BBC Proms Season 29, Episode 9: Enigma from the Prom

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First Night of the Proms

Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flat The 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts opens tonight with Mahler's' Symphony of a Thousand.' BBC2 joins with Radio 3 in stereo to relay this massive, triumphant work direct from the Royal Albert Hall. EDDA MOSER (soprano) LINDA ESTHER GRAY (soprano) WENDY EATHORNE (soprano) ELIZABETH CONNELL (mezzO-SOp) BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) ALBERTO REMEDIOS (tenor) SIEGMUND NIMSGERN (baritone) MARIUS RINTZLER (bass) BBC SINGERS BBC CHORAL SOCIETY SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA CHORUS, WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR . BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader eli GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY Director RODNEY GREENBERG

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The Sunday Prom

The first of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Strauss Night A selection from the music of the Strauss family, Johann the Father, Johann the Son and his brothers Josef and Eduard played by the Halle Orchestra leaders MARTIN MILNER and MICHAEL DAVIS conductor James Loughran Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director ROY TIPPING (Part of the concert given on 26 July)

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The Sunday Prom

The second of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Yitkin Seow plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major Britten Sinfonia da Requiem played by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor Raymond Leppard Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director DENIS MORIARTY (Part of the concert given on 5 August)

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The Sunday Prom

The third of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Bernard Haitink Introduced by ROBIN RAY Director ROY TIPPING (Part of the concert given on 9 August)

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The Sunday Prom

The fourth of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major with Kyung-Wha Chung played by the International Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director ROY TIPPING (Part of the concert given on 16 Aug)

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Live from the Proms

Dvorak: Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World) The second half of this evening's promenade concert. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader ELI GOREN conductor Rudolf Kempe Introduced by JOHN amis Director RON ISTED

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The Sunday Prom

The fifth of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Mozart Symphony No 36, in 0 major K 425 (Linz) Bartok Piano Concerto No 1 with Michel Beroff Played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany, conductor Colin Davis Introduced by Robin Ray

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The Sunday Prom

The last of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade (I Concerts Mozart Piano Concerto No 19, in F major (K 459) played by Alfred Brendel Beethoven Grosse Fuge with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields directed by Neville Marriner Introduced by ROBIN RAY Director ROBIN lough (Part of the concert given on 25 August)

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Enigma from the Prom

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Last Night of the Proms

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, the second half of the closing concert of the 81st Season of Henry Wood Proms. Norman Del Mar conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1 in D Berners Suite: The Triumph of Neptune Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs Parry (orch Elgar) Jerusalem Orch Elgar National Anthem with Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano) Thomas Hemsley (baritone) BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE BBC Choral Society Introduced by RICHARD BAKER Director BRIAN LARGE