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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - Sixty-Fifth Season - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date19 September 1959
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersConstance Shacklock - vocal,
Clifford Curzon - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Basil Cameron
Set List'Overture' from The Barber of Seville, Rossini,
'Andante Cantabile for Strings', Tchaikovsky,
'Piano Concerto No.5 in E Flat' (Emperor), Beethoven (Clifford Curzon),
'A Dance Rhapsody No.1 in A', Delius,
March - 'Pomp and Circumstance No.1 in D', Elgar,
'From Bohemia's Woods and Fields', Smetana,
'Sea Songs', arr. Henry Wood,
'Rule Britannia', Arne (Constance Shacklock),
'Jerusalem', Parry,
'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed by BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1959/69),
Programme (RAHE/1/1959/120)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/6Q6vCG6T8snE
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1959/120BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms19 September 1959
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IbosefiekotoovBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - Sixty-Fifth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/1560Shacklock; Constance (1913-1999); OBE; English contralto
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/2143Curzon; Sir; Clifford Michael (1907-1982); CBE; English pianist
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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