BBC Proms
Season 63 Episode 24 - Prom 40: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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1947
Documentary
Charles Hazlewood introduces the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's 9th, his life-affirming choral symphony, recorded earlier in the season with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, soloists Rebecca Evans, Caitlin Hulcup, Anthony Dean Griffey and James Rutherford, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus conducted by Ilan Volkov. Stravinsky's ballet music Orpheus opens the programme.
Episodes in Season 63
1
First Night at the Proms
2
Prom 9: Elgar Anniversary
3
Prom 10: Orchestre National de Lyon
4
Prom 12: 1934
5
Prom 19 - Berlioz and Mendelssohn
6
Prom 20 - Stravinsky and Schumann
7
Prom 22: A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals
180 min
8
Prom 29: Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony
9
Prom 30 - Knussen Conducts Knussen
10
Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra
11
Prom 38: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
12
Prom 39: Birtwistle's Mask of Orpheus
13
Prom 36: Handel Anniversary Highlights
14
Prom 47: Handel's Samson
15
Prom 48: Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan
16
Prom 50: Beethoven's Fidelio
17
Prom 56: Lang Lang Plays Chopin
18
Prom 57: Tchaikovsky Night
19
Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra
180 min
20
Prom 64: Jurowski & London Philharmonic
21
Prom 65: Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester
22
Prom 53: Composers of the Year
23
Prom 73: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
24
Prom 40: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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