Synopsis

Stephanie Hughes welcomes us to the first half of tonight’s traditional celebration, broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall. Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the season finale of the Proms. The program features Verdi's stirring "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from *Nabucco*, alongside pastoral moods evoked by Finzi's *The Fall of the Leaf* and Lambert's celebrated *Rio Grande*.