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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1947 - Fifty-Third Season - Prom 44
Performance Date8 September 1947
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMary Bothwell,
Walter Widdop - vocals,
Ernest Christensen - piano
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsBasil Cameron
Set List'Prelude' from Lohengrin, Wagner,
'Love Duet, Act III' from Lohengrin, Wagner (Mary Bothwell, Walter Widdop),
'Good Friday Music' from Parsifal, Wagner,
'Love Duet, Act I, Scene III' from Walkure, Wagner (Mary Bothwell, Walter Widdop),
'Prelude' from Die Meistersinger, Wagner
INTERVAL
'En Saga', Sibelius,
'Three Scenes From Petrushka', Stravinsky (Ernest Christensen)
Performance NotesMary Bothwell appeared due to Oda Slobodskaya being unable to sing.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1947/154),
Programme (RAHE/1/1947/202)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx?1p1LL01kw6rku
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1947/202BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1947 - Fifty-Third Season - Prom 448 September 1947
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
UkanyhiobifoifBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1947 - Fifty-Third Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7298Bothwell; Mary (1900-1985); Canadian contralto
DS/UK/1219Widdop; Walter (1892-1949); British operatic tenor
DS/UK/7354Christensen; Ernest (fl 1940s); 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/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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