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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date25 July 1953
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBenno Moiseiwitsch - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem),
Overture - 'Cockaigne', Elgar,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor', Rachmaninoff (Moiseiwitsch),
'A London Symphony', Vaughan Williams,
Suite - 'La Boutique Fantasque', Rossini - Respighi,
Coronation March - 'Orb and Sceptre', Walton
Royal PresenceHRH Prince George of Denmark
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1953/83),
Programme (RAHE/1/1953/84)
2 B&W Photographs (RAHE/3/1953/2-3)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/5f5I1A5o-2Wq
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1953/84Fifty Ninth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Moiseiwitsch25 July 1953
RAHE/1/1953/83Fifty Ninth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Complete Season Programme25 July-19 September 1953
RAHE/3/1953/2Photograph of the First Night of the Proms with Macolm Sargent conducting25 July 1953
RAHE/3/1953/3 Photograph of the First Night of the Proms with Macolm Sargent conducting and Moiseiwitsch on piano25 July 1953
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Uzogenas_BeapBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1443Moiseiwitsch; Benno (22 February 1890-9 April 1963); CBE; Ukrainian-born Russian pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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