
Last Night of the Proms, Part 1
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the final concert of the 2015 Proms season as conductor Marin Alsop returns to lead the celebrations.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the final concert of the 2015 Proms season as conductor Marin Alsop returns to lead the celebrations after her triumphant Last Night debut in 2013. Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann sings a selection of popular arias by Puccini in a programme which also includes Richard Strauss's sparkling tone poem Till Eulenspiegel and Arvo Pärt's Credo, a crashing musical battle between good and evil performed by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. The remarkable 23-year-old British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor plays Shostakovich's second piano concerto and the concert begins with the world premiere of the new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission Arise Athena! by the Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga.
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Music Played
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Eleanor Alberga
Arise, Athena!
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop. -
Dmitry Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Conductor: Marin Alsop. -
Arvo Pärt
Credo
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus. -
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop. -
Giacomo Puccini
Tosca - Recondita armonia
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Conductor: Marin Alsop. -
Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut - Donna non vidi mai
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Conductor: Marin Alsop. -
Giacomo Puccini
Turandot - Nessun dorma
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Katie Derham |
Producer | Helen Mansfield |
Director | Bridget Caldwell |
Conductor | Marin Alsop |
Orchestra | ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra |
Performer | ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus |
Performer | ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers |
Broadcast
- Sat 12 Sep 2015 19:15ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two except Scotland
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