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6 Aug 1956, Royal Albert Hall
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19:30
Mon 6 Aug 1956
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Programme
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide
Overture
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor
Aria 'No sleep, no rest' Act 2
Frederick Delius
A Song Before Sunrise
Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’
interval
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’
Performers
Alfred Orda
baritone
baritone
Benno Moiseiwitsch
piano
piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent
conductor
conductor
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Alexander Borodin
Frederick Delius
Sergey Rachmaninov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antonín Dvořák
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Proms 1956
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Proms interval talk: Rossini's Semiramide
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Dvorak's New World Symphony
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