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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.