Ian Russell
Director
BBC Proms (1947)
2009
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.
Released Sept. 13, 1947
Episode 180 min
None+
Genres: Music
Keywords: tmdb.classical-music, imdb.classical-music, imdb.orchestra, imdb.live-performance, tmdb.concert-film
Network: BBC Television
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S63E1 - Prom 01 - First Night of the Proms 2009
S63E2 - Prom 9
S63E3 - Prom 10 - Orchestra National de Lyon
S63E4 - Prom 12 - 1934
S63E5 - Prom 19 - Berlioz and Mendelssohn
S63E6 - Prom 20 - Stravinsky and Schumann
S63E7 - Prom 22 - A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals
John Wilson and his hand-picked Orchestra celebrate 75 years of MGM musicals with songs from unforgettable movie classics, including The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, High Society, Gigi and Singin' in the Rain.
Amazingly, although all the original orchestral parts were lost when the studio destroyed its music library to make way for a car park, Wilson has succeeded in reconstructing the scores by painstakingly transcribing each soundtrack by ear. He is joined by starry singers from the classical and musical theatre worlds, as well as by the elite Maida Vale Singers
Aug. 1, 2009, midnight
S63E8 - Prom 29 - Mendelssohns Italian Symphony
S63E9 - Prom 30 - Knussen Conducts Knussen
S63E10 - Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra
S63E11 - Prom 38: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
S63E12 - Prom 39: Birtwistle's Mask of Orpheus
S63E13 - Prom 36: Handel Anniversary Highlights
S63E14 - Prom 47: Handel's Samson
S63E15 - Prom 48: Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan
S63E16 - Prom 50: Beethoven's Fidelio
S63E17 - Prom 56: Lang Lang Plays Chopin
S63E18 - Prom 57: Tchaikovsky Night
S63E19 - Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra
A trio of works from America. Copland's great Third Symphony - with its portrayal of the wide, open spaces of North America - includes a striking reprise of the classic Fanfare for the Common Man at the start of the last movement. The symphony dates from the end of the Second World War and captures something of the sense of optimism of the American people at the time. From 25 years earlier, though sounding far more recent, comes Edgard Varèse's Amériques, whose title, he claimed, was 'symbolic of discoveries, of new worlds on Earth, in the sky or in the minds of men'; the first work that the Frenchman completed after arriving in New York, this still strikingly original score was premiered in Philadelphia by Leopold Stokowski. So too was Rachmaninov's Fourth (and last) Piano Concerto, also composed in the USA, where the composer had settled after leaving Russia in 1917. Rachmaninov himself was the soloist at the 1927 premiere; tonight it's the fearlessly virtuosic Boris Berezovsky.
Aug. 29, 2009, midnight
S63E20 - Prom 64: Jurowski & London Philharmonic
S63E21 - Prom 65: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
S63E22 - Prom 53: Composers of the Year
S63E23 - Prom 73: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
S63E24 - Prom 40: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
S63E25 - Last Night of the Proms
Network: BBC Television
Episode Runtime: 180 min.
Season Runtime: 180 min.
Released: Sept. 13, 1947
Last Air Date: Nov. 8, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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