BBC Proms · SEASON 59
Prom15: Fairy Tales
Episode 11 · 2005-07-26

- Documentary
Episode overview
This season's theme of fairy tales is represented by Russian composer Liadov's tone-poem trilogy - Baba-Yaga, The Enchanted Lake and Kikimora - taken from old folk tales, and Stravinsky's ballet music The Fairy's Kiss, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen. Between are Knussen's settings of four poems by Walt Whitman , and the premiere of German composer Detlev Glanert 's Theatrum Bestiarum.
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