Last night of the Proms, 1961.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Bachauer, Gina, performer.

Shacklock, Constance, performer.

Sargent, Malcolm, 1895-1967, conductor.

Cameron, Basil, 1884-1975, conductor.

BBC Symphony Orchestra, performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concertos (Piano).

Orchestral music.

Sea songs--Great Britain--Instrumental settings.

Sea songs.

Great Britain.

Orchestral music, Arranged.

Masques with music--Excerpts, Arranged.

Masques with music.

Choruses with orchestra.

Genre:

Orchestral music.

Instrumental settings.

Sea songs.

Orchestral music, Arranged.

Physical Description:

1 computer optical disc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[London] : BBC Music Magazine, [1998]

System Details:

System requirements for CD-ROM: PC with Windows 3.x or 95; minimum 4Mb RAM; about 6Mb free hard disk space; minimum 256 color 640x480 diplay; CD-Extra compatible CD-ROM drive; soundcard and speakers or link to hi-fi; mouse. The audio portion of the disc may be played in a standard CD player.

digital

optical

data file

Contents:

Part 1: Radio introduction (1:11)

The barber of Seville overture / Rossini (7:16)

Announcement (1:02)

Piano concerto in A minor / Grieg (28:00)

Closing announcement (:35)

Part 2: Opening announcement (1:13)

Pomp and circumstance march : no. 1 / Elgar (6:19)

Announcement and Elgar encore (2:07)

Announcement and request for quiet (2:14)

Fantasia on British sea songs. Fanfare ; and, The saucy Aretusa ; Tom Bowling ; Jack's the lad : (Sailor's hornpipe) ; Announcement (:11) ; Sailor's hornpipe encore (1:18) ; Farewell and Adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies / Henry Wood (9:00)

Rule, Britannia! / Arne ; arr. Sargent (5:10)

Announcement and Rule, Britannia encore (2:06)

Announcement (:55)

Malcolm Sargent's speech (4:19)

Jerusalem / Parry ; orch. Elgar (2:59).

Participant:

Gina Bachauer, piano (in the concerto) ; Constance Shacklock, mezzo-soprano (in the Arne) ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Basil Cameron (in the concerto), Malcolm Sargent, conductors.

Notes:

Recorded Sept. 16, 1961, Royal Albert Hall, London.

Enhanced compact disc (sound recording). Enhancements include: Detailed program notes; notes on the performers; and background articles "Promenade through time" / Barrie Hall and "The last night" / Serena Fokschaner, from the BBC Music Magazine, Proms Special issues 1994 and 1993, respectively.

Analog, mono. recording. "From the BBC Archive"--Container.

"Exclusive CD available only with BBC music magazine." Issued with that publication, v. 6, no. 12 (August, 1998), where is published a track-by-track listening guide.

"The multimedia program on this disc cannot normally be used on Apple Macintosh computers."-- Insert.

Contains:

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Barbiere di Siviglia. Sinfonia

Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907. Concertos, piano, orchestra, op. 16, A minor

Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934. Pomp and circumstance. No. 1; arranged

Wood, Henry J. (Henry Joseph), 1869-1944. Fantasia on British sea songs.

Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778. Alfred. Rule, Britannia; arranged

Parry, C. Hubert H. (Charles Hubert Hastings), 1848-1918. Jerusalem; arranged

OCLC:

39877654

Publisher Number:

BBC MM72 BBC Music Magazine