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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 76 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date8 September 2012
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersNicola Benedetti - violin,
Joseph Calleja - vocal
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus
ConductorsJirí Belohlávek
Set List'Sparks', Mark Simpson,
'Towards a New Life', Suk,
'Songs of Farewell', Delius,
'Un Ballo in Maschera' - ‘Forse La Soglia Attinse … Ma Se M’è Forza Perderti', Verdi,
‘Pourquoi Me Réveiller?' from Werther, Massenet,
'Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor', Bruch,
‘E Lucevan le Stelle' from Tosca, Puccini
'Nessun Dorma' from Turandot, Puccini
INTERVAL
'Olympic Fanfare and Theme', J Williams,
'Overture' from Carnival, Dvorák,
'The Gadfly - Romance', Shostakovich
'Matttinata', Leoncavallo,
Granada, Lara,
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone' from Carousel, Rogers, Hammerstein,
'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs', H Wood,
'Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major' ('Land of Hope and Glory'), E Elgar,
'Jerusalem', Parry, orch. E Elgar,
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesJoin us for the year’s biggest musical party with two very special guests. Since taking the nation by storm as 2004’s BBC Young Musician of the Year, Scottishborn Nicola Benedetti has enhanced her reputation as one of Britain’s most innovative and creative young violinists. We also welcome Joseph Calleja, the Maltese tenor who sings with the grace and elegance of the voices of a bygone era.

A brace of Czechs acknowledges the sterling work of the BBC SO’s outgoing chief, while contributions from 2012’s anniversary composers include Delius’s valedictory settings of Walt Whitman.

More familiar home-grown music brings down the curtain in time-honoured fashion.

Proms premiere of 'Olympic Fanfare and Theme', John Williams.
BBC commission and world premiere of 'Sparks', Mark Simpson.

The event was attended by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne MP and Nick Robinson (broadcaster).

Full house with approxiamately 100 patrons turned away.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and on BBC Two television. Filmed in 3D for the first time.

Some Olympians and Paralympians from the rowing and sailing teams came on stage for the British Sea Songs piece to a massive applause.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/134),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24),
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/134BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 76: Last Night of the Proms8 September 2012
RAHE/6/2012/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 76 - Last Night of the Proms8 September 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/963Benedetti; Nicola (20 July 1987); CBE; Scottish violinist
DS/UK/1511Calleja; Joseph (1978-); Maltese tenor
DS/UK/1029Belohlávek; Jirí (1946-2017); CBE; Czech conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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