BBC Proms · SEASON 52

BBC Proms 98

Episode 7 · 1998-09-03

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Episode overview

In the penultimate Prom recorded for BBC television, James Naughtie introduces another concert performance of the classical music used in films, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall on 10 August. Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Paul Dukas's witty Sorcerer's Apprentice, created in Walt Disney's Fantasia. The mystic Zoroaster is explored in Richard Strauss's tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra, and French tenor Jean-Paul Fouchecourt sings Szymanowski's exotic Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin.

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