Live from the Proms
BBC Proms - 1976
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for a live relay of the first half of this evening's Prom from the Royal Albert Hall. Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543) Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 Ida Haendel (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra guest leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Hans Vonk Introduced by PETER BARKER Sound GRAHAM HAINES. GEOFFREY TIMS Lighting HUBERT CARTWRIGHT Director RON ISTED
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First Night of the Proms
Beethoven Mass in D major (Missa Solemnis) One of the crowning achievements of Beethoven's last years, relayed live with Radio 3 in stereo from the opening concert of the 1976 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall Ursula Koszut (soprano) Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) BBC Singers BBC Choral Society A section of the London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BFIA I)EKANY conducted by Colin Davis Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY Sound GRAHAM HAINES GEOFFREY KLINTON-PARKER Lighting MIBERT CARTWRIGHT Director RODNEY CREENBERG ,
Live from the Proms
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for a live relay of the first half of this evening's Prom from the Royal Albert Hall. Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543) Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 Ida Haendel (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra guest leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Hans Vonk Introduced by PETER BARKER Sound GRAHAM HAINES. GEOFFREY TIMS Lighting HUBERT CARTWRIGHT Director RON ISTED
Live from the Proms
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for a live relay of the first half of this evening's Prom from the Royal Albert Hall. Haydn Symphony No 95 in c minor Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 in A major Roger Woodward (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by John Pritchard Introduced by JON cuRLE Sound GRAHAM HAINES , TONY ASKEW Lighting ALAN ROBERTS Director RON ISTED
The Sunday Prom
The first of this season's Sunday-night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts is a recording of part of the Viennese Night with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra associate leader ASHLEY ARBUCKLE conductor Walter Susskind The programme consists of music by Suppe, Lehar and the Strauss family, including the waltz' Tales from the Vienna Woods', with zither solo by JOHN LEACH , and the Pizzicato Polka. Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director DAVID BUCKTON Part of the concert given on 17 July.
Live from the Proms
Britten: War Requiem BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for tonight's Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall. The War Requiem is one of the major choral works of this century: a passionate denunciation of war, expressed through a setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead interspersed with the anti-war poems of Wilfred Owen. Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Peter Pears (tenor) Thomas Hemsley (baritone) BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society Wandsworth School Choir Organists MALCOLM HICKS , RALPH DOWNES London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS London Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Ensemble leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor Bernard Haitink Lighting BERT OATEN Sound GRAHAM HAINES , JAMES HAMILTON .Director RODNEY GREENBERG
The Sunday Prom
The second of this season's Sunday-night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts is a recording of part of a concert of modern works from the Round House in London. The Fires of London director PETER MAXWELL DAVIES play works by two outstanding young British composers Dominic Muldowney Solo/Ensemble Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King with Donald Bell (baritone) Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director BARRIE GAVIN Part of the concert given on 26 July
The Sunday Prom
The third of this season's Sunday-night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Tonight the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by David Atherton Sibelius Symphony No 1, in E minor Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director ROY TIPPING Part of the concert given on 31 July.
The Sunday Prom
The fourth of this season's visits to the Henry Wood Proms is a recording of part of the American Programme with Gerald Robbins as soloist in Gershwin's Variations on 'I Got Rhythm' for piano and orchestra. BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster The programme includes: Copland Four Dance Episodes (Rodeo) Ives The Fourth of July Sessions Symphony No 8
The Sunday Prom
In the last of this season's Sunday night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Riccardo Muti makes his debut on television and at the Proms. He is the principal conductor of the New Philharmonia Orchestra led by BERNARD PARTRIDGE The programme includes Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian) Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, for violin and viola (K 364) with soloists Carl Pini (violin) Csafea Erdelyi (viola) Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director ssnis MORIARTY Part of last night's concert
Last Night of the Proms
BBC1 joins Radio 3 in stereo for the second half of tonight's closing concert of the 82nd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Sir Charles Groves conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader ELI GOREN Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1, in D major Williamson Suite: Our Man in Havana Henry Wood, arr Sargent Sea Songs Arne, arr Sargent Rule Britannia Parry , orch Elgar Jerusalem orch Elgar National Anthem with Anne ColOns (contralto) BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE BBC Choral Society Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Lighting ALAN ROBERTS Sound GRAHAM UAI!':ES Director IAN ENGELMANN
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