| Main Performers | Samuel West - speaker,
Audra McDonald - vocal,
Leif Ove Andsnes - piano |
| Choirs | BBC Singers,
BBC Symphony Chorus |
| Set List | 'Anniversary Fanfare', Walton (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'March - Orb and Sceptre', Walton (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Henry V - Suite', Walton, arr. Malclom Sargent (Samuel West, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Bright Cecilia: Variations on a Theme by Purcell', Colin Matthews, Judith Weir, Poul Ruders, David Sawyer, Michael Torke, Anthony Payne, Magnus Lindberg (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
'Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.16', Grieg (Leif Ove Andsnes, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
INTERVAL
'Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D Major, 'Land of Hope and Glory', Elgar (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
'Coronation Anthem 'I Was Glad', Parry (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'A Centenary Sequence: 'Cinderella' Waltz and Songs With Orchestra', Rodgers (Audra McDonald, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs - 'Fanfare - The Saucy Arethusa', 'Tom Bowling ', 'Sailor's Hornpipe: Jack's the Lad', 'All Through the Night', 'Charlie is My Darling', 'Irish Tune from County Derry (arr. Percy Grainger)', 'Home, Sweet Home', 'See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes', 'Rule, Britannia!, Henry Wood, arr. John Wilson (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Jerusalem', Parry, orch. Elgar (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Britten (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra) |
| Performance Notes | BBC Music Magazine commission, Proms premiere and World premiere of 'Bright Cecilia: Variations on a Theme by Purcell', Colin Matthews, Judith Weir, Poul Ruders, David Sawyer, Michael Torke, Anthony Payne, Magnus Lindberg.
Proms premieres of newly revised version of 'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs', Henry Wood, arr. John Wilson.
Proms premieres 'Anniversary Fanfare', Walton; 'A Centenary Sequence: 'Cinderella' Waltz and Songs with Orchestra', Rodgers. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2002/65),
Programme (RAHE/1/2002/139)
Handbill (RAHE/6/2002/40),
Transparencies (RAHE/3/23/24),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2002/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2002/20) |