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Performance TitleSunday Concerts Season 1947-1948 - Concert Two
Performance Date19 October 1947
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersYehudi Menuhin - violin
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsGeorge Weldon
Set List'God Save the King' (The National Anthem),
'Trumpet Tune and Air', Purcell-Stanton,
'Violin Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op.8', Paganini, Emile Sauret (Yehudi Menuhin)
INTERVAL
'Enigma Variations', Elgar,
'Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.61', Beethoven (Yehudi Menuhin),
'24th Caprice', Paganini (Yehudi Menuhin),
'Praeludium From E Major Sonata', Bach (Yehudi Menuhin)
Performance NotesThe event was a sell-out.

Only an hour before the concert, Menuhin had married Diana Gould at Chelsea Registry Office.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1947/230)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1947/230Sunday Concerts Season 1947 - 1948 - Concert Two19 October 1947
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9646Sunday Concerts Season 1947 - 194826
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/121Menuhin; Yehudi (22 April 1916-12 March 1999); Baron Menuhin OM KBE; American-born Russian violinist and conductor
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1547Weldon; George (1908-1963); English conductor
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