Bryn at Last night of the Proms 13 Sept 2008

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Prom 76: The Last Night of the Proms
Date Saturday 13 September 2008

Time 8.00pm - 10.35pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £20-£90 price band F or Prom for £5

Tickets CLICK HERE

Broadcast Live on BBC Two(Part 1), Live on BBC One (Part 2) and Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week

Over 40 years since his Proms debut, Sir Roger Norrington makes his first Last Night appearance.

In the first half, Bryn Terfel prays to the stars (as Wolfram in Tannhäuser), delivers his highly individual concept of honour (as Verdi's Falstaff) and renounces God in favour of Tosca (as Scarpia in Tosca) – and French pianist Hélène Grimaud appears in Beethoven's 'Choral' Fantasy (with pre-echoes of the Ninth Symphony's 'Ode to Joy').

The second-half festivities include Anna Meredith's nation-hopping commission as well as a final Vaughan Williams instalment, and a celebration of folk music – a central feature of VW's musical outlook – reflecting back on our earlier Proms Folk Day.

Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus - overture (6 mins)
Wagner
Tannhäuser - 'Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung … O du, mein holder Abendstern' (Act 3) (5 mins)
Puccini
Tosca - 'Tre sbirri, Una carrozza' (Act 1, Te Deum) (4 mins)
Verdi
Falstaff - 'Ehi paggio!... L'onore Ladri!' (Act 1) (5 mins)
Beethoven
Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, ‘Choral Fantasy’ (19 mins)

Interval

Denza, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov
Funiculì, funiculà (3 mins)
Trad. arr. Britten
The Foggy, Foggy Dew (Suffolk Song) (3 mins)
Trad. arr. Chris Hazell
Folk Song Medley: The Turtle Dove (England)
Loch Lomond (Scotland)
Cariad cyntaf (Wales)
Molly Malone (Ireland) (12 mins) (BBC commission: world premiere)
Anna Meredith
new work (BBC commission: world premiere) (c5 mins)
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 (8 mins)
Vaughan Williams
Sea Songs (4 mins)
Arne arr. Sergent
Rule, Britannia! (4 mins)
Parry orch. Elgar
Jerusalem (2 mins)

The National Anthem (2 mins)

Bryn Terfel bass-baritone
Hélène Grimaud piano

BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Roger Norrington conductor

Source: BBC Proms