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Thu 8 Sep 1898
20:00
Prom 11
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Ambroise Thomas
Mignon
No. 1 Overture
Giuseppe Verdi
Ernani
Recitative & cavatina 'Surta è la notte...Ernani, involami' Act 1 Scene 3
Charles Gounod
Marche funèbre d'une marionette
David Popper
Tarantella, Op 33
Unknown
Norwegian Folk-Songs
UK premiere
George Frideric Handel
Serse, HWV 40 (arr. Joseph Hellmesberger)
Aria 'Ombra mai fù' Act 1 Scene 1
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Danse macabre
Proms premiere
Gaetano Donizetti
La favorita
Recitative & aria 'Fia dunque vero...O mio Fernando' Act 3
Frederic Hymen Cowen
4 English Dances in the Olden Style Set 1
interval
Charles Gounod
Jésus de Nazareth
Anton Rubinstein
Valse-Caprice in E flat major (orch. Karl Müller-Berghaus)
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser, Grand Fantasia, WWV 70 (arr. unknown)
S. J. von Stutzman
Vainka's Song
Frederic Hymen Cowen
The Better Land
Proms premiere of this arrangement
James Lynam Molloy
With Ebb and Flow
World premiere
William Vincent Wallace
Maritana
Ballad 'In Happy Moments'
Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise in A major, Op 40.1 (orch. Alexander Glazunov)
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Percy Pitt
piano
organ
piano
organ
Maggie Davies
soprano
soprano
William Henry Squire
cello
cello
Arthur W Payne
violin
violin
Miriam Timothy
harp
harp
Belle Cole
contralto
contralto
William Ludwig
baritone
baritone
Frederick L Kettlewell
music arranger
cornet
music arranger
cornet
Composers
Ambroise Thomas
Giuseppe Verdi
Charles Gounod
David Popper
Unknown
George Frideric Handel
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Gaetano Donizetti
Frederic Hymen Cowen
Anton Rubinstein
Richard Wagner
S. J. von Stutzman
James Lynam Molloy
William Vincent Wallace
Frédéric Chopin
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