BBC Proms · SEASON 60

BBC Proms 2006

Episode 21 · 2006-09-02

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Episode overview

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Tonight's programme opens with Szymanowski's impressionistic Violin Concerto No 1 featuring the brilliant virtuoso Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist. After the interval Rattle leads his Berlin forces in a performance of Bruckner's Symphony No 7 in E, with its famous Adagio mourning Wagner it's a high point of the Austro-German symphonic repertory. Introduced by Huw Edwards from the Royal Albert Hall.

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