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3 Aug 1959, Royal Albert Hall
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19:30
Mon 3 Aug 1959
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Programme
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture
Overture
Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture
Aria 'O field, who has strewn thee with dead men's bones? Act 2
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D major (orch. Malcom Sargent)
No. 3 Notturno
Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
interval
Sergey Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf, Op 67
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel Suite (arr. Maximilian Steinberg )
No. 1 Tsar Dodon in his Palace
The Golden Cockerel Suite (arr. Maximilian Steinberg )
No. 4 Wedding and Lamentable End of Tsar Dodon
Performers
Alfred Orda
baritone
baritone
Benno Moiseiwitsch
piano
piano
Wilfred Pickles
narrator
narrator
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent
conductor
conductor
Composers
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Alexander Borodin
Sergey Rachmaninov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sergey Prokofiev
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Proms 1959
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - the years 1876 to 1890
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