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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 72: Last Night of the Proms 2025
Performance Date13 September 2025
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersLouise Alder,
Axelle Saint-Cirel,
Sam Oladeinde - vocals
Bill Bailey - typewriter
Brian May - guitar
Roger Taylor
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
ConductorsElim Chan
Set List'A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version, 1867)', Mussorgsky,
'Trumpet Concerto in E flat major', Hummel,
'Today', Walker,
'Storm Cloud Cantata (from ‘The Man Who Knew too Much)', A. Benjamin, arr Hermann,
'Faust – ‘Ah, je ris de me voir’ (Jewel Song)', Gounod,
'The Merry Widow – Vilja Song', Lehar,
'Faust – ‘Ah, je ris de me voir’ (Jewel Song)', Gounod,
'Fireworks', Camille Pépin,
BBC commission: world premiere
'The Sorcerer’s Apprentice', Dukas,
INTERVAL
'Bohemian Rhapsody', Mercury, arr. Morley,
'Festive Overture', Shostakovich,
'Medley from My Fair Lady (Wouldn't it be Loverly, Without You, On the Street Where You Live, Show Me, I Could Have Danced All Night)', Lerner & Loewe, arr. Paul Campbell,
'Prelude, Fugue and Riffs', Bernstein, arr. Simon Wright,
'The Typewriter', Anderson,
'The Gathering Tree', Rachel Portman,
BBC commission: world premiere
'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs', arr. Wood,
'Rule, Britannia!', Arne, arr. Sargent,
'Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (‘Land of Hope and Glory’)', Elgar
'Jerusalem', Parry, orch. Elgar,
'The National Anthem', arr. Britten,
'Auld lang syne', Trad., arr. P. Campbell
Performance NotesThe biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises and star turns.

Elim Chan conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in all the traditional favourites – anthems, folk songs and singalongs – with solo performances by ‘captivating’ soprano Louise Alder and ‘sensational’ trumpeter Alison Balsom.

There’s a nod to this season’s Bernard Herrmann celebration, a mischevous sorcerer’s apprentice from Dukas, and premieres by Camille Pe´pin and Rachel Portman.

Broadcast live on BBC Two (first half) and BBC One (second half), and BBC iPlayer
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2025/99BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 72: Last Night of the Proms 202513 September 2025
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4385Alder; Louise (25 November 1986); British lyric soprano singer
DS/UK/3134Bailey; Bill (13 January 1965); English comedian, musician and actor
DS/UK/1672May; Brian (19 July 1947); CBE; English singer songwriter and astrophysicist
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