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The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, Dalia Stasevska, made her Last Night debut in the climax of a Proms season like no other.

South African soprano Golda Schultz sings a ravishing aria from Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro and the rapt, intimate song ‘Morgen!’ written by Richard Strauss as a wedding-day gift to his wife. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestras is also joined violinist Nicola Benedetti for Vaughan Williams’s soaring The Lark Ascending.

In these unsettled times, a new commission by Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi points to music’s bright future. There's Belize-born composer Errollyn Wallen's Jerusalem – our clouded hills. her creatively reimagined arrangement, dedicated it to the Windrush generation, based on Elgar’s take on Parry’s setting of Blake’s words. There are Last Night favourites including Parry's original Jerusalem, for which the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers join the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SO, and at the end, a specially-recorded Lockdown recording of Auld Lang Syne by singers from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Chorus and the National Chorus of Wales plus musicians from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's orchestras.

Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, recorded in September 2020.