Anna Clyne
Masquerade c5'
BBC commission: world premiere
Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture 10'
Bernstein
Chichester Psalms 19'
Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending 12'
Britten
The Building of the House 5'
Bernstein
Candide – 'Make our Garden Grow' 5'
Massenet
Chérubin – 'Je suis gris! je suis ivre!' 2'
Handel
Xerxes – 'Frondi tenere e belle... Ombra mai fù' 4'
Rossini
La donna del lago – 'Tanti affetti in tal momento!' 4'
interval
Bernstein
Candide – overture 5'
Verdi
Nabucco – 'Va pensiero' (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) 4'
Arlen
Over the Rainbow 5'
Monti
Csárdás 6'
Trad.
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) 4'
Rodgers
Carousel – 'You’ll never walk alone' 6'
Bantock
Sea Reivers 4'
Lloyd
HMS Trinidad March 4'
UK premiere of this version
Arne
Rule, Britannia! 7'
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory') 6'
Parry, orch. Elgar
Jerusalem 4'
The National Anthem (arr. Britten)
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Nigel Kennedy violin
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
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 transatlantic flavour.