Sunday, 17 May 2009
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
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Fascinating. Do you know where I might find a similar list for concerts between 1968-1971 when I attended around a 100 of them as a teenager?
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