BBC Proms
The Sunday Prom
S32 • E10 Sep 10, 1978
In the last of six programmes recorded at the 1978 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, RICHARD BAKER introduces one of the worm's great orchestras, under their chief conductor, playing at the Proms for the first time.
Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tonight, in their first concert appearance on British television, they perform the majestic Symphony No 7 in E major by Bruckner. Before the performance, SIR GEORG talks to Humphrey Burton about his work in Chicago and explains how he approaches the challenge of Bruckner's Seventh.
Lighting TOMMY THOMAS Sound GRAHAM HAINES
Executive producer HUMPHREY BURTON Directed by RODNEY GREENBERG
Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tonight, in their first concert appearance on British television, they perform the majestic Symphony No 7 in E major by Bruckner. Before the performance, SIR GEORG talks to Humphrey Burton about his work in Chicago and explains how he approaches the challenge of Bruckner's Seventh.
Lighting TOMMY THOMAS Sound GRAHAM HAINES
Executive producer HUMPHREY BURTON Directed by RODNEY GREENBERG