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Tue 4 Oct 1898
20:00
Prom 33
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Gioachino Rossini
William Tell – overture
Alfred Cellier
Doris (arr. composer for voice and piano)
Aria 'So fare thee well' Act 2
George Frideric Handel
Serse, HWV 40 (arr. Joseph Hellmesberger)
Aria 'Ombra mai fù' Act 1 Scene 1
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished'
Felix Mendelssohn
Capriccio brillante, Op 22
Proms premiere
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre
Walkürenritt (orchestral synthesis) Act 3 Scene 1
Charles Gounod
Faust
No. 13 Recitative & aria 'O Dieu! que de bijoux!...Ah! je ris de me voir' Act 3
Hector Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust
Marche hongroise
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser, Grand Fantasia, WWV 70 (arr. unknown)
J. M. Coward
Love Me
Arthur Sullivan
The sailor's grave
interval
Amelia Lehmann
When love is kind
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music
No. 6 Wedding March
interval
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Percy Pitt
piano
organ
piano
organ
Herbert Emlyn
tenor
tenor
Arthur W Payne
violin
violin
Miriam Timothy
harp
harp
Wolodia Roujitzky
piano
piano
Kate Bensberg
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
J. M. Coward
conductor
conductor
The Audience
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Alfred Cellier
George Frideric Handel
Franz Schubert
Felix Mendelssohn
Richard Wagner
Charles Gounod
Hector Berlioz
J. M. Coward
Arthur Sullivan
Amelia Lehmann
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