Organ Recital – Saturday 4 September
Thomas Trotter has withdrawn from this Prom, due to an arm injury. We are hugely grateful to Peter Holder who will be stepping in at short notice.
The programme will now open with Meyerbeer’s Le prophète – Coronation March, and there have been some changes to the programme, further details can be found here.
Last Night of the Proms – Saturday 11 September
There will also be special screening of the Last Night of the Proms live to the Assembly Festival Garden, Coventry from the Royal Albert Hall.
Gity Razaz Mother (BBC commission: world premiere)
Malcolm Arnold Variations for Orchestra on a Theme of Ruth Gipps
Samuel Barber, arr. Jonathan Manners Adagio for strings
Maurice Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin – Rigaudon
Franck Angelis Fantasie on a Theme of Piazzolla – Chiquilín de Bachín
Richard Wagner Wesendonck Lieder – Im Treibhaus
Richard Wagner The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – Prize Song
Florence Price Symphony No. 1 – ‘Juba Dance’ (3rd movt)
Astor Piazzolla, arr. John Lenehan Libertango
Aníbal Troilo, arr. George Morton ‘Sur’
arr. Percy Grainger Brigg Fair
Peter Allen, arr. Iain Farrington ‘I Still Call Australia Home’
arr. Henry Wood, orch. Mark Millidge Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Thomas Arne Rule, Britannia!
Edward Elgar, arr. Anne Dudley Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (‘Land of Hope and Glory’)
Hubert Parry, arr. Edward Elgar Jerusalem
arr. Benjamin Britten The National Anthem
Trad., arr. Paul Campbell Auld Lang Syne
For full details of this year’s season, please visit: bbc.co.uk/proms
Barber’s Adagio, ‘arr. Jonathan Manners’! Intriguing… Arranged for…hurdy gurdy?…wind chimes?….the JH Squire Celeste Octet? (the latter reference meaningful only to those of us whose grandparents had those 10″ Columbia 78s in the house). I think we should be told!
Wait and see …!
I am agog with anticipation, Paul!
Great to see Arnold’s rare outing for his Variations which I have plugged for a performance in his centenary year . You get two for one with Ruth Gipps also in the frame marked for her 100th.
Barber’s beautiful Adagio should remain a piece for strings: it is not a choral piece! No words or warbly voices are needed. What we heard tonight isn’t a patch on the original! (Whether for string quartet or string orchestra).
It is a choral piece, too, as arranged by Barber himself, as Agnus Dei. BTW, Thibaudet has arranged the Adagio for piano.