Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms 2017

9 Sep 2017, Royal Albert Hall

19:15 Sat 9 Sep 2017 Next Event

19:15 Sat 9 Sep 2017 Royal Albert Hall

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s strands with music by John Adams, Sibelius and Malcolm Sargent. Nina Stemme leads the end-of-season festivities, joined by the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus.

Performances & Interviews

02:06

Lotta Wennäkoski: Flounce (Prom 75, 2017)

09 OctBBC Radio 3

02:20

Hornpipe from Fantasia on British Sea Songs (Last Night of the Proms)

09 SepBBC Radio 3

08:38

Sakari Oramo's speech at Last Night of the Proms 2017

09 SepBBC Radio 3

18:02

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D minor, 'Land of Hope and Glory' (in binaural sound) (Prom 75)

09 SepBBC Radio 3

Programme

- - Lotta Wennäkoski
  - Flounce(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Zoltán Kodály
  - Budavári Te Deum(21 mins)
- - Malcolm Sargent
  - An Impression on a Windy Day(7 mins)
- - Jean Sibelius
  - Finlandia(8 mins)(choral version)
- - Richard Wagner
  - Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod(17 mins)
- - interval
- - John Adams
  - Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance(5 mins)London premiere
- - Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(18 mins)(arr. Wood)
- - Thomas Arne
  - Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(5 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory'(8 mins)
- - Hubert Parry
  - Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(3 mins)
- - Unknown
  - The National Anthem (arr. Bliss)(3 mins)

Performers

Nina Stemme
soprano
soprano
Lucy Crowe
soprano
soprano
Christine Rice
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson
tenor
tenor
John Relyea
bass
bass
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s musical strands into the exuberant celebration that is the Last Night of the Proms.

They mark the 50th anniversaries of the deaths of composers Zoltán Kodály and Malcolm Sargent (better known as the longtime chief conductor of the Proms), and celebrate John Adams’s 70th birthday with the London premiere of his exhilarating Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance.

Music by Sibelius marks the 100th anniversary of Finnish Independence, and Nina Stemme, arguably the world’s greatest living Wagnerian soprano, leads the end-of-season festivities.

Broadcast 9 September, first half on BBC Two, second half on BBC One