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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Gavin Higgins – Velocity
Yuri Arnold – Overture 'Peterloo'
Izaak Walton – Façade
Ernest Chausson – 2 Poèmes, Op.34
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Richard Strauss – Taillefer, Op.52
~ Interval ~
Aram Khachaturian – Gayane, suite no.1
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane
Jerome Kern – Show Boat
Traditional Military Music – Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. R. Williams)
Richard M. & Robert B. Sherman – Mary Poppins
John Ansell – Plymouth Hoe
Thomas Augustine Arne – Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)
Frederick Septimus Kelly – Elegy in memoriam Rupert Brooke
J. Haydn Parry – Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
Performers
Janine Jansen – violin
Elizabeth Watts – soprano
John Daszak – tenor
Roderick Williams – baritone
Sakari Oramo – Conductor
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Sakari Oramo directs his first Last Night, joined by star Dutch violinist Janine Jansen.
We pay tribute to the late John Tavener with his touching Song for Athene, and mark the 50th anniversary of the film Mary Poppins with a singalong medley.
Arnold’s Peterloo overture receives its first performance in a new choral version with lyrics by Sir Tim Rice, while our Strauss-anniversary celebrations conclude with the Proms premiere of the composer’s massive cantata Taillefer.
The nautical flavour of Ansell’s Plymouth Hoe (and its brief quotation of Rule, Britannia!) forms an upbeat to the traditional Last Night favourites, led by baritone Roderick Williams.