BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 75: Wagner, Penderecki, Beethoven - Prom 75 - Part 1

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a sequence in which the mood moves from light to dark and back again, beginning with Wagner through Penderecki's threnody for those who died in Hiroshima in 1945 to Beethoven's Elegiac Song. BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Wagner: Parsifal (Prelude - Act 1) Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima Beethoven: Elegische Gesang, Op 118.