Main Performers | Jeremy Irons - speaker, Willard White - vocals, Dame Gillian Weir - organ |
Choirs | BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus |
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) |
Related Archival Material | Proms 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) |