BBC Proms 2018, Last Night of the Proms

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 75, Last Night of the Proms (320kbps .mp3)

The Last Night of the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers & Chorus, plus soloists Gerald Finley & Jess Gillam.

Sir Andrew Davis, the much-loved former Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a veteran steersman of the Last Night, returns to direct the greatest annual party in classical music. The popular nautical theme of traditional favourites by Henry Wood and Thomas Arne is extended in Stanford’s Songs of the Sea, featuring star Canadian baritone Gerald Finley.

Another British choral classic, Blest Pair of Sirens – honouring the ‘harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse’ – joins Jerusalem in the centenary year of Hubert Parry’s death.

There’s a dash of Broadway in the touching ‘Soliloquy’ from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, in which the wife-battering Billy finds new eloquence while vowing to change his ways, and a more mischievous streak in Milhaud’s delightful suite Scaramouche.

Roxanna Panufnik’s new commission, Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light, rounds off a series of over 40 world, UK or London premieres this season, continuing the forward-looking vision of Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood.

01. Hindemith - Neues vom Tage, Ouvertüre
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018 Prom 75
02. Berlioz - Lélio - Fantaisie sur La Tempête' de Shakespeare
03. Roxanna Panufnik - Songs of Darkess, Dreams of Light (BBC Commission,World Premiere)
03i. Interview with Roxanna Panufnik
04. Stanford - Songs of the Sea
05. Stanford - The Blue Bird
06. Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
07. Saint-Saëns - Suite algérienne - Marche militaire francaise
08. Milhaud - Scaramouche
09. Rodgers - Soliloquy – Carousel
10. Arr Anne Dudley - World War 1 Songs:
i. Roses of Picardy
ii. It's a long, long way to Tipperary
iii. Keep right on to the end of the road
iv. Keep the home fires burning
11. Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
12. Arne - arr Sargent, Rule Britannia!
13. Elgar - Pomp & Circumstance March No.1 'Land of Hope and Glory'
14. Parry, arr Elgar - Jerusalem
15. Trad arr Paul Campbell - Auld Lang Syne

Gerald Finley (baritone)
Jess Gillam (saxophone)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)


BBC Proms 2018 Prom 75 Interval
Georgia Mann and Ian Skelly look back at the last two months of the BBC Proms in the company of guests, and Georgia Mann gets a sense of the excitement in the arena with some of the Prommers.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Presented by Ian Skelly and Georgia Mann
Broadcast: 8 September 2018