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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1956 - Sixty-Second Season - Prom 2
Performance Date23 July 1956
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersNancy Thomas - vocal,
Benno Moiseiwitsch - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Overture' from Oberon, Weber,
Recit and Aria - 'O Mio Fernando' from La Favorita, Donizetti (Thomas),
'Symphony No.38 in D, K.504' (The Prague), Mozart,
'Piano Concerto No.5 in E Flat' (Emperor), Beethoven,
'Fantasia On a Theme By Thomas Tallis', Vaughan Williams,
'Variations On a Hungarian Folk-Song' (The Peacock), Kodaly
Performance NotesLondon premiere of 'Variations On A Hungarian Folk-Song' (The Peacock), Kodaly.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1956/90),
Programme (RAHE/1/1956/92)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1956/93BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1956 - Prom 223 July 1956
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Cposasit_SehBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1956 - Sixty-Second 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/7409Thomas; Nancy (fl 1950s); English contralto, vocal teacher
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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