First Night of the Proms

BBC Proms Season 31 Episode 1

Overview:
Music by British composers launches this Silver Jubilee 83rd Henry Wood Promenade Concerts season, in the presence of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent.

National Anthem (arr Britten)

Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra

Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, for 16 solo voices and orchestra

Britten and Berkeley Mont Juic: suite of Catalan dances

Soloists Wendy Eathorne, Margaret Marshall, Linda Esther Gray, Jennifer Smith, Ann Murray,

Cynthia Buchan, Oriel Sutherland, Anne Collins, John Elwes, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Keith Erwen, Neil Mackie, Peter Knapp, David Thomas, Brian Rayner Cook, Paul Hudson

BBC Choral Society, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Andrew Davis

BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo and quadraphony to relay Part 1 of tonight's concert, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Introduced by PATRICIA HUGHES

Producer RODNEY GREENBERG

Genre : Documentary

Actors : -

Release Date : 1977-07-22

Duration : 180 menit

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Other Episodes (Season 31)

First Night of the Proms
1. First Night of the Proms
Live from the Proms
2. Live from the Proms
The Sunday Prom
3. The Sunday Prom
The Sunday Prom
4. The Sunday Prom
The Sunday Prom
5. The Sunday Prom
The Sunday Prom
6. The Sunday Prom
The Sunday Prom
7. The Sunday Prom
The Sunday Prom
8. The Sunday Prom
Live from the Proms
9. Live from the Proms
Last Night of the Proms
10. Last Night of the Proms
The Lively Arts - In Performance
11. The Lively Arts - In Performance


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