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The Best Episodes of BBC Proms Season 20

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The Best Episodes of BBC Proms Season 20

The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London,...
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    #1 - First Night of the Proms

    S20:E1

    Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall for the first half of the opening concert in the 72nd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Moura Lympany (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent The National Anthem Overture: Roman Carnival.. Berlioz Piano Concerto in A minor. Schumann Before the concert begins Richard Baker talks to Sir Malcolm Sargent who is conducting his 500th Promenade Concert.

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    #2 - Sunday Prom: Music of Johann Strauss

    S20:E2

    The first in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Halle Orchestra Leader, Martin Milner Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli Overture: The Gypsy Baron Waltz: Tales from the Vienna Woods Pizzicato Polka Thunder and Lightning Polka Emperor Waltzes

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    #3 - Sunday Prom

    S20:E3

    The second in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent Introduced by Richard Baker.

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    #4 - Sunday Prom

    S20:E4

    The third in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Clifford Curzon (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Gary Bertini Introduced by Richard Baker.

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    #5 - Bliss Birthday Prom

    S20:E5

    Part of the Promenade Concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of The Master of The Queen's Musick, Sir Arthur Bliss. John Ogdon is soloist in Bliss's Piano Concerto (1939) Written for the 1939 New York World's Fair with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss Before the concerto Sir Arthur and Lady Bliss, in conversation with Richard Baker, recall some of the memorable events in their lives.

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    #6 - Sunday Prom

    S20:E6

    The fourth in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Moscow Radio Orchestra Leader, Mikhail Cherniachovsky Conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Introduced by Richard Baker.

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    #7 - Workshop presents: Pierre Boulez: Portrait - Analysis - Performance

    S20:E7

    The monthly feature about the making of music. In this programme the distinguished French composer talks about his life and music and conducts a performance of his Improvisation No. 2 on Mallarme. With Halina Lukomska (soprano) and The New Music Ensemble: Elizabeth Fletcher (harp), Susan Bradshaw (celesta), Patricia Brady (vibraphone), Richard Rodney Bennett (piano), Eric Allen (bells), Gilbert Webster, Terence Emery, Jack Lees Jr., and Tristan Fry (percussion)

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    #8 - Sunday Prom

    S20:E8

    The fifth in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Elaine Blighton (soprano), Patricia Kern (contralto), Richard Lewis (tenor), John Cameron (baritone), Owen Brannigan (bass) BBC Chorus Goldsmiths' Choral Union Conductor, Frederick Haggis Royal Choral Society BBC Concert Orchestra Leader, Arthur Leavins Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent Gilbert and Sullivan Selections from The Yeomen of the Guard, The Mikado, Iolanthe

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    S20:E9

    Last in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Pierre Boulez conducts Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Introduced by Richard Baker. with comment by Pierre Boulez.

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    #10 - Last Night of the Proms

    S20:E10

    Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the final concert in the 72nd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent Monica Sinclair (contralto) Introduced by Richard Baker.

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Season 20 Ratings Summary

"First Night of the Proms" is the best rated episode of "BBC Proms" season 20. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/23/1966. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Sunday Prom: Music of Johann Strauss".