Music by British composers launches this Silver Jubilee 83rd Henry Wood Promenade Concerts season, in the presence of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent.
National Anthem (arr Britten)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, for 16 solo voices and orchestra
Britten and Berkeley Mont Juic: suite of Catalan dances
Soloists Wendy Eathorne, Margaret Marshall, Linda Esther Gray, Jennifer Smith, Ann Murray,
Cynthia Buchan, Oriel Sutherland, Anne Collins, John Elwes, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Keith Erwen, Neil Mackie, Peter Knapp, David Thomas, Brian Rayner Cook, Paul Hudson
BBC Choral Society, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Andrew Davis
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo and quadraphony to relay Part 1 of tonight's concert, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Introduced by PATRICIA HUGHES
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for a live relay of the first half of this evening's Henry Wood Promenade Concert from tne Koyai Albert Hall , London
Mozart Symphony No 31, in D major (Paris) (K 297)
Clarinet Concerto in A (K 622) John McCaw (clarinet)
New Philharmonia Orchestra leader CARL PINI conductor Riccardo Muti
Introduced by MICHAEL BERKELEY
Sound VIC GODRICH
GEOFFREY KLINTON PARKER , Lighting CLIVE POTTER Director RON ISTED
Humphrey Burton introduces part of one of the concerts of British music that opened this year's Jubilee season at the Henry Wood Proms.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra leader ALAN TRAVERSE conductor Sir Charles Groves
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Malcolm Arnold 's lively Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt opens the concert and is followed by Delius's Fantasy: In a Summer Garden. The young Texas-born RALPH KIRSHBAUM is soloist in one of the most loved of all English works, the Cello Concerto of Elgar.
Lighting CLIVE POTTER. Sound vie GODRICH Director DAVID BUCKTON
Purcell's Hail, bright Cecilia
Joan Bakewell introduces part of one of the concerts of British music that opened this year's Jubilee season at the Henry Wood Proms.
Henry Purcell's Hail, bright Cecilia: a song for St Cecilia's Day - a setting in praise of the patroness of music heard first in 1692. Before the performance the composer, Sir Michael Tippett, a lifelong devotee of Purcell's music and joint editor of the version performed at this concert, talks to the conductor, Nicholas Cleobury, who is making his debut on television.
FELICITY LOTT (soprano) JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) DAVID THOMAS (bass-baritone) Continuo: STEPHEN CLEOBURY (organ) DAVID ROBLOU (harpsichord) NIGEL NORTON (theorbo) STEPHEN ORTON (cello)
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
The Purcell Orchestra leader ROGER GARLAND conducted by Nicholas Cleobury
Angela Rippon introduces the St Thomas Wake:
Foxtrot for orchestra by Peter Maxwell Davies and talks to him about this entertaining and unusual piece, in which a jazz band rubs shoulders with a symphony orchestra and an Elizabethan Pavane is transformed by the sounds of 1920s dance music.
The programme begins with Alfred Brendel as soloist in a work equally original in its departure from tradition - Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No 4 in G. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Sir Charles Groves
Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting BILL JONES
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG
(Part of the concert given on 9 August)
Michael Rodd introduces part of a concert from this Jubilee Season of Henry Wood Proms in which
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain musical director IVEY DICKSON conducted by Christopher Seaman play Gustav Hoist's famous orchestral suite, The Planets.
Sound GRAHAM HAINES. Lighting BILL JONES Director RON ISTED.
(Part of the concert given on 20 August)
Brian Redhead introduces the Te Deum by Berlioz
This massive, triumphant work for solo tenor, three choirs, organ and orchestra, is conducted by Colin Davis , a lifelong champion of the music of Berlioz. with The Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden leader JOHN BROWN
David Rendall (tenor) BBC Choral Society
London Symphony Chorus Goldsmiths Choral Union Southend Boys' Choir
Sound VIC GODRICH Lighting BILL JONES
Producer IAN ENGELMANN
Esther Rantzen introduces the last of this year's series of Sunday Proms, the ever popular Viennese Night
Halle Orchestra leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by James Loughran Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Among the old favourites in this programme are the Blue Danube Waltz, the Pizzicato Polka and the Czardas from Die Fledermaus, sung by SHEILA ARMSTRONG. It is the Fledermaus overture which opens the programme.
Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting JOHN WILSON
Director DAVID BUCKTON
(Part of the concert given last night)
Beethoven: Symphony No 9,inD minor (Choral) Beethoven's mightiest symphony on the last-but-one night of the Henry Wood Proms season - a tradition that remains unchanged since Sir Henry's day.
BBC2 joins with Radio 3 in stereo and quadraphony to relay The Ninth live from the second half of tonight's concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Heather Harper (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Robert Tear (tenor)
Raimund Herincx (baritone) London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN conductor
Bernard Haitink
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY
Sound VIC GODRICH and GEOFFREY TIMS
Lighting JOHN WILSON
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG
BBC 1 joins Radio 3 in stereo and quadraphony for the second half of tonight's closing concert of the 83rd season of Henry Wood Promenade concerts live from the Royal Albert Hall. James Loughran conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY
Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1, in D major
Sullivan, arr Mackerras Suite from the Ballet Pineapple Poll
Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem with the BBC SINGERS dlirector JOHN POOLE
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
Introduced by RICHARD BAKER
Lighting JOHN WILSON Sound VIC GODRICH
Director IAN ENGELMANN
Robin Ray introduces
Boulez at the Royal Albert Hall
For his final concert as Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, recorded at this year's Proms, Pierre Boulez conducts two great 20th-century classics: Bartok's Second Piano
Concerto, in which the brilliant virtuoso solo part is played by Michel Beroff, and a complete performance of Stravinsky's ballet score The Firebird, a masterly showpiece for the orchestra and its conductor.
Executive producer JOHN DRUMMOND Director PETER BUTLER.