Celebrity Proms with Michael Parkinson

15th August 1999 Season 53 Episode 3

First of four visits by celebrities to this year's BBC Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall. Tonight Michael Parkinson introduces one of his favourite pieces of classical music, The Planets by Gustav Holst, as well as Haydn's Representation of Chaos from The Creation. The music is performed by the Vasari Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis.

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Season 53 · Episode 4

BBC Proms 99

From London's Royal Albert Hall, Stephanie Hughes introduces music from this year's live Proms, with Bernard Haitink, music director of London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, taking the baton in front of the European Union Youth Orchestra. The evening involves a rendition of a single work, Mahler's challenging Symphony No 7, described as a poetic idea of nocturnal nature explored through various shades of darkness. Composed soon after the turn of the last century and scored for a massive orchestra, it is widely considered to be one of Mahler's masterpieces.

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