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19 Aug 1895, Queen's Hall
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20:00
Mon 19 Aug 1895
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Programme
Gioachino Rossini
William Tell – overture
Frederic Clay
The sands o' Dee
Proms premiere
Ernest Gillet
Danse des marionettes
Proms premiere
Felix Mendelssohn
Athalie, Op 74
Overture Proms premiere
James Lynam Molloy
Nancy
Proms premiere
interval
Moritz Moszkowski
2 Morceaux, Op 43
No. 1 Cortège Proms premiere
Giovanni Paggi
Rimembranze Napoletane
Proms premiere
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin
Valse Act 2 Scene 1
George Frideric Handel
Joshua, HWV 64 (arr. Henry Wood)
Aria 'Oh! had I Jubal's lyre' Act 3 Scene 3
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in F minor, Op 55.1 (orch. Harold Vicars)
Proms premiere of this orchestration
Léo Delibes
Le roi s'amuse
Alfred Cellier
Doris, Grand Selection (arr. unknown)
Proms premiere
Thomas Hutchinson
Whisper'd
Proms premiere
Charles Gounod
Mireille
Overture
Tito Mattei
Non è ver
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet in E major, Op 11: No 3, Minuet in A major
Johann Nepomuk Král
March 'Hoch Habsburg', Op 86
Proms premiere
Arthur Sullivan
The Distant Shore
Proms premiere
Arthur Goring Thomas
Esmeralda
Ballet music Act 2
Michael William Balfe
The Bohemian Girl
Aria 'I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls' Act 2
Alphons Czibulka
Ballszenen, Op 258
Proms premiere
Richard Eilenberg
Ulanenruf, Op 43
Performers
Henry Wood
conductor
conductor
The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Henry Lane-Wilson
piano
piano
Nevada Veer-Green
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Jack G Robertson
tenor
tenor
Albert Fransella
flute
flute
Anna Fuller
soprano
soprano
William Frye Parker
violin
violin
Charles Ould
cello
cello
H. G. Lebon
oboe
oboe
Manuel de Gomez
clarinet
clarinet
Edwin James
bassoon
bassoon
Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf
horn
horn
Howard Reynolds
cornet
cornet
Thomas Colton
trombone
trombone
F(rederick) W. Davis
trombone
trombone
R. H. Booth
trombone
trombone
J(ames) H. Guilmartin
euphonium
euphonium
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Frederic Clay
Ernest Gillet
Felix Mendelssohn
James Lynam Molloy
Moritz Moszkowski
Giovanni Paggi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
George Frideric Handel
Frédéric Chopin
Léo Delibes
Alfred Cellier
Thomas Hutchinson
Charles Gounod
Tito Mattei
Luigi Boccherini
Johann Nepomuk Král
Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Goring Thomas
Michael William Balfe
Alphons Czibulka
Richard Eilenberg
About this event
Part of
Proms 1895
Discover the Music
Part 02 - Rossini - William Tell Overture
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