When did BBC Proms Season 38 Episode 11 air?
BBC Proms Season 38 Episode 11 aired on September 16, 1984.
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 38 · Episode 11
Proms Double Bill
Sep 16, 1984
Richard Baker introduces two excerpts from this year's 90th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Ida Haendel plays Brahms's Violin Concerto in D, Op 77 London Symphony Orchestra, leader Michael Davis, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste Brahms's only violin concerto was composed in 1878 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim. The soloist on 27 July first appeared at the Proms in 1937, and Sir Henry Wood became one of her staunchest admirers. At 4.30* Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5, in E minor, Op 64 BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Maurice Brett, conducted by Marek Janowski from an all-Russian concert given on 26 July. Tchaikovsky himself conducted the first performance of his symphony in St Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1888 in the presence of Brahms.
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