BBC Proms
First Night of the Proms
S31 • E1 Jul 22, 1977
Music by British composers launches this Silver Jubilee 83rd Henry Wood Promenade Concerts season, in the presence of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent.
National Anthem (arr Britten)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, for 16 solo voices and orchestra
Britten and Berkeley Mont Juic: suite of Catalan dances
Soloists Wendy Eathorne, Margaret Marshall, Linda Esther Gray, Jennifer Smith, Ann Murray,
Cynthia Buchan, Oriel Sutherland, Anne Collins, John Elwes, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Keith Erwen, Neil Mackie, Peter Knapp, David Thomas, Brian Rayner Cook, Paul Hudson
BBC Choral Society, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Andrew Davis
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo and quadraphony to relay Part 1 of tonight's concert, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Introduced by PATRICIA HUGHES
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG
National Anthem (arr Britten)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, for 16 solo voices and orchestra
Britten and Berkeley Mont Juic: suite of Catalan dances
Soloists Wendy Eathorne, Margaret Marshall, Linda Esther Gray, Jennifer Smith, Ann Murray,
Cynthia Buchan, Oriel Sutherland, Anne Collins, John Elwes, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Keith Erwen, Neil Mackie, Peter Knapp, David Thomas, Brian Rayner Cook, Paul Hudson
BBC Choral Society, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Andrew Davis
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo and quadraphony to relay Part 1 of tonight's concert, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Introduced by PATRICIA HUGHES
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG