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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1946 - Fifty-Second Season - Prom 25
Performance Date24 August 1946
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersHarold Williams - vocal,
Sidonie Goossens - harp,
Shulamith Shafir - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Adrian Boult
Set List'Overture' from The Bartered Bride, Smetana,
Recit and Aria, 'I Have Attained To Power' from Boris Godounov, Moussorgsky (Harold Williams),
'Piano Concerto', Arthur Bliss (Shulamith Shafir),
'Symphony No.5 in C Minor', Beethoven,
'Poem for Harp and Orchestra', Paul Creston (Sidonie Goossens),
'Symphonic Fragments, Daphnis and Chloe' (2nd Series), Ravel
Performance NotesEnglish premiere of 'Poem for Harp and Orchestra' by Paul Creston
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1946/175),
Programme (RAHE/1/1946/200)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/9kB9kZo91v7icG
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Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1946/200BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1946 - Fifty-Second Season - Prom 2524 August 1946
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IgadyrotifynBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1945: Fifty Second Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1221Williams; Harold John (1893-1976); MBE; Australian baritone
DS/UK/6410Goossens; Sidonie (1899-2004); OBE; British harpist
DS/UK/1550Shafir; Shulamith (1923-2001); Ukranian pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/358Boult; Sir; Adrian (8 April 1889-22 February 1983); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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