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Thu 22 Sep 1898
20:00
Prom 23
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Karl Valentin
Festmarsch, Op 29
UK premiere
Daniel François Esprit Auber
Le cheval de bronze, S 25
Overture
John Mais Capel
Love, could I only tell thee
Proms premiere
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel
Overture Proms premiere
William Henry Reed
Valse Brillante
World premiere
Dudley Buck
The Capture of Bacchus
Proms premiere
Allen Macbeth
Forget-me-not
Georges Bizet
Carmen
No. 20 Recitative & aria 'C'est des contrebandiers...Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante' Act 3 Scene 5
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet in E major, Op 11: No 3, Minuet in A major
Anon.
Adoration
Proms premiere of this arrangement
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
4 Characteristic Valses, Op 22
London premiere
interval
Charles Gounod
Faust, Grand Fantasia (arr. unknown)
J. M. Coward
Love Me
World premiere
Henry Leslie
Annabel Lee
Proms premiere
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
Stephen Foster
Massa's in de cold, cold ground
Proms premiere of this arrangement
Hector Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust
Marche hongroise
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Percy Pitt
piano
organ
piano
organ
William Forington
baritone
baritone
Webster Norcross
bass
bass
Constance Sims Reeves
soprano
soprano
Meister Glee Singers
J. M. Coward
conductor
conductor
The Audience
Gregory Hast
tenor
tenor
Arthur W Payne
violin
violin
Miriam Timothy
harp
harp
Perkins [first name unknown}
music arranger
music arranger
Composers
Karl Valentin
Daniel François Esprit Auber
John Mais Capel
Engelbert Humperdinck
William Henry Reed
Dudley Buck
Allen Macbeth
Georges Bizet
Luigi Boccherini
Anon.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Charles Gounod
J. M. Coward
Henry Leslie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Stephen Foster
Hector Berlioz
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