| Main Performers | Golda Schultz - vocal,
Nicola Benedetti - violin |
| Set List | 'The Marriage of Figaro (Overture) - 'Deh Vieni, Non Tardar', W A Mozart,
'Morgen!', R Strauss,
'Solus', A Tarrodi,
'Night Waltzes (A Little Night Music) - 'The Glamorous Life', S Sondheim,
'Impromptu for String Orchestra, Op.5', J Sibelius,
'The Lark Ascending - The Skylark', R V Williams, arr. Stephan Koncz (Nicola Benedetti),
'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs - The Saucy Arethusa; Tom Bowling; Jack's the Lad', H Wood,
Sequence of sea songs from around the UK,
'See, The Conqu'ring Hero Comes',
'Rule, Britannia!' (BBC Singers),
'Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D Major - 'Land of Hope and Glory', E Elgar, arr. A Dudley,
'You'll never walk alone', from Carousel, R Rodgers,
'Jerusalem', H Parry, arr. E Wallen,
'God Save the Queen (The National Anthem)', arr. B Britten |
| Performance Notes | This Prom will be broadcast live at 20:00 BST on BBC Radio 3 and BBC One.
In a year like no other, the Last Night of the Proms - always a celebration of world-class music-making across the season - reflects the many experiences and moods we have encountered during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Finnish maestra Dalia Stasevska - the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor - presides over a specially adapted Last Night with no live spectators at the Royal Albert Hall but with millions listening and watching worldwide. An outdoor cinema screening was held in the Royal Chelsea Pensioners Hospital, London.
Excerpts from Mozart's witty opera celebrating unwavering love leads to Strauss's rapturous Morgen!, a wedding gift to his wife, opening with the thought that 'Tomorrow the sun will shine again'.
There's consolation in Sibelius's serene Impromptu, a celebration of one of the great creative spirits of the past century - Stephen Sondheim - in his 90th-birthday year. There is the soaring violin of Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and birdsong also concludes Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi's new commission (whose title, Solus, also acknowledges the loneliness of lockdown).
With rising star Golda Schultz and Proms regular Nicola Benedetti as soloists - as well as the usual Last Night favourites such as Land of Hope and Glory and Jerusalem - it's a jubilant, socially distanced musical party designed to bring us all together.
'Solus', Andrea Tarrodi - world premiere and BBC commission.
Nicola Benedetti performed in the place of Lisa Batiashvili who was unable to perform due to illness.
A small group of right-wing demonstrators stood opposite the Hall claiming to want to preserve 'British Culture' following a news story that 'Land of Hope and Glory' would not be sung at the event due to the its lyrics being reassesed in light of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests of the year. Another group of demonstrators, with EU flags, stood outside the Hall protesting against Brexit restrictions that would make it difficult for touring musicians. |