BBC Proms 2017 Prom 75, Last Night of the Proms (320kbps mp3)

BBC Proms 2017 Prom 75, Last Night of the Proms (320kbps mp3)

The Last Night of the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and Chorus, and soloists headed by star soprano Nina Stemme in a Last Night that weaves together many of this season's musical strands into this exuberant celebration.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny

00. Introductory commentary
01. Lotta Wennakoski - Flounce (BBC commission: world premiere)
02. Kodaly - Budavari Te Deum
03. Sargent - An Impression on a Windy Day
04. Sibelius - Finlandia
05. Wagner - Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod
06. John Adams - Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (London premiere)
07. Gershwin -The Lorelei
08. Weill - Happy End: Surabaya Johnny
09. Weill - Lady in the Dark, The Saga of Jenny
10. Wood - Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
11. Arne arr. Sargent - Rule, Britannia!
12. Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D ('Land of Hope and Glory')
13. Parry orch. Elgar - Jerusalem
14. The National Anthem (arr. Bliss)
15. Interval - Proms Review
Petroc Trelawny and Clemency Burton-Hill look back at the last two months of the BBC Proms in the company of guests, and Georgia Mann gets a sense of the excitement in the arena with some of the Prommers.

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

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: 8 September 2017