BBC Proms S50E08 · BBC Proms 96

Air date: 1996-09-07

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The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, making its British television debut, is conducted by Valery Gergiev in a programme of Russian and French music. The concert is introduced by Christopher Warren-Green, leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and begins with Prokofiev's Symphony No 6, the composer's most tragic, emotional and structurally complex work, written during the last years of the Second World War. This is followed by the European premiere of an orchestration by the contemporary Russian composer Edison Denisov of Musorgsky's The Nursery, sung by the young Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. The concert finishes with a performance of Debussy's atmospheric evocation of the sea, La Mer. During the interval, Christopher Warren-Green's travel diary records his bike trip to the Netherlands.

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  1. 1 1. BBC Proms 96: the First Night1996-07-19The BBC Proms season opens at the Royal Albert Hall with a live transmission in simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3 of Haydn's The Creation, the first of ten concerts screened this
  2. 2 2. BBC Proms 1996: Dawn at Dusk1996-08-07The first of four Proms especially recorded for BBCtv and featuring interviews with the performing artists. Introduced by James Naughtie. American soprano Dawn Upshaw celebrates t
  3. 3 3. BBC Proms 961996-08-10Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, and in a simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain performs a programme of 20th-century classics.
  4. 4 4. BBC Proms 961996-08-14Second of four Proms recorded especially for BBC television. James Naughtie introduces a programme of Bach and Handel, bringing together the choirs of Winchester Cathedral, New Col
  5. 5 5. BBC Proms 961996-08-17Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, in a simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3, the new Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek, makes his debut
  6. 6 6. BBC Proms 961996-08-18The first of two Proms featuring youth orchestras being televised this year, presented by James Naughtie. The European Union Youth Orchestra is caught both off and on duty on the
  7. 7 7. BBC Proms 961996-08-28Pianist Andras Schiff performs two of Mozart's lesser-known masterpieces, No 19 in Fand No 22 in E flat, with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Malcolm. Introduced
  8. 8 8. BBC Proms 961996-09-07The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, making its British television debut, is conducted by Valery Gergiev in a programme of Russian and French music. The concert is introduced by C
  9. 9 9. BBC Proms 961996-09-13Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. To mark the centenary of the death of Anton Bruckner, a sequence of his choral music makes up part one of tonight's programme. The BBC Si
  10. 10 10. The Last Night of the Proms1996-09-14Live from the Albert Hall , the musical line-up begins with a performance of Haydn Te Deum by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra and the BBC Singers, conducted by Andrew Davis.
  11. 11 11. The Last Night of the Proms1996-09-14For the whole of the second half of the concert, a giant screen and video link joins the audience in the Royal Albert Hall with thousands of people gathered in Hyde Park. Opening w