BBC Proms
First Night of the Proms
S30 • E1 Jul 16, 1976
Beethoven
Mass in D major (Missa Solemnis)
One of the crowning achievements of Beethoven's last years, relayed live with Radio 3 in stereo from the opening concert of the 1976 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall
Ursula Koszut (soprano)
Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) BBC Singers
BBC Choral Society A section of the London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BFIA I)EKANY conducted by Colin Davis
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY Sound GRAHAM HAINES
GEOFFREY KLINTON-PARKER
Lighting MIBERT CARTWRIGHT Director RODNEY CREENBERG ,
Mass in D major (Missa Solemnis)
One of the crowning achievements of Beethoven's last years, relayed live with Radio 3 in stereo from the opening concert of the 1976 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall
Ursula Koszut (soprano)
Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) BBC Singers
BBC Choral Society A section of the London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BFIA I)EKANY conducted by Colin Davis
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY Sound GRAHAM HAINES
GEOFFREY KLINTON-PARKER
Lighting MIBERT CARTWRIGHT Director RODNEY CREENBERG ,