When did BBC Proms Season 45 Episode 4 air?
BBC Proms Season 45 Episode 4 aired on August 3, 1991.
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 45 · Episode 4
Live from the Proms
Aug 3, 1991
Russian Yuri Bashmet is the soloist in Walton's Viola Concerto . Also featured is Shostakovich's Symphony No 7, the Leningrad, which was written at great speed in 1941 as an inspiration to the Soviet people in their fight against the Nazis. In the interval, singer Galina Vishnevskaya is among those recalling the siege of Leningrad and talking of the impact, then and now, of Shostakovich's music. With the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conducted by David Atherton. Introduced by Michael Berkeley.
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