Tomorrow night, at 7.30pm, BBC2 visits the Royal Albert Hall for the opening night of the 94th season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Michael Berkeley previews the ten concerts which will be shown this summer for BBC viewers and introduces the theme that runs through all of this year's Proms - the relationship between music and the written word.
The opening of the 94th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts live in stereo from the Royal Albert Hall.
with Leonard Bernstein conducting his Songfest
From Art Nouveau to Australia
Introduced by Nigel Kennedy
Tonight one of the world's finest composers and one of the world's greatest violinists join forces in a television premiere. Chain 2 is a violin concerto in all but name by the Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski.
Instead of the familiar venue of the Royal Albert Hall, tonight's Prom comes from the more intimate location of St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge where Anthony Rooley and his Consort of Musicke perform a specially devised programme of ltalian madrigals. In keeping with this year's literary theme the concert is based on the poetry of the great Italian Renaissance writer TORQUATO TASSO, whose epic poem Gerusalemme liberata inspired such celebrated composers of the age as Monteverdi, De Wert, and Rovetta.
Tonight a visit to the 94th season of Henry Wood Proms by one of the world's great orchestras the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra under its new Chief
Last in the series Introduced by John Tusa
The American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas this week takes up his new post as f rincipal Conductor of the London Symphony
Live in stereo from the Royal Albert Hall , London, television and radio join to relay the entire concert with its unique blend of musical entertainment and flag-waving with the BBC Symphony Orchestra led by RODNEY FRIEND BBC Singers directed by JOHN POOLE BBC Symphony Chorus chorusmaster
Part 2
The Manchester-based BBC Philharmonic Orchestra visited the Royal Albert Hall in London earlier this year to play in the 1988 Promenade Concerts. In the first of two programmes they perform
Second of two programmes. The Manchester-based BBC