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Tue 7 Sep 1897
20:00
Prom 09
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Proms premiere
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, Op 55
Proms premiere
Arthur Sullivan
Thou’rt Passing Hence
Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the Dance (orch. Hector Berlioz)
Proms premiere of this orchestration
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture 'Ruy Blas'
John Thomas
The Echoes of a Waterfall
Proms premiere
Edward German
As You Like It
Masque Act 2 Proms premiere
Trad.
The minstrel boy (from Moore's Irish Melodies) (arr. unknown)
Richard Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
No. 1 Prelude Act 1
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida, Grand Fantasia (arr. unknown)
interval
George Alexander Lee
The McGregors' Gathering
Michael William Balfe
Killarney
Charles Gounod
Jésus de Nazareth
Louis Ganne
Marche 'Le Père la Victoire'
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Percy Pitt
piano
organ
piano
organ
William Ludwig
baritone
baritone
Miriam Timothy
harp
harp
Herbert (Sims) Reeves
tenor
tenor
Arthur W Payne
violin
violin
Albert Fransella
flute
flute
Manuel de Gomez
clarinet
clarinet
Edwin James
bassoon
bassoon
Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf
horn
horn
Howard Reynolds
cornet
cornet
Thomas Colton
trombone
trombone
Walter Reynolds
euphonium
euphonium
William Henry Squire
cello
cello
Désiré-Alfred Lalande
oboe
oboe
James Wilcocke
piccolo
piccolo
Composers
Johannes Brahms
Edvard Grieg
Arthur Sullivan
Carl Maria von Weber
Felix Mendelssohn
John Thomas
Edward German
Trad.
Richard Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi
George Alexander Lee
Michael William Balfe
Charles Gounod
Louis Ganne
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