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Fri 1 Sep 1899
20:00
Prom 06
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute
No. 1 Overture
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Scenes from 'The Song of Hiawatha', Op 30
No. 1a Aria 'Onaway! awake, belovèd!'
Felix Mendelssohn
2 Lieder ohne Worte (orch. Ernest Guiraud)
No. 30 in A major: Allegretto grazioso 'Frühlingslied' (Op. 62 No. 6)
2 Lieder ohne Worte (orch. Ernest Guiraud)
No. 34 in C major: Presto 'Spinnerlied' (Op. 67 No. 4)
Georges Bizet
Carmen
No. 10a Aria 'Près des remparts de Séville' Act 1
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin
No. 17 Prelude Act 3
Gabriel Fauré
Elégie, Op 24
Proms premiere
David Popper
Scenes from a Masked Ball, Op 3
No. 1 Harlequin
Ambroise Thomas
Mignon
No. 8 Entr'acte Act 2
George Frideric Handel
Acis and Galatea
Recitative & aria 'I rage, I melt, I burn...O ruddier than the cherry' Act 2
Félix Godefroid
Souvenirs de Freischütz
UK premiere
interval
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Danse macabre
Georges Bizet
Carmen, Grand Fantasia (probably arr. Alfred Cellier)
- Orchestral soloists as for performance on 26/8/1899
Norman O'Neill
Roses in a Garden
Proms premiere
Carl Loewe
How deep the slumber of the floods (arr. Amelia Lehmann)
Proms premiere of this arrangement
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music
No. 1 Scherzo
Frances Allitsen
Spring Contrasts
Proms premiere
Joseph Leopold Röckel
Green Isle of Erin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Der Schauspieldirektor (Overture)
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Gregory Hast
tenor
tenor
Louise Kirkby-Lunn
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Percy Pitt
piano
piano
Paul Bazelaire
cello
cello
Charles Knowles
bass-baritone
bass-baritone
Valentina Carozzi
harp
harp
Composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Felix Mendelssohn
Georges Bizet
Richard Wagner
Gabriel Fauré
David Popper
Ambroise Thomas
George Frideric Handel
Félix Godefroid
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Norman O'Neill
Carl Loewe
Frances Allitsen
Joseph Leopold Röckel
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