S66 · E01

First Night of the Proms

Jul 13, 20123h

The 118th season of BBC Proms gets underway at the Royal Albert Hall with a spectacular concert of all-English music. In the year of the London Olympics there is something of a relay race around the podium with no less than four conductors passing the baton in the course of the evening - Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner and Martyn Brabbins. Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is the soloist in Delius' evocative Sea Drift, and a quartet of Proms favourite singers feature in Elgar's Coronation Ode - Susan Gritton, Sarah Connolly, Robert Murray and Gerald Finley. Elgar's effervescent Cockaigne Overture, Tippett's Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles and a brand new virtuosic curtain-raiser by Mark-Anthony Turnage complete the programme. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus take their traditional place on stage for a special First Night.

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First Night of the Proms

Episodes

First Night of the Proms

Strauss and Sibelius

Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 1 and 2

Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 3 and 4

Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 6

Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 7 and 8

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Bach's Mass in B minor

Bruckner's 8th Symphony

Handel's Water Music

A Fantasia of English Music

Bruckner's 6th Symphony

An Evening with Ivor Novello

Vaughan Williams Night

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

From the New World

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

The Romantics

Gilbert and Sullivan

Wallace and Gromit at the Proms

Wagner and Strauss

Elgar's First Symphony

Bernstein's Mass

Haitink Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic

Last Night of the Proms - Part 1

Last Night of the Proms - Part 2

Last Night of the Proms in 3D

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Episode 30

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