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23 Sep 1896, Queen's Hall
Previous Event
20:00
Wed 23 Sep 1896
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Programme
Unknown
National Anthem (arr. Michael Costa)
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Overture 'Britannia', Op 52
Percy Pitt
Coronation March, Op 21
World premiere
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, ‘Lobgesang’
Proms premiere of complete work
Richard Wagner
Tannhä, Grand Fantasia, WWV 70 (arr. unknown)
Robert Schumann
Romanzen und Balladen, Op 49
No. 1 Die beiden Grenadiere
Trad.
Auld Lang Syne (arr. unknown)
interval
Arthur Goring Thomas
Esmeralda
Aria 'Oh! fickle, light-hearted swallow' Act 1
William Vincent Wallace
Maritana
Ballad 'Yes! Let me like a soldier fall'
Henri Vieuxtemps
6 Morceaux de salon, Op 22
No. 3 Rêverie
Trad.
Pretty Polly Oliver
Proms premiere of this arrangement
Arthur Sullivan
The Lost Chord
(arr. unknown for cornet quartet)
Felix Mendelssohn
Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde, Op 89 (arr. unknown for voice and piano)
Aria 'Ich bin ein veilgereister Mann'
Albert Renaud
Suite de Ballet
Valse-Ballabile Proms premiere
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The London Training School for Choristers
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Ben Davies
tenor
tenor
Isabel Macdougall
soprano
soprano
Fanny Moody
soprano
soprano
Percy Pitt
piano
piano
Charles Manners
bass
bass
Howard Reynolds
cornet
cornet
Percy Frostick
violin
violin
Anon.
music arranger
music arranger
The Park Sisters
Composers
Unknown
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Percy Pitt
Felix Mendelssohn
Richard Wagner
Robert Schumann
Trad.
Arthur Goring Thomas
William Vincent Wallace
Henri Vieuxtemps
Arthur Sullivan
Albert Renaud
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