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