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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1999 - One Hundred and Fifth Season - Prom 72 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date11 September 1999
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJeremy Irons - speaker,
Willard White - vocals,
Dame Gillian Weir - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers,
BBC Symphony Chorus
ConductorsSir Andrew Davis
Set List'Overture' from Maskarade, Nielsen (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Come, Master, Observe the Host of Mankind' from The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky (Willard White, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Mephistopheles's Air' and 'Serenade' from The Damnation of Faust, Berlioz (Willard White, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Mephistopheles's Serenade' from Faust, Gounod (Willard White, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Giro', Esa-Pekka Salonen (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G Minor', Poulenc (Dame Gillian Weir, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
INTERVAL
'Overture' from Die Fledermaus, J Strauss II (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Some Enchanted Evening' from South Pacific, Rodgers (Willard White, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Ol' Man River' from Show Boat, Kern (Willard White, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Toward the Unknown Region', Vaughan Williams (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Songs', Coward (Jeremy Irons, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus)
'Fantasia and Circumstance March No.1 in D Major, Op.39, No.1' (BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs', Wood (BBC Symphony Orchestra
'Rule, Britannia!', Arne, arr. Sargent (Willard White, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
'Jerusalem', Parry, orch. Elgar (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesProms premiere of 'Songs', Coward
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1999/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/1999/122),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1999/36),
Poster (RAHE/2/1999/29),
Transparencies (RAHE/3/20/23)
Photographs (RAHE/3/1999/2)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1999/122BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1999 - One Hundred and Fifth Season - Prom 72 - Last Night of the Proms11 September 1999
RAHE/6/1999/36BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1999 - One Hundred and Fifth Season - Prom 72 - Last Night of the Proms11 September 1999
RAHE/3/20/23Last Night of the Proms with Jeremy Irons and Willard White11 September 1999
RAHE/2/1999/29Proms Guide Poster16 July-11 September 1999
RAHE/3/1999/2Photographs of Last Night of the Proms11 September 1999
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ionadoinioz_NiohBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1999 - One Hundred and Fifth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/150Weir; Dame; Gillian (1941-); DBE; New Zealand organist
DS/UK/4980Davis; Sir; Andrew (2 February 1944); CBE; English conductor
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/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/556Salonen; Esa-Pekka (1958-); Finnish conductor and composer
DS/UK/10596Irons; Jeremy (1948-); English actor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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