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Sat 15 Oct 1898
20:00
Prom 43 - Last Night of the Proms 1898
Queen's Hall
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Programme
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op 46
Charles Gounod
Faust
No. 13 Recitative & aria 'O Dieu! que de bijoux!...Ah! je ris de me voir' Act 3
Giovanni Bottesini
Tarantella in A minor
Proms premiere
Ruperto ChapÃ
La corte de Granada
Serenade Proms premiere of this arrangement
Nicolò Paganini
Moto perpetuo in C major, Op 11 (arr. Percy Pitt)
Johannès Donjon
Invocation
World premiere
Franz Doppler
L'oiseau des bois, Op 21
World premiere
Richard Wagner
Siegfried
No. 16 Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert! Act 1 Scene 3
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)
interval
Emile Dunkler
27 Morceaux de genre, Op 19
Chanson à boire
Léo Delibes
Sylvia
No. 20 Variation dansée Act 3
Sylvia
No. 6 Valse lente Act 1
Charles Gounod
La reine de Saba
Recitative & aria 'Inspirez-moi, race divine...Prête-moi ton aide' Act 2
Giovanni Sgambati
2 Pieces, Op 24
No. 1 Romance Proms premiere
Henryk Wieniawski
Valse Caprice in E major, Op 7
Ferdinand Hérold
Zampa
Overture
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser, Grand Fantasia, WWV 70 (arr. unknown)
J. M. Coward
Love Me
Michael William Balfe
The Bohemian Girl
Aria 'I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls' Act 2
Fred Godfrey
Lucy Long (arr. Frederick Godfrey)
Frederic Clay
Lalla Rookh (arr. composer for voice and piano)
Aria 'I'll sing thee songs of Araby'
Arthur Sullivan
The Lost Chord
(arr. Henry Wood)
Charles Gounod
La reine de Saba
March for the entrance of Belkis and Solomon Act 1 Scene 2
Unknown
National Anthem
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Percy Pitt
piano
organ
piano
organ
Kate Bensberg
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Claude Hobday
double bass
double bass
Manuel de Gomez
clarinet
clarinet
George Waddell Anderson
clarinet
clarinet
Francisco Gomez
music arranger
clarinet
music arranger
clarinet
Percy Egerton
clarinet
clarinet
Albert Fransella
flute
flute
Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf
horn
horn
R Livesey
horn
horn
T.R. Busby
horn
horn
Alfred Edwin Brain Snr
horn
horn
Philip Brozel
tenor
tenor
William Henry Squire
cello
cello
Herbert Grover
tenor
tenor
Johannes Wolff
violin
violin
J. M. Coward
conductor
conductor
The Audience
Edwin James
bassoon
bassoon
Frederick L Kettlewell
cornet
cornet
Composers
Edvard Grieg
Charles Gounod
Giovanni Bottesini
Ruperto ChapÃ
Nicolò Paganini
Johannès Donjon
Franz Doppler
Richard Wagner
Felix Mendelssohn
Emile Dunkler
Léo Delibes
Giovanni Sgambati
Henryk Wieniawski
Ferdinand Hérold
J. M. Coward
Michael William Balfe
Fred Godfrey
Frederic Clay
Arthur Sullivan
Unknown
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