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 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 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
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)
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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