Last Night of the Proms 2025

13 Sep 2025, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Sat 13 Sep 2025 Next Event

19:00 Sat 13 Sep 2025 Royal Albert Hall

The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises, star turns and all the traditional favourites

Programme

- - Modest Mussorgsky
  - A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version, 1867)(12 mins)
- - Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  - Trumpet Concerto in E flat major(19 mins)
- - Lucy Walker
  - Today(2 mins)
- - Arthur Benjamin
  - Storm Cloud Cantata (from ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’)(8 mins)
- - Charles Gounod
  - Faust – ‘Ah, je ris de me voir’ (Jewel Song)(5 mins)
- - Franz Lehár
  - The Merry Widow – Vilja Song(5 mins)
- - Camille Pépin
  - Fireworks(6 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Paul Dukas
  - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice(12 mins)
- - interval
- - Freddie Mercury
  - Bohemian Rhapsody(8 mins)arr. Stuart Morley
- - Dmitry Shostakovich
  - Festive Overture(7 mins)
- - Lerner & Loewe
  - Medley from My Fair Lady(8 mins)arr. Paul Campbell Wouldn't it be Loverly, Without You, On the Street Where You Live, Show Me, I Could Have Danced All Night
- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Prelude, Fugue and Riffs(4 mins)arr. Simon Wright
- - Leroy Anderson
  - The Typewriter(3 mins)
- - Rachel Portman
  - The Gathering Tree(3 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Trad.
  - Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(13 mins)arr. Wood
- - Thomas Arne
  - Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(3 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
- - Hubert Parry
  - Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(2 mins)
- - Trad.
  - The National Anthem(2 mins)(arr. Britten)
  - Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)(arr. P. Campbell)

Performers

Louise Alder
soprano
soprano
Alison Balsom
trumpet
trumpet
Axelle Saint-Cirel
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Bill Bailey
typewriter
typewriter
Sam Oladeinde
tenor
tenor
Brian May
Roger Taylor
BBC Singers
ensemble
ensemble
BBC Symphony Chorus
ensemble
ensemble
National Youth Choir
ensemble
ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises and star turns. Elim Chan conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in all the traditional favourites – anthems, folk songs and singalongs – with solo performances by ‘captivating’ soprano Louise Alder and ‘sensational’ trumpeter Alison Balsom. There’s a nod to this season’s Bernard Herrmann celebration, a mischevous sorcerer’s apprentice from Dukas, and premieres by Camille Pépin and Rachel Portman.

Broadcast live on BBC Two (first half) and BBC One (second half), and BBC iPlayer