BBC Proms · SEASON 59
First Night of the Proms Part One
Episode 1 · 2005-07-15
- Documentary
Episode overview
BBC1 kicks off this centrepiece of the classical calendar for the first time, as Promenaders don their finery for the start of the 111th season of Henry Wood concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Tonight's music is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Roger Norrington, and begins on a maritime theme with Berlioz's exuberant The Corsair overture. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, while Elgar's Overture: Cockaigne (in London Town), a colourful tour of the old capital, prefaces Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time, which airs on BBC2 from 8pm.
Season 59 episodes
1. First Night of the Proms Part One2005-07-15
2. First Night of the Proms Part Two2005-07-15
3. Prom 4: Richard Wagner - Die Walküre2005-07-18
4. Prom 5: Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams2005-07-19
5. Prom 6: Musgrave, Rachmaninov and Nielson2005-07-20
6. Prom 8: Stravinsky, MacMillan and Ravel2005-07-21
7. Prom 9: Mozart and Mahler2005-07-22
8. Prom 11: Mendelssohn, Bruch and Vaughan Williams2005-07-23
9. Prom 13: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius2005-07-24
10. Prom 14: Tippett and Shostakovich2005-07-25
11. Prom15: Fairy Tales2005-07-26
12. Prom 16: Ravel, Dutilleux, Stravinsky and Mussorgsky2005-07-27
13. Prom 18: Adams, Corigliano and Prokofiev2005-07-28
14. Prom 19: Russia Night2005-07-29
15. Prom 21: Violins!! - Part 22005-07-30
16. Prom 23: Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet2005-07-31
17. Prom 41: Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra2005-08-14
18. Prom 2: Arthur Sullivan's HMS Pinafore2005-08-18
19. Prom 49: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’2005-08-20
20. Prom 57: Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace2005-08-27
21. Prom 59: David Zinman conducts the Tonhalle Orchestra2005-09-01
22. Prom 66: Sir Colin Davies conductions the Juilliard Orchestra2005-09-03
23. Prom 67: Zemlinsky and Brahms2005-09-04
24. Prom 68: Britten, Rawsthorne and Tchaikovsky2005-09-05
25. Prom 69: Thomas Adès and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe2005-09-06
26. Prom 71: Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra2005-09-07
27. Prom 72: Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor2005-09-08
28. Prom 73: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra2005-09-09
29. Prom 74: Last Night of the Proms2005-09-10
