When did BBC Proms Season 26 Episode 1 air?
BBC Proms Season 26 Episode 1 aired on July 30, 1972.
BBC Proms
The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
Season 26 · Episode 1
Omnibus at the Proms: Gabrieli and Liszt
Jul 30, 1972
The first of five visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1972 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Gabrieli Canzon septimi toni Canzon noni toni Sonata pian' e forte with the London Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble and Liszt and Others Hexameron: variations for six grand pianos and orchestra on a march from Bellini's I Puritani for which five other composers joined Liszt in writing this work - Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Czerny and Chopin. with pianists John Bingham, Martin Hughes, Ronald Lumsden, Howard Shelley, Thomas Walsh, David Wilde and the London Symphony Orchestra leader John Georgiadis Introduced by Richard Baker (Part of last Thursday's concert) (Next week: Music by Brahms) (Colour)
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