Date
Saturday 7 September 2013 at 7:30pm
Location
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore,
London,
SW7 2A,
United Kingdom
Tel: 0845 401 5045
Link
Description
The Last Night begins with a celebratory new work by Anna Clyne and includes a rare performance of Britten’s 1967 overture for chorus and orchestra The Building of the House, a touch of Broadway magic and the sound of a glass ceiling being broken as Marin Alsop takes charge of her first Last Night.
Nigel Kennedy and Joyce DiDonato are the star soloists in a programme that picks up sea-faring themes from Bantock and George Lloyd and includes a translatlantic flavour.
Anna Clyne
Masquerade (c5 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (10 mins)
Bernstein
Chichester Psalms (19 mins)
Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending (12 mins)
Britten
The Building of the House (5 mins)
Bernstein
Candide – 'Make our Garden Grow' (5 mins)
Massenet
Chérubin – 'Je suis gris! je suis ivre!' (2 mins)
Handel
Xerxes – 'Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù' (4 mins)
Rossini
La donna del lago – 'Tanti affetti in tal momento!' (4 mins)
INTERVAL
Bernstein
Candide – overture (5 mins)
Verdi
Nabucco – 'Va, pensiero' (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) (4 mins)
Arlen
Over the Rainbow (5 mins)
Monti
Csárdás (6 mins)
Traditional
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) (4 mins)
Rodgers
Carousel – 'You'll never walk alone' (6 mins)
Bantock
Sea Reivers (4 mins)
Lloyd
HMS Trinidad March (4 mins)
UK Premiere
Arne
Rule, Britannia! (7 mins)
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory') (6 mins)
Parry
orch. Elgar, Jerusalem (4 mins)
Traditional
The National Anthem (arr. Britten) (2 mins)
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Nigel Kennedy violin
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Line-up (19)
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