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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1949 - Fifty-Fifth Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date23 July 1949
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJoan Hammond - vocal,
Moura Lympany - piano,
Arnold Greir - organ
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'God Save the King' (The National Anthem),
Overture, 'Cockaigne', Elgar,
'Symphony No.8 in B Minor' (Unfinished), Schubert,
Scena, 'The King of Thule' from Faust, Gounod (Joan Hammond),
Aria, 'The Jewel Song' from Faust, Gounod (Joan Hammond),
'Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor', Saint-Saens (Moura Lympany),
Scherzo, 'L'Apprenti Sorcier', Dukas,
'Nocturne for Strings', Borodin, arr.Sargent,
'Romeo and Juliet', Tchaikovsky
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1949/172),
Programme (RAHE/1/1949/173)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1949/172Henry Wood Promenade Concerts23 July-17 September 1949
RAHE/1/1949/173BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1949 - Fifty-Fifth Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms23 July 1949
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Egagixom_BysBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1949: Fifty-Fifth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1553Hammond; Dame; Joan Hilda Hood (1912-1996); DBE, CMG; Australian operatic soprano, singing coach, champion golfer
DS/UK/1494Lympany; Dame; Moura (1916-2005); English concert pianist
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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