Last Night of the Proms
Watch highlights from the 2012 Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and from Proms in the Park events around the country. The BBC Proms isn't just the Last Night - it's the world's greatest classical music festival and it takes place over 8 weeks every summer. With promming tickets at just £5 you can be in the audience enjoying the planet's best orchestras and performers. Click on '2012 highlights' to watch a selection of the delights and the occasional surprise from the rest of this summer's BBC Proms. #bbcproms #lnop
Kylie: Can't Get You Out Of My Head - BBC Proms In The Park 2012—BBC Proms, BBC Proms in the Park, BBC Proms in the Park 2012
Kylie performs Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Cathy Dennis/Rob Davis) with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Cliff Masterson.
Kylie: On A Night Like This - BBC Proms In The Park 2012—BBC Proms, BBC Proms in the Park, BBC Proms in the Park 2012
Kylie performs On A Night Like This (Steve Torch/Graham Stack/Mark Taylor/Brian Rawling) with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Cliff Masterson.
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Alfie Boe: You Are My Heart's Delight (The Land of Smiles) - BBC Proms In The Park 2012—BBC Proms, BBC Proms in the Park, BBC Proms in the Park 2012
Alfie Boe performs You Are My Heart's Delight (Franz Lehár - The Land of Smiles) with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Richard Balcombe.
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Il Divo perform Somewhere (West Side Story) - BBC Proms In The Park 2012—BBC Proms, BBC Proms in the Park, BBC Proms in the Park 2012
BBC Proms In The Park 2012 - Hyde Park, London. Il Divo perform Somewhere (Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim - West Side Story) with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Simon Chalk.
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Richard Rogers: You'll Never Walk Alone - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Williams, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Leoncavallo, Lara, Rodgers
Tenor soloist Joseph Calleja, choirs and audience join in the popular anthem from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Carousel, 'You'll Never Walk Alone'
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Henry Wood: Rule, Britannia! encore with Olympians - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Williams, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Leoncavallo, Lara, Rodgers
Audience, choirs, tenor soloist Joseph Calleja and special guest Olympians from Team GB and ParalympicsG sing along to Rule, Britannia!
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Puccini: Nessun dorma - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Simpson, Suk, Delius, Verdi, Massenet, Bruch, Puccini
Puccini: Nessun dorma Last Night of the Proms 2012: Tenor soloist Joseph Calleja performs Nessun Dorma ('No man shall sleep'), from Puccini's opera, Turandot. The aria was popularised by Luciano Pavarotti as the BBC theme tune for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Last Night of the Proms.
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Leoncavallo: Mattinata - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Williams, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Leoncavallo, Lara, Rodgers
Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012. Tenor soloist Joseph Calleja and violinist Nicola Benedetti perform Ruggero Leoncavallo's Neopolitan song, Mattinata, in duet. The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.
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Elgar: Land of Hope and Glory - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Williams, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Leoncavallo, Lara, Rodgers
Elgar's famous 'tune that comes once in a lifetime' offers the opportunity for choirs and audience to take part in his Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major with A C Benson's words, 'Land of Hope and Glory'. BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.
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Henry Wood: Rule, Britannia! - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Williams, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Leoncavallo, Lara, Rodgers
Audience, choirs and tenor soloist Joseph Calleja sing along to Rule, Britannia!, from Proms founder Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs.
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Bruch: Violin Concerto - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Simpson, Suk, Delius, Verdi, Massenet, Bruch, Puccini
Nicola Benedetti performs the second movement of Bruch's great, Romantic violin concerto, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.
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Parry, orch. Elgar: Jerusalem - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Williams, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Leoncavallo, Lara, Rodgers
Sir Hubert Parry's orchestral hymn, in the enlarged orchestration by Elgar, is sung by the choirs and the audience, and traditionally forms the culmination of the Last Night of the Proms. BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.
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Henry Wood: Hornpipe - Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012—Prom 76, Williams, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Leoncavallo, Lara, Rodgers
Last Night of the BBC Proms 2012. The Promenaders traditionally clap and stamp their way through the Hornpipe from Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, trying to derail the violin, flute and piccolo soloists! The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.
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