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26 Aug 1914, Queen's Hall
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20:00
Wed 26 Aug 1914
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Programme
Unknown
National Anthem
Robert Schumann
Manfred, Op 115
Overture
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Alceste - 'Divinités du Styx'
Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo fantastique
First performance in England
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor
interval
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
From the Prairie
London premiere
Carl Loewe
3 Ballads, Op 2 (arr. Henry Wood)
No. 2 Herr Oluf
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Granville Bantock
Comedy Overture 'The Pierrot of the Minute'
Maude Valérie White
3 Little songs
No. 1 When the swallows homeward fly Proms premiere
3 Little songs
No. 3 Let us forget Proms premiere
King Charles
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Festmarsch zu Schillers einhundertjähriger Geburtsfeier
Claude‐Joseph Rouget de l’Isle
French National Anthem (arr. Henry Wood)
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Dorothy Webster
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Miss Bessie Spence
violin
violin
Thorpe Bates
baritone
baritone
Frederick Kiddle
piano
piano
Composers
Unknown
Robert Schumann
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Igor Stravinsky
Felix Mendelssohn
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Carl Loewe
Ludwig van Beethoven
Granville Bantock
Maude Valérie White
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Claude‐Joseph Rouget de l’Isle
About this event
Part of
Proms 1914
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Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
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