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Proms 2024
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11 Oct 1899, Queen's Hall
Previous Event
20:00
Wed 11 Oct 1899
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Programme
Georges Bizet
Jeux d'enfants (orchestral version)
Proms premiere
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Proms premiere
George Frideric Handel
Rinaldo, HWV 7 (arr. Henry Wood)
Recitative & aria 'Armida, dispietata...Lascia ch'io pianga' Act 2 Scene 4
Aleksander Zarzycki
Mazurka, Op 26
London premiere
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Benjamin Godard
Jocelyn - Berceuse
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture
Overture Proms premiere
Gaetano Donizetti
La fille du régiment, Grand Fantasia (arr. unknown)
Proms premiere of this arrangement
John Hullah
Three fishers went sailing
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Overture '1812'
Angelo Mascheroni
One Golden Hour
Proms premiere
interval
Xaver Scharwenka
3 Polish National Dances (orch. Henry Wood)
London premiere of this orchestration
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Maggie Sterling
contralto
contralto
Percy Pitt
piano
piano
Maurice Alexander
violin
violin
Hirwen Jones
tenor
tenor
Arthur W Payne
violin
violin
Albert Fransella
flute
flute
Manuel de Gomez
clarinet
clarinet
Edwin James
bassoon
bassoon
Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf
horn
horn
Thomas Colton
trombone
trombone
Walter Reynolds
euphonium
euphonium
William Henry Squire
cello
cello
Miriam Timothy
harp
harp
Désiré-Alfred Lalande
oboe
oboe
James Wilcocke
piccolo
piccolo
Frank G James
cornet
cornet
Composers
Georges Bizet
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
George Frideric Handel
Aleksander Zarzycki
Ludwig van Beethoven
Benjamin Godard
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Gaetano Donizetti
John Hullah
Angelo Mascheroni
Xaver Scharwenka
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