Last Night of the Proms

**red micra** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:00 PM

Tomorrow night is the Last night of the Proms will you be sitting at home clutching your flag waiting to burst into song with Rule Brittania and Land of hope and glory or is it not your cup of tea. If you are watching the last night will you be watching the first half of the concert aswell (on BBC2) where (amongst others) Welsh Bass Baritone Bryn Terfel will be singing.

**Adam** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:07 PM

Red I'll be watching

I thought they weren't doing Rule Britannia this year? Or was it the Sea Shanties? Can't remember.

**Jezer** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:17 PM

Oh no- it's come to a close again!

I'll be watching.

**red micra** · #4 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:19 PM

you can't have a last night concert without the sea shanties

that would be like wimbledon without strawberries and cream

**Adam** · #5 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:23 PM

Hmm maybe my mistake. I'm sure we discussed it here. Didn't the conductor want to do something different or something?

Anyway they are there:

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Originally Posted by BBC

Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus - overture (6 mins)
Wagner Tannhäuser - 'Wie Todesahnung Dämmrun ... O du, mein holder Abendstern' (Act 3) (5 mins)
Puccini Tosca - 'Tre sbirri, Una carrozza' (Act 1, Te Deum) (4 mins)
Verdi Falstaff - 'Ehi paggio!... L'onore Ladri!' (Act 1) (5 mins)
Beethoven Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, 'Choral Fantasy' (19 mins)
Interval
Denza, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov Funiculì, funiculà (3 mins)
Trad. arr. Chris Hazell
Folk Song Medley: The Turtle Dove (England)
Loch Lomond (Scotland)
Cariad cyntaf (Wales)
Molly Malone (Ireland) (12 mins) (BBC commission: world premiere)
Anna Meredith froms (BBC commission: world premiere) (c5 mins)
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 (8 mins)
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs (4 mins)
Arne arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia! (4 mins)
Parry orch. Elgar Jerusalem (2 mins)
The National Anthem (2 mins)

**Jezer** · #6 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by red micra

you can't have a last night concert without the sea shanties

that would be like wimbledon without strawberries and cream

That would be like Wimbledon without tennis.

**Jezer** · #7 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:27 PM

Oooh- Adam, wish it were on now!

**red micra** · #8 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:36 PM

I have seen Bryn performing the lead role in Falstaff
and also singing the Te Deum in concert superb

Glad to see it's a traditional last night

**Jezer** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-09-2008, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by red micra

I have seen Bryn performing the lead role in Falstaff
and also singing the Te Deum in concert superb

Only four more years to see him performing Red!

Sweet Pea · #10 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 10:39 AM

Last night is enough to set me off...bottle of red wine in one hand and a box or tissues in the other...
I wonder if leaving your country and coming back to it after a few years makes you more sentimental...