BBC Proms

Omnibus at the Proms

S40 • E3    Aug 15, 1986
Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)

In the second of this year's visits to the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Jane Glover introduces Stravinsky's evocative setting of HANS ANDERSEN'S fairytale The Emperor and the Nightingale.

At the excitable court of a Chinese emperor, the beautiful song of a real nightingale triumphs over the attractions of a mechanical rival.

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