When did BBC Proms Season 40 Episode 8 air?
BBC Proms Season 40 Episode 8 aired on September 12, 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 8
Live from the Proms
Sep 12, 1986
Beethoven Choral Symphony conducted by Sir Georg Solti with Jessye Norman (soprano) Sarah Walker (mezzo) Reiner Goldberg (tenor) Hans Sotin (bass) The BBC Singers London Voices and the Chorus of Welsh National Opera London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN Introduced by Jane Glover Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on the last Friday of the Promenade concert season is a tradition established by Sir Henry Wood that continues to this day. Schiller's 'Ode to Joy' will be sung by 120 voices made up of three professional choirs together with a quartet of world-renowned soloists. Sung in German with English subtitles
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