Last Night of the Proms 2024

Live at the BBC Proms: the season closes with Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough joining the BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo.

The stars gather for an end-of-season party like no other. Joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers are Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain's best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough. Sakari Oramo returns to the podium for the world's biggest classical music party.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny & Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

William Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point'
Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - 'O mio babbino caro'; Madam Butterfly - Humming Chorus; Tosca - 'Vissi d'arte'
Carlos Simon: Hellfighters' Blues (BBC co-commission: world premiere)
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane
Charles Ives: The Yale-Princeton Football Game
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Summer Is Gone
Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, 'Egyptian', 2nd movement Andante

c.8.35pm INTERVAL: Georgia Mann & Petroc Trelawny are joined live in the Radio 3 box by the comedian, musician, actress and presenter Rachel Parris and the composer, arranger and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi.

c. 9pm
Iain Farrington: Extra Time (BBC commission: world premiere)
Henry Mancini arr Gavin Sutherland: The Pink Panther
Sir Stephen Hough: In His Hands: Two Spirituals
Ruperto Chapí: Las hijas del Zebedeo - 'Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores' (Carceleras)
Trad. arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Thomas Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!
Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Hubert Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem
Anon arr. Britten: The National Anthem
Trad. arr. P. Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Angel Blue (soprano)
Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)