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Sat 10 Sep 2016
- 19:15
  Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms
  Royal Albert Hall
  Tenor Juan Diego Flórez brings music by Verdi, Donizetti and Rossini to the Last Night. Also on the programme: Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music, Butterworth’s On the Banks of Green Willow and Britten’s Matinées musicales. Sakari Oramo conducts.
  Tenor Juan Diego Flórez brings music by Verdi, Donizetti and Rossini to the Last Night. Also on the programme: Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music, Butterworth’s On the Banks of Green Willow and Britten’s Matinées musicales. Sakari Oramo conducts.
  Programme
  Tom Harrold
  Raze(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  George Butterworth
  The Banks of Green Willow(7 mins)
  Alexander Borodin
  Prince Igor – Polovtsian Dances(12 mins)
  Gioachino Rossini
  La Cenerentola(6 mins)
  Gaetano Donizetti
  L'elisir d'amore – 'Una furtiva lagrima'(5 mins)
  Jacques Offenbach
  La belle Hélène – 'Au mont Ida'(5 mins)
  Benjamin Britten
  Matinées musicales(10 mins)
  Jonathan Dove
  Our revels now are ended(8 mins)
  interval
  Michael Torke
  Javelin(9 mins)
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Serenade to Music(11 mins)
  Gaetano Donizetti
  La fille du régiment – 'Ah ! mes amis'(7 mins)
  Edward Elgar
  Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
  Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(15 mins)arr. Wood
  Thomas Arne
  Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(5 mins)
  Hubert Parry
  Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(3 mins)
  Unknown
  The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(3 mins)
  Performers
  Juan Diego Flórez
  tenor
  tenor
  sca Chiejina
  soprano
  soprano
  Eve Daniell
  soprano
  soprano
  Lauren Fagan
  soprano
  soprano
  Alison Rose
  soprano
  soprano
  Claire Barnett-Jones
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Marta Fontanals-Simmons
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Anna Harvey
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Katie Stevenson
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Trystan Llŷr Griffiths
  tenor
  tenor
  Oliver Johnston
  tenor
  tenor
  Joshua Owen Mills
  tenor
  tenor
  James Way
  tenor
  tenor
  Bragi Jónsson
  bass
  bass
  Benjamin Lewis
  bass
  bass
  James Newby
  bass
  bass
  Bradley Travis
  bass
  bass
  BBC Proms Youth Ensemble
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Tom Harrold
  George Butterworth
  Alexander Borodin
  Gioachino Rossini
  Gaetano Donizetti
  Jacques Offenbach
  Benjamin Britten
  Jonathan Dove
  Michael Torke
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Edward Elgar
  Thomas Arne
  Hubert Parry
  Unknown
  Part of
  Proms 2016 BBC Symphony Chorus at the Proms
Wed 28 Sep 2016
- 19:30
  Sakari Oramo conducts Brett Dean & Richard Strauss
  Barbican, London
  BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo launches the 2016-17 season with a UK premiere from Brett Dean and Richard Strauss’s extravagant tone poem.
  BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo launches the 2016-17 season with a UK premiere from Brett Dean and Richard Strauss’s extravagant tone poem.
  Programme
  Brett Dean
  Knocking at the Hellgate(40 mins)
  interval
  Richard Strauss
  Ein Heldenleben(45 mins)
  Performers
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Russell Braun
  baritone
  baritone
  Composers
  Brett Dean
  Richard Strauss
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2016-17 season BBC SO 2016-17 season premieres Sakari Oramo Conducts