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Performance TitleBBC Symphony Orchestra - Honegger's 'Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'
Performance Date4 February 1948
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersConstance Cumming
Dora Gregory,
Martin Boddey,
Deryck Guyler,
Wilfred Babbage,
Norman Shelley,
Valentine Dyall,
David Spenser - speakers,
Gladys Ripley,
Parry Jones,
Rene Soames,
Norman Walker
Richard George,
Olive Groves,
Nancy Evans - vocals,
Theo Olof - violin,
Ginette Martenot d'Auriol - ondes martenot (sister of the instrument's inventor, Maurice Martenot)
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Chorus,
Mary Datchelor Girls' School Choir
ConductorsBasil Cameron
Set List'Symphony No.4 in A' (Italian), Mendelssohn,
'Violin Concerto in E Minor', Mendelssohn (Theo Olof)
INTERVAL
'Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher', Honegger (Constance Cummings, Valentine Dyall, Richard George, Wilfred Babbage, Deryck Guyler, Norman Shelley, David Spenser, Dora Gregory, Olive Groves, Nancy Evans, Gladys Ripley, Parry Jones, Martin Boddey, Rene Soames, Norman Walker, BBC Chorus, Mary Datchelor Girls' School Choir)
Performance NotesEnglish premiere of 'Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher' by Arthur Honegger.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1948/35)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1948/35BBC Symphony Orchestra4 February 1948
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Eadomieb_M_BahBBC Symphony Orchestra Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7613Cummings; Constance (1910-2005); American actress
DS/UK/1247Ripley; Gladys (1908-1955); English contralto
DS/UK/7616Gregory; Dora (1872-1954); English actor
DS/UK/7618Boddey; Martin (16 April 1907-24 October 1975); British actor
DS/UK/7620Guyler; Deryck (1914-1999); English actor
DS/UK/2133Jones; Gwynn Parry (1891-1963); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/7624Babbage; Wilfred (2 May 1900-15 September 1984); English actor
DS/UK/7066Soames; Rene (fl 1947); British tenor
DS/UK/7632Shelley; Norman (1903-1980); English actor
DS/UK/3285Walker; Norman (1907-1963); English bass singer
DS/UK/6513Dyall; Valentine (7 May 1908-24 June 1985); English actor
DS/UK/7636George; Richard (fl 1940s); British vocalist
DS/UK/7639Spenser; David (1934-2013); British actor
DS/UK/7640Groves; Olive (fl 1930s-1940s); British soprano
DS/UK/2718Evans; Nancy (1915-2000); OBE; English mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/7641D'Auriol; Martenot (fl 1940s); Ondes martenot player
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/7643Mary Datchelor Girls' School Choir; fl 1940s-1981; British female choir
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/8086Olof; Theo (1924-2012); Dutch violinist, composer
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