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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season - Prom 22 - Handel Concert
Performance Date22 July 1942
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time18:30
Main PerformersIsobel Baillie,
Ivor Samuel - vocals,
Leon Goossens - oboe,
G Thalben-Ball - organ
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsThe Alexandra Choir
ConductorsSir Henry Wood,
Basil Cameron
Set List'Four Operatic Choruses (Set II)', Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'How Can Hearts Long Attuned To Sadness' (Arminio), Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'For Thee So Fair and Gracious' (Guistino), Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'Skies Serene Are Softly Shining' from Alcina, Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'All Men Accaim Thee' (Ariodante), Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
Ballet Suite, 'The Gods Go A-Begging', Handel-Beecham,
Recit and Aria, 'Total Eclipse' from Samson, Handel (Ivor Samuel),
'Plague Choruses' from Israel in Egypt, Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'He Spake The Word', Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'He Gave Them Hailstones', Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'He Sent A Thick Darkness', Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'He Smote All The Firstborn', Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'But As For His People' Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
Aria, 'I Know That My Redeemer Liveth' from the Messiah, Handel (Isobel Baillie),
'Hallelujah Chorus' from Messiah, Handel (The Alexandra Choir),
'Sinfonia Da Requiem', Britten,
'Oboe Concerto', Cimarosa-Benjamin (Leon Goossens),
'Organ Concerto No.7 in B Flat, Op.7, No.1', Handel (G Thalben-Ball)
Performance NotesPremiere of 'Oboe concerto' by Cimarosa-Benjamin.
European Premiere of 'Sinfonia Da Requiem' by Benjamin Britten.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1942/55),
Programme (RAHE/1/1942/77),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1942/3)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1942/77BBC Promenade Concerts - Sir Henry Wood's Forty-Eighth Season - Prom 22 - Handel Concert22 July 1942
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
UsakiorobifiobBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1218Baillie; Dame; Isobel (9 March 1895-24 September 1983); DBE; Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/1905Goossens; Leon Jean (1897-1988); CBE, FRCM; British oboist
DS/UK/1233Ball; Sir; George Thomas Thalben- (1896-1987); English organist, composer
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/2127Alexandra Choir; 1940-1990; British choir
DS/UK/39Wood; Sir; Henry (3 March 1869 – 19 August 1944); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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