BBC Proms
Season 59 Episode 1 - First Night of the Proms Part One
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Documentary
BBC1 kicks off this centrepiece of the classical calendar for the first time, as Promenaders don their finery for the start of the 111th season of Henry Wood concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Tonight's music is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Roger Norrington, and begins on a maritime theme with Berlioz's exuberant The Corsair overture. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, while Elgar's Overture: Cockaigne (in London Town), a colourful tour of the old capital, prefaces Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time, which airs on BBC2 from 8pm.
Episodes in Season 59
1
First Night of the Proms Part One
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2
First Night of the Proms Part Two
3
Prom 4: Richard Wagner - Die Walküre
4
Prom 5: Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams
145 min
5
Prom 6: Musgrave, Rachmaninov and Nielson
6
Prom 8: Stravinsky, MacMillan and Ravel
7
Prom 9: Mozart and Mahler
8
Prom 11: Mendelssohn, Bruch and Vaughan Williams
9
Prom 13: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
10
Prom 14: Tippett and Shostakovich
11
Prom15: Fairy Tales
12
Prom 16: Ravel, Dutilleux, Stravinsky and Mussorgsky
13
Prom 18: Adams, Corigliano and Prokofiev
14
Prom 19: Russia Night
15
Prom 21: Violins!! - Part 2
16
Prom 23: Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet
17
Prom 41: Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
18
Prom 2: Arthur Sullivan's HMS Pinafore
19
Prom 49: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’
20
Prom 57: Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace
21
Prom 59: David Zinman conducts the Tonhalle Orchestra
22
Prom 66: Sir Colin Davies conductions the Juilliard Orchestra
23
Prom 67: Zemlinsky and Brahms
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Prom 68: Britten, Rawsthorne and Tchaikovsky
25
Prom 69: Thomas Adès and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
26
Prom 71: Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
27
Prom 72: Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor
28
Prom 73: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra
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