BBC Proms - Season 56 Episode 9 : BBC Proms 2002

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Title:BBC Proms - Season 56 Episode 9 : BBC Proms 2002
Genre: Documentary
Air Date: 2002-07-26
Season Number: 56
Episodes Number: 9
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Overview
Tonight's concert celebrates Glasgow-bom composer Oliver Knussen's 50th birthday with a performance of his two children's operas based on Maurice Sendak 's picture books Higglety, Pigglety, Pop! and Where the Wild Things Are. Knussen himself conducts the London Sinfonietta, of which he is the music director, and a star cast of singers which includes soprano Rosemary Hardy, mezzo-soprano Mary King and bass-baritone David Wilson-Johnson. Introduced by Charles Hazlewood, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
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