Last Night of the Proms

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ROSSINI / TCHAIKOVSKY / SOUSA / ELGAR / PARRY / HOLST / VAUGHNA WILLIAMS
Last Night of the Proms
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Goldsmiths Choral Union, Philip Ellis, Robin Stapleton, Owain Arwel Hughes & David Arnold

[ Orchid Classics / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 7 September 2009

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs the ultimate British spectacular! This two-disc classical extravaganza is full of Pomp and Circumstance celebrating the best of British music plus other well-loved light classics. Featuring powerful Proms anthems like Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem and The Sailor's Hornpipe in celebration of Sir Henry Wood's fine concert tradition.

Other highlights include: William Tell Overture, Rhapsody in Blue, Can-Can, Nimrod (Enigma Variations), Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker) and the 1812 Overture.

This season the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) celebrates 70 years at the forefront of music-making in the UK. With fourteen residencies across the country and a wider reach than any other UK large ensemble, the RPO has truly become Britain's national orchestra. The RPO's mission is to bring world-class orchestral music to the widest possible audience and it attracts an annual global concert audience in excess of 500,000.

Tracks:

Bliss:
Things to Come: March

Britten:
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

Elgar:
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major, Op. 39 No. 4
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1

Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue
Lucy Parham (piano)

Holst:
The Planets: Jupiter

Mascagni:
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

Offenbach:
Can-Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld)

Parry:
Jerusalem

Rossini:
Guillaume Tell Overture: Galop

Sousa:
The Liberty Bell

Suppe:
Leichte Kavallerie Overture

Tchaikovsky:
The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
1812 Overture, Op. 49

Vaughan Williams:
Fantasia on Greensleeves

Wood, Henry:
Fantasia on British Sea Songs