BBC Proms · SEASON 66
Handel's Water Music
Episode 10 · 2012-08-04
- Documentary
Episode overview
A very special performance of Britain's best loved music for royal occasions - Handel's Water Music suites and the Music for the Royal Fireworks. Both works were originally performed outside - on the River Thames and in Green Park, and in this Jubilee year, conductor Hervé Niquet recreates the spectacular atmosphere of those occasions. He brings the huge forces of the remarkable French orchestra Le Concert Spirituel to London, with eighty players, including no less than 18 oboes, all playing specially made instruments that reproduce those used in Georgian England.
180 minutes
Season 66 episodes
1. First Night of the Proms2012-07-13
2. Strauss and Sibelius2012-07-19
3. Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 1 and 22012-07-20
4. Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 3 and 42012-07-21
5. Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 62012-07-26
6. Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 7 and 82012-07-27
7. Beethoven's 9th Symphony2010-07-28
8. Bach's Mass in B minor2012-08-02
9. Bruckner's 8th Symphony2012-08-03
10. Handel's Water Music2012-08-04
11. A Fantasia of English Music2012-08-09
12. Bruckner's 6th Symphony2012-08-10
13. An Evening with Ivor Novello2012-08-11
14. Vaughan Williams Night2012-08-16
15. National Youth Jazz Orchestra2012-08-17
16. From the New World2012-08-18
17. National Youth Jazz Orchestra2012-08-23
18. The Romantics2015-08-24
19. Gilbert and Sullivan2012-08-25
20. Wallace and Gromit at the Proms2012-08-27
21. Wagner and Strauss2012-08-30
22. Elgar's First Symphony2012-09-01
23. Bernstein's Mass2012-09-06
24. Haitink Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic2012-09-07
25. Last Night of the Proms - Part 12012-09-08
26. Last Night of the Proms - Part 22012-09-08
27. Last Night of the Proms in 3D2012-09-08
29. Episode 29
30. Episode 30
31. Episode 31
