Episode guide
BBC Proms: 1991
10 episodes · first aired Jul 19, 1991
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- 1 First Night of the Proms: The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar Jul 19, 1991 'This is the best of me.' So wrote Elgar at the end of his score and, despite a disastrous first performance in 1900, his setting of Newman's poem is now regarded as one of the composer's…
- 2 Omnibus at the Proms Jul 26, 1991 Great British Music The first in the season of highlights from this summer's Promenade Concerts salutes three British composers. Walton's brassy Crown Imperial is the curtain-raiser…
- 3 Omnibus at the Proms Aug 2, 1991 Sheherazade. For 200 years, the classic series of tales from the Middle East, The 1001 Nights, has inspired artists, musicians and dancers. In tonight's highlights from the 1991 Henry Wood…
- 4 Live from the Proms Aug 3, 1991 Russian Yuri Bashmet is the soloist in Walton's Viola Concerto . Also featured is Shostakovich's Symphony No 7, the Leningrad, which was written at great speed in 1941 as an inspiration to…
- 5 Omnibus at the Proms: Conductors All Aug 9, 1991 In a few short months, Mark Wigglesworth has come to the fore as one of Britain's most dynamic young conductors. Winner of the 1989 Kondrashin Competition and recently appointed as…
- 6 Omnibus at the Proms Aug 16, 1991 All-Night Vigil by Rachmaninov. Cuban conductor Odaline de la Martinez introduces a rare and hauntingly beautiful work by a popular composer. Rachmaninov's setting of the liturgy for the…
- 7 Omnibus at the Proms Aug 23, 1991 The King's Consort. In 1749, the first public rehearsal for Handel's Musick for the Royal Fireworks caused a three-hour traffic jam. Keen to recapture the original fun and excitement…
- 8 Omnibus at the Proms Aug 30, 1991 Pictures at an Exhibition by Musorgsky began its life as a cycle of piano pieces, but has been orchestrated and arranged by more composers than any other musical work. At the last count…
- 9 Last Night of the Proms Sep 14, 1991 The 97th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts comes to a close, live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. The concert opens with Cockaigne (Elgar), Towards the Unknown Region (Vaughan…
- 10 Last Night of the Proms Sep 14, 1991 The biggest musical party of the year reaches its festive climax as the audience in the packed Royal Albert Hall in London celebrates the second-half of the Last Night of the Proms…