Omnibus at the Proms

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26th July 1991 Season 45 Episode 2

Great British Music The first in the season of highlights from this summer's Promenade Concerts salutes three British composers. Walton's brassy Crown Imperial is the curtain-raiser, followed by Malcolm Arnold 's Guitar Concerto played by Julian Bream. And finally, the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth , plays Ralph Vaughan Williams 's Symphony No 8. Presented by David Owen Morris.

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Season 45 · Episode 3

Omnibus at the Proms

Sheherazade. For 200 years, the classic series of tales from the Middle East, The 1001 Nights, has inspired artists, musicians and dancers. In tonight's highlights from the 1991 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, Alexander Lazarev conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the most famous and popular of these musical inspirations: Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade. To set the scene for tonight's Prom, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie talks to Yasin Safadi , an expert on story-telling in Persia and India.
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