BBC Proms (1947)
The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
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- 1 1. First Night of the Proms: The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar1991-07-19'This is the best of me.' So wrote Elgar at the end of his score and, despite a disastrous first performance in 1900, his setting of Newman's poem is now regarded as one of the com
- 2 2. Omnibus at the Proms1991-07-26Great British Music The first in the season of highlights from this summer's Promenade Concerts salutes three British composers. Walton's brassy Crown Imperial is the curtain-rai
- 3 3. Omnibus at the Proms1991-08-02Sheherazade. For 200 years, the classic series of tales from the Middle East, The 1001 Nights, has inspired artists, musicians and dancers. In tonight's highlights from the 1991 He
- 4 4. Live from the Proms1991-08-03Russian Yuri Bashmet is the soloist in Walton's Viola Concerto . Also featured is Shostakovich's Symphony No 7, the Leningrad, which was written at great speed in 1941 as an ins
- 5 5. Omnibus at the Proms: Conductors All1991-08-09In a few short months, Mark Wigglesworth has come to the fore as one of Britain's most dynamic young conductors. Winner of the 1989 Kondrashin Competition and recently appointed as
- 6 6. Omnibus at the Proms1991-08-16All-Night Vigil by Rachmaninov. Cuban conductor Odaline de la Martinez introduces a rare and hauntingly beautiful work by a popular composer. Rachmaninov's setting of the liturgy
- 7 7. Omnibus at the Proms1991-08-23The King's Consort. In 1749, the first public rehearsal for Handel's Musick for the Royal Fireworks caused a three-hour traffic jam. Keen to recapture the original fun and exciteme
- 8 8. Omnibus at the Proms1991-08-30Pictures at an Exhibition by Musorgsky began its life as a cycle of piano pieces, but has been orchestrated and arranged by more composers than any other musical work. At the last
- 9 9. Last Night of the Proms1991-09-14The 97th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts comes to a close, live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. The concert opens with Cockaigne (Elgar), Towards the Unknown Region (V
- 10 10. Last Night of the Proms1991-09-14The biggest musical party of the year reaches its festive climax as the audience in the packed Royal Albert Hall in London celebrates the second-half of the Last Night of the Proms
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