Title: Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 53rd Season Prospectus
Date: Saturday 19th July-Saturday 13th September 1947
Language: English
Location of Publication: London, England
Published By: Royal Albert Hall
Collection Number: 2409194701

Concerts, 53rd Season (all at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England)

London Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 19th July, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
God Save the King
Overture, The Bartered Bride (Bedřich Smetana, Malcolm Sargent)
Aria, Riportai gloriosa palma, Atalanta (George Friedrich Handel, Malcolm Sargent)
An English Rhapsody, Brigg Fair (Frederick Delius, Malcolm Sargent)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for pianoforte and orchestra (Sergei Rachmaninoff, Basil Cameron)
Symphony No. 2 in B minor (Alexander Borodin, Basil Cameron)
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis for Double String Orchestra (Ralph Vaughan Williams, Adrian Boult)
Menuet des Follets, Danse des Sylphes, Marche Hongroise, La Damnation de Faust (Hector Berlioz, Adrian Boult)
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Eric Harrison
Singer: Elena Danieli

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Monday 21st July, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Excerpts from Tristan und Isolde (Richard Wagner, Adrian Boult)
Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Alam Rawsthorne, Alan Rawsthorne)
Symphonic Fragments, Daphnis and Chloe (Maurice Ravel, Adrian Boult)
Soloists:
Tristan: Torsten Ralf
Brangane: Janet Howe
Solo Oboe: Evelyn Rothwell

London Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday 22nd July, Evening

Programme (Composer):
La Calinda, Koanga (Frederick Delius)
A Song before Sunrise (Frederick Delius)
Now Lift up Your Heart, Lyre my Solace, Mass of Life (Frederick Delius)
Violin Concerto (Frederick Delius)
Dance Rhapsody No. 1 (Frederick Delius)
Sea-Drift for Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra (Frederick Delius)
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat (Franz Schubert)
Overture, Carnival (Antonín Dvořák)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Jean Pougnet
Singers: Redvers Llewellyn, BBC Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday 23rd July, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Tragic Overture (Johannes Brahms)
Symphony No. 94 in G (Surprise) (Joseph Haydn)
Pianoforte Conductor No. 1 in G minor (Johannes Brahms)
Concerto in C (Joseph Haydn)
Variations on a Theme of Haydn (Johannes Brahms)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Katharine Goodson
Solo Organ: Susi Jeans

London Symphony Orchestra, Thursday 24th July, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Benvenuto Cellini (Hector Berlioz)
Recit. and Aria, Il lacerato spirito, Simone Boccanegra (Giuseppe Verdi)
Violoncello Concerto in E minor (Edward Elgar)
Symphony No. 1 (Dmitri Shostakovich)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in A (Franz Liszt)
Fantasia after Dante, Francesca da Rimini (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Violoncello: Anthony Pini
Solo Pianoforte: Kyla Greenbaum

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Friday 25th July, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Leonora No. 1 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 3 in C minor (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 2 in D (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony for Small Orchestra (Victor Hely-Hutchinson)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Phyllis Sellick

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 26th July, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, William Tell (Gioachino Rossini, Stanford Robinson)
Valse Triste (Jean Sibelius, Stanford Robinson)
Symphonie Espagnole from Violin and Orchestra (Édouard Lalo, Stanford Robinson)
Symphony No. 5 in E minor (From the New World) (Antonín Dvořák, Stanford Robinson)
Pianoforte Concerto (Jean Françaix, Adrian Boult)
Lensky’s Aria, What Can I Look For?, Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Adrian Boult)
Overture, Ruslan and Lyudmila (Mikhail Glinka, Adrian Boult)
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Alfredo Campoli
Solo Pianoforte: Margaret Good
Singer: Henry Wendon

London Symphony Orchestra, Monday 28th July, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Polonaise, Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in G (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Symphony No. 5 in E minor (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Ballet Suite, Corroboree (John Antill)
Capriccio Espagnole (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Eileen Joyce

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday 29th July, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adrian Boult)
Symphony No. 25 in G minor (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adrian Boult)
Oboe Concerto (Richard Strauss, Adrian Boult)
Symphonic Poem, Don Quixote (Richard Strauss, Adrian Boult)
Pianoforte Concerto in E flat (John Ireland, Stanford Robinson)
Tone Poem, Finlandia (Jean Sibelius, Stanford Robinson)
Soloists:
Solo Violoncello: Zara Nelsova
Solo Oboe: Leon Goossens
Solo Pianoforte: Kendall Taylor

London Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday 30th July, Evening

Programme (Composer-Arranger):
Overture in D minor (George Frideric Handel-Edward Elgar)
Coronation Anthem, the King will rejoice (George Frideric Handel)
Suite from The Water Music (George Frideric Handel-Hamilton Harty)
Recit. and Aria, Arm arm ye brave, Judas Maccabaeus (George Frideric Handel)
Plague Choruses, Israel in Egypt (George Frideric Handel)
The Music Makers for Contralto, Chorus and Orchestra (Edward Elgar)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Organ: G.D. Cunningham
Singers: Mary Jarred, David Franklin, Alexandra Choir

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thursday 31st July, Evening

Programme (Composer-Arranger):
Grosse Fuge for Strings (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for Violin, Viola and Orchestra (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Symphony No. 5 in D (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Three Fragments from Wozzeck (Alban Berg)
Passacaglia and Fuge in G minor (Johann Sebastian Bach-Ottorino Respighi)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Soloist Violin: Jean Pougnet
Solo Viola: Frederick Riddle
Singer: Joan Alexander

London Symphony Orchestra, Friday 1st August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Egmont (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in B flat (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 7 in A (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Elegy and Capriccio for Trumpet and Orchestra (Anthony Lewis)
Symphonic Poem, From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields (Bedřich Smetana)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Trumpet: George Eskdale
Solo Pianoforte: Solomon

London Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 2nd August, Evening

Programme (Composer-Arranger):
Ballet Music, The Perfect Fool (Gustav Holst)
Nocturne for Strings (Alexander Borodin-Malcolm Sargent)
Adriano’s Aria, Gerechter Gott, Rienzi (Richard Wagner)
Scherzo, L’Apprenti Sorcier (Paul Dukas)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in E flat (Franz Liszt)
Overture-Fantasia, Romeo and Juliet (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Choreographic Poem, La Valse (Maurice Ravel)
Suite, L’Arlésienne (Georges Bizet)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Pouishnoff
Singer: Janet Howe

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Monday 4th August, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, The Flying Dutchman (Richard Wagner, Adrian Boult)
Aria, Nessun dorma, Turandot (Giacomo Puccini, Adrian Boult)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in E minor (Frédéric Chopin, Adrian Boult)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Ludwig van Beethoven, Adrian Boult)
Suite, Háry János (Zoltán Kodály, Stanford Robinson)
March, Crown Imperial (William Walton, Stanford Robinson)
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Michal Hambourg
Singer: Parry Jones

London Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday 5th August, Evening

Programme (Composer-Arranger):
Overture, In der Natur (Antonín Dvořák)
Violin Concerto in A minor (Antonín Dvořák)
Symphony No. 2 in D minor (Antonín Dvořák)
Symphonie Classique (Sergei Prokofiev)
Suite, La boutique fantasque (Gioachino Rossini-Ottorino Respighi)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Ida Haendel

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday 6th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, The Hebrides (Felix Mendelssohn)
Violin Concerto in D (Johannes Brahms)
Symphony No. 4 in A (Felix Mendelssohn)
Symphony No. 2 in D (Johannes Brahms)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Maurice Raskin

London Symphony Orchestra, Thursday 7th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Alceste (Christoph Willibald Gluck)
Concerto in E flat for Two Pianofortes and Orchestra (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Symphony No. 1 in A flat (Edward Elgar)
Interludes from Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
Symphonic Poem, The Fountains of Rome (Ottorino Respighi)
Conductor: Malcom Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Pianofortes: Cyril Smith, Phyllis Sellick

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Friday 8th August, Eveninff

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, Fidelio (Ludwig van Beethoven, Adrian Boult)
Clarinet Concerto in A (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adrian Boult)
Symphony No. 3 in E flat (Eroica) (Ludwig van Beethoven, Adrian Boult)
Trois Dances (Maurice Duruflé, Stanford Robinson)
March to the Scaffold (Fantastic Symphony) (Hector Berlioz, Stanford Robinson)
Soloists:
Solo Clarinet: Frederick Thurston

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 9th August, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, Ruy Blas (Felix Mendelssohn, Adrian Boult)
Recit. and Aria, Angels ever Bright and Fair, Theodora (George Frideric Handel, Adrian Boult)
Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished) (Franz Schubert, Adrian Boult)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in C minor (Sergei Rachmaninoff, Adrian Boult)
Traume, Ride of the Valkyries, Die Walküre (Richard Wagner, Adrian Boult)
Peter and the Wolf (Recitation with Orchestra) (Sergei Prokofiev, Stanford Robinson)
Rhapsody, España (Emmanuel Chabrier, Stanford Robinson)
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Moura Lympany
Singers: Lilian Stiles-Allen, George Baker

London Symphony Orchestra, Monday 11th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Marche Slave (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Violin Concerto in D (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Symphony No. 4 in F minor (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Overture, Satyricon (John Ireland)
Concerto for Orchestra (Mikhail Starokadomsky)
Prelude and Cortège, Le Coq d’Or (Nikolai Rimsky-Korzakov)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Max Rostal

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday 12th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, The Wasps (Ralph Vaughan-Williams)
Benedicite for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra (Ralph Vaughan-Williams)
The Lark Ascending for Violin and Orchestra (Ralph Vaughan-Williams)
Five Tudor Portraits for Contralto, Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra (Ralph Vaughan-Williams)
Symphony No. 96 in D (The Miracle) (Joseph Hadyn)
Overture, Hansel and Gretl (Englebert Humperdinck
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Nona Liddell
Singers: Elsie Suddaby, Astra Desmond, Roy Henderson, BBC Chorus, Croydon Philharmonic Society

London Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday 13th August, Evening

Programme (Composer-Arranger):
Suite No. 1 in C (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Aria, Revenge, Timotheus cries, Alexander’s Feast (George Frideric Handel)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G for Strings (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Concerto No. 1 in D minor for Pianoforte and Strings (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (George Frideric Handel-Hamilton Harty)
Morning Song for Pianoforte and Orchestra (Arnold Bax)
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Benjamin Britten)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Harriet Cohen
Singer: Norman Walker

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thursday 14th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Felix Mendelssohn)
Pianoforte Concerto (Arthur Bliss)
Symphony No. 4 in G (Antonín Dvořák)
Sinfonia Concertante in B flat for Violin, Violoncello, Oboe, Bassoon and Orchestra (Joseph Hadyn)
Suite Symphonique, Printemps (Claude Debussy)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Paul Beard
Solo Violoncello: Ambrose Gauntlett
Solo Oboe: Edward Selwyn
Solo Bassoon: Richard Newton
Solo Pianoforte: Solomon

London Symphony Orchestra, Friday 15th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Coriolan (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Violin Concerto in D (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 4 in B flat (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Rhapsody in F sharp for Pianoforte and Orchestra (Ernest John Moeran)
Summer Night on the River (Frederick Delius)
Overture, Cockaigne (Edward Elgar)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Ida Haendal
Solo Pianoforte: Irene Kohler

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Saturday 16th August, Evening

Programme (Composer-Arranger):
Trumpet Voluntary (Henry Purcell-Henry Wood) [This piece was misattributed to Purcell until the 1940s, and is actually the Prince of Denmark’s March by Jeremiah Clarke]
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (Frederick Delius)
Symphonic Variations for Pianoforte and Orchestra (César Franck)
Songs with Orchestra, Ein Schwan, Ich lieber dich (Edvard Grieg)
Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathétique) (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Organ Concerto No. 9 in B flat (Hallelujah) (George Frideric Handel)
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor (Alexander Borodin)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Cyril Smith
Solo Organ: George Thalben-Ball
Singer: Jo Vincent

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Monday 18th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Excerpts from Götterdämmerung (Richard Wagner)
Symphony No. 1 in E minor (Jean Sibelius)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Brunnhilda: Eva Turner
Siegfried: Arthur Carron
Rhinedaughters: Olive Groves, Emelie Hooke, Edith Furmedge

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tuesday 19th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Beatrice and Benedict (Hector Berlioz)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in C (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Aria, A Maiden’s is a evil plight, La finta giardiniera (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Symphony, Harold in Italy (Hector Berlioz)
Symphony No. 4 in G minor (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Royal Hunt and Storm in the Forest, The Trojans at Carthage (Hector Berlioz)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Viola: Lionel Tertis
Solo Pianoforte: Moura Lympany
Singer: Isobel Baillie

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday 20th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Genoveva (Robert Schumann)
Pianoforte Concerto in E minor (Robert Schumann)
Symphony No. 3 in F (Johannes Brahms)
Concerto for Bassoon, Strings and Percussion (Gordon Jacob)
Festival Overture (Cyril Scott)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Bassoon: Archie Camden
Solo Pianoforte: Maurice Cole

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thursday 21st August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Prelude, Khovanshchina (Modest Mussorgsky)
Scena and Cavatina, Vieni! t’affretra, Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 5 in E flat (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Le Sacre du Printemps (Igor Stravinsky)
Nocturne, Paris, The Song of a Great City (Frederick Delius)
Overture, Le Carnaval romain (Hector Berlioz)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Solomon
Singer: Laelia Finneberg

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Friday 22nd August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Leonora No. 3 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Scena and Aria, Abscheulicher, Fidelio (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 1 in C (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 4 in G (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 2 (Walter Piston)
Comedy Overture (Ferruccio Busoni)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Pouishnoff
Singer: Joan Hammond

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 23rd August, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, Prince Igor (Alexander Borodin, Adrian Boult)
Three Sea Pictures (Edward Elgar, Adrian Boult)
Violin Concerto in E minor (Felix Mendelssohn, Adrian Boult)
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Claude Debussy, Adrian Boult)
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks (Richard Strauss, Adrian Boult)
The Rio Grande for Pianoforte, Chorus and Orchestra (Constant Lambert, Constant Lambert)
Suite, The Firebird (Igor Stravinsky, Adrian Boult)
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Alan Loveday
Soloist Pianoforte: Kyla Greenbaum
Singers: Gladys Ripley, The BBC Chorus

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Monday 25th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Cossack Dance, Mazeppa (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Symphony No. 3 in D (Polish) (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Three Pictures for Flute, Strings and Percussion (Eugene Aynsley Goossens)
Air de Lia, L’enfant prodigue (Claude Debussy)
Overture for a Masque (Ernest John Moeran)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Flute: Geoffrey Gilbert
Soloist Pianoforte: Shulamith Shafir
Singer: Betsy de la Porte

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday 26th August, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, Scapino (William Walton, William Walton)
In Honour of the City of London for Chorus and Orchestra (William Walton, William Walton)
Sinfonia Concertante for Orchestra with Pianoforte (William Walton, William Walton)
Belshazzar’s Fest for Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra (William Walton, William Walton)
Petite Suite (Elizabeth Lutyens, Adrian Boult)
Symphonic Fragments, Daphnis and Chloe (Maurice Ravel)
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Ernest Lush
Singers: Dennis Noble, The BBC Choral Society

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wednesday 27th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, La clemenza di Tito (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Symphony No. 35 in D (Haffner) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in B flat (Johannes Brahms)
Alto Rhapsody (Johannes Brahms)
Academic Festival Overture (Johannes Brahms)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Denis Matthews
Singers: Kathleen Ferrier, The BBC Men’s Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thursday 28th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F for Violin, Flute, Oboe, Trumpet and Strings (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 3 (Béla Bartók)
Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Johannes Brahms)
Divertimento for Orchestra (Lennox Berkeley)
Symphonic Fantasy, Pohjola’s Daughter (Jean Sibelius)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Paul Beard
Solo Flute: Lambert Flack
Solo Oboe: Edward Selwyn
Solo Trumpet: Jack Mackintosh
Solo Pianoforte: Louis Kentner

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Friday 29th August, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Prometheus (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in C (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 6 in F (Pastoral) (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Violin Concerto (Arnold Bax)
Trojan March (Hector Berlioz)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Marie Wilson
Solo Pianoforte: Marjorie Blackburn

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Saturday 30th August, Eveninf

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Ivan the Terrible (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
Song with Orchestra, Mad Bess (Henry Purcell)
Scherzo in G minor from Octet (Felix Mendelssohn)
Pianoforte Concerto in A minor (Edvard Grieg)
Symphony No. 5 in E flat (Jean Sibelius)
An American in Paris (George Gershwin)
Dances of Galanta (Zoltán Koldály)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Lance Dossor
Singer: Muriel Brunskill

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Monday 1st September, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Excepts from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Richard Wagner, Adrian Boult)
Symphony Suite, Scheherazade (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Stanford Robinson)
Soloists:
Eva: Victoria Sladen
Magdalene: Janet Howe
Walter: Frank Titterton
David: David Lloyd
Hans Sachs: Tom Williams
Pogner: George James
Mastersingers: The BBC Singers, The Goldsmiths’ Choral Union

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tuesday 2nd September, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Symphonic Poem, Tapiola (Jean Sibelius)
Violin Concerto in D minor (Jean Sibelius)
The Swan of Tuonela, Episode from the Kalevala (Jean Sibelius)
Symphony No. 7 in C (Jean Sibelius)
Prelude and Fugue for Orchestra (Francis Chagrin)
Themes and Variations, Suite No. 3 in G (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Henry Holst

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday 3rd September, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Aria, Mein gläubiges Herze, Cantata No. 60 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Song, Bist du bei mir (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Aria, Patron, Patron, Phoebus and Pan (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Suite No. 3 in D (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Symphony No. 4 in G (Gustav Mahler)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Winifred Roberts
Singer: Elisabeth Schumann

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thursday 4th September

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Oberon (Carl Maria von Weber)
Joan of Arc’s Farewell, Joan of Arc (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 23 in A (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Symphony No. 7 (Arnold Bax)
La Mer, Three Symphonic Sketches (Claude Debussy)
Alborada del Gracioso (Maurice Ravel)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Clifford Curzon
Singer: Edna Hobson

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Friday 5th September, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, Leonora No. 2 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 5 in R flat (Emperor) (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 8 in F (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Triptych on a Chorale Theme of St. Wenceslas (Vítězslav Novák)
Overture, The Wreckers (Ethel Smyth)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloist:
Solo Pianoforte: Myra Hess

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 6th September, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adrian Boult)
Recit. and Aria, Madre pietosa Vergine (La Forza del Destino) (Giuseppe Verdi, Adrian Boult)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 3 in D minor (Sergei Rachmaninoff, Adrian Boult)
Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) (Edward Elgar, Adrian Boult)
Suite, Façade (William Walton, Stanford Robinson)
Overture, 1812 (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Stanford Robinson)
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Cyril Smith
Singer: Victoria Sladen

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Monday 8th September, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Prelude, Lohengrin (Richard Wagner)
Love Duet, Act III, Lohengrin (Richard Wagner)
Good Friday Music, Parsifal (Richard Wagner)
Love Duet, Act I Scene III, Die Walküre (Richard Wagner)
Symphonic Poem, En Saga (Jean Sibelius)
Three Scenes from Petrushka (Igor Stravinsky)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Singers: Oda Slobodskaya, Walter Widdop

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday 9th September, Evening

Programme (Composer-Arranger):
Overture, Alfonso and Estrella (Franz Schubert)
Spanish Rhapsody for Pianoforte and Orchestra (Franz Liszt-Ferruccio Busoni)
Song with Orchestra, The Lorelei (Franz Liszt)
Symphony No. 9 in C (Franz Schubert)
Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Michael Tippett)
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (Johann Sebastian Bach-Edward Elgar)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Louis Kentner
Singer: Emelie Hooke

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wednesday 10th September, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Allegro Molto, Serenade No. 1 (Johannes Brahms)
Concerto in A. minor for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra (Johannes Brahms)
Symphony No. 4 in E minor (Johannes Brahms)
Pianoforte Concerto (William Schuman)
Overture, Die Freischütz (Carl Maria von Weber)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Solo Violin: Laurence Turner
Solo Violoncello: Haydn Rogerson
Solo Pianoforte: Iris Loveridge

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thursday 11th September, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra (Edward Elgar)
Pianoforte Concerto (Humphrey Searle)
Symphony No. 2 in D (Jean Sibelius)
Siegfried Idyll (Richard Wagner)
Symphonic Poem, Don Juan (Richard Strauss)
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Mewton-Wood

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Friday 12th September, Evening

Programme (Composer):
Overture, The Consecration of the House (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Festival Overture (Edmund Rubbra)
These Things Shall Be for Chorus and Orchestra (John Ireland)
Conductor: Basil Cameron
Soloists:
Singers: Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, Parry Jones, Harold Williams, The BBC Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Saturday 13th September, Evening

Programme (Composer, Conductor):
Overture, Euryanthe (Carl Maria von Weber, Adrian Boult)
Symphony No. 32 in G (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adrian Boult)
Aria, Un dì all’azzurro spazio, Andrea Chénier (Umberto Giordano, Stanford Robinson)
Dream Pantomime, Hansel and Gretl (Engelbert Humperdinck, Stanford Robinson)
Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in G minor (Felix Mendelssohn, Malcom Sargent)
Mars & Jupiter, The Planets (Gustav Holst, Malcom Sargent)
Suite, Escales (Jacques Ibert, Basil Cameron)
Fantasia on British Sea Songs (Henry J. Wood, Basil Cameron)
God Save the King
Soloists:
Solo Pianoforte: Natasha Litvin
Singer: Trefor Jones

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