Beethoven

Mass in D major (Missa Solemnis)

One of the crowning achievements of Beethoven's last years, relayed live with Radio 3 in stereo from the opening concert of the 1976 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall

Ursula Koszut (soprano)

Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) BBC Singers

BBC Choral Society A section of the London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BFIA I)EKANY conducted by Colin Davis

Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY Sound GRAHAM HAINES

GEOFFREY KLINTON-PARKER

Lighting MIBERT CARTWRIGHT Director RODNEY CREENBERG ,

First Night of the Proms

Live from the Proms

Season 29

BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for a live relay of the first half of this evening's Prom from the Royal Albert Hall.

Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat (K 543)

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 Ida Haendel (violin)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra guest leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Hans Vonk

Introduced by PETER BARKER

Sound GRAHAM HAINES. GEOFFREY TIMS Lighting HUBERT CARTWRIGHT Director RON ISTED

BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for a live relay of the first half of this evening's Prom from the Royal Albert Hall.

Haydn Symphony No 95 in c minor Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 in A major

Roger Woodward (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by John Pritchard Introduced by JON cuRLE

Sound GRAHAM HAINES , TONY ASKEW Lighting ALAN ROBERTS Director RON ISTED

The first of this season's Sunday-night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts is a recording of part of the Viennese Night with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra associate leader ASHLEY ARBUCKLE conductor Walter Susskind

The programme consists of music by Suppe, Lehar and the Strauss family, including the waltz' Tales from the Vienna Woods', with zither solo by JOHN LEACH , and the Pizzicato Polka.

Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director DAVID BUCKTON

Part of the concert given on 17 July.

The Sunday Prom

Britten: War Requiem

BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for tonight's Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall.

The War Requiem is one of the major choral works of this century: a passionate denunciation of war, expressed through a setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead interspersed with the anti-war poems of Wilfred Owen.

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Peter Pears (tenor)

Thomas Hemsley (baritone)

BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society Wandsworth School Choir Organists

MALCOLM HICKS , RALPH DOWNES

London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS

London Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Ensemble leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor Bernard Haitink

Lighting BERT OATEN

Sound GRAHAM HAINES , JAMES HAMILTON .Director RODNEY GREENBERG

The second of this season's Sunday-night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts is a recording of part of a concert of modern works from the Round House in London. The Fires of London director PETER MAXWELL DAVIES play works by two outstanding young British composers

Dominic Muldowney Solo/Ensemble

Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King with Donald Bell (baritone)

Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director BARRIE GAVIN

Part of the concert given on 26 July

The third of this season's Sunday-night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Tonight the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by David Atherton

Sibelius Symphony No 1, in E minor

Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director ROY TIPPING

Part of the concert given on 31 July.

The fourth of this season's visits to the Henry Wood Proms is a recording of part of the American Programme with Gerald Robbins as soloist in Gershwin's Variations on 'I Got Rhythm' for piano and orchestra.

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster

The programme includes:

Copland Four Dance Episodes (Rodeo)

Ives The Fourth of July

Sessions Symphony No 8

In the last of this season's Sunday night programmes from the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Riccardo Muti makes his debut on television and at the Proms.

He is the principal conductor of the New Philharmonia Orchestra led by BERNARD PARTRIDGE The programme includes

Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, for violin and viola (K 364) with soloists Carl Pini (violin) Csafea Erdelyi (viola)

Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Director ssnis MORIARTY

Part of last night's concert

BBC1 joins Radio 3 in stereo for the second half of tonight's closing concert of the 82nd Season of Henry Wood

Promenade Concerts, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Sir Charles Groves conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader ELI GOREN

Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1, in D major

Williamson Suite: Our Man in Havana

Henry Wood, arr Sargent Sea Songs

Arne, arr Sargent Rule Britannia Parry , orch Elgar Jerusalem orch Elgar National Anthem with Anne ColOns (contralto) BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE BBC Choral Society

Introduced by RICHARD BAKER

Lighting ALAN ROBERTS Sound GRAHAM UAI!':ES

Director IAN ENGELMANN

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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