BBC Proms: Season 2020, Episode 8

2020 - 8: Last Night of the Proms

Katie Derham hosts the climax of the classical music festival, live from the Royal Albert Hall, drawing a unique season of live performances to a celebratory close. Soprano Golda Schultz and violinist Lisa Batiashvili join Dalia Stasevska, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers in a programme that includes music from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, a world premiere from Andrea Tarrodi, music by Richard Strauss, Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. The night comes to a jubilant close with all the traditional favourites, including the Fantasia on British Sea-Songs, You'll Never Walk Alone, Rule, Britannia, Pomp and Circumstance March No 1, and Jerusalem.