BBC Proms S32E01 · First Night of the Proms

Overview

Verdi: Requiem The 84th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts opens with Verdi's vivid setting of the Reauiem. Written at the height of his powers, it expresses the ancient Latin text through glorious melodies for the four soloists, and superb choral climaxes. BBC2 joins with Radio 3 to relay tonight's concert live in stereo direct from the Royal Albert Hall. Sylvia Sass (soprano) Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano) Stuart Burrows (tenor) Gwynne Howetl (bass) BBC Symphony Chorus London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Andrew Davis Introduced by PATRICIA HUGHES Lighting TOMMY THOMAS Sound vie GODRICH and GEOFFREY PARKER KLINTON PARKER Producer RODNEY GREENBERG

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1. 1 1. First Night of the Proms1978-07-21Verdi: Requiem The 84th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts opens with Verdi's vivid setting of the Reauiem. Written at the height of his powers, it expresses the ancient Lati
2. 2 2. The Sunday Prom1978-08-06In the first of six programmes recorded at this year's Henry Wood Promenade Concerts the BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by James Loughran and the soloist is Garrick Ohlsson i
3. 3 3. Live from the Proms1978-08-1250th Anniversary of Janacek's Death Leos Janacek, the foremost Czech composer of this century, died 50 years ago today. Tonight's Prom presents two of his major works together wit
4. 4 4. The Sunday Prom1978-08-13In the second of six programmes recorded at this year's Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales The Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra is co
5. 5 5. The Sunday Prom1978-08-20The third in a series of six programmes recorded at this year's Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Richard Strauss Symphonia Domestica This ' Domestic Symphony ' caused a storm of p
6. 6 6. The Sunday Prom1978-08-27Esther Rantzen is the hostess for the ever-popular Viennese Night with the BBC Symphony Orchestra led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by Walter Susskind Among the Strauss favourites in
7. 7 7. Live from the Proms1978-08-28BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for a live relay of the first half of this evening's Henry Wood Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Mozart Symphony No 41 in C majo
8. 8 8. The Sunday Prom1978-09-03In tonight's programme, one of Schubert's most charming and graceful orchestral works, written when he was only 19: the Symphony No 5 in B flat major. given by the BBC Symphony Orc
9. 9 9. Live from the Proms1978-09-09A stereo relay with Radio 3 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Mozart Symphony No 32 in C (Overture
10. 10 10. The Sunday Prom1978-09-10In the last of six programmes recorded at the 1978 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, RICHARD BAKER introduces one of the worm's great orchestras, under their chief conductor, playing
11. 11 11. Last Night of the Proms1978-09-16Introduced by Richard Baker BBC1 joins Radio 3 in stereo for the second half of tonight's closing concert of the 84th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts live from the Royal A
12. 12 12. Solti at the Proms1979-10-27The Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven's Symphony No 1, the second of three In Performance programmes featuring Sir Georg Solti. Under his direction the Chicago Symphony Or
13. 13 13. Bruckner's Seventh Symphony1980-03-15Tonight in The Lively Arts, an outstanding performance of this radiant and majestic work, recorded during the highly-acclaimed visit to the 1978 Proms by the Chicago Symphony Orche