BBC Proms · SEASON 33

Live from the Proms

Episode 7 · 1979-08-31

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Episode overview

BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for the first half of tonight's concert of Russian music, live from the Royal Albert Hall. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY under its principal conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky play Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful Russian Easter Festival Overture and Victoria Postnikova is the soloist in the romantic Piano Concerto No 1 by Rachmaninov The concert also includes the first British performance of Cantus to the memory of Benjamin Britten by the Estonian composer Arvo Part Introduced by MICHAEL BERKELEY

Season 33 episodes

1. First Night of the Proms: Mahler: Symphony No 31979-07-20 2. The Sunday Prom1979-07-29 3. The Sunday Prom1979-08-05 4. The Sunday Prom1979-08-12 5. The Sunday Prom1979-08-19 6. The Sunday Prom1979-08-26 7. Live from the Proms1979-08-31 8. The Sunday Prom1979-09-09 9. Last Night of the Proms1979-09-15