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Sat 6 Oct 1928
20:00
Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms 1928
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Richard Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
No. 33 Prelude Act 3
Dorothy Howell
Overture 'The Rock'
World premiere
Charles Villiers Stanford
Songs of the Sea – 1: Drake's Drum
Songs of the Sea – 3: Devon, O Devon, in Wind and Rain
Songs of the Sea – 5: The Old Superb
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor
interval
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Maid of Orleans
Recitative & aria 'So wills the Lord!...Farewell you native hills and fields' Act 1 No. 7
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Henry Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Charles Villiers Stanford
Sea-wrack
Proms premiere
Elizabeth Poston
Sweet Suffolk Owl
Proms premiere
Hubert Parry
English Lyrics Set 9
No. 6 The Maiden
Charles Wood
Ethiopia saluting the colours
Martin Shaw
Down by the Sally Gardens
Proms premiere
Come landlord, fill the flowing bowl (arr. unknown)
Proms premiere
Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
Unknown
National Anthem
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra
Keith Falkner
bass-baritone
bass-baritone
Seymour Whinyates
violin
violin
Elsie Suddaby
soprano
soprano
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Richard Wagner
Dorothy Howell
Charles Villiers Stanford
Felix Mendelssohn
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Henry Wood
Elizabeth Poston
Hubert Parry
Charles Wood
Martin Shaw
Edward Elgar
Unknown
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Fri 5 Oct 1928
20:00
Prom 48
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture 'Leonore' No. 3
An die ferne Geliebte, Op 98 (arr. Henry Wood)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert Aria ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te?’
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
interval
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration
Arnold Bax
A Celtic Song Cycle
No. 2 Closing Doors Proms premiere
John Alden Carpenter
2 Night Songs
No. 2 Serenade Proms premiere
Walter Rummel
The Voices of Children
Proms premiere
John Dowland
Flow not so fast ye fountains (arr. unknown)
Proms premiere
Henry Purcell
Sawney is a bonny lad, Z 412
Proms premiere
Lucy Broadwood
The Crocodile
Proms premiere
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ballet Music (Alceste)
(arr. Henry Wood)
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra
Steuart Wilson
tenor
tenor
Angus Morrison
piano
piano
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Caroline Hatchard
soprano
soprano
Composers
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Richard Strauss
Arnold Bax
John Alden Carpenter
Walter Rummel
John Dowland
Henry Purcell
Lucy Broadwood
Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Thu 4 Oct 1928
20:00
Prom 47
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz
Overture
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 297b (version for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn )
Granville Bantock
Songs of the East Set 3
No. 5 The lament of Isis
Richard Strauss
5 Songs, Op 32
No. 3 Liebeshymnus
Arthur Bliss
A Colour Symphony
No. 4 Green: Moderato
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème
Aria 'Che gelida manina' Act 1
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, Op 55
Frank Bridge
O that it were so
Percy Pitt
Let us forget
Proms premiere
Springtime
George Frideric Handel
Semele, HWV 58 (arr. unknown)
Aria 'Where'er you walk' Act 2 Scene 2
Atalanta, HWV 35 (arr. unknown)
Aria 'Care selve, ombre beate' Act 1 Scene 1
Léo Delibes
Coppélia
No. 1a Prelude Act 1
Coppélia
No. 1b Mazurka Act 1
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra
Aubrey Brain
horn
horn
Jesse Pantling
oboe
oboe
Haydn Draper
clarinet
clarinet
A. R. Newton
bassoon
bassoon
Evelyn Arden
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Arthur Bliss
conductor
conductor
Heddle Nash
tenor
tenor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
conductor
conductor
Kate Winter
soprano
soprano
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Carl Maria von Weber
Granville Bantock
Richard Strauss
Arthur Bliss
Giacomo Puccini
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Edvard Grieg
Frank Bridge
Percy Pitt
George Frideric Handel
Léo Delibes
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Wed 3 Oct 1928
20:00
Prom 46
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Mass in B minor – Agnus Dei (arr. Wood)
Violin Concerto in E major
Cantata No. 85, 'Ich bin ein guter Hirt', BWV 85
No. 5 Aria 'Seht, was die Liebe tut'
Cantata No. 67, 'Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ', BWV 67
No. 2 Aria 'Mein Jesus ist erstanden'
interval
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043
Orchestral Suite 'No. 6' (Bach/Wood)
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite (arr. Hamilton Harty)
Marjory Kennedy‐Fraser
Songs of the Hebrides
Kishmul's galley
Songs of the Hebrides
Sea feast
Songs of the Hebrides
Deirdre's farewell to Albion
Roger Quilter
7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op 12
No. 1 Weep you no more Proms premiere
Edward German
Merrie England (arr. unknown for voice and piano)
Dan Cupid hath a garden Act 2
George Frideric Handel
Rodrigo, HWV 5 (arr. Henry Wood)
Sailor's Dance & Trio
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Robert Murchie
flute
flute
Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra
Astra Desmond
contralto
contralto
Adila Fachiri
violin
violin
Eric Greene
tenor
tenor
Orrea Pernel
violin
violin
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Marjory Kennedy‐Fraser
Roger Quilter
Edward German
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Tue 2 Oct 1928
20:00
Prom 45
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Hamish MacCunn
Overture 'Land of the Mountain and the Flood', Op 3
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Zémire et Azor (arr. Henry Wood)
Aria 'La fauvette, avec ses petits'
Ethel Smyth
Concerto for Violin and Horn
George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (arr. Henry Wood)
Recitative 'From the rage of the tempest' (inauthentic words)
Scipione, HWV 20 (arr. Henry Wood)
Aria 'Tutta raccolta ancor' Act 2 Scene 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’
interval
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 16 The Great Gate at Kiev
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 1 Promenade I
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 2 Gnomus
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 6 Tuileries: Dispute d'enfants après jeux
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 7 Bydlo
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 9 Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 10 Two Polish Jews - One Rich, One Poor
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 12 Limoges: Le marché
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Henry Wood)
No. 15 The Hut on Fowl's Legs
Frank Bridge
E'en as a lovely flower
Proms premiere
Maurice Besly
Someone
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Parysatis (arr. unknown)
Le Rossignol et la Rose Act 2 Proms premiere
Frederick John Easthope Martin
5 Concert Songs
No. Break, Break, Break Proms premiere
Martin Shaw
Full fathom five
Proms premiere
Julius Harrison
The Wanderer's Song
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Overture 'Britannia', Op 52
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra
Noël Eadie
soprano
soprano
Robert Murchie
flute
flute
Ethel Smyth
conductor
conductor
Aubrey Brain
horn
horn
Antonio Brosa
violin
violin
Kenneth Ellis
bass
bass
Berkeley Mason
piano
piano
Composers
Hamish MacCunn
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Ethel Smyth
George Frideric Handel
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Frank Bridge
Maurice Besly
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Frederick John Easthope Martin
Martin Shaw
Julius Harrison
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
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