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16 Sep 1897, Queen's Hall
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Thu 16 Sep 1897
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Programme
Arthur Sullivan
Overture di ballo
Léon Boëllmann
Fantaisie dialoguée, Op 35
London premiere
Daniel François Esprit Auber
Les diamants de la couronne, S 34
Overture
Charles Villiers Stanford
The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Aria 'There's a bower of roses'
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op 46
Ange Flégier
Villanelle
Proms premiere
Gioachino Rossini
William Tell – overture
William Henry Squire
Berceuse
Proms premiere
Emile Dunkler
27 Morceaux de genre, Op 19
Chanson à boire Proms premiere
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
No. 1 Overture
Ernest Newton
Ailsa mine
Edward German
Henry VIII
Morris Dance Act 4
Henry VIII
Shepherd's Dance Act 1
Henry VIII
Torch Dance Act 1
interval
Georges Bizet
Carmen, Grand Fantasia (probably arr. Alfred Cellier)
- Orchestral soloists as for performance on 31/8/1897
Frederic Hymen Cowen
Because
Emilio Pizzi
Ianthe
Paolo Tosti
Good-bye!
Eduard Strauss
Doctrinen - waltz, Op 79
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Percy Pitt
organ
piano
organ
piano
Helen Jaxon
soprano
soprano
Désiré-Alfred Lalande
oboe
oboe
William Henry Squire
cello
cello
Jack G Robertson
tenor
tenor
Howard Reynolds
cornet
cornet
Composers
Arthur Sullivan
Léon Boëllmann
Daniel François Esprit Auber
Charles Villiers Stanford
Edvard Grieg
Ange Flégier
Gioachino Rossini
William Henry Squire
Emile Dunkler
Richard Wagner
Ernest Newton
Edward German
Georges Bizet
Frederic Hymen Cowen
Emilio Pizzi
Paolo Tosti
Eduard Strauss
About this event
Part of
Proms 1897
Discover the Music
Part 02 - Rossini - William Tell Overture
Wagner: Tannhauser
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