musicfan7

Hello. I already apoligize for any mistakes in my english. I can guarantee you that the DVD "Best of Night of the Proms" (easily written NOTP) is an official release. The roots of NOTP lay in Antwerp, Belgium. It was called "NOTP, where classic meets pop". In 1985 two students organized a one-night concert that should combine classical music with pop music: a classic orchestra that played classical music alternated by pop songs which were also played by the orchestra but accompanied by a pop or rock band section. The idea was to get younger people learn to know classical music. And don't you think that the youth was listening static. They were also dancing and having a ball during the classical songs too. A lot of fun! Of course, the pop songs were always top of the bill. They were sung by the original artists. The concert had more than 13500 visitors that first day and the success was so big that each year they continued organizing it. Each year more evenings were added and it has been touring over the years in 12 countries (USA: 2014). NOTP is still organised nowadays. Over the period of more than 35 years they issued CD's and DVD's with both the classic songs and the pop songs. Sometimes they compiled a best-of-DVD, like the one you guys linked to above, which contained only a number of pop-songs. I can assure you that it is worth listening to the others songs too. As you already suspected, each pop artist only sung a handfull of songs: their greatest hit(s). As I said before: it is intended to attrack young people to classical music. I hope this explains you a bit the history of NOTP.