Mozart at the Proms

9th August 2006 Season 60 Episode 5

Alan Titchmarsh introduces the first of two Proms celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. Tonight's concert focuses on Mozart the dramatist, with music from some of his best-known and most successful operas - Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, led by Roger Norrington, is joined by soloists Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside and Ailish Tynan.

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Season 60 · Episode 6

BBC Proms 2006

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra as they perform Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 before Promenaders at London's Royal Albert Hall. There's also a rendition of Mozart's Turkish violin concerto (No 5 in A, K219) by Janine Jansen that is preceded by (K)ein Sommernachtstraum, or (Not) A Summer Night's Dream - Alfred Schnittke's mischievous response to a request for a Shakespeare-related work. Introduced by Natasha Kaplinsky.

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