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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1943 - Forty-Ninth Season - Prom 18
Performance Date9 July 1943
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersJoan Hammond - vocal,
Clifford Curzon,
Benjamin Britten - pianos
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsBasil Cameron
Set List'Overture' from Tannhauser, Wagner,
Aria - 'Softly Sighs' (Der Freischutz)', Weber (Joan Hammond),
'Piano Concerto in E Flat', John Ireland (Clifford Curzon)
'Symphony No.5 in E Minor' (New World)', Dvorak,
'Scottish Ballad for Two Pianos', Britten (Britten, Clifford Curzon),
'Capriccio Italien', Tchaikovsky
Performance NotesUK premiere of 'Scottish Ballad for Two Pianos', by Benjamin Britten.

Benjamin Britten's debut Royal Albert Hall performance.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1943/57),
Programme (RAHE/1/1943/76)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/wy5wyYYwyy73k
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1943/76BBC Promenade Concerts (Sir Henry Wood's Forty-Ninth Season) - Prom 1810 July 1943
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
_VoxosofifiopBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1943: Forty-Ninth Season55
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/2143Curzon; Sir; Clifford Michael (1907-1982); CBE; English pianist
DS/UK/480Britten; Benjamin (22 November 1913-4 December 1976); Baron OM CH; English composer, conductor and 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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