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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season - Prom 2 - Russian Concert
Performance Date29 June 1942
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time18:30
Main PerformersParry Jones - vocal,
Clifford Curzon - piano
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsBasil Cameron,
Sir Henry Wood
Set List'Ballet Suite' from Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky,
'Lenski's Aria' from Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky (Parry Jones),
'Piano Concerto No.1 in B Flat Minor', Tchaikovsky (Clifford Curzon),
'Overture-Fantasia' from Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky,
'Symphony No.7' (Leningrad), Shostakovitch
Performance NotesEnglish premiere of 'Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)', Shostakovitch, which had been scheduled to be performed at the Hall on 4 June 1942.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1942/55),
Programme (RAHE/1/1942/),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1942/3)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/N_9N_IBNh5wxwL
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1942/56BBC Promenade Concerts - Sir Henry Wood's Forty-Eighth Season - Prom 2 - Russian Concert29 June 1942
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
UsakiorobifiobBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2133Jones; Gwynn Parry (1891-1963); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/2143Curzon; Sir; Clifford Michael (1907-1982); CBE; English pianist
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/39Wood; Sir; Henry (3 March 1869 – 19 August 1944); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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