queuing arrangements here: https://www.royalalberthall.com/abou...he-proms-2022/

How they can say, in the same breath, that queue numbers are non-transferable and they will issue up to two per person, is beyond me. I hope it means that if you lose the first one they will give you a second, but if you lose that they won't give you a third. I hope.

[Barbirollians]

I hate these naff bitty Last Nights - they have Sheku for heaven's sake - given him a concerto to play.

[Prommer]

I hate these naff bitty Last Nights - they have Sheku for heaven's sake - given him a concerto to play.

Yes, though some good stuff for Lise to sing.

[Prommer]

Would have loved something BY SC-T at the Last Night. Excerpts from Hiawatha?

[Petrushka]

The heart sinks on several levels at seeing the Last Night come round yet again.

End of summer, inevitable countdown to Christmas, naff programming, embarrassing conductor's speech, token commission item, famous singer letting their hair down. Nothing really changes. Yet the thing is - I always watch it!

[smittims]

I hope you enjoy it more than you suggest, Petrushka. I've avoided it for some years now, since it became too rowdy and dumbed-down. I think a happy medium was reached around 1970, e.g. Norman del Mar's restoration of the original Sea Songs fantasia, and Malcolm Arnold's 'fantasia for audience and orchestra'.

[oddoneout]

I hope you enjoy it more than you suggest, Petrushka. I've avoided it for some years now, since it became too rowdy and dumbed-down. I think a happy medium was reached around 1970, e.g. Norman del Mar's restoration of the original Sea Songs fantasia, and Malcolm Arnold's 'fantasia for audience and orchestra'.

I find it all seems rather too long and over-egged now - but that might also be an age thing; I no longer feel so duty bound to put up with things I don't enjoy!

[Ein Heldenleben]

The heart sinks on several levels at seeing the Last Night come round yet again.

End of summer, inevitable countdown to Christmas, naff programming, embarrassing conductor's speech, token commission item, famous singer letting their hair down. Nothing really changes. Yet the thing is - I always watch it!

Controversially ,along with millions of other sad dupes, I quite like the Last Night. Traditionally it was the night we first contemplated switching on the central heating …..that won’t be happening this year. I’m hanging on for the Festival Of Remembrance…

[smittims]

We're beginning to sound like what Ted Greenfield used to call 'unenjoyers'. But I suppose the Last Night's enormous popularity deters the BBc from giving it what I feel would be a much-needed overhaul. I'd prefer it to be closer to a normal concert. It could still be fun, and feature festive or even humorous works without the vulgarity of recent years.

[Petrushka]

We're beginning to sound like what Ted Greenfield used to call 'unenjoyers'. But I suppose the Last Night's enormous popularity deters the BBc from giving it what I feel would be a much-needed overhaul. I'd prefer it to be closer to a normal concert. It could still be fun, and feature festive or even humorous works without the vulgarity of recent years.

What they used to do was have a long first half that was a concert in itself and no-one would have complained that they hadn't had their money's worth if they'd gone home in the interval.. The second half was for the usual jollifications. In my view, this worked very well. Nowadays, it's a concert that is more or less solely made up of bits and pieces with nothing lasting much longer than five minutes for the Classic FM generation.

[Ein Heldenleben]

What they used to do was have a long first half that was a concert in itself and no-one would have complained that they hadn't had their money's worth if they'd gone home in the interval.. The second half was for the usual jollifications. In my view, this worked very well. Nowadays, it's a concert that is more or less solely made up of bits and pieces with nothing lasting much longer than five minutes for the Classic FM generation.

My line in the sand is Proms In The Park(s) and the inevitable Danny Boy in syrupy arrangement from NI . There must be another folk song with no sectarian connections they can sing….

[Serial_Apologist]

Not knowing most of the first half I may well listen to as far as, but not including the usual National Front/British Movement stuff, and then switch off and do something meaningful for a change.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Not knowing most of the first half I may well listen to as far as, but not including the usual National Front/British Movement stuff, and then switch off and do something meaningful for a change.

Jerusalem is pretty much pure visionary anarchism.Land Of Hope and Glory cannot be sung unironically , and Auld Lang Syne is just about the only time when Lowland Scots is heard in England on broadcast TV.