BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 71 - Last Night of the Proms 2023 (320kbps. mp3)



Live at the BBC Proms: soprano Lise Davidsen and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason join the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and conductor Marin Alsop for the Last Night.



01. Strauss, R - Don Juan

01a. Introduction to Last Night of the Proms 2023

02. Bruch - Kol nidrei, Op. 47

02a. Introduction to Bruch’s Kol nidrei

03. Panufnik, Roxanna  - Coronation Sanctus

03a. Discussion with Roxanna Panufnik  

04. Wilson, James - 1922 (world premiere)

04a. Discussion with James Wilson

05. Walton - Coronation Te Deum

06. Wagner - Tannhäuser – ‘Dich, teure Halle’

06a. Discussion with Lise Davidsen

07. Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn

08. Mascagni - Intermezzo

09. Verdi - Macbeth – ‘Vieni! t’affretta!’

09a. Last Night of the Proms 2023 - Interval

Grayson Perry, celebrated artist and shrewd observer of British society joins Georgia and Petroc with his impressions of this most idiosyncratically British of events. Plus: interviews and comments from tonight's soloists, and the intrepid Keelan Carewe ventures into the Arena to get the Prommers' perspective.

10. Karpman, Laura - Higher. Further. Faster. Together. (Main Theme from The Marvels)

11. Coleridge-Taylor. Samuel - Deep River (arr. S. Parkin)

11a. Discussion with Sheku Kanneh-Mason

12. Kálmán, Emmerich -  The Gypsy Princess – ‘Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein

Heimatland’

12a. Introduction to The Gypsy Princess

13. Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras – Cantilena

14. Jingoistic medley

i. Trad. (arr. Wood) - Fantasia on British Sea Songs

ii. Arne (arr. Sargent): Rule, Britannia!

15. More jingoism

i. Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’

ii. Parry (orch. Elgar): Jerusalem

iii. Anon. (arr. Britten): The National Anthem

iv. Trad. (arr. Paul Campbell): Auld Lang Syne



Lise Davidsen (soprano)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop (conductor)



Two great names in classical music come together to host the biggest musical party of the year. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for an evening of opera arias, songs, spirituals, choral anthems and world premieres, as well as all the traditional favourites by Arne, Elgar and Parry.



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



Broadcast: 9 September 2023