BBC Proms 98

Synopsis

In the first of four Proms recorded for BBC television, James Naughtie introduces a concert performance of classical music from the movies, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall on 20 July. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Gershwin's Girl Crazy Overture and Rhapsody in Blue, Leonard Bernstein's music for On the Waterfront, and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with Canadian pianist Louis Lortie.