In one of the most adventurous Proms in the 1981 season at the Royal Albert Hall , the three works on the programme were linked thematically by their concern with various forms of ceremony and ritual. Tonight Malcolm Ruthven introduces an edited and adapted recording of that concert. Music for percussion by Harrison Birtwistle

For 0, for 0, the Hobby Horse is Forgot played by Les Percussions de Strasbourg

8.32* Music for organ by Olivier Messiaen The Ascension played by Timothy Bond

8.55* Music from Thailand played by the Thai Classical Music Group of Srinakharinwirot University,

Bangkok Donald Mitchell acts as guide

Ceremonies and Rituals

Season 36

Last Night of the Proms

First of five Sunday night programmes, recorded at this year's Promenade concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Act 2 of Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker. Presented by Richard Baker

The Sunday Prom

In the second of this series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts recorded at the Royal

Albert Hall, London.

Itzhak Perlman is the soloist in the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Edward Elgar with the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Introduced by Richard Baker

BBC2 joins with Radio 3

-JL for the whole of tonight s

Prom direct from the Royal Albert Hall. In each half, a concerto for two pianos, together with Russian music including a British Premiere of some rarities unearthed by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky , chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY

Peter Frankl (piano) Tamas Vasary (piano) Part 1

Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla; Dances from A Life for tne Tsar ,

Mozart Concerto in E flat, for two Pianos and orchestra (K 365) Introduced by Cormac Rigby

Live from the Proms

Bartok Concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra

John Chimes, James Holland (percussion)

Johann Strauss Homage to the Russian People; Polka: Nothing

Johann Strauss, arr Shostakovich Polka: Excursion Train

Youmans, arr Shostakovich Tea for Two (Tahiti Trot)

Live from the Proms: Part 2

In the third of this series of Henry Wood Promen ade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall , London

Gennadi Rozhdestvcnsky conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY

This programme of Russian music includes the opera version of Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain; Prokofiev's witty cantata, The Ugly Duckling; and Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Scriabin's exciting score for large orchestra, chorus and solo piano. with Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)

David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Victoria Postnikova (piano) BBC SINUERS director JOHN POOLE

BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS conductor BRIAN WRIGHT

Introduced by Richard Baker

Live from the Proms

Stabat Mater for soloists, chorus and orchestra

Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) Lucia Valentini-Terrani (mezzo-soprano)

Dalmacio Gonzalez (tenor) Ruggero Raimondi (bass) Philharmonia Chorus chorus-master HEINZ MENDE Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

In one of the most eagerly awaited concerts in the 1981 season, the great Italian conductor leads a distinguished group of performers in ROSSINI'S choral masterpiece.

Introduced by PATRICIA HUGHES

Giulini Conducts Rossini

The fourth in this series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London features

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Charles Dutoit

The programme includes: Roman Carnival Overture by Berlioz and Stravinsky's ballet score Petrushka in the original 1911 version and a short film shows some members of this young orchestra in rehearsal at their summer school at Ramsgate. Tonight's concert will be, for many, their first performance at the Proms.

Introduced by Richard Baker

Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven Symphony No 1. The first of three concerts featuring Sir Georg Solti.

Under his direction the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has become one of the most dynamic and expressive of the world's orchestras. Tonight's programme was recorded when the orchestra made its first-ever appearance at the London Proms - where it will be returning on Friday.

Solti at the Proms

with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra In another concert from the orchestra's home base in Chicago

Sir Georg Solti conducts overtures to The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser and The Master-singers, and the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde.

Directed by HUMPHREY BURTON

Solti Conducts Wagner

The last in this series of Henry Wood Promenade concerts

- features the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti in a performance of the Concerto for Orchestra by Bela Bartok Introduced by Richard Baker

Introduced by Richard Baker

BBC1 joins Radios 2 and 3 in stereo for the rousing festivities of the second half of tonight's Prom, the climax of the 87th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, live from the Royal Albert Hall. James Loughran conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY with the Halle Choir

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

Malcolm Arnold Orchestral Dances Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs

Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem

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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