Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023

Proms 2023 Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023 - BBC Proms - BBC

9 Sep 2023, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Sat 9 Sep 2023 Next Event

19:00 Sat 9 Sep 2023 Royal Albert Hall

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.

Programme

- - Richard Strauss
  - Don Juan(20 mins)
- - Max Bruch
  - Kol nidrei, Op. 47(12 mins)
- - Roxanna Panufnik
  - Coronation Sanctus(2 mins)
- - James B. Wilson
  - 1922(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - William Walton
  - Coronation Te Deum(10 mins)
- - Richard Wagner
  - Tannhäuser – ‘Dich, teure Halle’(3 mins)
- - Pietro Mascagni
  - Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn(5 mins)
  - Cavalleria rusticana – Intermezzo(5 mins)
- - Giuseppe Verdi
  - Macbeth – ‘Vieni! t’affretta!’(8 mins)
- - interval
- - Laura Karpman
  - Higher. Further. Faster. Together. Main Theme from The Marvels
- - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  - Deep River(5 mins)arr. S. Parkin
- - Emmerich Kálmán
  - The Gypsy Princess – ‘Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland’(3 mins)
- - Heitor Villa‐Lobos
  - Bachianas Brasileiras No 5
- - Trad.
  - Fantasia on British Sea Songs(7 mins)arr. Wood
- - 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(2 mins)orch. Elgar
- - Unknown
  - The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(2 mins)
- - Trad.
  - Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)arr. Paul Campbell

Performers

Composers

About This Event

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.

There will be one interval

Broadcast on BBC TV

Image: Marin Alsop, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Lise Davidsen.