Performers
- Golda Schultzsoprano
- Nicola Benedettiviolin
- Dalia Stasevskaconductor
Broadcast Information
The 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 Principal Guest Conductor, Dalia Stasevska, made her Last Night debut in the climax of a Proms season like no other.
South African soprano Golda Schultz sings a ravishing aria from Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro and the rapt, intimate song 鈥楳orgen!鈥� written by Richard Strauss as a wedding-day gift to his wife. The 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestras is also joined violinist Nicola Benedetti for Vaughan Williams鈥檚 soaring The Lark Ascending.
In these unsettled times, a new commission by Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi points to music鈥檚 bright future. There's Belize-born composer Errollyn Wallen's Jerusalem 鈥� our clouded hills. her creatively reimagined arrangement, dedicated it to the Windrush generation, based on Elgar鈥檚 take on Parry鈥檚 setting of Blake鈥檚 words. There are Last Night favourites including Parry's original Jerusalem, for which the 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers join the 麻豆官网首页入口 SO, and at the end, a specially-recorded Lockdown recording of Auld Lang Syne by singers from the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Chorus and the National Chorus of Wales plus musicians from the 麻豆官网首页入口's orchestras.
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, recorded in September 2020.