BBC Proms · SEASON 52

BBC Proms 98

Episode 4 · 1998-08-20

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Episode overview

In the first of four Proms recorded for BBC television, James Naughtie introduces a concert performance of classical music from the movies, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall on 20 July. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Gershwin's Girl Crazy Overture and Rhapsody in Blue, Leonard Bernstein's music for On the Waterfront, and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with Canadian pianist Louis Lortie.

Season 52 episodes

1. The First Night of the Proms1998-07-17 2. BBC Proms 981998-08-08 3. BBC Proms 981998-08-13 4. BBC Proms 981998-08-20 5. BBC Proms 981998-08-27 6. BBC Proms 981998-09-01 7. BBC Proms 981998-09-03 8. BBC Proms 981998-09-05 9. BBC Proms 981998-09-08 10. The Last Night of the Proms1998-09-12 11. The Last Night of the Proms1998-09-12 12. The Blue Peter Prom1998-10-16