BBC Proms

Season 62 Episode 7: BBC Proms 2008: Halle: 150th Anniversary

Highlights from a Prom given earlier in the week celebrating the Halle Orchestra's 150th anniversary, conducted by their music director Mark Elder. George Butterworth's rhapsody A Shropshire Lad is introduced by readings from AE Housman's poetry, Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor is performed by young Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, and the programme ends with Richard Strauss's orchestral showpiece Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche. With Charles Hazlewood and Suzy Klein.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

80

Episodes:

1175

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

180 min

First Air:

1947

Rating:

7.7