Plot: Introduced by Richard Baker
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo at the Royal Albert Hall for a live relay of the first half of tonight's Henry Wood Promenade Concert, the opening of the 89th season. Beethoven Mass in c major Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Kathleen Kuhlmann (mezzo-sop) Robert Tear (tenor)
Gwynne Howell (baritone) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
London Philharmonic Choir conductor RICHARD COOKE
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conductor Sir John Pritchard

BBC Proms - Season 37 - The First Night of The Proms (Episode 1)
Episode Aired On:
Friday, July 22 1983
42 years ago
Friday, July 22 1983
42 years ago
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