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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1961 - Sixty-Seventh Season - Prom 5
Performance Date27 July 1961
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersElizabeth Harwood,
Pamela Bowden,
Alfred Hallett,
Victor Godfrey - vocals,
Leon Goossens - oboe
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Choral Society
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Overture' from The Seraglio, Mozart,
'Serenade To Music', Vaughan Williams (Elizabeth Harwood, Pamela Bowden, Alfred Hallett, Victor Godfrey, BBC Choral Society),
'Oboe Concerto', R Strauss (Leon Goossens),
'Symphony No.21 in F Sharp Minor', Myaskovsky,
'Prelude and Fugue for Strings in Eighteen Parts', Britten,
'Enigma Variations', Elgar
Performance NotesProms premieres of 'Symphony No.21 in F Sharp Minor', Myaskovsky, and 'Prelude and Fugue for Strings in Eighteen Parts', Britten
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1961/75),
Programme (RAHE1/1961/80)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/ndXnefynej2Edb
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1961/80BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1961 - Prom 527 July 1961
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Emazealev_SuhBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1961 - Sixty-Seventh Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/1905Goossens; Leon Jean (1897-1988); CBE, FRCM; British oboist
DS/UK/11728Hallett; Alfred (fl 1950s-1960s); British singer tenor
DS/UK/10022Bowden; Pamela (1925-2003); British mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/10684Harwood; Elizabeth (1938-1990); English soprano
DS/UK/12859Godfrey; Victor John (1934-2012); Canadian bass-baritone
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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