Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms 2024

BBC Proms 2024: the season closes with Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough joining the BBC BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

William Walton: Overture ‘Portsmouth Point’
Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro’; Madam Butterfly – Humming Chorus; Tosca – ‘Vissi d’arte’
Carlos Simon: Hellfighters’ Blues (BBC co-commission: world premiere)
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane
Charles Ives: The Yale–Princeton Football Game
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Summer Is Gone
Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Camille Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’, 2nd movement Andante

Iain Farrington: Extra Time (BBC commission: world premiere)
Henry Mancini arr Gavin Sutherland: The Pink Panther
Sir Stephen Hough: In His Hands: Two Spirituals
Ruperto Chapí: Las hijas del Zebedeo – ‘Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores’ (Carceleras)
Trad. arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Thomas Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!
Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
Hubert Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem
Anon arr. Britten: The National Anthem
Trad. arr. P. Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Angel Blue (soprano)
Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

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.