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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1952 - Fifty-Eighth Season - Prom 22 - Wagner - Mozart
Performance Date20 August 1952
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersEleanor Houston,
Sigurd Bjorling - vocals,
Frederick Thurston - clarinet
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Overture' from The Flying Dutchman, Wagner,
'Hans Sachs' Monologue, Was Duftet' from The Mastersingers, Wagner,
'Entry of the Gods' from The Rhinegold, Wagner,
'Elizabeth's Prayer and Greeting' from Tanhauser, Wagner,
'Siegfried Idyll', Wagner,
'Wotan's Farewell and the Magic Fire Music' from The Valkyrie, Wagner,
'Ride of the Valkyries' from The Valkyrie, Wagner
INTERVAL
'Concerto in A for Clarinet and Orchestra, K.622', Mozart,
Aria - 'Porgi Amor' from The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart,
'Overture' from Il Seraglio, Mozart
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1952/117),
Programme (RAHE/1/1952/139)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/neqnelJnqICoz
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1952/139Fifty Eighth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Eleanor Houston and Sigurd Bjorling20 August 1952
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
CnahamalinosBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1952 - Fifty-Eighth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/6471Thurston; Frederick John (1901-1953); English clarinetist
DS/UK/3162Houston; Eleanor (fl 1950s); Australian soprano
DS/UK/3163Björling; Sigurd (2 November 1907-8 April 1983); Swedish operatic baritone singer
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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