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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1966 - Seventy-Second Season - Prom 22
Performance Date17 August 1966
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersVitaly Gromadsky,
Nicolai Petrov - piano
Orchestra or BandMoscow Radio Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Chorus,
BBC Choral Society
ConductorsGennadi Rozhdestvensky
Set List'The Execution of Stepan Razin', Shostakovich (Vitaly Gromadsky, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Moscow Radio Orchestra),
'Piano Concerto No.4 in G Minor', Rachmaninoff (Nicolai Petrov, Moscow Radio Orchestra),
'Symphony No.4 in F Minor', Tchaikovsky (Moscow Radio Orchestra)
Performance NotesWestern European premiere of 'The Execution of Stepan Razin', Shostakovich.

The Moscow Radio Orchestra's appearance made them the first foreign orchestra to perform at a Prom.

Prommers held banners of welcome in Russian to the orchestra outside the Albert Hall.

The event was broadcast by BBC television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1966/78)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/SWJSWb3SW-_CQ6
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ibaxorok_MoidBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1966 - Seventy-Second Season50
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/9385Rozhdestvensky; Gennadi (1931-); Russian conductor
DS/UK/16161Petrov; Nikolai Arnoldovich (1943-2011); Russian pianist
DS/UK/16160Gromadsky; Vitaly (1928-); Russian bass
DS/UK/16162Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra; 1930-; Russian orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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