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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - Sixty-Fifth Season - Prom 8 - Russian Music Concert
Performance Date3 August 1959
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersWilfred Pickles,
Alfred Orda - vocals,
Benno Moiseiwitsch - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Overture' from Ruslan and Ludmilla, Glinka,
'Ruslan's Aria' from Ruslan and Ludmilla, Glinka (Alfred Orda),
'Nocturne for Strings', Borodin-Sargent,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor', Rachmaninoff (Moiseiwitsch),
'Francesca Da Rimini', Tchaikovsky,
'Peter and The Wolf', Prokofiev (Wilfred Pickles),
'Tsar Dodon in His Palace' from Le Coq D'Or, Rimsky-Korsakov,
'Wedding and Lamentable End of Tsar Dodon' from Le Coq D'Or, Rimsky-Korsakov
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1959/69),
Programme (RAHE/1/1959/78)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/6Q6vCG6T8snE
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1959/78BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - Prom 8 - Russian Music Concert3 August 1959
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IbosefiekotoovBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - Sixty-Fifth 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/2953Pickles; Wilfred (1904-1978); OBE; English actor, radio presenter
DS/UK/3156Orda; Alfred (1914-2004); Polish baritone
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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