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Sat 10 Sep 2022
- 19:15
  Last Night of the Proms 2022
  Royal Albert Hall
  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!
  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!
  Programme
  Grażyna Bacewicz
  Overture for Orchestra(6 mins)
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Deep River(5 mins)arr. Simon Parkin
  Camille Saint‐Saëns
  The Carnival of the Animals (XIII, The Swan)(4 mins)orch. Paul Vidal
  James B. Wilson
  1922(6 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Richard Wagner
  Tannhä – ‘Dich, teure Halle’(3 mins)
  Edvard Grieg
  12 Songs, Op. 33 – ‘Våren’(5 mins)
  Jean Sibelius
  Snöfrid(14 mins)
  Pietro Mascagni
  Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn(6 mins)
  Cavalleria rusticana – Intermezzo(4 mins)
  Giuseppe Verdi
  Macbeth – ‘Vieni! t’affretta!’(6 mins)
  interval
  Iain Farrington
  A Party with Auntie(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Doreen Carwithen
  Overture ‘ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)’(9 mins)
  Emmerich Kálmán
  The Gypsy Princess – ‘Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland’(3 mins)
  Heitor Villa‐Lobos
  Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 – Ária (Cantilena)(5 mins)
  Valentin Silvestrov
  Prayer for Ukraine(5 mins)
  Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(17 mins)arr. Wood
  Thomas Arne
  Rule, Britannia!(4 mins)
  Edward Elgar
  Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
  Hubert Parry
  Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(2 mins)
  Unknown
  The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(3 mins)
  Trad.
  Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)
  Performers
  Lise Davidsen
  soprano
  soprano
  Sheku Kanneh‐Mason
  cello
  cello
  Harriet Walter
  actor
  actor
  BBC Singers
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Dalia Stasevska
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Grażyna Bacewicz
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Camille Saint‐Saëns
  James B. Wilson
  Richard Wagner
  Edvard Grieg
  Jean Sibelius
  Pietro Mascagni
  Giuseppe Verdi
  Iain Farrington
  Doreen Carwithen
  Emmerich Kálmán
  Heitor Villa‐Lobos
  Valentin Silvestrov
  Thomas Arne
  Edward Elgar
  Hubert Parry
  Unknown
  Trad.
  Also part of
  Classical for starters Proms on TV
Fri 9 Sep 2022
- 19:30
  Prom 71: The Philadelphia Orchestra with Lisa Batiashvili
  Royal Albert Hall
  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.
  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.
  Programme
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  The Isle of the Dead(20 mins)
  Ernest Chausson
  Poème(16 mins)
  Camille Saint‐Saëns
  Introduction and Rondo capriccioso(10 mins)
  interval
  Florence Price
  Symphony No. 1 in E minor(38 mins)
  Performers
  Lisa Batiashvili
  violin
  violin
  The Philadelphia Orchestra
  Yannick Nézet‐Séguin
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Ernest Chausson
  Camille Saint‐Saëns
  Florence Price
Thu 8 Sep 2022
- 19:30
  Prom 70: The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
  Royal Albert Hall
  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.
  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.
  Programme
  Edward Elgar
  Nimrod
  Unknown
  National Anthem
  Performers
  The Philadelphia Orchestra
  Yannick Nézet‐Séguin
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Edward Elgar
  Unknown
  Also part of
  Classical for starters
Wed 7 Sep 2022
- 11:00
  Prom 68: Relaxed Prom – Bernstein, Britten and Wynton Marsalis
  Royal Albert Hall
  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.
  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.
  Programme
  Leonard Bernstein
  Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’excerpts
  Benjamin Britten
  Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’excerpts
  Wynton Marsalis
  Violin Concertoexcerpts
  Performers
  Nicola Benedetti
  violin/presenter
  violin/presenter
  Royal Scottish National Orchestra
  Thomas Søndergård
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Leonard Bernstein
  Benjamin Britten
  Wynton Marsalis
  Also part of
  For Families
- 19:30
  Prom 69: Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
  Royal Albert Hall
  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.
  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.
  Programme
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Missa solemnis(81 mins)
  Performers
  Lucy Crowe
  soprano
  soprano
  Ann Hallenberg
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Giovanni Sala
  tenor
  tenor
  William Thomas
  bass
  bass
  Monteverdi Choir
  Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
  Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Ludwig van Beethoven

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86:00

Last Night of the Proms, Part 2

Katie Derham invites you to her for the traditional glittering finale.

14 SepBBC Radio 3

113:00

Last Night of the Proms, Part 1

Classical music's biggest party of the year, with Sir Stephen Hough and Angel Blue.

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