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- 8.00pm PROM 76: THE LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS
5.30pm - 6.15pm: Proms Intro Start your Last Night by joining others to sing favourite folk songs from the British Isles.
Prom 76: The Last Night of the Proms
- Date Saturday 13 September 2008
- Time 8.00pm - c10.35pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £20-£90 price band F or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Two and BBC HD (Part 1), Live on BBC One (Part 2) and Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- Radio 3 Christmas repeats: Broadcast on 31 December at 9.30pm
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Over 40 years since his Proms debut, Sir Roger Norrington makes his first Last Night appearance.
In the first half, Bryn Terfel prays to the stars (as Wolfram in Tannhäuser), delivers his highly individual concept of honour (as Verdi's Falstaff) and renounces God in favour of Tosca (as Scarpia in Tosca) - and French pianist Hélène Grimaud appears in Beethoven's 'Choral' Fantasy (with pre-echoes of the Ninth Symphony's 'Ode to Joy').
The second-half festivities include Anna Meredith's nation-hopping commission as well as a final Vaughan Williams instalment, and a celebration of folk music - a central feature of VW's musical outlook - reflecting back on our earlier Proms Folk Day.
- Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus - overture (6 mins)
- Wagner Tannhäuser - 'Wie Todesahnung Dämmrun ... O du, mein holder Abendstern' (Act 3) (5 mins)
- Puccini Tosca - 'Tre sbirri, Una carrozza' (Act 1, Te Deum) (4 mins)
- Verdi Falstaff - 'Ehi paggio!... L'onore Ladri!' (Act 1) (5 mins)
- Beethoven Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, 'Choral Fantasy' (19 mins)
- Interval
- Denza, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov Funiculì, funiculà (3 mins)
- Trad. arr. Chris Hazell
- Folk Song Medley: The Turtle Dove (England)
- Loch Lomond (Scotland)
- Cariad cyntaf (Wales)
- Molly Malone (Ireland) (12 mins) (BBC commission: world premiere)
- Anna Meredith froms (BBC commission: world premiere) (c5 mins)
- Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 (8 mins)
- Vaughan Williams Sea Songs (4 mins)
- Arne arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia! (4 mins)
- Parry orch. Elgar Jerusalem (2 mins)
- The National Anthem (2 mins)
Bryn Terfel bass-baritone
Hélène Grimaud piano
Anna Leese soprano 1
Sophie Bevan soprano 2
Cora Burggraaf mezzo-soprano
Nathan Vale tenor 1
Joshua Ellicott tenor 2
Jonathan Lemalu bass-baritone
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Roger Norrington conductor
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