The Olympic closing ceremony will be "an elegant mash-up of British music", artistic director Kim Gavin has said, including Adele and Elgar.
Anything from Adele to Elgar could feature in the hit-packed score that will weave through the August 12 finale, called A Symphony Of British Music.
Some artists will play live at the 80,000-seater Olympic Stadium and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) - which has been signed up to record the core orchestral soundtrack for all four London 2012 opening and closing Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies - will be there.
There will also be "nods and winks" to British stars from the worlds of music and culture for what will be "the biggest after-show party - the show being the sport", according to Mr Gavin.
We are taking a box of fabulously well-done tunes. The songs are the key. We are putting them together to write one piece of music that is fabulously balanced.
"Usually it is something classical but in this case it is an elegant mash-up of British music.
"We are into the arts and the culture. It will not be just about the music but also about what makes Britain great.
"We are trying to introduce something that is an absolute melting pot of British creativity."
The choreographer and creative director who is the man behind Take That's successful comeback shows and directed the 2007 Princess Diana memorial concert, promised a spectacle that was more about the songs than the artists.
It will also involve "our most globally successful musicians" and future musical talent.
Headline acts will get paid a nominal £1 to appear in the two-and-a-half hour show.
Mr Gavin and his creative team have been at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London, this week where they have been testing the lighting for the ceremonies.
The team includes designer Es Devlin, music director David Arnold and lighting designer Patrick Woodroofe who are working with executive producer Stephen Daldry.
London 2012's announcement, aimed at teasing the world with hints about the shape of the closing ceremony, is timed to coincide with Britain's high-profile success in global music.
Singer-songwriter Adele this week added two Brit awards to her six Grammys.
The team remain tight-lipped about the acts who will appear but the closing ceremony is being set up as an action-packed affair featuring more than 4,100 volunteer and youth performers, 250 professionals and a line-up of "top talent", London 2012 said.
The 4,100 performers will include 3,500 adult volunteers and 380 schoolchildren from the six host boroughs. The 10,500 athletes who have competed at the Games will also be there.
An estimated worldwide TV audience of around 750 million people is expected to tune in to the finale.
Mr Gavin said: "We are also known for our big ideas and that is what will make us different. We have a wonderful stadium and great volunteers and a big cast. We are trying to do a spectacle. It is going to be very colourful and very exciting."
At £27 million, the 2012 opening ceremony, masterminded by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle as artistic director, takes the lion's share of the recently doubled £80 million budget for all four Olympic and Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies.
They are still looking to recruit male dancers, particularly for the Paralympic ceremony.
Mr Daldry, director of film hits Billy Elliot and The Reader, described the Olympic closing as "one of the most exciting events I have ever seen".
Watchers should also be able to spot the link with Shakespeare's The Tempest which will run through all the ceremonies.
"It is there and it is a great moment," he said.
Ms Devlin said they had happily indulged in the chance to "visually draw on everything" that British imagination can offer.
She has spent a lot of her career trying not to specialise and that has led to working with music stars such as Kanye West and Lady Gaga and also at the Royal Opera House and the Royal Ballet.
She said: "If you close your eyes and allow images to come into your mind of the greatest visual moments of British creativity - that is what we have allowed ourselves to draw upon.
"It is almost as if we have been given the keys to all the British art galleries and museums, have been allowed in at night and we have just clawed our way through all the jewels that have been created and have been inspired by them."
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