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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1966 - Seventy-Second Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date23 July 1966
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMoura Lympany - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem),
Overture - 'Roman Carnival', Berlioz (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', Schumann (Moura Lympany, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Overture - 'Cockaigne', Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Suite - 'Facade', Walton (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Ballet Music - 'The Perfect Fool', Holst (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'On Hearing The First Cuckoo in Spring', Delius (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell', Britten (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesSir Malcolm Sargent's 500th Promenade Concert.
The event was broadcast by BBC television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1966/78),
Programme (RAHE/1/1966/79)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1966/79BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1966 - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms23 July 1966
RAHE/1/1966/78Henry Wood Promenade Concerts23 July-17 September 1966
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ibaxorok_MoidBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1966 - Seventy-Second Season50
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1494Lympany; Dame; Moura (1916-2005); English concert 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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