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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date27 June 1942
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time18:30
Main PerformersJoan Hammond - vocal,
Pouishnoff - piano
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsSir Henry Wood
Set List'God Save the King' (The National Anthem),
'Epic March', John Ireland,
Recit and Aria, 'Ah, Fors E Lui' from La Traviata, Verdi (Joan Hammond),
'Piano Concerto No.2, in C Minor', Rachmaninoff (Pouishnoff),
'Enigma Variations', Elgar,
'Symphony No.8, in B Minor' (Unfinished) Schubert,
'1812 Overture', Tchaikovsky
Performance NotesPremiere of 'Epic March' by John Ireland.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1942/55),
Programme (RAHE/1/1942/54),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1942/3)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1942/54Promenade Concerts, Forty-eighth Season 194227 June-22 August 1942
RAHE/1/1942/55BBC Promenade Concerts - Sir Henry Wood's Forty-Eighth Season -Prom 127 June 1942
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
UsakiorobifiobBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season49
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/211Pouishnoff; Leff Nicolas (1891-1959); Ukrainian pianist and composer
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/39Wood; Sir; Henry (3 March 1869 – 19 August 1944); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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