Proms 2024 Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms 2024 - BBC Proms

14 Sep 2024, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Sat 14 Sep 2024 Next Event

Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms 2024

19:00 Sat 14 Sep 2024 Royal Albert Hall

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Singers are joined by Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain’s best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough, for the biggest musical party of the year.

Programme

- - William Walton
  - Overture ‘Portsmouth Point’
- - Giacomo Puccini
  - Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro’
  - Madam Butterfly – Humming Chorus(3 mins)
  - Tosca – ‘Vissi d’arte’(4 mins)
- - Carlos Simon
  - Hellfighters’ Blues(7 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere
- - Gabriel Fauré
  - Pavane(6 mins)
- - Charles Ives
  - The Yale–Princeton Football Game(3 mins)
- - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  - Summer Is Gone(3 mins)
- - Grace Williams
  - Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes(11 mins)
- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’ – Andante(11 mins)
- - interval
- - Iain Farrington
  - Extra Time(4 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Henry Mancini
  - The Pink Panther(3 mins)arr Gavin Sutherland
- - Sir Stephen Hough
  - In His Hands: Two Spirituals(4 mins)
- - Ruperto Chapí
  - Las hijas del Zebedeo – ‘Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores’ (Carceleras)(5 mins)
- - Trad.
  - Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(13 mins)arr. Wood, with additional arrangements by Bob Chilcott and Gareth Glyn
- - Thomas Arne
  - Rule, Britannia!(3 mins)arr. Sargent
- - Edward Elgar
  - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
- - Hubert Parry
  - Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(2 mins)
- - Unknown
  - Anon.
  - The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(2 mins)
- - Trad.
  - Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)arr. P. Campbell

Performers

Composers

About This Event

The stars gather for an end-of-season party like no other. Joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers are Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain’s best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough. Sakari Oramo returns to the podium for the world’s biggest classical music party.

Further works to be announced for this programme.

There will be one interval

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

Broadcast live on BBC Two (first half), BBC One (second half) and on BBC iPlayer