Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)
In the second of this year's visits to the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
Jane Glover introduces Stravinsky's evocative setting of HANS ANDERSEN'S fairytale The Emperor and the Nightingale.
At the excitable court of a Chinese emperor, the beautiful song of a real nightingale triumphs over the attractions of a mechanical rival.
Omnibus at the Proms
BBC Proms · Season 40 · Episode 3
Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)
In the second of this year's visits to the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
Jane Glover introduces Stravinsky's evocative setting of HANS ANDERSEN'S fairytale The Emperor and the Nightingale.
At the excitable court of a Chinese emperor, the beautiful song of a real nightingale triumphs over the attractions of a mechanical rival.
In the second of this year's visits to the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
Jane Glover introduces Stravinsky's evocative setting of HANS ANDERSEN'S fairytale The Emperor and the Nightingale.
At the excitable court of a Chinese emperor, the beautiful song of a real nightingale triumphs over the attractions of a mechanical rival.
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40
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3
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15/Aug/1986
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