BBC Proms
Season 59 Episode 11 - Prom15: Fairy Tales
This season's theme of fairy tales is represented by Russian composer Liadov's tone-poem trilogy - Baba-Yaga, The Enchanted Lake and Kikimora - taken from old folk tales, and Stravinsky's ballet music The Fairy's Kiss, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen. Between are Knussen's settings of four poems by Walt Whitman , and the premiere of German composer Detlev Glanert 's Theatrum Bestiarum.
Episodes in Season 59
First Night of the Proms Part One
First Night of the Proms Part Two
Prom 4: Richard Wagner - Die Walküre
Prom 5: Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams
145 min