When did BBC Proms Season 40 Episode 2 air?
BBC Proms Season 40 Episode 2 aired on August 8, 1986.
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 40 · Episode 2
Omnibus at the Proms
Aug 8, 1986
The first of BBCl's visits to the 92nd season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, recorded earlier this evening at the Royal Albert Hall. Introduced by Jane Glover Iona Brown plays Walton's sparkling and lyrical Violin Concerto With the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by Edward Downes This is followed by Respighi's Pines of Rome - a tour de force for large orchestra conjuring up the evocative atmosphere of four different Roman locations, which ends with a brilliant vision of a consul and his army marching along the ancient Appian Way at dawn.
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