First Night of the Proms

(Prom 1) Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

First Night

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Soloists, Clifford Curzon (piano), Amy Shuard (soprano)

Prelude: The Mastersingers...Wagner

Aria: In questa reggia (Turandot)...Puccini

Piano Concerto No.4, in G...Beethoven

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

(Amy Shuard appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)