Poster of Cast and Crew in BBC Proms - Live from the Proms (Season 33 - Episode 7) - Live from the Proms

BBC Proms - Season 33 - Live from the Proms (Episode 7)

Plot: BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for the first half of tonight's concert of Russian music, live from the Royal Albert Hall. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY under its principal conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky play Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful Russian Easter Festival Overture and Victoria Postnikova is the soloist in the romantic Piano Concerto No 1 by Rachmaninov The concert also includes the first British performance of Cantus to the memory of Benjamin Britten by the Estonian composer Arvo Part Introduced by MICHAEL BERKELEY
Episode Aired On:
Friday, August 31 1979
45 years ago