BBC Proms 2012 - 1. First Night of the Proms

Prom 1: First Night of the Proms

The 118th season of BBC Proms gets underway at the Royal Albert Hall with a spectacular concert of all-English music. In the year of the London Olympics there is something of a relay race around the podium with no less than four conductors passing the baton in the course of the evening - Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner and Martyn Brabbins. Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is the soloist in Delius' evocative Sea Drift, and a quartet of Proms favourite singers feature in Elgar's Coronation Ode - Susan Gritton, Sarah Connolly, Robert Murray and Gerald Finley. Elgar's effervescent Cockaigne Overture, Tippett's Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles and a brand new virtuosic curtain-raiser by Mark-Anthony Turnage complete the programme. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus take their traditional place on stage for a special First Night.

Mark-Anthony Turnage - Canon Fever (3 mins)
Elgar - Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (15 mins)
Delius - Sea Drift (25 mins)
Tippett - Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles (16 mins)
Elgar - Coronation Ode (33 mins)

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