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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1955 - Sixty-First Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date23 July 1955
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBenno Moiseiwitsch - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
'Overture' from The Bartered Bride, Smetana,
'Classical Smphony in D', Prokofiev,
'En Saga', Sibelius,
'Piano Concerto No.5 in E Flat' (Emperor), Beethoven,
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell', Britten,
'A Song Before Sunrise', Delius,
'La Valse', Ravel
Performance NotesThe event was broadcast by BBC Television from 20:15-21:00.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1955/94),
Programme (RAHE/1/1955/95)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1955/92Henry Wood Promenade Concerts23 July-17 September 1955
RAHE/1/1955/96BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1955 - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms23 July 1955
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Eatanyhiob_SazBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1955 - Sixty-First 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/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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