BBC Proms · SEASON 61

Last Night of the Proms - Part 1

Episode 29 · 2007-09-08

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Episode overview

From the Royal Albert Hall, Alan Titchmarsh introduces the final concert of the Proms season. There's a Shakespearean theme with Dvorak's Overture Otello and Thomas Ades' Prelude to The Tempest, plus a rarely performed work by Elgar in his centenary year. Soprano Anna Netrebko and violinist Joshua Bell perform works by Rakmaninov, Ravel and Bellini. Jiri Belohlavek, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducts the Last Night for the first time.

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