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2 Oct 1897, Queen's Hall
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Programme
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide
Overture
Ambroise Thomas
Mignon
No. 8 Entr'acte Act 2
Hector Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust
Marche hongroise
Charles Gounod
La reine de Saba
Recitative & aria 'Inspirez-moi, race divine...Prête-moi ton aide' Act 2
Daniel François Esprit Auber
Le domino noir, S 30
Overture
Henri Vieuxtemps
Ballade et Polonaise, Op 38
Léo Delibes
Coppélia
No. 10b Valse Act 2
Coppélia
No. 1b Mazurka Act 1
Carl Maria von Weber
Oberon, J306
No. 13 Aria 'Ocean, thou mighty monster' Act 2
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op 46
George Frideric Handel
Serse, HWV 40 (arr. Joseph Hellmesberger)
Aria 'Ombra mai fù' Act 1 Scene 1
Charles Gounod
Faust
No. 11 Recitative & aria 'Quel trouble inconnu...Salut! demeure chaste et pure' Act 3
interval
Ambroise Thomas
Mignon
No. 1 Overture
Arthur Sullivan
HMS Pinafore, Grand Fantasia (arr. unknown)
Napoleone Zardo
To the Angels
World premiere
Tito Mattei
Non è ver
Arthur Sullivan
Once Again
Hermann Koenig
Post Horn Galop
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Herbert Grover
tenor
tenor
Johannes Wolff
violin
violin
Ella Russell
soprano
soprano
Arthur W Payne
violin
violin
Percy Pitt
organ
piano
organ
piano
Miriam Timothy
harp
harp
William Henry Squire
cello
cello
Howard Reynolds
cornet
post horn
cornet
post horn
S. Victor Balfour
orchestrator
orchestrator
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Ambroise Thomas
Hector Berlioz
Charles Gounod
Daniel François Esprit Auber
Henri Vieuxtemps
Léo Delibes
Carl Maria von Weber
Edvard Grieg
George Frideric Handel
Arthur Sullivan
Napoleone Zardo
Tito Mattei
Hermann Koenig
About this event
Part of
Proms 1897
Discover the Music
Proms interval talk: Rossini's Semiramide
Rare pre-war music. Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls (Delibes' Valse from Coppelia played by Artur Nikisch)
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