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 Proms2001-07-20James Naughtie introduces live coverage of the First Night live from London's Royal Albert Hall in a special concert to welcome American-born Leonard Slatkin to his first Prom seas
- 2 2. BBC Proms 20012001-07-29Live broadcast of Sally Beamish's Proms commission Knotgrass Elegy, Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, and Stravinsky's The Firebird.
- 3 3. BBC Proms 20012001-07-30A live broadcast of Nielsen's Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments), Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1, played by Louis Lortie, and Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 2 (A London Symphony
- 4 4. BBC Proms 20012001-07-31A live broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall, London, featuring Berlioz's Le Corsaire, the world premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, performed by Tasmin Little, Britten's L
- 5 5. BBC Proms 20012001-08-01Live from London's Royal Albert Hall where American soprano Renee Fleming makes her long-awaited Proms debut singing Mozart's motet Exsultate, jubilate and Richard Strauss's ravish
- 6 6. BBC Proms 20012001-08-02Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a performance of Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra Op 31, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor and Kurt Weill's one-act opera Roy
- 7 7. BBC Proms 20012001-08-03Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a concert featuring Varese's Arcana, violinist Joshua Bell playing Bernstein's Serenade and his West Side Story Suite, and Ravel's Bolero. Performe
- 8 8. The Nation's Favourite Prom2001-08-05Mariella Frostrup presents highlights of a concert from the Royal Albert Hall featuring classical music voted for in a Radio Times poll of the Nation's Favourite Music. The Royal S
- 9 9. BBC Proms 20012001-08-05Including works by Debussy, Britten and Finzi. Featuring singers Lillian Watson, Pamela Helen Stephen and Philip Langridge.
- 10 10. BBC Proms 20012001-08-11Stephanie Hughes introduces tonight's programme live from London's Albert Hall, consisting of a single work and featuring the annual appearance at the Proms of the National Youth O
- 11 11. BBC Proms 20012001-08-12Sir Andrew Davis conducts Sally Beamish's Knotgrass Elegy.
- 12 12. BBC Proms 20012001-08-19Nielsen's Symphony No 2, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1 and London Symphony by Vaughan Williams.
- 13 13. BBC Proms 20012001-08-23Manfred Honeck, who stands in for an indisposed Neeme Jarvi, conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers in a concert recorded in London's Royal Albert Hall on 9
- 14 14. BBC Proms 20012001-08-26Including Le Corsair by Berlioz and Britten's Les Illuminations.
- 15 15. BBC Proms 20012001-08-27Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, James Naughtie presents an evening of music performed by Japan's leading orchestra, the NHK Symphony, conducted by Charles Dutoit. The co
- 16 16. BBC Proms 20012001-08-30Wayne Marshall the celebrated pianist, organist and conductor presents a concert of American and Russian music from London's Royal Albert Hall. The programme includes Copland's El
- 17 17. BBC Proms 20012001-09-02Featuring music by Schoenberg and Weill, from the Royal Albert Hall.
- 18 18. BBC Proms 20012001-09-06Tonight featuring the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with their music director Herbert Blomstedt who is making his Proms' debut. Michael Aspel introduces this concert from London's R
- 19 19. BBC Proms 20012001-09-13James Naughtie introduces live coverage from London's Royal Albert Hall. This year's Proms have explored the countryside and nature. Tonight the London Symphony Orchestra, conduct
- 20 20. Last Night of the Proms2001-09-15Stephanie Hughes introduces the first half of this evening's traditional celebration live from the Royal Albert Hall, with Leonard Slatkin conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra for
- 21 21. Last Night of the Proms2001-09-15BBC1 takes over live coverage of the spectacular finale to the 2001 Prom season. The BBC Symphony Orchestra's American conductor, Leonard Slatkin, lends a transatlantic theme to pr
- 22 22. Proms 20012001-09-16Highlights from this year, featuring a tribute to composer Gerald Finzi. Conducted by Richard Hickox.
- 23 23. Helene Grimaud at the Proms2001-12-20The young French pianist gives a stylish performance of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto.
- 24 24. The Best of the Proms 20012002-02-17A musical retrospective featuring Sally Beamish's first Proms commission, Knotgrass Elegy, Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto (played by Canadian violinist James Ehnes); and Stravi
- 25 25. The Best of the Proms 20012002-02-21Featuring Varese's Arcana, a work inspired by the occult philosophy of Paracelsus. Plus American violinist Joshua Bell plays Bernstein's Serenade, and the UK premiere of his West S
- 26 26. The Best of the Proms 20012002-02-28Featuring Berlioz's Overture Le Corsaire; the world premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, played by Tasmin Little; Britten's Les Illuminations, with soprano Inger Dam-Jense
- 27 27. Episode 24
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