Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2009 - One Hundredth and Fifteenth Season - Prom 76 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date12 September 2009
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersSarah Connolly - vocal,
Alison Balsom - trumpet,
Malcolm Hicks - organ,
Jiri Belohlavek,
Goldie,
Jennifer Pike - vacuum cleaners,
Sir David Attenborough - floor polisher,
Rory Bremner,
Stephen Hough,
Martha Kearney,
Chi-chi Nwanoku - rifles
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers,
BBC Symphony Chorus
ConductorsDavid Robertson
Set List'Flourish with Fireworks, Op.22', Oliver Knussen (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'New Suite', Purcell, arr. Wood (Hicks, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Dido and Aeneas - Closing Scene', Purcell (Sarah Connolly, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major', Haydn (Balsom, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen', Mahler (Connolly, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Choros No.10, 'Rasga O Coracao'', Villa-Lobos (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
INTERVAL
'A Grand, Grand Overture, Op.57', Arnold (Belohlavek, Goldie, Pike, Attenborough, Bremner, Hough, Kearney, Nwanoku, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'In a Monastery Garden - Characteristic Intermezzo', Ketelbey (Hicks, BBC Singers (men's voices), BBC Symphony Chorus (men's voices), BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Shall We Dance - 'They Can't Take That Away From Me', Gershwin, arr. Barry Forgie (Connolly, Balsom, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Libertango', Piazzolla, arr. Julian Milone (Balsom, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Fanfares for the Last Night - All Calls Are Made From the Royal Albert Hall; Responses are given from the five BBC Proms in the Park events around the country, returning to the Hall for the final response';
'Call I Lawrence Dunn - Response I Joseph Davies' (BBC Philharmonic, Salford)
'Call 2 Saiki Tanaka - Response 2 Lawrence Dunn' (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow)
'Call 3 Julia Barbour - Response 3 Eoin Roe' (1st Old Boys Silver Band, County Down)
'Call 4 Joseph Davies - Response 4 Julia Barbour (BBC NOW, Swansea)
'Call 5 Aaron Parker - Response 5 Saiki Tanaka' (BBC Concert Orchestra, Hyde Park)
'Call 6 Eoin Roe - Response 6 Aaron Parker' (Balsom),
'Music for the Royal Fireworks - excerpts',
'Ouverture - Adagio - Allegro',
'La Rejouissance - Allegro',
'Menuets 1 and 2', Handel (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Rule, Britannia!', Arne (Connolly, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra) (1st performance at the Proms)
'Jerusalem', Parry, arr. Elgar (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
'Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D Major - Land of Hope and Glory', Elgar (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. H Wood (Choirs and audience)
ENCORE
'Auld Lang Syne', trad. (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, Audience, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesProms premieres of 'Rule, Britannia!', Arne; 'Libertango'by Piazzolla; 'In a Monastery Garden - Characteristic Intermezzo', Ketelbey; 'A Grand, Grand Overture, Op.57', Arnold; 'Choros No.10, 'Rasga O Coracao', Villa-Lobos.

BBC commissions and world premieres of 'Fanfares for the Last Night'; 'Shall We Dance - 'They Can't Take That Away From Me', Gershwin, arr. Barry Forgie.

Sir David Attenborough played a floor polisher in Malcolm Arnold's 'A Grand, Grand Overture'. He was joined by a pack of seven musicians and celebrities wielding vacuum cleaners and rifles.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2009/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/2009/123),
Handbills (RAHE/6/2009/36, 39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2009/7),
Digital Photographs
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2009/123BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2009 - One Hundreth and Fifteenth Season - Prom 76 - Last Night of the Proms12 September 2009
RAHE/6/2009/39BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2009 - One Hundredth and Fifteenth Season - Prom 76 - Last Night of the Proms12 September 2009
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Onasilug_PimBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2009 - One Hundreth and Fifteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/1151British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Concert Orchestra; 1931-; British orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/5316Hicks; Malcolm (fl 1980s-2010s); English pianist, conductor
DS/UK/6131Hough; Sir; Stephen (1961-); British-born Australian pianist, composer, writer
DS/UK/7627Bremner; Rory (1961-); Scottish impressionist, playwright, comedian
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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