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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1981 - Eighty-Seventh Season - Prom 56 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date12 September 1981
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersDavid Wilson-Johnson - vocal,
Iona Brown - violin
Orchestra or BandBBCSymphony Orchestra
ChoirsHalle Choir
ConductorsJames Loughran
Set ListOverture - 'Cockaigne (In London Town), Op.40', Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'The Lark Ascending', Vaughan Williams (Iona Brown, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Belshazzar's Feast', Walton (David Wilson-Johnson, Halle Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
INTERVAL
'Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D Major', Elgar (BBC.Symphony Orchestra),
'Cornish Dances Nos. 1 and 2', Malcolm Arnold (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Scottish Dance No.2', Malcolm Arnold (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'English Dances Set No.2', Malcolm Arnold (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Fantasia on British Sea Songs', Henry Wood (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Jerusalem', Parry, orch. Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Auld Lang Syne', arr. Cedric Thorpe Davie (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'God Save The Queen' (The National Anthem), orch. Henry Wood (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed for BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1981/85),
Programme (RAHE/1/1981/139)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1981/139BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1981 - Eighty-Seventh Season - Prom 56 - Last Night of the Proms12 September 1981
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oimoz_Feam_GotBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1981 - Eighty-Seventh Season56
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4974Johnson; David Wilson- (1950-); English operatic and concert baritone
DS/UK/9356Brown; Iona (1941-2004); OBE; British violinist, conductor
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/1013Halle; Halle Choir; c1858-; English choir
DS/UK/9858Loughran; James (1931-); CBE, DMus., FRNCM, FRSAMD; Scottish conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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