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25 Aug 1959, Royal Albert Hall
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19:30
Tue 25 Aug 1959
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Prom 27
19:30 Tue 25 Aug 1959 Royal Albert Hall
Programme
Gioachino Rossini
La scala di seta
Overture
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Richard Strauss
Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op 60 (suite)
Proms premiere
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon, Op 24
Overture
interval
Performers
Peter Katin
piano
piano
John Barbirolli
conductor
conductor
Hallé (pre-2003, Hallé Orchestra)
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Sergey Rachmaninov
Claude Debussy
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Richard Strauss
Dmitri Kabalevsky
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Proms 1959
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Rachmaninov: Paganini Rhapsody
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
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