TV BBC Proms - Season 66 Episode 21 : Wagner and Strauss BBC Proms - Season 66 Episode 21 : Wagner and Strauss 7.7/10 by 3 users One of the great youth orchestras returns to the Proms, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra conducted by Daniele Gatti. The concert opens with a prelude from Wagner's Parsifal and is followed by a trailblazing concerto from 20th-century Vienna, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto with soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann. Vienna is the setting for a bittersweet tale of young love and middle aged melancholy in the Rosenkavalier Suite by Richard Strauss and the concert concludes with French composer Maurice Ravel's take on the Viennese waltz in his explosive La valse. Introduced by Samira Ahmed. Details Casts Posters Images Title BBC Proms - Season 66 Episode 21 : Wagner and Strauss Alternative Titles The Proms, Proms Subtitle Available ETC. First Air Date 1947-09-13 Last Air Date 2025-08-02 Number of Episodes 1139 Number of Seasons 79 Genres , Networks BBC One, CBBC, BBC Four, CBeebies, BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, BBC Television, Casts Plot Keywords , Episodes List BBC Proms Season 66 :Episode 1 First Night of the Proms 2012-07-13 The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and... BBC Proms Season 66 :Episode 2 Strauss and Sibelius 2012-07-19 The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and... BBC Proms Season 66 :Episode 3 Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 1 and 2 2012-07-20 The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and... 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