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15 Sep 1896, Queen's Hall
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20:00
Tue 15 Sep 1896
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Proms 1896 Prom 15
Prom 15
20:00 Tue 15 Sep 1896 Queen's Hall
Programme
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide
Overture Proms premiere
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Dinorah
Aria 'Ombre légère qui suis mes pas' Act 2
Anton Rubinstein
Valse-Caprice in E flat major (orch. Karl Müller-Berghaus)
London premiere of this orchestration
Arthur Sullivan
The Distant Shore
Richard Wagner
Rienzi
Overture
Arthur Sullivan
St Agnes' Eve
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Benedictus, Op 37.3
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Le Bananier, Op 5
Proms premiere of this arrangement
George Frideric Handel
Acis and Galatea
Recitative & aria 'I rage, I melt, I burn...O ruddier than the cherry' Act 2
Edmond Audran
La Cigale
Selection (instrumental)
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, Op 46
No. 1 in C major
Slavonic Dances, Op 46
No. 2 in E minor
Slavonic Dances, Op 46
No. 3 in A flat major
Slavonic Dances, Op 46
No. 4 in F major
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida, Grand Fantasia (arr. unknown)
interval
Frederic Hymen Cowen
The Swallows
Arthur Sullivan
Sweethearts
Luigi Denza
Si tu m'amais
Jessie L. Pease
Fisher Song
Michael Watson
Thy Sentinel am I
Proms premiere
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Marche héroïque, Op 34
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Percy Pitt
piano
piano
Regina Sales
soprano
soprano
Jack G Robertson
tenor
tenor
Belle Cole
contralto
contralto
Ernesto Cavallini
music arranger
music arranger
Manuel de Gomez
clarinet
clarinet
Lempriere Pringle
bass
bass
The Park Sisters
music arranger
music arranger
Howard Reynolds
cornet
cornet
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Anton Rubinstein
Arthur Sullivan
Richard Wagner
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
George Frideric Handel
Edmond Audran
Antonín Dvořák
Giuseppe Verdi
Frederic Hymen Cowen
Luigi Denza
Jessie L. Pease
Michael Watson
Camille Saint‐Saëns
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