Main Performers | Thomas Hampson - vocal, Jean-Yves Thibaudet - piano |
Choirs | BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Singers |
Set List | 'Overture' from The Barber of Seville, Rossini (BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Non Piu Andrai' from The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart (Thomas Hampson, BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Di Provenza il Mar' from La Traviata, Verdi (Thomas Hampson, BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Largo al Factotum' from The Barber of Seville, Rossini (Thomas Hampson, BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Variations for Orchestra, Op.39', Hugh Wood (BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganin, Op.43', Rachmaninoff (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, BBC Symphony Orchestra) INTERVAL 'Overture' from Candide, Bernstein (BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Blest Pair of Sirens', Parry (BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra), Show Songs - 'Nice Work if You Can Get It', 'Somebody Loves Me', 'A Foggy Day', 'Embraceable You', 'Fascinating Rhythm', Gershwin (Thomas Hampson, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'These Premises Are Alarmed', Thomas Ades (BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D Major', Elgar (BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs', Wood (BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Rule, Britannia!', Arne, arr. Sargent (Thomas Hampson, BBC Symphony Orchestra), 'Jerusalem', Parry, orch. Elgar (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra) |
Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/1998/47), Programme (RAHE/1/1998/121), Posters (RAHE/2/1998/4, 16B), Transparencies (RAHE/3/19/23) Photographs (RAHE/3/1998/2) |