When did BBC Proms Season 42 Episode 9 air?
BBC Proms Season 42 Episode 9 aired on September 2, 1988.
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 42 · Episode 9
Omnibus at the Proms
Sep 2, 1988
Last in the series Introduced by John Tusa The Leipzig Gewandhaus is one of Europe's greatest and oldest symphony orchestras. Under their Principal Conductor Kurt Masur they perform Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3 The Scottish. The Orchestra gave the first performance in 1842 conducted by the composer himself, who had been inspired to write it during a visit to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. To complete the programme - music by Richard Strauss with whom the orchestra has had a long association. Tonight they play his colourful symphonic poem Till Eulenspiegel based on the outrageous character from German folklore. John Tusa also talks to Kurt Masur about his relationship with the orchestra and about its illustrious past.
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