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Performance TitleHenry Wood Birthday Promenade Concert
Performance Date3 March 1951
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersVera Canning - violincello,
Benno Moiseiwitsch - pianoforte,
Arnold Greir - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers
ConductorsBasil Cameron
Set List'Overture' from Leonora No.3, Beethoven,
'Serenade to Music', Vaughan Williams,
'Concerto No.2, in C Minor for Pianoforte and Orchestra', Rachmaninoff,
'Symphony No.7 in C', Sibelius
INTERVAL
'Concerto No.2 (El Cant dels Ocells), for Violoncello and Orchestra', Herbert Murrill,
'Pavane, for Small Orchestra and Chorus', Faure,
'Bolero', Ravel
Performance NotesPremiere of 'Concerto No.2 (El Cant dels Ocells), for Violoncello and Orchestra', Herbert Murrill.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1951/52),
Ticket (RAHE/8/5/1951/1)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1951/52The Henry Wood Concert Society presents The Henry Wood Birthday Promenade Concert3 March 1951
RAHE/8/5/1951/1Henry Wood Birthday Promenade Concert3 March 1951
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
YrabidorivaidHenry Wood Birthday Promenade Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/1443Moiseiwitsch; Benno (22 February 1890-9 April 1963); CBE; Ukrainian-born Russian pianist
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
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