Plot: The BBC Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor, Leonard Slatkin , lifts his baton in London's Royal Albert Hall to conduct a programme selected entirely from the rich repertoire of Russian orchestral music. Highlights include Sergei Prokofiev 's score for the ballet Romeo and Juliet, the dawn prelude to Musorgsky's epic opera Khovanshchina, and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1, with exciting young German soloist Christian Tetzlaff

BBC Proms - Season 57 - BBC Proms 2003 (Episode 21)
Episode Aired On:
Saturday, August 23 2003
22 years ago
Saturday, August 23 2003
22 years ago