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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1945 - Fifty-First Season - Prom 29 - Wagner-Strauss Concert
Performance Date23 August 1945
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersEva Turner,
Frank Titterton - vocals,
Ambrose Gauntlett - cello,
Eric Bray - viola
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsThe BBC Women's Chorus
ConductorsSir Adrian Boult
Set List'A Faust Overture', Wagner,
'Prize Song' from Die Meistersinger, Wagner (Frank Titterton),
'Venusberg Music' Tannhauser, Wagner (The BBC Women's Chorus),
'Siegfried Idyll', Wagner,
'Closing Scene' from Gotterdammerung, Wagner (Eva Turner),
'Don Quixote', R Strauss (Eric Bray, Ambrose Gauntlett)
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1945/104),
Programme (RAHE/1/1945/133)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/6v36Xe36dAQzr
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1945/133BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 51st Season - Concert Twenty Nine23 August 1945
RAHE/1/1945/104BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 51st Season21 July-15 September 1945
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
CkosetierifiepBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1945: Fifty First Season50
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1262Turner; Dame; Eva (1892-1990); DBE; English dramatic soprano
DS/UK/1339Titterton; Frank (1893-1956); English tenor
DS/UK/3587Gauntlett; Ambrose (fl 1920s-d.1978); British cellist, teacher
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/2111British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Women's Chorus; fl 1950s-1960s; British womens' choir
DS/UK/358Boult; Sir; Adrian (8 April 1889-22 February 1983); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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