BBC Last Night Of The Proms Annual Concert

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Each year one of the world’s biggest and most celebrated music festivals
concludes with a huge concert at Royal Albert Hall in London. VPR
Classical will present the BBC "Last Night of the Proms" concert *live*
beginning at 2pm ET. This year’s music includes a newly commissioned work
by Peter Maxwell Davies, and the traditional singing of Hubert Parry’s
"Jerusalem". Pianist Lang Lang (LONG LONG) joins the BBC Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus for the gala evening fun and musical celebration.

Performers:

Conductor: Edward Gardner

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Lang Lang, piano

Susan Bullock, soprano

Program:

Peter Maxwell Davies: Musica
benevolens (World Premiere)

Bela Bartók: "The Miraculous
Mandarin" Suite

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
– Immolation Scene

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto #1
in Eb

— INTERMISSION —

Frederic Chopin: Grande
Polonaise brillante, Op. 22

Percy Grainger: My
Dark-Haired Maiden

Benjamin Britten: The Young
Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Richard Rodgers: The Sound of
Music – ‘Climb ev’ry mountain’

Richard Rodgers: Carousel –
‘You’ll never walk alone’

Edward Elgar: Pomp and
Circumstance March #1 in D (‘In the Land of Hope and Glory’

Thomas Arne: Rule Britannia

Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. by Edward Elgar)

Traditional: The National
Anthem

 

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