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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1967 - Seventy-Third Season - Prom 17
Performance Date9 August 1967
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersRaimund Herincx,
Ian Partridge - vocals,
Pierre Fournier - cello,
Olga Hegedus - cello continuo,
Gerald Drucker - bass continuo
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Chorus,
BBC Choral Society,
Alexandra Choir,
Goldsmiths' Choral Union,
Harrow Choral Society,
London Philharmonic Choir,
Royal Choral Society,
Martindale Sidwell Choir (Prudence Lloyd, Margaret Humphrey Clark, Paul Esswood, -Ian Partridge, Wynford Evans, David Thomas, Rupert Oliver Faber)
ConductorsJohn Pritchard,
Martindale Sidwell
Set List'Beatus Vir', Monteverdi (Ian Partridge, Martindale Sidwell Choir),
'Audi Coelum' (Vespers 1610), Monteverdi (Ian Partridge, Martindale Sidwell Choir),
'Gloria', Monteverdi (Ian Partridge, Martindale Sidwell Choir),
'Scherzo' from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Cello Concerto in E Minor', Elgar (Pierre Fournier, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Belshazzar's Feast', Walton (Raimund Herincx, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Alexandra Choir, Goldsmiths' Choral Union, Harrow Choral Society, London Philharmonic Society, Royal Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed and broadcast two days later on BBC Two. It would be the first colour television broadcast of a Promenade concert.

Proms premiere of 'Beatus Vir', Monteverdi, 'Audi Coelum' (Vespers 1610), Monteverdi and 'Gloria', Monteverdi.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1967/86),
Programme (RAHE/1/1967/103)
Photograph (RAHE/3/1967/2)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/UQfUQzsUSMlyD
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1967/103BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1967 - Prom 179 August 1967
RAHE/3/1967/2Photographs of Prom 17 - the first concert to be televised in colour9 August 1967
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ytomoopoh_MutBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1967 - Seventy-Third Season51
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1532Goldsmiths; Goldsmiths Choral Union (GCU); 1932-; English amateur choir
DS/UK/1004London Philharmonic Choir; 1947-; English choir
DS/UK/9299Herincx; Raimund (1927 -); British operatic bass-baritone
DS/UK/9298Partridge; Ian (1938-); CBE; English lyric tenor
DS/UK/10677Fournier; Pierre (1906-1986); French cellist
DS/UK/13697Hegedus; Olga (fl 1960s-1980s); Hungarian cellist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/2127Alexandra Choir; 1940-1990; British choir
DS/UK/10664Harrow Choral Society; 1937-; English choir
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/11676Martindale Sidwell Choir; fl 1960s-1970s; English choir
DS/UK/9347Pritchard; Sir; John Michael (1921-1989); OBE; English conductor
DS/UK/8819Sidwell; Martindale (1916-1998); English organist, composer, teacher
DS/UK/16750Drucker; Gerald (1925-2010); British classical double bassist, photographer
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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