BBC Proms S43E07 · Live from the Proms

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Berlioz The Damnation of Faust conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Parts 1 and 2. Tonight sees one of the most outstanding Promenade Concerts this season: a visit by the world-famous Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Live in stereo from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Solti conducts Berlioz's mammoth 'Dramatic Legend in Four Parts' based on Goethe's poetic drama of 'sin and redemption'. Chicago Symphony Chorus chorusmaster: Margaret Hillis. Chicago Symphony Orchestra concertmasters: Samuel Magad and Ruben Gonzales. Choristers of Westminster Cathedral Choir School. Introduced by Michael Berkeley.

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1. 1 1. First Night of the Proms1989-07-21The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts return tonight live in stereo from the Royal Albert Hall. The opening concert features a popular Beethoven Symphony and a powerful Stravinsky work
2. 2 2. Omnibus at the Proms1989-07-28Mahler's Symphony No 4 in G major Omnibus returns to the Royal Albert Hall for the first of six programmes from the 95th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Tonight, followin
3. 3 3. Omnibus at the Proms1989-08-04An Evening with Maria Ewing The American soprano sings her favourite songs from American musical theatre and film, including those of George Gershwin , Cole Porter , Frank Loess
4. 4 4. Omnibus at the Proms1989-08-11Prokofiev's 'Classical' Symphony and Schnittke 's Viola Concerto Tonight's programme features two works by two major 20th-century Russian composers, performed by conductor Valery
5. 5 5. Omnibus at the Proms1989-08-18Beethoven's Choral Symphony conducted by Klaus Tennstedt Beethoven's Ninth, the great revolutionary work that ends with Schiller's Ode to Joy, is given under the German conductor
6. 6 6. Omnibus at the Proms1989-08-25Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra of Sweden Two contrasting works are featured by tonight's visiting orchestra. They are Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Arvo Part's Third Symphony
7. 7 7. Live from the Proms1989-08-28Berlioz The Damnation of Faust conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Parts 1 and 2. Tonight sees one of the most outstanding Promenade Concerts this season: a visit by the world-famous Ch
8. 8 8. Live from the Proms1989-08-28The Damnation of Faust Parts 3 and 4
9. 9 9. Omnibus at the Proms1989-09-01Rozhdestvensky Conducts Cinderella Between 1978-82 the flamboyant Russian Gennady Rozhdestvensky was Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Tonight 'Noddy' (as the orches
10. 10 10. Last Night of the Proms1989-09-16Conducted by Sir John Pritchard. Live in stereo from the Royal Albert Hall , part 1 of this year's traditional end-of-term celebration has a French theme in keeping with the Bicen
11. 11 11. Last Night of the Proms1989-09-16Part 2 Eric Coates Knightsbridge , from 'London Suite' Saint-Saens Softly awakes my heart from 'Samson and Delilah' Delius Summer Night on the River Elgar Pomp and Circumstance