BBC Proms · SEASON 41
Live from the Proms: Part 1
Episode 10 · 1987-09-07
- Documentary
Episode overview
The whole of tonight's concert from the Royal Albert Hall, London, in which composers from America, France, Russia, Denmark and Finland are represented in music full of vivid imagery. Concert suites from ballets by Shostakovich and Prokofiev underline the dance theme running through this year's Proms. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, led by Felix Kok, conducted by Simon Rattle with the celebrated Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom in evocative folk songs from the Auvergne and a rarely-heard setting by Sibelius of a fantastic Finnish legend. Introduced by Michael Berkeley Gershwin Cuban Overture Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne (selection) Shostakovich The Age of Gold (suite)
Season 41 episodes
1. First Night of the Proms1987-07-17
2. First Night of the Proms1987-07-17
3. Omnibus at the Proms1987-07-31
4. Live from the Proms1987-08-03
5. Omnibus at the Proms1987-08-07
6. Omnibus at the Proms1987-08-14
7. Omnibus at the Proms1987-08-21
8. Omnibus at the Proms1987-08-28
9. Omnibus at the Proms1987-09-04
10. Live from the Proms: Part 11987-09-07
11. Omnibus at the Proms1987-09-11
12. Last Night of the Proms1987-09-12
13. Last Night of the Proms1987-09-12
14. Omnibus1987-09-25
