The first of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Strauss Night

A selection from the music of the Strauss family, Johann the Father, Johann the Son and his brothers Josef and Eduard played by the Halle Orchestra leaders MARTIN MILNER and MICHAEL DAVIS conductor James Loughran

Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director ROY TIPPING

(Part of the concert given on 26 July)

The Sunday Prom

First Night of the Proms

Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flat The 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts opens tonight with Mahler's' Symphony of a Thousand.' BBC2 joins with Radio 3 in stereo to relay this massive, triumphant work direct from the Royal Albert Hall.

EDDA MOSER (soprano)

LINDA ESTHER GRAY (soprano) WENDY EATHORNE (soprano)

ELIZABETH CONNELL (mezzO-SOp) BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) ALBERTO REMEDIOS (tenor)

SIEGMUND NIMSGERN (baritone) MARIUS RINTZLER (bass) BBC SINGERS

BBC CHORAL SOCIETY

SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

CHORUS, WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR

. BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader eli GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ

Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY

Director RODNEY GREENBERG

The second of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Yitkin Seow plays

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major

Britten Sinfonia da Requiem played by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor Raymond Leppard Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director DENIS MORIARTY

(Part of the concert given on 5 August)

The third of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Bernard Haitink Introduced by ROBIN RAY

Director ROY TIPPING

(Part of the concert given on 9 August)

The fourth of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major with Kyung-Wha Chung played by the International Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director ROY TIPPING

(Part of the concert given on 16 Aug)

Dvorak: Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World)

The second half of this evening's promenade concert.

BBC Symphony Orchestra leader ELI GOREN conductor Rudolf Kempe Introduced by JOHN amis

Director RON ISTED

Live from the Proms

The fifth of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Mozart Symphony No 36, in 0 major K 425 (Linz)

Bartok Piano Concerto No 1 with Michel Beroff

Played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany, conductor Colin Davis

Introduced by Robin Ray

The last of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1975 season of Henry Wood Promenade (I Concerts

Mozart Piano Concerto No 19, in F major (K 459) played by Alfred Brendel Beethoven Grosse Fuge with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields directed by Neville Marriner Introduced by ROBIN RAY

Director ROBIN lough

(Part of the concert given on 25 August)

Enigma from the Prom

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, the second half of the closing concert of the 81st Season of Henry Wood Proms.

Norman Del Mar conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY

Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1 in D

Berners Suite: The Triumph of Neptune

Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs

Parry (orch Elgar) Jerusalem Orch Elgar National Anthem with Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano) Thomas Hemsley (baritone) BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE BBC Choral Society

Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director BRIAN LARGE

Last Night of the Proms

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, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895.  Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.

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