Lowestoft’s own Zeb Soanes (Classic FM) teams up with conductor and comedian extraordinaire Rainer Hersch (BBC Radio 4) and his brilliant Orkestra for one night only to enjoy, poke fun at and generally celebrate that jewel of the British concert season, the Last Night of the Proms.
From Land of Hope and Glory to Rule Britannia by way of the Shipping Forecast – it’s all here: a high spirited, flag-waving and downright cheeky take on everything British.
Very special guest: soprano Laura Ruhí Vidal.
Music to include:
Land of Hope and Glory
Dambusters March
Rule, Britannia!
O mio babbino caro
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
The Shipping Forecast Orchestrated
Laughing Song
The Devil’s Galop
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4
Marriage of Figaro Overture
Hornpipe (from British Sea Songs)
1812 Overture
‘Right Said Fred’
And more
“At last a musical comedian with a difference – he is really funny”
The Daily Telegraph
“Roll over Beethoven, here’s Hersch”
Singapore Straits Times
“Perhaps the greatest trick of the entire night was making a classical symphony concert the coolest – and funkiest show in town”
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada
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