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Omnibus at the Proms: Grieg and Elgar

BBC Proms · Season 25 · Episode 1
The first in a series of six programmes from the 1971 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts from the Royal Albert Hall.

Radu Lupu, the Romanian pianist who won the 1969 Leeds Piano Competition, is the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor. The programme ends with the Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) by Elgar.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

leader Clifford Knowles

conductor Charles Groves

Introduced by Richard Baker

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Season
25
Episode
1
Air Date
01/Aug/1971
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The first in a series of six programmes from the 1971 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts from the Royal Albert Hall.

Radu Lupu, the Romanian pianist who won the 1969 Leeds Piano Competition, is the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor. The programme ends with the Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) by Elgar.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

leader Clifford Knowles

conductor Charles Groves

Introduced by Richard Baker

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