BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - 1962

This listing is prepared from the annual prospectuses as amended by reviews of those concerts available in The Times, and any changes of programme announced in The Times concert announcements. There may have been last minute changes not known to me. Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 65th Season 1959 Saturday 25 July 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent A London Overture IRELAND Three Sea Pictures (In Haven, Sabbath Morning and Where Corals Lie) ELGAR The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra MOZART Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell BRITTEN Dance Concertante for Two Pianos (three hands) and orchestra GRAHAM WHETTAM Suite from La Boutique Fantasque (arr. Respighi) ROSSINI Norma Procter, contralto Cyril Smith, piano Phyllis Sellick, piano Monday 27 July 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to The Flying Dutchman WAGNER Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 5 DANIEL JONES Manoug Parikian, violin Tuesday 28 July 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Marche Militaire in D major SCHUBERT Entr’acte in B flat and Ballet Music in G from Rosamunde SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasia (arr. for piano and orchestra, Liszt) SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Jacqueline Delman, soprano Hervey Alan, bass Joseph Weingarten, piano BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Wednesday 29 July 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Symphony No. 3 SIBELIUS Violin Concerto SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS Festivo from Scènes historiques SIBELIUS The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS Valse triste SIBELIUS Finlandia SIBELIUS Alfredo Campoli, violin Thursday 30 July 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to Oberon WEBER Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV April Cantelo, soprano Ronald Smith, piano Friday 31 July 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN Adelaide, Song with Orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon and Strings ELIZABETH MACONCHY Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS William McAlpine, tenor Evelyn Rothwell, oboe Archie Camden, bassoon Denis Matthews, piano Saturday 1 August 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Polonaise and Waltz from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY Tatiana’s Letter Song from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from The Sleeping Beauty TCHAIKOVSKY Lensky’s Aria from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY Love Duet from Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY 1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY Amy Shuard, soprano Rowland Jones, tenor Peter Element, piano Monday 3 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA Ruslan’s Aria from Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA Nocturne for Strings (arr. Sargent) BORODIN Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY Peter and the Wolf PROKOFIEV Tsar Dodon in his palace and Wedding and Death of Dodon from Le Coq d’or RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Wilfred Pickles, narrator Alfred Orda, baritone Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano Tuesday 4 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART ‘Non paventar…Infelice sconsolata’ Recit. And Aria from The Magic Flute MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 MOZART Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS Elizabeth Simon, soprano Paul Beard, violin Edith Vogel, piano Wednesday 5 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Leslie Woodgate* Suite No. 3 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BACH Cantata No. 80, ‘Ein’ fest Burg ist unser Gott’ BACH Two Chorale Preludes, ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ and ‘Nun freut euch’ BACH Motet, ‘Sing ye to the Lord’ BACH* Organ Solo (Bach) Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Pamela Bowden, contralto Duncan Robertson, tenor Roger Stalman, bass David Martin, violin Douglas Whittaker, flute Iris Loveridge, piano Geraint Jones, organ BBC Chorus Thursday 6 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra John Hollingsworth* Overture to The Journey to Rheims ROSSINI Piano Concerto SCHUMANN A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonie concertante for Oboe and Strings IBERT* España CHABRIER* Leon Goossens, oboe Phyllis Sellick, piano Friday 7 August 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 HUMPHREY SEARLE Iberia DEBUSSY Daniel Wayenberg, piano Saturday 8 August 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to William Tell ROSSINI Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN Organ Concerto in B flat (Op, 7 No. 1) HANDEL Three Scenes from Petrushka STRAVINSKY John Ogdon, piano Arnold Richardson, organ Monday 10 August 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Maurice Miles* Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART ‘Che farò’, Recitative and Aria from Orfeo GLUCK Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER Kerstin Meyer, mezzo soprano Kendall Turner, piano Tuesday 11 August 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony in D minor FRANCK Sinfonia Antarctica (Symphony No. 7) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Adrienne Cole, soprano Peter Katin, piano BBC Women’s Chorus Wednesday 12 August 1959 Sir Malcolm Sargent John Hollingsworth* Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) ELGAR The Planets HOLST Cello Concerto ELGAR Cockaigne, Overture ELGAR André Navarra, cello BBC Women’s Chorus Thursday 13 August 1959 Sir Malcolm Sargent Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN Cello Concerto in D HAYDN ‘O how pleasing to the senses’, recitative and aria from The Seasons HAYDN Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS Ilse Wolf, soprano Harry Danks, viola Erling Bengtsson, cello Friday 14 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN Prelude to The Forgotten Rite IRELAND Piano Concerto IRELAND Satyricon, Overture IRELAND Anthony di Bonaventura, piano Eric Parkin, piano Saturday 15 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture di Ballo SULLIVAN To Julia, Song Cycle (arr. Sargent) QUILTER Variations on a Nursery Song DOHNANYI Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt GRIEG Concerto for Percussion and Small Orchestra MILHAUD Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN Alexander Young, tenor Patricia Bishop, piano Gilbert Webster, percussion Royal Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society Monday 17 August 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Maurice Miles* Mátyás Seiber+ Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY Three Pieces for Cello and Orchestra MÁTYÁS SEIBER+ Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER Alberto Lysy, violin Amaryllis Fleming, cello Tuesday 18 August 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Sir William Walton* Sinfonietta JANÁČEK Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY Symphony No. 1 WALTON* Colin Horsley, piano BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Wednesday 19 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent John Hollingsworth* Scherzo and March from The Love of Three Oranges PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOV Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ Piano Concerto MALCOLM WILLIAMSON* Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK* Malcolm Williamson, piano Thursday 20 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent John Hollingsworth Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR Marjorie Thomas, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor John Cameron, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society Royal Choral Society Friday 21 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Andrzej Panufnik* Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN ‘Abscheulicher’, Recitative and Aria from Fidelio BEETHOVEN Two Romances for Violin and Orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY Polonia, Suite PANUFNIK* Joyce Barker, soprano Ida Haendel, violin Saturday 22 August 1959 National Youth Orchestra Walter Susskind Overture to Theodora (arr. Gordon Jacob) HANDEL Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART Soirées Musicales (arr. Britten) ROSSINI Háry János, Suite KODÁLY Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK Kathleen Jones, piano Monday 24 August 1959 Hallé Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ Symphonic Dances Nos. 2 and 4 GRIEG Oboe Concerto MARTINŮ Symphony No. 39 MOZART Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS Evelyn Rothwell, oboe Tuesday 25 August 1959 Hallé Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli Overture to The Silken Ladder ROSSINI Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY Symphony No. 5 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme RICHARD STRAUSS Colas Breugnon, Overture KABALEVSKY Peter Katin, piano Wednesday 26 August 1959 Hallé Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 ALWYN Thursday 27 August 1959 Hallé Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli Overture to Rosamunde SCHUBERT Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT Lamar Crowson, piano Friday 28 August 1959 Hallé Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Hans Richter-Haaser, piano Saturday 29 August 1959 Hallé Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli Overture to Il Seraglio MOZART Trumpet Concerto HAYDN Symphony No. 40 MOZART Suite from Der Rosenkavalier RICHARD STRAUSS Overture to Pique Dame SUPPÉ Selections from A Waltz Dream OSCAR STRAUS New Pizzicato Polka JOHANN STRAUSS II Tales of the Vienna Woods JOHANN STRAUSS II Overture to Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II William Lang, trumpet Monday 31 August 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent The Creation HAYDN Elsie Morison, soprano Walter Midgley, tenor Owen Brannigan, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society Royal Choral Society Tuesday 1 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Tapiola SIBELIUS Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) KODÁLY Symphony No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH Colin Horsley, piano Wednesday 2 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS Four Serious Songs (orch. Sargent) BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS Kim Borg, bass Andor Foldes, piano Thursday 3 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Maurice Miles* Kenneth Leighton+ Introduction and Allegro ELGAR Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS Burlesque KENNETH LEIGHTON+ Piano Solos (Chopin) Carnival Overture DVOŘÁK Witold Malcuzynski, piano Friday 4 September 1959 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Basil Cameron Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 YORK BOWEN Street Corner, Overture ALAN RAWSTHORNE Alan Loveday, violin York Bowen, piano Saturday 5 September 1959 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra John Hollingsworth Richard Arnell* Introduction to Act 3 of Sylvia DELIBES Suite from Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from Façade WALTON Symphonic Variations FRANCK Scenes and Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA Ballet Suite, Harlequin in April RICHARD ARNELL* Bolèro RAVEL Natalia Karp, piano Monday 7 September 1959 Basil Cameron John Hollingsworth* Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH ‘Ombra mai fu’, Recitative and Aria from Xerxes HANDEL Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH Concerto in B flat for Harp and Small Orchestra HANDEL Suite from The Water Music (arr. Harty) HANDEL Concerto Serenata for Harp and Orchestra RODRIGO Tintagel BAX Constance Shacklock, contralto Nicanor Zabaleta, harp Maurice Cole, piano Tuesday 8 September 1959 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Basil Cameron Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST Violin Concerto BERG Symphony No. 4 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS La Mer DEBUSSY Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber HINDEMITH Tibor Varga, violin Wednesday 9 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Maurice Miles* Lennox Berkeley+ Hamlet TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY Pezzo Capriccioso TCHAIKOVSKY* Symphony No. 2 LENNOX BERKELEY+ Maurice Gendron, cello Thursday 10 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Le Roi David HONEGGER Plague Choruses from Israel in Egypt HANDEL Organ Concerto in D minor, Op. 7 No. 4 HANDEL Zadok the Priest HANDEL Richard Attenborough, narrator Elizabeth Fretwell, soprano Monica Sinclair, contralto David Galliver, tenor George Thalben-Ball, organ Alexandra Choir BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Goldsmiths’ Choral Union Friday 11 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Myra Hess, piano Saturday 12 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor NICOLAI Joan of Arc’s Farewell from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY The Blue Danube Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II Piano Concerto GRIEG Suite from The Firebird STRAVINSKY The Rio Grande LAMBERT Suite from L’Arlèsienne BIZET Jean Allister, soprano Eileen Joyce, soprano BBC Chorus Monday 14 September 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER ‘Wahn! Wahn!’ Sachs Monologue from The Mastersingers WAGNER Siegfried Idyll WAGNER Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER Closing Scene from Die Walküre WAGNER Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS Sylvia Fisher, soprano Sigurd Björling, baritone Tuesday 15 September 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS Endre Wolf, violin Wednesday 16 September 1959 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron John Hollingsworth* Serenata Notturna MOZART Exsultate jubilate, Motet MOZART Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART Double Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS Heather Harper, soprano Ralph Holmes, violin Rohan de Saram, cello Thursday 17 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTÓK Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS La Valse RAVEL Helga Pilarczyk, soprano Hephzibah Menuhin, piano Friday 18 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Maurice Miles* Overture to Lohengrin WAGNER Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ Pauline Brockless, soprano Nancy Thomas, contralto John Mitchinson, tenor David Ward, bass BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Saturday 19 September 1959 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Basil Cameron* Overture to The Barber of Seville ROSSINI Andante Cantabile TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN Dance Rhapsody No. 1 DELIUS Pomp and Circumstamce March No. 1 ELGAR Sea Songs HENRY WOOD Rule Britannia ARNE Jerusalem PARRY Constance Shacklock, piano Clifford Curzon, piano Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 66th Season 1960 Saturday 23 July 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER ‘In questa reggia’, aria from Turandot PUCCINI Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN Variations on a theme of Paganini BLACHER Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK Amy Shuard, soprano Clifford Curzon, piano Monday 25 July 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Lennox Berkeley* A London Overture IRELAND Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila LENNOX BERKELEY* Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS Symphony No. 5 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Nancy Evans, contralto Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano Tuesday 26 July 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH Cantata No. 140 BACH Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS Elizabeth Simon, soprano Alexander Young, tenor James Milligan, bass Rosalyn Tureck, piano BBC Chorus Wednesday 27 July 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT Italian Serenade (orch. Reger) WOLF Double Concerto BRAHMS Annelies Kupper, soprano Endre Wolf, violin André Navarra, cello Thursday 28 July 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Sir Eugene Goossens Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY La Mer DEBUSSY The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY Sergio Varella Cid, piano Friday 29 July 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Norman del Mar* Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto GERHARD* Fêtes (Nocturnes) DEBUSSY Yfrah Neaman, violin Maria Donska, piano Saturday 30 July 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Oberon WEBER ‘Ombra cara’, aria from Radamisto HANDEL Piano Concerto SCHUMANN La Boutique fantasque, Suite (orch. Respighi) ROSSINI Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK Russell Oberlin, counter tenor Hans Richter-Haaser, piano Monday 1 August 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to Medea CHERUBINI The Mad Scene from I Puritani BELLINI Piano Concerto GRIEG Suite from L’Arlèsienne BIZET Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY Joan Sutherland, soprano Phyllis Sellick, piano Tuesday 2 August 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis Overture to The Thieving Magpie ROSSINI Sinfonia da Requiem BRITTEN Piano Concerto No. 25 MOZART Four Songs from Les nuits d’été (Villanelle, Le Spectre de la Rose, Sur les Lagunes, L’Ile Inconnue) BERLIOZ Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN Nadine Sautereau, soprano Charles Rosen, piano Wednesday 3 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent The Creation HAYDN Mary Wells, soprano William Herbert, tenor Kim Borg, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society Royal Choral Society Watford Philharmonic Society Thursday 4 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Semiramide ROSSINI Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge BRITTEN Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY Tibor Varga, violin Friday 5 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN Falstaff ELGAR Lamar Crowson, piano Saturday 6 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Stanford Robinson* The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN Suite No. 2 from The Wand of Youth ELGAR Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV Jeux d’Enfants BIZET Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra LITOLFF Scottish Dances IAIN HAMILTON España CHABRIER Eileen Joyce, piano Monday 8 August 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis Overture to Idomeneo MOZART Anne’s Scena from The Rake’s Progress STRAVINSKY Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART Symphony in C STRAVINSKY Gesang der Jünglinge STOCKHAUSEN Bolero RAVEL Joan Carlyle, soprano Ingrid Haebler, piano Tuesday 9 August 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN Concerto in E flat major for Two Pianos MOZART Love Scene, Queen Mab Scherzo, Reverie and Capulet’s Feast from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion BARTÓK Emperor Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky, piano Heinz König, percussion Christopher Caskel, percussion Wednesday 10 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Maurice Miles* Overture from The Impresario MOZART Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments HODDINOTT* Missa solemnis BEETHOVEN Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto John Mitchinson, tenor Trevor Anthony, bass Valerie Tryon, piano BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Thursday 11 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Introduction and Allegro ELGAR Cello Concerto ELGAR Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST The Planets HOLST Paul Tortelier, cello BBC Women’s Chorus Friday 12 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Alexander Gibson* Finale of the Ballet Music from The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN Musique Funèbre LUTOSLAWSKI Jeux DEBUSSY Myra Hess, piano Saturday 13 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Cosi fan tutte MOZART Suite from Mother Goose RAVEL ‘Di, cor mio’ and ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ arias from Alcina HANDEL Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY ‘Regnava nel silenzio’ aria from Lucia di Lammermoor DONIZETTI On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring DELIUS From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields SMETANA Joan Sutherland, soprano Henryk Szeryng, violin Monday 15 August 1960 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Endre Wolf, violin Tuesday 16 August 1960 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Incidental Music to Egmont BEETHOVEN Grande Messe des Morts BERLIOZ Jeannette Sinclair, soprano Charles Craig, tenor Marius Goring, narrator BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Wembley Philharmonic Society Wednesday 17 August 1960 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART Six Pieces, Op. 6 WEBERN Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS Jörg Demus, piano Thursday 18 August 1960 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Symphony No. 98 HAYDN Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN Variations SCHOENBERG Alborada del gracioso RAVEL Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK Elise Czerfalvi, violin Friday 19 August 1960 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN Nocturne for Tenor BRITTEN Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ Peter Pears, tenor Daniel Wayenberg, piano Saturday 20 August 1960 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Comedy Overture BUSONI ‘Porgi Amor’ and ‘Dove sono’ arias from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART Parade SATIE German Dances (orch. Webern) SCHUBERT Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT Overture to The Silken Ladder ROSSINI Jaroslavna’s Aria from Prince Igor BORODIN Háry János, Suite KODÁLY Elisabeth Söderström, soprano John Ogdon, piano Monday 22 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis GLUCK Wesendonk Lieder WAGNER Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS Sylvia Fisher, soprano Sergio Varella Cid, piano Tuesday 23 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Colin Davis* Overture to Prince Igor BORODIN Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY* Patricia Johnson, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor Alberto Remedios, tenor Roger Stalman, bass Raimund Herincx, bass baritone John Neville, speaker BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus Wednesday 24 August 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron The Fair Melusine, Overture MENDELSSOHN Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS Altenberg Lieder BERG Concerto in D major for flute and strings (Il Cardellino) VIVALDI Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN Pamela Bowden, mezzo soprano Severino Gazzelloni, flute Thursday 25 August 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola MOZART Symphony No. 102 HAYDN Ode (Elegiac Chant) STRAVINSKY Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART Norbert Brainin, violin Peter Schidlof, viola Friday 26 August 1960 Sir Malcolm Sargent Sir Arthur Bliss* Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN ‘Abscheulicher!’, aria from Fidelio BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN Lie Strewn the White Flocks, Pastoral BLISS* Two Dances from Checkmate BLISS* Joyce Barker, soprano Helen Watts, contralto Douglas Whittaker, flute BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Saturday 27 August 1960 Sir Malcolm Sargent GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PROGRAMME Marie Collier, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor John Cameron, baritone Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Monday 29 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY Lieutenant Kije, Suite PROKOFIEV Suite from The Firebird STRAVINSKY Shura Cherkassky, piano Tuesday 30 August 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent The Consecration of the House, Overture BEETHOVEN Adelaide, Song with Orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER Grace Hoffman, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor Wednesday 31 August 1960 The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Meredith Davies Overture to Beatrice and Benedict BERLIOZ Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT Violin Concerto BRAHMS Sosotris’s Aria from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT Mathis der Maler, Symphony HINDEMITH Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Ida Haendel, violin Thursday 1 September 1960 The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Basil Cameron Prelude to Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN Piano Solos (Chopin) Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL Halina Czerny-Stefanska, piano Friday 2 September 1960 The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Basil Cameron Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN Choral fantasia BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN Siegfried’s Funeral March and Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER Sylvia Fisher, soprano Peter Wallfisch, piano Covent Garden Opera Chorus Saturday 3 September 1960 The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Alexander Gibson Entry of Diana’s Huntresses from Act 1 of Sylvia DELIBES Les Patineurs (arr. Lambert) MEYERBEER Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas BRITTEN Symphonic Variations FRANCK Ballet Suite from Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from Cinderella PROKOFIEV Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN Malcolm Binns, piano Monday 5 September 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent George Hurst* Overture to Tancredi ROSSINI Symphony No. 99 HAYDN Requiem Mass VERDI Ivana Tosini, soprano Anna Maria Rota, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor Raffaele Arié, bass BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Tuesday 6 September 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr. Harty) HANDEL Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART Les Préludes LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTÓK Vltava SMETANA Andor Foldes, piano Wednesday 7 September 1960 Sir Malcolm Sargent Sir Eugene Goossens* Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY Joan of Arc’s Farewell from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY Poem for Twenty-Two strings SEARLE Phantasy Concerto for Violin and Orchestra GOOSSENS Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano Tessa Robbins, violin Thursday 8 September 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Sir William Walton* Derby Day, Overture ALWYN Cello Concerto WALTON* Symphony No. 9 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Enigma Variations ELGAR Erling Bengtsson, cello Friday 9 September 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN Three Places in New England IVES The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS Denis Matthews, piano Saturday 10 September 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Sir William Walton* Overture to The Marriage of Figaro MOZART Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL Violin Concerto No. 2 BACH Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT Suite from Façade WALTON* Carnival in Paris SVENDSEN Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY Beryl Kimber, violin Monday 12 September 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS ‘La Captive’, song with orchestra BERLIOZ Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN Metamorphosen RICHARD STRAUSS Introduction Act 3 and Procession of Masters from The Mastersingers WAGNER Monica Sinclair, soprano Witold Malcuzynski, piano Tuesday 13 September 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Graham Treacher* Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS De profundis SCHOENBERG* Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH Norma Procter, contralto BBC Chorus London New Music Singers Wednesday 14 September 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Meredith Davies Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BACH Cantata No. 21, ‘Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniss’ BACH Triptych for tenor and orchestra THEA MUSGRAVE Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART Heather Harper, soprano Duncan Robertson, baritone Donald Bell, bass baritone Hugh Maguire, violin Alexander Murray, flute Lowry Sanders, flute Francis Jackson, organ BBC Chorus Thursday 15 September 1960 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto BERG Symphonic Dance No. 4 GRIEG Symphonic Studies RAWSTHORNE Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS Ralph Holmes, violin Friday 16 September 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Stanford Robinson* Overture to Alceste GLUCK Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN La Création du Monde MILHAUD* Mephisto Waltz LISZT Elsie Morison, soprano Monica Sinclair, contralto John Mitchinson, tenor Donald Bell, bass BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Saturday 17 September 1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Basil Cameron* Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA Lyric Suite GRIEG Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS* Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS* Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR Beni Mora, Suite HOLST Sea Songs HENRY WOOD Rule Britannia ARNE Jerusalem PARRY Constance Shacklock, soprano Colin Horsley, piano Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 67th Season 1961 Saturday 22 July 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to The Journey to Reims ROSSINI Piano Concerto No. 2 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY Mazeppa LISZT Symphonic Variations FRANCK Emperor Waltzes JOHANN STRAUSS II John Ogdon, piano Monday 24 July 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN Les Illuminations BRITTEN Symphony No. 6 SHOSTAKOVICH Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON Gerald English, tenor Thomas Hemsley, baritone Alexandra Choir BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Tuesday 25 July 1961 London Symphony Orchestra John Pritchard Overture to Luisa Miller VERDI Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ Tamas Vasary, piano Wednesday 26 July 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Les Francs Juges, Overture BERLIOZ Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS Kerstin Meyer, contralto Nina Milkina, piano Thursday 27 July 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to The Seraglio MOZART Serenade to Music VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto RICHARD STRAUSS Symphony No. 21 MIASKOVSKY Prelude and Fugue for Strings in Eighteen parts BRITTEN Enigma Variations ELGAR Elizabeth Harwood, soprano Pamela Bowden, contralto Alfred Hallett, tenor Victor Godfrey, bass Leon Goossens, oboe BBC Chorus Friday 28 July 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent John Carewe* Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN ‘An die ferne Geliebte’, song cycle BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN Symphonies for solo piano, wind, harps and percussion ELISABETH LUTYENS Organ Solos (Bach and Liszt) Charles Craig, tenor Katharina Wolpe, piano Peter Le Huray, organ Saturday 29 July 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Charles Mackerras* Ballet Suite from Pucinella STRAVINSKY ‘O don fatale’, aria from Don Carlo VERDI Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Waltz Fantasy in B minor GLINKA Love the Magician FALLA Marina de Gabarain, contralto Monday 31 July 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER Six Songs from Das Marienleben HINDEMITH Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK Sybil Michelow, soprano Valerie Tryon, piano Tuesday 1 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis Overture to La Clemenza di Tito MOZART Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK Choral Fantasia BEETHOVEN Concerto for Double String Orchestra TIPPETT Symphony No. 5, ‘Reformation’ MENDELSSOHN Edith Vogel, piano BBC Chorus Wednesday 2 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Sir Arthur Bliss* Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto BRAHMS Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale BRAHMS A Colour Symphony BLISS* Elise Cserfalvi, violin Thursday 3 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Colin Davis* Overture to Prince Igor BORODIN Symphony No. 5 PROKOFIEV Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY* Patricia Johnson, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor Alberto Remedios, tenor Roger Stalman, bass Raimund Herincx, bass Sir Donald Wolfit, narrator BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus Friday 4 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Colin Davis* Symphony No. 93 HAYDN Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN Les Noces STRAVINSKY Kyra Vayne, soprano Janet Baker, mezzo soprano John Mitchinson, tenor John Cameron, bass Maria Donska, piano Malcolm Binns, piano Patricia Carroll, piano Genevieve Joy, piano Thomas Rajna, piano BBC Chorus Saturday 5 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA Symphony No. 88 HAYDN Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Ballet Music from Otello VERDI The Rio Grande LAMBERT Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS Jean Allister, contralto Peter Katin, piano Joyce Hedges, piano BBC Chorus Monday 7 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Overture to Semiramide ROSSINI Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Joyeuse Marche CHABRIER The Walk to the Paradise Garden DELIUS Introduction and Rondo capriccioso SAINT-SAËNS Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS Henryk Szeryng, violin Tuesday 8 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Symphony No. 67 HAYDN Shéhérazade RAVEL Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY Irma Kolassi, mezzo soprano Manoug Parikian, violin Wednesday 9 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Masonic Funeral Music MOZART Statements COPLAND Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER Thursday 10 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Concerto Grosso in B flat major (Op. 3 No. 1) HANDEL Requiem Mass MOZART Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS Teresa Stich-Randall, soprano Norma Procter, contralto William McAlpine, tenor Michael Langdon, bass BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Harrow Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society Friday 11 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Sir Eugene Goossens* Finale from The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Rhapsody for Clarinet and orchestra DEBUSSY Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit (orch. Goossens) RAVEL Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL Henryk Szeryng, violin Colin Bradbury, clarinet Saturday 12 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Excerpts from The Yeoman of the Guard, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, The Mikado and The Gondoliers Elsie Morison, soprano Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano Richard Lewis, tenor John Cameron, baritone Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus Royal Choral Society Monday 14 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra John Pritchard Fanfare from La Peri DUKAS Images DEBUSSY Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ Yvonne Lefébure, piano Tuesday 15 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra George Malcolm Two Canzonas from Symphonic Sacrae (Nos. 3 and 5) GABRIELI Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH Cantata Academica BRITTEN Serenade for contralto, women’s chorus and orchestra, Op. 135 SCHUBERT Spem in Alium, motet TALLIS Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Alexander Young, tenor Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus Wednesday 16 August 1961 BBC Northern Orchestra George Hurst Overture to The Force of Destiny VERDI Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH Divertimento for String Orchestra ANTHONY MILNER Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY Ralph Holmes, violin Thursday 17 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART Rückert Lieder MAHLER Piano Concerto SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY Maureen Forrester, contralto Phyllis Sellick, piano Friday 18 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Sir Eugene Goossens* Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN Marche ecossaise DEBUSSY La Mer DEBUSSY Violin Concerto SCHOENBERG Tibor Varga, violin Saturday 19 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture in the Italian Style in D major SCHUBERT Opera Arias VERDI Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK Violin Rhapsody No. 1 BARTÓK Seven Popular Spanish Songs FALLA The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS Carmen Prietto, mezzo soprano Erich Gruenberg, violin Monday 21 August 1961 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Don Giovanni (concert performance) MOZART Mirella Freni, Zerlina Gerda Scheyrer, Donna Anna Ilva Ligabue, Donna Elvira Richard Lewis, Don Ottavio Leonardo Monreale, Masetto Geraint Evans, Leporello György Melis, Don Giovanni Michael Langdon, Commendatore Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Tuesday 22 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Reginald Goodall* Representation of Chaos from The Creation HAYDN Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN Mass in E minor BRUCKNER Paul Baumgartner, piano BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Wednesday 23 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Introduction and Allegro ELGAR Violin Concerto ELGAR The Planets HOLST Alan Loveday, violin BBC Women’s Chorus Thursday 24 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent John Carewe* Serenade for Strings ELGAR Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS Hecuba’s Lament ALEXANDER GOEHR* Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN Edith Vogel, piano Friday 25 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron King Stephen, Overture BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto SCHOENBERG Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER Denis Mathews, piano Katherine Wolpe, piano Saturday 26 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Bryan Balkwill The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN ‘Ocean, thou mighty monster’, scena and aria from Oberon WEBER Dances of Galanta KODÁLY Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Polka and Russian Dance from The Age of Gold SHOSTAKOVICH Horn Concerto No. 3 MOZART Three Scenes from Petrushka STRAVINSKY Nell Rankin, soprano Barry Tuckwell, horn Shura Cherkassky, piano Monday 28 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent The Flight into Egypt from The Childhood of Christ BERLIOZ Missa solemnis BEETHOVEN Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto Rowland Jones, tenor David Ward, bass BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Tuesday 29 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent John Carewe* Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10 (played twice) WEBERN Improvisation sur Mallarmé, No. 2 Une dentelle BOULEZ Organ Concerto Op. 7 No. 4 HANDEL Heather Harper, soprano Charles Spinks, organ The New Music Ensemble Wednesday 30 August 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Alfonso and Estrella SCHUBERT Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 2 WALTON Siegfried Idyll WAGNER Overture to The Mastersingers WAGNER André Navarra, cello Thursday 31 August 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis The Consecration of the House, Overture BEETHOVEN ‘La mort d’Ophélie’ and ‘Sara la Baigneuse’ BERLIOZ Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY Clarinet Concerto MOZART Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK Gervase de Peyer, clarinet BBC Chorus Friday 1 September 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN Flos Campi VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Oceanides SIBELIUS Symphony No. 95 HAYDN Patrick Ireland, viola Dario de Rosa, piano Renato Zanettovich, violin Libero Lana, cello Saturday 2 September 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent George Hurst* Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ Psyche FRANCK Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV Scherzo Capriccioso DVOŘÁK Oboe Concerto No. 1 ARNOLD Mephisto Waltzes LISZT Evelyn Rothwell, oboe Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano Monday 4 September 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Beatrice and Benedict BERLIOZ Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART Symphony No. 8 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Kindertotenlieder MAHLER Sinfonie singulière BERWALD Tessa Robbins, violin Aafje Heynis, contralto Tuesday 5 September 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN Grande Messe des Morts BERLIOZ Richard Lewis, tenor BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Croydon Philharmonic Society Wembley Philharmonic Society Wednesday 6 September 1961 London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult Graham Treacher* Comedy Overture BUSONI Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT De Profundis* SCHOENBERG Concerto No. 1 in D minor for three pianos and strings BACH Clifford Curzon, piano Eileen Broster, piano Carlina Carr, piano Bronwen Jones, piano BBC Chorus London New Music Singers Thursday 7 September 1961 London Philharmonic Orchestra Basil Cameron Concerto No. 2 in C major for three pianos and strings BACH Symphony No. 6 SIBELIUS Cello Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS Paul Tortelier, cello Malcolm Binns, piano Philip Challis, piano Keith Sellors, piano Friday 8 September 1961 London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH Organ Concerto MALCOLM WILLIAMSON Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL Myra Hess, piano Malcolm Williamson, organ Saturday 9 September 1961 London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult Overture to The Marriage of Figaro MOZART Serenade for Strings DVOŘÁK Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Ecossaise IAIN HAMILTON Symphonie espagnole LALO Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY Alfredo Campoli, violin Philippe Entremont, piano Monday 11 September 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10 HANDEL Variations on ‘La ci darem’ for piano and orchestra CHOPIN Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK Sena Jurinac, soprano Colin Horsley, piano Tuesday 12 September 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Pohjola’s Daughter SIBELIUS Piano Concerto No. 1 RAWSTHORNE Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Piano Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY Moura Lympany, piano Wednesday 13 September 1961 London Symphony Orchestra John Pritchard Overture to Idomeneo MOZART Three Fragments from ‘Wozzeck’ BERG Concerto in D minor for two violins and strings BACH Tasso LISZT Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS Marie Collier, soprano Nona Liddell, violin Winifred Roberts, soprano Thursday 14 September 1961 London Symphony Orchestra Meredith Davies Symphony No. 91 HAYDN Sosostris’s Aria from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN Mater ora Filium for a capella chorus BAX Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Bronislaw Gimpel, violin BBC Chorus Friday 15 September 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Bernard Keeffe* Overture to Ezio HANDEL* Sinfonia concertante for wind instruments MOZART* Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN Elizabeth Simon, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto Ronald Dowd, tenor Donald Bell, bass Janet Craxton, oboe Colin Bradbury, clarinet Douglas Moore, horn Geoffrey Gambold, bassoon BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Saturday 16 September 1961 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Basil Cameron* Overture to The Barber of Seville ROSSINI Two songs from The Duenna GERHARD Piano Concerto GRIEG Symphony No. 102 HAYDN Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST Sea Songs HENRY WOOD Rule Britannia ARNE Jerusalem PARRY Constance Shacklock, contralto Gina Bachauer, piano Marie Collier, soprano Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 68th Season 1962 Saturday 21 July 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Sir William Walton* Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell BRITTEN Piano Concerto GRIEG Symphony No. 2 BORODIN The Quest, ballet music WALTON* A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo MENDELSSOHN Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY Patricia Carroll, piano Ernest Lush, piano Monday 23 July 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent The Creation HAYDN Heather Harper, soprano Alexander Young, tenor Richard Standen, bass BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Watford Philharmonic Society Tuesday 24 July 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 11, ‘The Year 1905’ SHOSTAKOVICH Yehudi Menuhin, violin Wednesday 25 July 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent David Willcocks* Abdelazer, suite PURCELL* Hymn to St. Cecilia BRITTEN* Magnificat (Vespers of 1610) MONTEVERDI* Suite No. 3 BACH Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine WAGNER Heather Harper, soprano Mary Thomas, contralto Kathleen Kay, contralto David Galliver, tenor Philip Todd, tenor John Noble, bass Richard Standen, bass Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano Roy Jesson, organ Ambrosian Singers BBC Chorus Thursday 26 July 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Norman del Mar Leonora No. 1, overture BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 MAHLER Helen Watts, contralto Boys from Highgate School Choir Orpington Junior Singers Friday 27 July 1962 London Symphony Orchestra John Pritchard Alexander’s Feast, overture HANDEL Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra MOZART Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN Music for King Lear DEBUSSY Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY Joyeuse Marche CHABRIER Hugh Maguire, violin Simon Streatfield, viola BBC Women’s Chorus Saturday 28 July 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron The Barber of Seville, overture ROSSINI Clarinet Concerto No. 2 WEBER Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV Mont Juic (Suite of Catalan Dances) (arr. Berkeley) BRITTEN Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Gervase de Peyer, clarinet Valerie Tryon, piano Monday 30 July 1962 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra John Pritchard Cosi fan tutte MOZART Antigone Sgourda, Fiordiligi Stefania Malagu, Dorabella Reri Grist, Despina Loren Driscoll, Don Fernando Ingvar Wixell, Don Guglielmo Michel Roux, Don Alfonso Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Tuesday 31 July 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Lennox Berkeley* Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Pieces for Violin and Orchestra LENNOX BERKELEY* Cello Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY Frederick Grinke, violin Paul Tortelier, cello Wednesday 1 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Peter Gellhorn* The Marriage of Figaro, overture MOZART Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS Mass in B flat major, ‘Theresienmesse’ HAYDN* Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Kathleen Joyce, contralto Alexander Young, tenor Richard Standen, bass Peter Katin, piano BBC Chorus Thursday 2 August 1962 Sir Malcolm Sargent Norman del Mar* Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS Variations SCHOENBERG* Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Respighi) BACH Symphonic Variations FRANCK Enigma Variations ELGAR Phyllis Sellick, piano Friday 3 August 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron John Carewe* Fidelio, overture BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN Movements from Le Marteau sans Maitre BOULEZ* Iberia DEBUSSY* Rosemary Phillips, piano Lamar Crowson, piano New Music Ensemble Saturday 4 August 1962 London Symphony Orchestra John Pritchard Rosamunde, overture SCHUBERT Introduction, Papageno’s aria and Quintet from Act 1 The Magic Flute MOZART Piano Concerto SCHUMANN Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS Canadian Carnival BRITTEN The Trojans, ballet music BERLIOZ Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY Mary Wells, soprano Pamela Petts, soprano Pauline Darroll, contralto Gerald English, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, baritone Hans Richter-Haaser, piano Monday 6 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent The Bartered Bride, overture SMETANA Symphony No. 88 HAYDN Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT Façade, Suite WALTON Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY Tuesday 7 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Rudolf Schwarz* Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER* Stephen Bishop, piano Wednesday 8 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Norman del Mar* Don Giovanni, overture MOZART Symphony No. 40 MOZART Violin Concerto BRAHMS Agon STRAVINSKY* Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY* Ralph Holmes, violin Thursday 9 August 1962 London Symphony Orchestra John Pritchard La Damoiselle elue DEBUSSY Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY La Mer DEBUSSY Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY Elisabeth Robinson, soprano Yvonne Newman, contralto BBC Women’s Chorus Friday 10 August 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Rudolf Schwarz Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS Symphony No. 10, ‘Adagio’ MAHLER Israel in Egypt HANDEL Mary Wells, soprano Nancy Evans, mezzo soprano John Mitchinson, tenor Frederick Harvey, baritone Raimund Herincx, bass baritone BBC Chorus Harrow Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society Saturday 11 August 1962 London Symphony Orchestra John Pritchard I Masnadieri, overture VERDI Le Baiser de la Fee, divertimento STRAVINSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Horn Concerto No. 4 MOZART Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS Danse macabre SAINT-SAENS Barry Tuckwell, horn Monday 13 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Norman del Mar* Egmont, overture BEETHOVEN Andante and Rondo from Haffner Serenade MOZART Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN Jeux DEBUSSY Violin Concerto SCHOENBERG Wolfgang Marschner, violin Tuesday 14 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent A London Overture IRELAND Sea Drift DELIUS Cello Concerto ELGAR Les Illuminations BRITTEN Gloria in Excelsis Deo WALTON Marjorie Thomas, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor Gerald English, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, baritone Jacqueline du Pre, cello BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society London Philharmonic Choir Wednesday 15 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Norman del Mar* Der Freischutz, overture WEBER Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas BRITTEN Medieval Diptych RAWSTHORNE* Ritual Dances from A Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT* Peter Glossop, baritone Peter Katin, piano Thursday 16 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Peter Gellhorn* Munich Kyrie, K341 MOZART* Sara la baigneuse BERLIOZ* ‘Misera dove son’, concert aria MOZART* Sheherazade RAVEL Cantata No. 50 BACH Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS Stefania Woytowicz, soprano Rohan de Saram, cello BBC Chorus Friday 17 August 1962 Philharmonia Orchestra John Pritchard Canzonas Nos. 14 and 16 (Symphoniae Sacrae) GABRIELI Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN Les Noces STRAVINSKY Kyra Vane, soprano Pamela Bowden, mezzo soprano John Mitchinson, tenor John Cameron, bass Katharina Wolpe, piano Malcolm Binns, piano Patricia Carroll, piano Thomas Rajna, piano Grace Wilkinson, piano BBC Chorus Saturday 18 August 1962 Philharmonia Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Marche Militaire in D major SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT Violin Concerto No. 3 MOZART Tales from the Vienna Woods, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II Perpetuum Mobile JOHANN STRAUSS II Wine, Women and Song, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II Emperor Waltzes JOHANN STRAUSS II Artist’s Life, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II Pizzicato Polka JOSEF AND JOHANN STRAUSS II The Blue Danube, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II Tessa Robbins, violin Monday 20 August 1962 BBC Scottish Orchestra Norman del Mar The Impresario, overture MOZART Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Phoenix and the Turtle THEA MUSGRAVE Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY David Wilde, piano Ambrosian Singers Tuesday 21 August 1962 Philharmonia Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult Introduction and Allegro ELGAR ‘Par che mi nasca in seno’, aria from Tamerlano HANDEL Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT Piano Quartet in G minor (orch. Schoenberg) BRAHMS Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Wednesday 22 August 1962 Philharmonia Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH ‘Per pieta, non ricercate’, concert aria MOZART Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS Serenade for tenor, horn and strings BRITTEN Tanzwalzer BUSONI Alexander Young, tenor Alan Civil, horn Thursday 23 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Le Carnaval romain, overture BERLIOZ Clarinet Concerto MOZART Symphony No. 7 DVORAK Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON Thomas Hemsley, baritone Colin Bradbury, clarinet BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society London Philharmonic Choir Royal Choral Society Friday 24 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent John Carewe Leonore No. 3, overture BEETHOVEN ‘Sanft wie du lebtest’, Elegiac Song BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN Cinq Rechants MESSIAEN Oiseaux exotiques MESSIAEN Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ Dorothy Dorow, soprano Rosemary Phillips, contralto Aloys Kontarsky, piano Ambrosian Singers BBC Chorus Saturday 25 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent La Scala di Seta, overture ROSSINI Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Jeux d’enfants BIZET Danse (orch. Ravel) DEBUSSY The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY Henryk Szeryng, violin Monday 27 August 1962 BBC Northern Orchestra George Hurst The Consecration of the House, overture BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Festival Overture SHOSTAKOVICH Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY Henryk Szeryng, violin Tuesday 28 August 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis Greetings Prelude STRAVINSKY Symphony in C STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY Sebastian Shaw, actor Patricia Johnson, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor Alberto Remedios, tenor Raimund Herincx, baritone Roger Stalman, bass BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus Wednesday 29 August 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ Josephine Veasey, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor Hervey Alan, bass Roger Stalman, bass Ambrosian Singers Goldsmiths’ Choral Union Thursday 30 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Overture in D minor (orch. Elgar) HANDEL Symphony No. 2 ELGAR The Planets HOLST BBC Women’s Chorus Friday 31 August 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Norman del Mar* Coriolan, overture BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN Ricercare from The Musical Offering (orch. Webern) BACH Scenes and Arias MAW* Portsmouth Point, overture WALTON* Heather Harper, soprano Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Leon Fleisher, piano Saturday 1 September 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Elsie Morison, soprano Marjorie Thomas, soprano Walter Midgley, tenor John Cameron Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus Royal Choral Society Monday 3 September 1962 London Philharmonic Orchestra Basil Cameron Idomeneo, overture MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 MOZART Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS Introduction and Allegro BLISS Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL Nina Milkina, piano Tuesday 4 September 1962 London Philharmonic Orchestra Norman del Mar Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS Three Hymns RICHARD STRAUSS Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY Elisabeth Soderstrom, soprano Geza Anda, piano Wednesday 5 September 1962 London Philharmonic Orchestra Basil Cameron Tragic Overture BRAHMS Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART Jabez and the Devil, Ballet Suite ARNOLD COOKE Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN Vlado Perlemuter, piano Thursday 6 September 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Manfred, overture SCHUMANN Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS Te Deum BERLIOZ Charles Craig, tenor Harry Danks, viola Janos Starker, cello Alexandra Choir BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society Friday 7 September 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Norman del Mar Prometheus, overture BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1 GERHARD Daniel Wayenberg, piano Saturday 8 September 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Il viaggio a Reims, overture ROSSINI Bassoon Concerto WEBER Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS Geoffrey Gambold, bassoon Shura Cherkassky, piano Monday 10 September 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Symphony No. 104, ‘London’ HAYDN Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY Symphony No. 8 DVORAK Manoug Parikian, violin John Ogdon, piano Tuesday 11 September 1962 London Symphony Orchestra George Hurst Leonora No. 2, overture BEETHOVEN Cantata No. 82 BACH Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS Five Neapolitan Songs HENZE Scherzo Capriccioso DVORAK Hermann Prey, baritone Wednesday 12 September 1962 London Symphony Orchestra Basil Cameron Symphony No. 102 HAYDN Four Songs from Les nuits d’ete BERLIOZ Double Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’ SAINT-SAENS April Cantelo, mezzo soprano Yan Pascal Tortelier, violin Paul Tortelier, cello Winifred Davey Josephine Lee Simon Preston, organ Thursday 13 September 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Peter Maxwell Davies* Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH Fantasia on an In Nomine of John Taverner MAXWELL DAVIES* Trumpet Concerto HAYDN Exsultate jubilate MOZART Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Elizabeth Simon, piano Paul Beard, violin Richard Adeney, flute Leon Goossens, oboe Adolf Scherbaum, trumpet Rosalyn Tureck, soprano Friday 14 September 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Peter Gellhorn* Suite No. 4 BACH Mass in C major, ‘Coronation’ MOZART Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN Heather Harper, soprano Norma Procter, contralto John Mitchinson, tenor Robert Thomas, tenor Donald Bell, bass baritone Alexandra Choir BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society Saturday 15 September 1962 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Malcolm Sargent Basil Cameron Di Ballo, overture SULLIVAN Arioso from Mazeppa TCHAIKOVSKY Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAENS Mephisto Waltz LISZT Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields SMETANA Sea Songs WOOD Rule Britannia ARNE Jerusalem PARRY Monica Sinclair, soprano Alfred Orda, baritone Moura Lympany, piano