BBC Proms
The Sunday Prom
S35 • E5 Aug 16, 1981
In the third of this series of Henry Wood Promen ade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall , London
Gennadi Rozhdestvcnsky conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY
This programme of Russian music includes the opera version of Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain; Prokofiev's witty cantata, The Ugly Duckling; and Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Scriabin's exciting score for large orchestra, chorus and solo piano. with Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Victoria Postnikova (piano) BBC SINUERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
Introduced by Richard Baker
Gennadi Rozhdestvcnsky conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY
This programme of Russian music includes the opera version of Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain; Prokofiev's witty cantata, The Ugly Duckling; and Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Scriabin's exciting score for large orchestra, chorus and solo piano. with Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Victoria Postnikova (piano) BBC SINUERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
Introduced by Richard Baker