SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2010
5.00pm Proms Plus: Proms Intro – Last Night Sing Along
7.30pm Prom 76: The Last Night of the Proms
Prom 76: The Last Night of the Proms
Date Saturday 11 September 2010
Time 7.30pm–c10.40pm
Venue Royal Albert Hall
Tickets £25–£90, price band F or Prom for £5
Tradition meets high jinks as Jiří Bělohlávek conducts his second Last Night, while the spirit of Henry Wood presides, as always, over the grand finale of the Proms. Renée Fleming lends her lustrous soprano to music by Strauss, Dvořák and Smetana. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Maxim Rysanov gives Tchaikovsky's popular cello variations a new voice, and loyal Prommers can spot the last traces of the season's Wood, Parry, Wagner, Rodgers and Hammerstein and opera themes.
A festive new piece by Jonathan Dove opens the evening; a contemporary hornpipe forms an upbeat to anniversary composer Arne's Rule, Britannia!; and audiences around the UK can join the Royal Albert Hall crowd in singing along to excerpts from Lohengrin and Carousel in a climax to the BBC's opera season.
Jonathan Dove A Song of Joys
(BBC commission: world premiere) (c5 mins)
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien (16 mins)
Tchaikovsky arr. Rysanov Rococo Variations (19 mins)
Parry Blest Pair of Sirens (11 mins)
R. Strauss Verführung, Op. 33 No. 1
Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 No. 1
Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2
Winterweihe, Op. 48 No. 4
Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 (18 mins)
interval
Chabrier Joyeuse marche (4 mins)
Smetana Dalibor – 'Dobrá! Já mu je dám! … Jak je mi?' (3 mins)
Dvořák Rusalka – Song to the Moon (6 mins)
Vaughan Williams Suite for viola and small orchestra – Prelude; Galop (6 mins)
Wagner Lohengrin – Bridal Chorus (5 mins)
Rodgers and Hammerstein Carousel – 'You'll never walk alone' (5 mins)
Trad, arr. Nic Raine Fisher's Hornpipe (3 mins)
Arne Rule, Britannia! (8 mins)
Parry, orch. Elgar Jerusalem (2 mins)
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory') (8 mins)
The National Anthem (2 mins)
Renée Fleming soprano
Maxim Rysanov viola
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek conductor
Maxim Rysanov is a former member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/whatson/1109.shtml
Proms 75 & 76: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque/Gardiner; Fleming/Rysanov/BBCSO/Belohlávek
Royal Albert Hall, London
4 out of 5
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/12/last-night-of-proms-75-76-review
