Performances & Interviews
Programme
- Flounce(5 mins)³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ commission: world premiere
- Budavári Te Deum(21 mins)
- An Impression on a Windy Day(7 mins)
- Finlandia(8 mins)(choral version)
- Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod(17 mins)
- interval
- Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance(5 mins)London premiere
- Happy End(5 mins)'Surabaya Johnny'
- Lady in the Dark(5 mins)arr. Olov Helge - 'The Saga of Jenny'
- Pardon My English(3 mins)orch. Paul Bateman, arr. James Holmes
- Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(18 mins)(arr. Wood)
- Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(5 mins)
- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
- Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(3 mins)
- The National Anthem (arr. Bliss)(3 mins)
- Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)arr C.T. Davie
Performers
- Nina Stemmesoprano
- Lucy Crowesoprano
- Christine Ricemezzo-soprano
- Ben Johnsontenor
- John Relyeabass
- Sakari Oramoconductor
About This Event
Sakari Oramo and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s musical strands into the exuberant celebration that is the Last Night of the Proms.
They mark the 50th anniversaries of the deaths of composers Zoltán Kodály and Malcolm Sargent (better known as the longtime chief conductor of the Proms), and celebrate John Adams’s 70th birthday with the London premiere of his exhilarating Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance.
Music by Sibelius marks the 100th anniversary of Finnish Independence, and Nina Stemme, arguably the world’s greatest living Wagnerian soprano, leads the end-of-season festivities.
Broadcast 9 September, first half on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two, second half on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One
Image: Nina Stemme © Kristian Schuller