Synopsis

The BBC's opening to the 93rd season of the Henry Wood Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London offered a quintessential Saturday night experience. The programme featured familiar favourites, including music from the masters of the Viennese waltz. Jane Glover introduced a selection that blended Dohnanyi’s charming Variations on a Nursery Song (a long-standing Prom favourite) with the lively polkas and waltzes of Franz Lehár and Johann Strauss (Son). Philip Fowke was featured on piano, and the Ha