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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Sixty-Eighth Season - Prom 4
Performance Date25 July 1962
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersHeather Harper,
Mary Thomas,
Kathleen Kay,
David Galliver,
Philip Todd,
John Noble,
Richard Standen - vocals,
Roy Jesson - organ,
Benno Moiseiwitsch - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsAmbrosian Singers,
BBC Chorus
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
David Willcocks
Set List'Suite from 'Abdelazer'' (or The Moor's Revenge), Purcell (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
'Hymn To St. Cecilia', Britten (Ambrosian Singers, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Magnificat' from Vespers of 1610, Monteverdi (Heather Harper, Mary Thomas, Kathleen Kay, David Galliver, Philip Todd, John Noble, Richard Standen, Ambrosian Singers, BBC Chorus, Roy Jesson, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Suite No.3 in D Major', Bach (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Piano Concerto No.5 in E Flat Major' (Emperor), Beethoven (Moiseiwitsch, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Siegfried's Journey To The Rhine' from Gotterdammerung, Wagner (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesProms premiere of 'Hymn to St. Cecilia', Benjamin Britten.
Premiere of 'Suite from 'Abdelazer'' (or The Moor's Revenge), Purcell.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1962/77),
Programme (RAHE/1/1962/81)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/TeTb5VTddlBU
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1962/81BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Prom 425 July 1962
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oozaloimon_MohBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Sixty-Eighth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1443Moiseiwitsch; Benno (22 February 1890-9 April 1963); CBE; Ukrainian-born Russian pianist
DS/UK/9860Harper; Heather (1930-); Northern Irish-born British operatic soprano
DS/UK/11085Thomas; Mary (1932-1997); English soprano
DS/UK/8715Kay; Kathleen (fl 1940s-1960s); English mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/9169Galliver; David (1925-2001); English tenor
DS/UK/13430Todd; Philip (fl 1960s); British tenor
DS/UK/10424Noble; John (1931-2008); English baritone
DS/UK/6514Standen; Richard (1912-); English bass-baritone
DS/UK/10649Jesson; Roy (fl 1960s-1970s); British organist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/10652Ambrosian Singers; 1951-; English choral group
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/5468Willcocks; Sir; David (30 December 1919-17 September 2015); CBE MC; British conductor, organist and composer
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