Anticipating the first night of Proms 2000, Sean Rafferty looks at some famous first nights in musical history. Music includes at
5.00 Beethoven's Rondo a Capriccio in G. Op 129. (Rage over a Lost Penny) played by Evgeny Kissin (piano); and at 6.00
Saint-Saens's Tarantelle, Op 6, performed by William Bennett (flute), James Campbell (clarinet), and Clifford Benson (piano).