BBC Proms · SEASON 59

Prom15: Fairy Tales

Episode 11 · 2005-07-26

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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