Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms

7 Sep 2013, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Sat 7 Sep 2013 Next Event

Proms 2013 Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms

19:30 Sat 7 Sep 2013 Royal Albert Hall

Marin Alsop becomes the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy join the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra in a concert that runs from Rossini and Handel arias to a mass singalong, and from Vaughan Williams鈥檚 The Lark Ascending and rarities by Britten and Bantock to a new opener by Anna Clyne.

Programme

- - Anna Clyne
  - Masquerade(5 mins)麻豆社 commission: world premiere
- - Richard Wagner
  - The Mastersingers of Nuremberg 鈥� Prelude to Act 1(10 mins)
- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Chichester Psalms(19 mins)
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - The Lark Ascending(12 mins)
- - Benjamin Britten
  - The Building of the House(5 mins)
- - Jules Massenet
  - Ch茅rubin 鈥� 'Je suis gris! je suis ivre!'(2 mins)
- - George Frideric Handel
  - Xerxes 鈥� 'Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai f霉'(4 mins)
- - Gioachino Rossini
  - La donna del lago 鈥� 'Tanti affetti in tal momento!'(4 mins)
- - interval
- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Candide 鈥� overture(5 mins)
  - Candide 鈥� Make our Garden Grow(5 mins)
- - Giuseppe Verdi
  - Nabucco(4 mins)
- - Harold Arlen
  - Over the Rainbow(5 mins)
- - Vittorio Monti
  - 颁蝉谩谤诲谩蝉(6 mins)
- - Trad.
  - Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)(4 mins)
- - Richard Rodgers
  - Carousel 鈥� 'You'll never walk alone'(6 mins)
- - Granville Bantock
  - The Sea Reivers(4 mins)
- - George Lloyd
  - HMS Trinidad March(4 mins)UK premiere
- - Thomas Arne
  - Rule, Britannia!(7 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, 鈥楲and of Hope and Glory鈥�(6 mins)
- - Hubert Parry
  - Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(4 mins)
- - Unknown
  - The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(2 mins)

Performers

Joyce DiDonato
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Nigel Kennedy
violin
violin
Iestyn Davies
counter-tenor
counter-tenor
麻豆社 Symphony Chorus
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

The Last Night begins with a celebratory new work by Anna Clyne and includes a rare performance of Britten鈥檚 1967 overture for chorus and orchestra The Building of the House, a touch of Broadway magic and the sound of a glass ceiling being broken as Marin Alsop takes charge of her first Last Night.

Nigel Kennedy and Joyce DiDonato are the star soloists in a programme that picks up sea-faring themes from Bantock and George Lloyd and includes a translatlantic flavour.

Watch and listen to more music by Wagner at the Proms.

Watch and listen to more music by Britten at the Proms.

Watch all the Last Night celebrations from the Royal Albert Hall and Proms in the Park events