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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1969 - Seventy-Fifth Season - Prom 23
Performance Date13 August 1969
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPatricia Clark,
Mary Thomas,
Shirley Minty,
Gerald English,
Edgar Fleet,
John Noble,
John Frost - vocals,
Emil Gilels - piano,
Roy Jesson - organ
Orchestra or BandAccademia Monteverdiana,
BBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsAmbrosian Singers,
BBC Women's Chorus
ConductorsColin Davis,
Denis Stevens
Set List'La Messe De Nostre Dame', Machaut (Shirley Minty, Gerald English, John Noble, Ambrosian Singers, Roy Jesson, Accademia Monteverdiana),
'Magnificat' for double choir (1640), Monteverdi (Patricia Clark, Mary Thomas, Gerald English, Edgar Fleet, John Noble, John Frost, Roy Jesson, Ambrosian Singers, Accademia Monteverdiana),
'Masonic Funeral Music, K.477', Mozart (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Piano Concerto No.3 in C Minor', Beethoven (Emil Gilels, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Overture and Venusberg Music', from Tannhauser, Wagner (BBC Women's Chorus, Ambrosian Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesProms premiere of 'La Messe De Nostre Dame', Machaut.
The event was filmed by BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1969/82),
Programme (RAHE/1/1969/105)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1969/105BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1969 - Prom 2313 August 1969
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Opazogcv_R_ZBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1969 - Seventy-Fifth Season52
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6100Davis; Sir; Colin (1927-2013); CH CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/11919Clark; Patricia (fl 1960s-1970s); British soprano
DS/UK/11085Thomas; Mary (1932-1997); English soprano
DS/UK/12389Minty; Shirley (fl 1960s-1970s); English contralto
DS/UK/10268English; Gerald (1925-); English tenor
DS/UK/10510Fleet; Edgar Augustus (1931-1999); English tenor, choral director
DS/UK/10424Noble; John (1931-2008); English baritone
DS/UK/13956Frost; John (fl 1960s); British bass
DS/UK/3228Gilels; Emil Grigoryevich (1916-1985); Russian pianist
DS/UK/10649Jesson; Roy (fl 1960s-1970s); British organist
DS/UK/10651Accademia Monteverdiana; 1961; American early music group
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/10652Ambrosian Singers; 1951-; English choral group
DS/UK/2111British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Women's Chorus; fl 1950s-1960s; British womens' choir
DS/UK/8564Vaughan; Denis Edward (1926-); Australian conductor, multi-instrumentalist
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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