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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lise Davidsen and Dalia Stasevska all star as the world’s biggest classical music festival comes to a close – with all the tradition and fun of the Last Night of the Proms!
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra perform music by Rachmaninov, Chausson and Saint-Saëns (with violinist Lisa Batiashvili as soloist) and champion a rediscovered American classic: the romantic First Symphony by Florence Price.
The Philadelphia Orchestra visits the Proms under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In the first of two concerts they perform Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony and two modern American classics, sung by soprano Angel Blue.
Violinist and presenter Nicola Benedetti introduces an hour-long informal concert that features Britten’s wonderfully vivid musical seascapes, as well as Bernstein’s exuberant dances from West Side Story.
Missa solemnis: Beethoven’s late sacred masterpiece, performed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, and the period-instrument forces of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.