@timeodaneosetdona Sad that the end has begun, then, as the Fantasia hasn't appeared for 4 years. Miserable decision, to say the LEAST! The greatest part of audience participation went away, and it sucks industrial-strength wind!
@50kippercat Same sort of idiotic mentality that meant Trafalgar was not celebrated more widely incase it offended our French and Spanish brethren....... It might be reinstated shortly on some ridiculous five year cycle. Trust the zealously PC BBC.
The Fantasia of British Sea songs no longer features in the Last Night of the Proms due to the replacement of the British Navy with a smal canoe armed with a pea shooter.
I was a little annoyed they didn't play Fantasia of British Sea Songs or the Horn Pipe tonight I love these being played iits all the fun of the Last Night of the Proms
This is wonderful, should never have been removed from the last-night lineup. Why they felt the need to change a formula that worked so well for so long is beyond me.
@Stedmaniac At least they still pay Pomp And Circumstance! That's what got me interested in classical music when i was 6 or 7! :) but yes, it's confusing and upsetting why these are no longer in the line-up! :(
I wonder how many brass players in the audience were singing along with the euph. part? How wonderful to see that instrument in this well-known classic and performed so eloquently here. Shivers!!!!
@TimBrewin I don't know. I have emailed the artistic director of the Proms for this year inquiring why and I am waiting for an answer. I have heard it was 'too nationalistic' and therefore 'politically incorrect', which angers me.
Imagine a German concert playing "Die Wacht am Rhein", "O Deutschland hoch in Ehren" (written by an Englishman by the way) and the Treuelied. The entire German political class, the media and most politically correct citizens would start crying and shouting on this "nationalist crap." But when the British do that, you don't mind. Because they are much more peace-loving than we are?
There are now fewer reason to want to attend the Last Night of the Proms since the removal of this piece. Very sad as this was once on my list of things I wanted to do.
but my gosh are some of the comments on this page scary..
No this shouldn't be compulsory veiwing, half of Britain dislike classical music so that would fail :L UKIP is a ridiculous party full of scary people.
You can be proud to be British but still accept other people, accept other cultures, you can keep them all going at the same time. Anyone who says otherwise should be on a boat to somewhere for singleminded ignorant people.
@killerschiller1 What about all these "other cultures" who don't accept the culture of the land they are in. Rather than enculturate, they have decided to force people to work around them. I can see if someone was forced to move to Britain and wanted change, but the vast majority of these people moved their voluntarily. I am all for cultural tolerance, you have to realize that intolerance is a two way street. The bastardization of culture will be the longterm down fall of civilized society.
@SCStraddler I feel we are very much able to keep our own heritage while allowing people to change there's. II agree that there are certain aspects that people should learn are different in England to other countries.. However, people are different even within our own culture.. there are many things which you probably consider British which people would consider ridiculous.. no one agrees.. no one is the same. Culture differentiates from like.. north to south england allow others to keep theirs
@killerschiller1 lol child, UKIP arent racist, they are normal people, the only reason you would think so is because you have been brainwashed by left wing ideology
@killerschiller1 just because you disagree with them doesn't make them racists or nazis or "like the bnp". That is what the Labour party have spent years and considerable public money trying to make you believe.
It's a shame, UKIP are a Minor party - They Celebrate being British - They plan a trade union with the Commowealth to rival the E.U and bulkier borders - Less Opium from the Afghans and Less Criminals migrating.
I'm not British. Could someone tell me about the antipathy regarding the removal of the songs in question, please. It seems odd that music that is distinctly British would be removed for the sake of political correctness. What is the complaint about the music If it is anything like the music played at the Proms posted here, I should think that in this time of difficulty for many nations, anything that can make a national spirit soar would be welcome. Who is complaining and why, please?
@goodcatholicboy It's not a political thing, really. My politics are *way* to the left of UKIP, and I don't at all agree with the more hysterical "We'll be an Islamic republic by 2020" scare stories... but I am still very unhappy that this piece has been dropped. The Last Night is not *supposed* to be a celebration of the different faces of modern Britain. It's pomp, pageantry and flag-waving. The Fantasia has been a favourite of mine for years and years, and I miss it very badly.
@Loganberrybunny Thank you for your response. I am grateful. I asked one of my friends in England. She is so dear. She lives in a tiny village in Somerset. She has little time for politics or it's evil children. When I asked her, she said, "Oh, it's some sort of blimmin rubbish some politician cooked up who has entirely TOO much time on her hands. You're a very nice young man, Mark. Don't bother yourself with this sort of twaddle." So, I never did find out from her.
@goodcatholicboy i've studied political science and as far as i can tell its part of the lefts plan to try and not exclude minority populations in the country, which of course has led to more proportionally mainstream being pissed off and turned to the right. Basically the lefties have created an enviroment which has fed right into the hands of racists, ironic huh?
Remember Margaret Hodge the cultural commissar ? In her wheedling whiny voice 'the BBC Proms aren't multicultural enough'.
What does she expect the Promenade concerts to do ? They highlight works from the Western Classical tradition and some of the most complex objects created by the mind of man.
There should be a campaign to get these reinstated. After all we pay the BBC license fee and they should be accountable to us.
Remember the farce over the Trafalgar bicentenary as well ?
leave the political correctedness to the politicians, musicians will just play. Music isn't supposed to meant for what it respresents, its supposed to mean something different for everyone.
This should never have been allowed to be taken out of the Last Night, I love it. The cello solo is fantastic, the emotion in the playing combined with th 'no place like home' words, bring a tear to my eye every time I hear it. BRING THIS BACK FOR NEXT YEAR PLASE!
im really sad they didn't play this this year :( its such a wonderful piece. i also love the cello solo a large amount, in the concert band arrangement i got to play it on alto sax which was fun! (:
i'm are from germany and my family and i, we watch the last night every year. since my childhood and i am 27 years now. and yes we are waving a union flag and we sing the lyrics :-) and go crazy...we love it so much!! it's very, very popular in germany!! the people love it!!
I go promming every year - to at least 5 concerts and also attend the Last night every year if I can make the date. I was horrified last year to find this missing from the program. This ritual is what was left of people-ness in classical music in the world. Apparently not good enough for the BBC.
GREAT Britain is history...........I'm so sad that it has come to this. Succesive governments have eroded our status. The final act was Gordon Brown (may he rot in hell) putting Dover harbour up for sale! The first bidders were a French company. Horatio Nelson should return and stop this!
@KITCHENOFDISTINCTION If you think Gordon Brown should follow his accomplice Bliar to make millions, after he left our country bankrupt you're not in possession of your senses.
@elljay1989 funnily enough, the Germans do an imitation of our proms! Several towns hold a similar concert. Believe it or not, loads of them wave Union Flags.
Awsome video, thanks for putting it on the net. I'm British currently living in New Zealand so cannot watch the Last Night live, but this is nearly as good. I love the audience participation that is what makes this unique!!
'The saucy Arethusa' (They don't write titles like that anymore) A music hall song from 1832 written by Prince Hoare ( They don't write names.like that...........)
I sincerely hope you're joking. This stupid nonsense of blowing horns etc. is what makes the last night of the proms what they are! They do it every year,
@ILUVlupin I don't really know how it started. I think the idea is that the 'last night' has a bit of a party atmosphere to it. So people bring in horns and those balloons that make a whining noise etc.
They keep fiddling about with the middle bit of music though. For a few years we had Ar Hyd y Nos, The Skye Boat Song and Danny Boy which were nice subdued songs played before the next bit where everyone in the audience and in the parks sing at the tops of their voices!
This frivolity is a tradition of the Last Night 0f the Proms and although i agee that it is childish, the perps are avid music lovers. To get into this you have to show ticket stubs for at least 5 proms and q for literally days.
I am a Kiwi, but I have to say I understand what it means to be British. I understand the best of Britannia and I hope that it never dies just because of some pathetic PC agenda.
I don't think the horns have ruined it they've always been there as far as i'm aware when i've watched last night of the proms although they haven't had the sea songs in for the last two years hopefully they'll have them back next year best part of it especially when he gets faster on the hornpipe
@1es1eyfraise LOOK....you gotta get used to poppadums and curry...Britain's gonna become a Hindu/Muslim state by 2100....so pipe down, English racist!
I totally agree with you. We need to complain about this and tell the pc brigade to go live in totalitiarn state, where they will soon be proud to be British.
@1es1eyfraise what are you talking about?! Last night 2009 had rule brittania, pomp and circumstance no.1 (land of hope and glory), the national anthem and jerusalem; ie the normal compliment.
"oh noes the PC brigade" what a laod of rubbish. Nobody is stopping you being proud of being British, look around you for fucks sake. It's fear mongering twaddle. I suppose you read the Mail or some other bullshit spewing bile spreading nonsense..
@1es1eyfraise Just imagine you live in another country, and maybe this country is Germany and you are proud of being german. I think you are immediately called "Nazi" ...
But hey, a guy from England who is proud of being british, that's ok...
@matzish Du hast so recht. Als ich letzten Herbst mit Freunden in Amerika war, sind wir gefragt worden, ob es in Deutschland etwa keine Kirchen gäbe, in denen Adolf Hitler angebetet würde. Und wir nur "WTF?!" :D
Ich würde ja gerne sagen "Und wir haben das Neujahrskonzert!"...aber das haben ja die Österreicher ;)
Die gibt's vielleicht bald wieder. Es gibt ja heute auch wieder Russen, die Väterchen Stalin vergöttern. Die Geschichte geht unvorhersehbare Wege. Aber wahrscheinlicher ist es, dass wir bald Mohammed anbeten.
@1es1eyfraise No one should apologise for the good things which have been done by their country and countrymen. There is very much good which has come from these Isles, including music. I love good music including this and applaud good English composition.The problem is conciet, in thinking "only" the English or "only" Europeans. Please, be proud of being English/British but be prouder still of being a rounded human being. From a foreigner.
@1es1eyfraise .couldnt agree more.being proud of your country is a crime these days in britain only.most other nations are encouraged to be patriotic,but we are subdued by wishywashy liberals to scared of offending the many minorities(who mostly arent offended anyway) that reside here.
the BBC IS a disgrace - a leftist, muslime apologist shower to be precise, so of COURSE any patriotic music would be 'frowned' on [with the
greatest of relish I suspect ] by the equally leftist muslime loving eu and it's NWO agenda.
Britain is no longer a sovereign country - we will all have to 'tow the EU line, or face foreign troops to 'subdue' any vehement protests. Think I'm overdoing the paranoia? JUST WAIT AND SEE!
It was the Prom directors who removed the songs - the prom agenda is not decided by the BBC - it is merely televised by them. They don't control the football results either.
You do realise how silly you look? Thinking some incredibly anal coffin dodgers are part of a New World Order/Illuminati/Zionist/Lizard Head/CIA/NSA/Psyop/JFK/Wq2rx/(insert conspiracy theory) 'propaganda'.
Nonsense!
Never mind, you CT nuts think the Haitian Earthquake was US Govt sponsored somehow...
As a long-term (40 years plus) Last-Night TV viewer, that for 2009 was the most boring non-event I've ever had the dubious pleasure of watching. Breaking a lifetime's habit I turned off...If the trend continues, I'm afraid I shan't bother at all any more...the BBC are a bloody disgrace,,,
I surely can't be the only one who feels this way...a number of my friends and acquaintances have expressed similar feelings...
@mwallaby I know this is a long time after you commented, and you may know already, but the rustling noise is part of another FoBSS tradition.
During the rather melancholy sounding cello solo, prommers take out handkerchieves (or unfold huge ones, shared along the whole row) and pretend to cry, overcome with the emotion of the melody.
Tremendous discipline and control that conductor has. I admire his precision. He's sort of like the "Masterchef" of conductors - and he's dressed like that, too. I am sure that he has very high expectations of the orchestra, and they deliver. A bit of a taskmaster. But he is perhaps not the most relaxed or exuberant of "Last Night" conductors. There is a certain tension between the exactness of his approach and somewhat informal nature of the audience.
Hail the Gracious Queen! Hail Brittannia! Hail the BBC. Britian's contribution to Classical music is the stuff of legends. Sir Henry Wood, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Maurice Ravel,,, America sucks in this genre of music.
Not as good as the Germans and Austrians though, and te Irish, and Handel was adopted. We did have Byrd, Tallis and Purcell. We coulda done with Bach & Mozart, Debussy & Sartie. Still we're excellent on writers & theartre. Though, yet again I think the Irish out do us with eriters, we come second. Australia comes last in all the arts, but they far prefer sports and medicine. They're remarkably shocking writers! Even with Irish ancestry,
because thats just how its done. Dont question just enjoy
TheSplendidMrHaza22 6 days ago
I don't understand why they are squatting like that? Anyone knows?
Khristophoros1001 1 month ago
In order of appearance,
The Saucy Arethusa
Tom Bowling
The Sailors Hornpipe/Jack's the Lad(with the traditional competition)
MoonEyes2k 1 month ago
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BretWinters 2 months ago
We helped rid Iraq of a dictator, and Libya of another dictator, is that a bad thing ? Or are The British still Empire building baddies ?
malcolmcog 3 months ago
How can British sea songs be "Too Patriotc" when they have kept Rule Britannia in ? Perhaps one of the most patriotic songs of all time!
50kippercat 4 months ago
Last night at the proms without this number is as stupid as England without a navy.......Wait.. :-)
Seriously, WHICH genious has gotten this bright idea? He/She ought to be out looking for a new job.
ovemunk 4 months ago
bring it back and with safety in mind bring back the hooters too
18trence 4 months ago
Bring the British Sea Songs back please. Why did they stop? To appease certain people?
50kippercat 4 months ago
@50kippercat you are joking right? I missed it this year, have they really stopped?
hobitshouse 4 months ago
@hobitshouse Kipper had better be having a bath. The Proms without the Fantasia would be the beginning of the end; the thin end of the wedge.
timeodaneosetdona 3 months ago
@timeodaneosetdona Sad that the end has begun, then, as the Fantasia hasn't appeared for 4 years. Miserable decision, to say the LEAST! The greatest part of audience participation went away, and it sucks industrial-strength wind!
MoonEyes2k 1 month ago 2
@50kippercat Same sort of idiotic mentality that meant Trafalgar was not celebrated more widely incase it offended our French and Spanish brethren....... It might be reinstated shortly on some ridiculous five year cycle. Trust the zealously PC BBC.
takharov1 2 months ago 4
Those of us lucky enough to be in Hyde Park were treated to the hornpipe, but not the whole fantasia.
Stedmaniac 4 months ago
The Fantasia of British Sea songs no longer features in the Last Night of the Proms due to the replacement of the British Navy with a smal canoe armed with a pea shooter.
malcolmcog 4 months ago 4
Good "last night" but I also missed this part.
Charlotte- Denmark
taarnborgvej60 4 months ago
I was a little annoyed they didn't play Fantasia of British Sea Songs or the Horn Pipe tonight I love these being played iits all the fun of the Last Night of the Proms
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It was not played again, it seems the BBC bosses don't like to show any national pride, lefty tossers.
wisetrucker 4 months ago
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It was not played again, it seems the BBC bosses don't like to show any national pride, lefty tossers.
wisetrucker 4 months ago
It was not played again, it seems the BBC bosses don't like to show any national pride, lefty tossers.
wisetrucker 4 months ago 3
im going to miss the sea shanty's, they where great fun :(
TomAnkcorn 4 months ago 2
absolutley fantastic, proud to be British ..
kennybarton1 4 months ago
This is wonderful, should never have been removed from the last-night lineup. Why they felt the need to change a formula that worked so well for so long is beyond me.
Stedmaniac 4 months ago 4
@Stedmaniac At least they still pay Pomp And Circumstance! That's what got me interested in classical music when i was 6 or 7! :) but yes, it's confusing and upsetting why these are no longer in the line-up! :(
grizelda1986 4 months ago
Please tell me they are bringing it back for this year's last night?
Silverfox0984 4 months ago 2
@Silverfox0984 dont think they are :( wasnt in the line up on radio 3 earlier today
TomAnkcorn 4 months ago
@TomAnkcorn In that case, come 9:45 tonight i'm sticking this on full blast!
Silverfox0984 4 months ago
Oh my gosh. This just brings back sooooo many memories of my childhood. Nostalgia FTW!!!
edwu91 4 months ago
I wonder how many brass players in the audience were singing along with the euph. part? How wonderful to see that instrument in this well-known classic and performed so eloquently here. Shivers!!!!
861Sailor 4 months ago
Why was this taken out of the Last Night?
TimBrewin 5 months ago
@TimBrewin I don't know. I have emailed the artistic director of the Proms for this year inquiring why and I am waiting for an answer. I have heard it was 'too nationalistic' and therefore 'politically incorrect', which angers me.
1AdrianR 4 months ago
@1AdrianR Thanks for the information. If that is true, it also angers me.
TimBrewin 4 months ago
@TimBrewin Your welcome. I haven't received a response yet, but I'll let you know when or if I do.
1AdrianR 4 months ago
As a German I don't mind British national pride at all, because it is the pride of a free and democratic nation.
jnkization 5 months ago 22
Imagine a German concert playing "Die Wacht am Rhein", "O Deutschland hoch in Ehren" (written by an Englishman by the way) and the Treuelied. The entire German political class, the media and most politically correct citizens would start crying and shouting on this "nationalist crap." But when the British do that, you don't mind. Because they are much more peace-loving than we are?
HerrWagnerfreund 4 months ago
@jnkization I think that for a German to say that represents the height of humanity. Well done, you.
TimBrewin 1 month ago 3
@jnkization Actually we are more of a monarch imperialism democratic nation
Agorsan 1 month ago
Put this back in Last Night Programs NOW!
1AdrianR 5 months ago 7
I wish classical concerts were like this in America...
Lissbirds 5 months ago 2
A euphonium! :D
ApolyonTheSoulRender 5 months ago
There are now fewer reason to want to attend the Last Night of the Proms since the removal of this piece. Very sad as this was once on my list of things I wanted to do.
LJC82SR 5 months ago 5
My country
Taylorgentles 6 months ago
I won the lottery of life when I was born in dear Blighty!
LeamingtonSteve 7 months ago 27
If you looked in the Yellow Pages?? lol so cutting and so true!
seanboy1111 7 months ago
In response to Rhyden, When you come to Wales adopt the Welsh culture buttie bach!!!
nicoalphalpha 7 months ago
Shame on the people who aren't bopping up and down with everyone else! If you're gonna go to the Last Night, at least join in! :D
fmervick 7 months ago
trombone section is boss..... just sayin.....
tromboy104 8 months ago
lol at the chinese or japanese guy at 4:48
ManeringMr 8 months ago in playlist playlist No1
In the mix! Classical styleeee.
itsinmynamechap 8 months ago
epic tune at 4 20
ManeringMr 8 months ago in playlist playlist No1
Camera work was interesting that year wasn't it!?
atomicmrpelly 8 months ago
If you come to England adopt the English cutlure -
When in Rome!
Rhyden11 9 months ago
@Rhyden11
Britain old boy....Britain, a multiculture of Scots, English, Welsh and Irish. Thanks.
barnowl01292 9 months ago 3
Classical music is the only music that can make me cry and shiver at the same time.
stacker911 9 months ago 4
Love it
itsinmynamechap 9 months ago
its a shame the song was dropped..
but my gosh are some of the comments on this page scary..
No this shouldn't be compulsory veiwing, half of Britain dislike classical music so that would fail :L UKIP is a ridiculous party full of scary people.
You can be proud to be British but still accept other people, accept other cultures, you can keep them all going at the same time. Anyone who says otherwise should be on a boat to somewhere for singleminded ignorant people.
killerschiller1 10 months ago
@killerschiller1 What about all these "other cultures" who don't accept the culture of the land they are in. Rather than enculturate, they have decided to force people to work around them. I can see if someone was forced to move to Britain and wanted change, but the vast majority of these people moved their voluntarily. I am all for cultural tolerance, you have to realize that intolerance is a two way street. The bastardization of culture will be the longterm down fall of civilized society.
SCStraddler 10 months ago 2
@SCStraddler I feel we are very much able to keep our own heritage while allowing people to change there's. II agree that there are certain aspects that people should learn are different in England to other countries.. However, people are different even within our own culture.. there are many things which you probably consider British which people would consider ridiculous.. no one agrees.. no one is the same. Culture differentiates from like.. north to south england allow others to keep theirs
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@killerschiller1 lol child, UKIP arent racist, they are normal people, the only reason you would think so is because you have been brainwashed by left wing ideology
Syphered08 9 months ago 2
@Syphered08 yes, yes I have been brainwashed.. completely and utterly by left wing ideology..
I'm practically a communist.
No I just happen to disagree with almost everything that UKIP tries to preach.. I think its a joke of a party..
killerschiller1 9 months ago
@killerschiller1 just because you disagree with them doesn't make them racists or nazis or "like the bnp". That is what the Labour party have spent years and considerable public money trying to make you believe.
Syphered08 9 months ago
this should be compulsory viewing / attendance for all immigrants. anyone who refuses - back on the boat.
damby84 10 months ago
Down with the coalition! Back Labour! The lib's have sold there souls and will always be remebered as traitors to there supporters and the country.
thereds1959 11 months ago
@thereds1959
It's a shame, UKIP are a Minor party - They Celebrate being British - They plan a trade union with the Commowealth to rival the E.U and bulkier borders - Less Opium from the Afghans and Less Criminals migrating.
Rhyden11 11 months ago
I'm not British. Could someone tell me about the antipathy regarding the removal of the songs in question, please. It seems odd that music that is distinctly British would be removed for the sake of political correctness. What is the complaint about the music If it is anything like the music played at the Proms posted here, I should think that in this time of difficulty for many nations, anything that can make a national spirit soar would be welcome. Who is complaining and why, please?
goodcatholicboy 11 months ago
@goodcatholicboy It's not a political thing, really. My politics are *way* to the left of UKIP, and I don't at all agree with the more hysterical "We'll be an Islamic republic by 2020" scare stories... but I am still very unhappy that this piece has been dropped. The Last Night is not *supposed* to be a celebration of the different faces of modern Britain. It's pomp, pageantry and flag-waving. The Fantasia has been a favourite of mine for years and years, and I miss it very badly.
Loganberrybunny 10 months ago
@Loganberrybunny Thank you for your response. I am grateful. I asked one of my friends in England. She is so dear. She lives in a tiny village in Somerset. She has little time for politics or it's evil children. When I asked her, she said, "Oh, it's some sort of blimmin rubbish some politician cooked up who has entirely TOO much time on her hands. You're a very nice young man, Mark. Don't bother yourself with this sort of twaddle." So, I never did find out from her.
goodcatholicboy 10 months ago
@goodcatholicboy i've studied political science and as far as i can tell its part of the lefts plan to try and not exclude minority populations in the country, which of course has led to more proportionally mainstream being pissed off and turned to the right. Basically the lefties have created an enviroment which has fed right into the hands of racists, ironic huh?
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goodcatholicboy 11 months ago
The euphonium soloist used to be my teacher!! He is very nice!! miss him =]
PeepoICSS 1 year ago
Remember Margaret Hodge the cultural commissar ? In her wheedling whiny voice 'the BBC Proms aren't multicultural enough'.
What does she expect the Promenade concerts to do ? They highlight works from the Western Classical tradition and some of the most complex objects created by the mind of man.
There should be a campaign to get these reinstated. After all we pay the BBC license fee and they should be accountable to us.
Remember the farce over the Trafalgar bicentenary as well ?
takharov 1 year ago 4
@takharov It doesn't surprise me coming from the Marxist Labour party.
xenbay 1 year ago 3
I.SEE.A.EUPHONIUM. :D
xXJawruWolfXx 1 year ago 3
leave the political correctedness to the politicians, musicians will just play. Music isn't supposed to meant for what it respresents, its supposed to mean something different for everyone.
Gozaburo1 1 year ago
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This year, the last night was almost as if we were ashamed to be British.
jimlagos 1 year ago
I was beyond angry when watching this years Proms and finding that the EUBBC had removed the sea songs.
Bloody PC brigade!!!
Who will defend us from the bastards that think Patriotism is a nasty smell under their noses?
Also, why has the third verse been removed from "I vow to thee my country"?
bmwr90s 1 year ago 4
heavenly cello, pure bliss
301250 1 year ago
This should never have been allowed to be taken out of the Last Night, I love it. The cello solo is fantastic, the emotion in the playing combined with th 'no place like home' words, bring a tear to my eye every time I hear it. BRING THIS BACK FOR NEXT YEAR PLASE!
1Stoya 1 year ago 2
They should play this every year and 'I vow to thee my country'
TheFowlyetti1 1 year ago
im really sad they didn't play this this year :( its such a wonderful piece. i also love the cello solo a large amount, in the concert band arrangement i got to play it on alto sax which was fun! (:
xovickyxo 1 year ago 2
5:48 The guys face on the right... When you see his Face I guarantee you'll laugh
ImGareth29 1 year ago
i always enjoy hearing that cellist play this work, she is amazing...too bad they didn't play this piece this year :(
kyleclef 1 year ago
like all good thing's its from this small island :)) love it to bits :))) happy and proud tae be Brittish :))
hdtogoto 1 year ago
lol at 4 50 the guy in the white hat bouncing at the wrong time
nobbynooby 1 year ago 2
I'm a sucker for this piece of music, love it. 1:27 to 4:15
southyorkspitmonkey 1 year ago
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'There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England'
Winston Churchill
ispyjonnytriff 1 year ago
i'm are from germany and my family and i, we watch the last night every year. since my childhood and i am 27 years now. and yes we are waving a union flag and we sing the lyrics :-) and go crazy...we love it so much!! it's very, very popular in germany!! the people love it!!
MsTipsy4 1 year ago 4
why do jerkoffs feel the need to blow on the goddamn pipes?
If I was nearby, that pipe would have sodomized the guy originally blowing it.
beepandbop 1 year ago
I checked to see what they are putting in for 2010, Hans Zimmer
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest – Hornpipe. enough said
na2961 1 year ago 2
Does anyone know why this has been removed from the Last Night?
kstring24 1 year ago
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YoungOrganist 1 year ago
again its not in the 2010 proms shame :(
matt3360 1 year ago
@matt3360
That's so sad, the Last night wouldnt be the Last night without it or same applies to Land of Hope & Glory, Rule Britannia, Jerusalem etc.
Doe anyone know why it's been taken out of the program?
tillydog 1 year ago
7:00 wonderful :D
Calidus14 1 year ago
good on ya Rurert
mmm888777 1 year ago
I go promming every year - to at least 5 concerts and also attend the Last night every year if I can make the date. I was horrified last year to find this missing from the program. This ritual is what was left of people-ness in classical music in the world. Apparently not good enough for the BBC.
TFreckle 1 year ago 4
this is so good for british music
deenoble07 1 year ago 2
GREAT Britain is history...........I'm so sad that it has come to this. Succesive governments have eroded our status. The final act was Gordon Brown (may he rot in hell) putting Dover harbour up for sale! The first bidders were a French company. Horatio Nelson should return and stop this!
jimlagos 1 year ago
@jimlagos Market forces if you happen to be a Tory. What a disgraceful comment about Gordon Brown - shame on you.
KITCHENOFDISTINCTION 1 year ago
@KITCHENOFDISTINCTION If you think Gordon Brown should follow his accomplice Bliar to make millions, after he left our country bankrupt you're not in possession of your senses.
jimlagos 1 year ago 2
@KITCHENOFDISTINCTION you talk utter rubbish!
manclad2 1 year ago
does anyone do simultaneous silliness and pride better than us brits? ;-)
elljay1989 1 year ago
@elljay1989 funnily enough, the Germans do an imitation of our proms! Several towns hold a similar concert. Believe it or not, loads of them wave Union Flags.
jimlagos 1 year ago
got to agree m8
jaymo61 1 year ago
Awsome video, thanks for putting it on the net. I'm British currently living in New Zealand so cannot watch the Last Night live, but this is nearly as good. I love the audience participation that is what makes this unique!!
thomasutting13 1 year ago
i love playing this in orchestra! although we don't sound anywhere as good as these guys lol the first clarinet part is way hard :/
beltingtokra 1 year ago
I love this music. England is beautiful!
Groningen1954 1 year ago
@Groningen1954 If u love this you'll love my channel!
charliesmillton 1 year ago
This is great :)
Especially the first part :)
Anybody knows what the name of the first part is?
SidneyBakar 1 year ago 2
'The saucy Arethusa' (They don't write titles like that anymore) A music hall song from 1832 written by Prince Hoare ( They don't write names.like that...........)
See wikipaedia for full details.
DavidMJordan 1 year ago 3
@DavidMJordan
Thank you very much :D
SidneyBakar 1 year ago
Love the brits
Greatgianasisters 1 year ago 16
@Greatgianasisters In which case the Brits love you, dearest!
ursie1986 5 months ago
So brilliant. So British.
And so damn sad that political correctness is overtaking events like this.
panga3a 1 year ago 44
@panga3a
its those damn ignorant prats who dont know the difference between Patriotism and Nationalism
animesis 7 months ago
i swear the lead violin is rhod gilbert :L
olliea123 1 year ago
oh god how disrespectful can you get @ 5:00, have these people never been to a concert?
aside from the sheer irreverence from the crowd the orchestra did well.
MotokenUchia 1 year ago
@MotokenUchia
I sincerely hope you're joking. This stupid nonsense of blowing horns etc. is what makes the last night of the proms what they are! They do it every year,
pigeonshouse 1 year ago 5
what are with the horns? lol i live in sydney and this strikes me as cool, yet odd...
ILUVlupin 1 year ago 3
@ILUVlupin I don't really know how it started. I think the idea is that the 'last night' has a bit of a party atmosphere to it. So people bring in horns and those balloons that make a whining noise etc.
They keep fiddling about with the middle bit of music though. For a few years we had Ar Hyd y Nos, The Skye Boat Song and Danny Boy which were nice subdued songs played before the next bit where everyone in the audience and in the parks sing at the tops of their voices!
pigeonshouse 1 year ago
This frivolity is a tradition of the Last Night 0f the Proms and although i agee that it is childish, the perps are avid music lovers. To get into this you have to show ticket stubs for at least 5 proms and q for literally days.
DavidMJordan 1 year ago
simply amazing!
54spiritedwill54 1 year ago
what´s the name of the song which started at 4:18?
Please help me!
gizmo81088 1 year ago
sailors hornpipe
gaiacaecilia 1 year ago
Thanks!!!
gizmo81088 1 year ago
I am a Kiwi, but I have to say I understand what it means to be British. I understand the best of Britannia and I hope that it never dies just because of some pathetic PC agenda.
panga3a 2 years ago 13
@panga3a Dual British-Australian citizen here. Totally agree.
disamjisa 8 months ago
6:45 look at the back, HITLER ON TRUMPET!!!!
olliea123 2 years ago
@olliea123 ahahah!!lol
riccardosiega 1 year ago
@olliea123 roflmao, so true ahahaha
TheMrVogue 1 year ago
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those bloody horns ruin it
rlang23 2 years ago
I don't think the horns have ruined it they've always been there as far as i'm aware when i've watched last night of the proms although they haven't had the sea songs in for the last two years hopefully they'll have them back next year best part of it especially when he gets faster on the hornpipe
musicmad1982 2 years ago 2
i just prefer the music without the horns, maybe if the timing was better i would like it! Mark Elder seems to expect them anyway.
It would be nice to see them in again i agree
rlang23 2 years ago
the sea songs that is
rlang23 2 years ago
I was on holiday abroad this year and aked my parents to record Last Night of the Proms.
They had taped over it by the time I got back saying I mised nothing, all the favourite patriotic songs were not in it and it was boring.
I am fed up of not being allowed to celebrate being British, we have some of the most wonderful, heart swelling pieces of music ever.
I am tired of the PC brigade and having to apologise for being proud of our country.
Too Bad I'm British and Proud of it!
1es1eyfraise 2 years ago 95
Then listen to this loud and proud.
panga3a 2 years ago 3
@1es1eyfraise LOOK....you gotta get used to poppadums and curry...Britain's gonna become a Hindu/Muslim state by 2100....so pipe down, English racist!
charliesmillton 1 year ago
@1es1eyfraise I was there! It wasn't a patch on the old ones, it's true!
userblue 1 year ago
@1es1eyfraise
I totally agree with you. We need to complain about this and tell the pc brigade to go live in totalitiarn state, where they will soon be proud to be British.
marcN19 1 year ago
@1es1eyfraise what are you talking about?! Last night 2009 had rule brittania, pomp and circumstance no.1 (land of hope and glory), the national anthem and jerusalem; ie the normal compliment.
"oh noes the PC brigade" what a laod of rubbish. Nobody is stopping you being proud of being British, look around you for fucks sake. It's fear mongering twaddle. I suppose you read the Mail or some other bullshit spewing bile spreading nonsense..
thebeeskl 1 year ago
@thebeeskl Better the Mail than reading the effing Guardian "or some other bullshit spewing bile spreading nonsense.."
Ecthaelyon 1 year ago
@1es1eyfraise The national anthem is insuferably dull though.
dronzagov 1 year ago
@1es1eyfraise Just imagine you live in another country, and maybe this country is Germany and you are proud of being german. I think you are immediately called "Nazi" ...
But hey, a guy from England who is proud of being british, that's ok...
Seen from this side a time?
matzish 1 year ago
@matzish Du hast so recht. Als ich letzten Herbst mit Freunden in Amerika war, sind wir gefragt worden, ob es in Deutschland etwa keine Kirchen gäbe, in denen Adolf Hitler angebetet würde. Und wir nur "WTF?!" :D
Ich würde ja gerne sagen "Und wir haben das Neujahrskonzert!"...aber das haben ja die Österreicher ;)
jennajune16 1 year ago
Die gibt's vielleicht bald wieder. Es gibt ja heute auch wieder Russen, die Väterchen Stalin vergöttern. Die Geschichte geht unvorhersehbare Wege. Aber wahrscheinlicher ist es, dass wir bald Mohammed anbeten.
HerrWagnerfreund 4 months ago
@1es1eyfraise No one should apologise for the good things which have been done by their country and countrymen. There is very much good which has come from these Isles, including music. I love good music including this and applaud good English composition.The problem is conciet, in thinking "only" the English or "only" Europeans. Please, be proud of being English/British but be prouder still of being a rounded human being. From a foreigner.
revbores 1 year ago
@1es1eyfraise .couldnt agree more.being proud of your country is a crime these days in britain only.most other nations are encouraged to be patriotic,but we are subdued by wishywashy liberals to scared of offending the many minorities(who mostly arent offended anyway) that reside here.
storminrags 10 months ago
@1es1eyfraise who's stopping you being patriotic??
joshuanesbit 9 months ago
the BBC IS a disgrace - a leftist, muslime apologist shower to be precise, so of COURSE any patriotic music would be 'frowned' on [with the
greatest of relish I suspect ] by the equally leftist muslime loving eu and it's NWO agenda.
Britain is no longer a sovereign country - we will all have to 'tow the EU line, or face foreign troops to 'subdue' any vehement protests. Think I'm overdoing the paranoia? JUST WAIT AND SEE!
eastindiaman 2 years ago 4
oh dear...
sheepyhair2 2 years ago
@eastindiaman
You spelt muslim wrong.
iamcalledstuartlyons 2 years ago
@eastindiaman Err.
It was the Prom directors who removed the songs - the prom agenda is not decided by the BBC - it is merely televised by them. They don't control the football results either.
You do realise how silly you look? Thinking some incredibly anal coffin dodgers are part of a New World Order/Illuminati/Zionist/Lizard Head/CIA/NSA/Psyop/JFK/Wq2rx/(insert conspiracy theory) 'propaganda'.
Nonsense!
Never mind, you CT nuts think the Haitian Earthquake was US Govt sponsored somehow...
pigeonshouse 1 year ago 2
As a long-term (40 years plus) Last-Night TV viewer, that for 2009 was the most boring non-event I've ever had the dubious pleasure of watching. Breaking a lifetime's habit I turned off...If the trend continues, I'm afraid I shan't bother at all any more...the BBC are a bloody disgrace,,,
I surely can't be the only one who feels this way...a number of my friends and acquaintances have expressed similar feelings...
cogidubnus1953 2 years ago 7
@cogidubnus1953 Its become to politically correct, I also noticed someone had the nerve to bring an EU flag! it was a total disgrace
OliverBMUFC123 2 years ago 6
I think the cellist is the person with the big violin between their legs !
odnammoc1 2 years ago 7
Every time I've played this I've noticed something - when the cello solo stops there's always a big rustling noise from the audience...
mwallaby 2 years ago
@mwallaby I know this is a long time after you commented, and you may know already, but the rustling noise is part of another FoBSS tradition.
During the rather melancholy sounding cello solo, prommers take out handkerchieves (or unfold huge ones, shared along the whole row) and pretend to cry, overcome with the emotion of the melody.
rhjra 1 year ago
Does anyone know who the cellist is?
mwallaby 2 years ago
I think cello solo player is Ms.susan monks
My favorite cellist
(I' m japanese.)
nakki1342 2 years ago 2
OH. MY. GOD! THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! LOOK AT THOSE PEOPLE!!! :D :D Loving *every* minute of this!
cruz1506 2 years ago
Tremendous discipline and control that conductor has. I admire his precision. He's sort of like the "Masterchef" of conductors - and he's dressed like that, too. I am sure that he has very high expectations of the orchestra, and they deliver. A bit of a taskmaster. But he is perhaps not the most relaxed or exuberant of "Last Night" conductors. There is a certain tension between the exactness of his approach and somewhat informal nature of the audience.
Fascinating to watch and listen to.
MarineBoy303 2 years ago 4
the wankers in the crowd with the horns really ruined the hornpipe
MonkeyWrench4269101 2 years ago 5
Ah, you can't have this on the BBC. It goes back to a time when Britain was a great nation. Mustn't be reminded of that. Jingoism.
hawkmoon03111951 2 years ago 4
Of course I'm proud to be British (a WASP in fact) but the country has destroyed itself in recent years ...
ThePhantomMajor 2 years ago
EPIC!
singingmagpie93 2 years ago 3
Hail the Gracious Queen! Hail Brittannia! Hail the BBC. Britian's contribution to Classical music is the stuff of legends. Sir Henry Wood, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Maurice Ravel,,, America sucks in this genre of music.
rags015 2 years ago
Maurice Ravel, the well-known Brit? :o
Pruple 2 years ago 3
they didnt exist when this genre was at its most popular and infuential :P
markgoodall 2 years ago
Not as good as the Germans and Austrians though, and te Irish, and Handel was adopted. We did have Byrd, Tallis and Purcell. We coulda done with Bach & Mozart, Debussy & Sartie. Still we're excellent on writers & theartre. Though, yet again I think the Irish out do us with eriters, we come second. Australia comes last in all the arts, but they far prefer sports and medicine. They're remarkably shocking writers! Even with Irish ancestry,
katiegreenaway 2 years ago
Ah. Maurice Ravel. Everyone remembers that great British composer born in Spain to Hispano-Swiss parents and educated in France.
magnificentoctopus 2 years ago