Proms 2025
Performances of Sam Cooke at BBC Proms
(See all works in BBC Proms by Sam Cooke)Sun 3 Aug 2025
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
With guest vocalists, a gospel choir and renowned Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul
With guest vocalists, a gospel choir and renowned Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul
Programme
- Soul Overture(1 mins)
- A Change Is Gonna Come(3 mins)arr. Kyle Gordon
- Think(2 mins)Aretha Franklin/Ted White arr. Tom Richards
- Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)(4 mins)Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong arr. Kyle Gordon
- Super Fly(4 mins)arr. Scarlet Halton
- Hard Times(4 mins)arr. Kyle Gordon
- Were you there?(5 mins)arr. Simon Cochard
- Abraham, Martin and John(4 mins)arr. Scarlet Halton
- Take my hand, previous Lord(4 mins)George N. Allen (attributed.), adapt. Thomas A. Dorsey, arr. Kyle Gordon
- Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You(3 mins)Jerry Akines/Johnnie Bellmon/Victor Drayton/Reginald Turner arr. Scarlet Halton
- Move On Up(3 mins)arr. Troy Miller
- Respect(3 mins)arr. Tom Richards
- interval
- War(4 mins)Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong arr. Kyle Gordon
- Living for the City(6 mins)arr. Jochen Neuffer
- Mississippi Goddam(6 mins)arr. Scarlet Halton
- How I Got Over(4 mins)arr. Kyle Gordon
- Oh Happy Day(3 mins)adapt. Edwin Hawkins, arr. Kyle Gordon
- Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud(3 mins)James Brown/Pee Wee Ellis arr. Kyle Gordon
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black(7 mins)arr. Kyle Gordon
- Higher Ground(4 mins)arr. Jochen Neuffer
- We shall not be moved(5 mins)arr. Kyle Gordon
- What's Going On(4 mins)Al Cleveland/Renaldo Benson/Marvin Gaye arr. Troy Miller
Performers
- The LJ Singersensemble
- Trevor Nelsonpresenter
- Daniel Bartholomew-Poyserconductor
