Proms 85: An American Evening

26th August 1985 Season 39 Episode 7

Introduced by Michael Berkeley. Tonight BBC2 visits the Royal Albert Hall , London for one of the highlights of this year's season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. The London Sinfonietta leader NONA LIDDELL under the baton of one of Britain's most highly-regarded conductors of the Younger generation Simon Rattle, performs a special Bank Holiday Programme devoted to American music.

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Season 39 · Episode 8

Omnibus at the Proms

Introduced by Jane Glover A Programme of two 20th-century masterpieces. Played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Atherton. Before the concert, Jane Glover talks to Peter Donohoe, the soloist in Bartok's Second Piano Concerto. It is one of the most powerful and challenging works in the modern repertoire and Donohoe discusses its many demands. The concert ends with Stravinsky's celebrated Rite of Spring, first performed to a riotous reception just before the First World War.

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