麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra
31 Dec 2020, Royal Albert Hall
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麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2020-21 Season 麻豆官网首页入口 Proms Repeats: Last Night of the Proms

麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra
麻豆官网首页入口 Proms Repeats: Last Night of the Proms
22:00 Thu 31 Dec 2020 Royal Albert Hall
Another chance to listen to the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska with South African soprano Golda Schultz and violinist Nicola Benedetti. A musical feast of old favourites and new delights to bring in the New Year.
Another chance to listen to the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska with South African soprano Golda Schultz and violinist Nicola Benedetti. A musical feast of old favourites and new delights to bring in the New Year.

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.