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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1955 - Sixty-First Season - Prom 8
Performance Date1 August 1955
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersGladys Ripley - vocal,
Eileen Joyce - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Overture' from William Tell, Rossini,
Aria - 'Softly Awakes My Heart' from Samson and Delilah, Saint-Saens (Ripley),
'Symphony No.8 in B Minor' (Unfinished), Schubert,
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', Grieg,
Ballet Music - 'The Perfect Fool', Holst, 'Scheherazade', Rimsky-Korsakov
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1955/94),
Programme (RAHE/1/1955/101)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/P-6P-ZaPWwGL5
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1955/101BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1955 - Proms 8 and 91-2 August 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/1247Ripley; Gladys (1908-1955); English contralto
DS/UK/1519Joyce; Eileen (1 January 1908-25 March 1991); CMG; Australian 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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