(Photo: YouTube)CPR Classical brings you the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall in London starting at 7 p.m. this Saturday.
Conductor Sakari Oramo of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists through favorites by Benjamin Briten, Edward Elgar and Richard Strauss.
It's a huge final night for the Proms, an eight-week annual classical music festival held each summer in London.
Check out Saturday's program, presented by American Public Media, and scroll down to see Oramo conduct a Ralph Vaughan Williams piece at the 2013 Proms.
Program:
HIGGINS: Velocity CHAUSSON: Poem RICHARD STRAUSS: Taillefer KHACHATURIAN: Gayane, Sabre Dance TRAD. Arr. Alekset Igudesman: La Cucaracha SHERMAN & SHERMAN: Mary Poppins Medley ANSELL: Plymouth Hoe ARNE: Rule, Britannia! ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory') PARRY, orch. Elgar: Jerusalem BRITTEN: The National Anthem
Featured performers:
BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Singers Sakari Oramo — Conductor Janine Jansen — Violin Elizabeth Watts — Soprano John Daszak — Tenor Roderick Williams — Baritone Ruthie Henshall — Mezzo
Oramo conducts “A Sea Symphony” by Vaughan Williams:
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