Music on 2: From the Proms

Synopsis

BBC2 cameras were at the Royal Albert Hall recently to record the first of two Promenade Concerts with outstanding artists. Pierre Boulez conducts a performance of Stravinsky's complete ballet "The Firebird" with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Bela Dekany. The programme begins with Stravinsky's "Symphonies of wind instruments" (original version). Introduced by Antony Hopkins (Part of the concert given on 25 August)