5. The Sunday Prom

Aired Aug 16, 1981

In the third of this series of Henry Wood Promen ade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall , London Gennadi Rozhdestvcnsky conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY This programme of Russian music includes the opera version of Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain; Prokofiev's witty cantata, The Ugly Duckling; and Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Scriabin's exciting score for large orchestra, chorus and solo piano. with Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano) David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Victoria Postnikova (piano) BBC SINUERS director JOHN POOLE BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS conductor BRIAN WRIGHT Introduced by Richard Baker

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