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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus and Orchestra launch the 2025 season including a world premiere 'The Elements' by Master of the King's Music Errollyn Wallen.

Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Arthur Bliss: Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

c.7.45pm
Interval

c.8.05pm
Errollyn Wallen: The Elements (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission: world premiere)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sancta civitas

Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Caspar Singh, tenor
Gerald Finley, bass-baritone
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus
London Youth Choirs
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

The crash of the seas, the crumbling of city walls and a glimpse of the heavens: all come together in the 2025 First Night. There’s a Scottish sound-picture from Mendelssohn and cool Nordic grandeur from Sibelius. Errollyn Wallen harnesses primal forces in her colourful new orchestral commission, while visions from the Book of Revelation are the starting point for Vaughan Williams’s Sancta civitas.