Saturday, 2 July 2016

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - 1914 - 1924



26 October 1914
Wassili Safonoff
William Reed, violin
D.S. Wood, flute
J.L. Fonteyne, oboe
J. Solomon, trumpet
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 (or 103)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’


9 November 1914
Wassili Safonoff
Vera Brock, piano
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Rubinstein:  Piano Concerto No. 3
Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 4


23 November 1914
Wassili Safonoff
Albert Sammons, violin
Schumann: Overture to Manfred
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2


7 December 1914
Henri Verbrugghen
Sir Edward Elgar*
Tita Brand Cammaerts, reciter
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Elgar: Carillon*
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


17 December 1914
Wassili Safonoff
Sir Edward Elgar*
M. Meytschik, piano
Tita Brand Cammaerts, reciter
Wischnegradski: Symphony in B flat minor
Scriabin: Piano Concerto
Elgar: Carillon*
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony


25 January 1915
Emil Mlynarski
Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Haydn: Symphony No. 88, ‘Letter V’
Stojowski: Suite in E-flat major ‘Hommage à Hans von Bülow’
Brahms: Symphony No. 2


8 February 1915
Thomas Beecham
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Bizet: Patrie, Overture
Mozart: Adagio from Divertimento for Strings No. 15
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Delius:  Piano Concerto
Franck: Symphony




22 March 1915
Wassili Safonoff
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’


12 April 1915
Wassili Safonoff
Albert Sammons, violin
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4


10 May 1915
Thomas Beecham
Fanny Davies, piano
Franck: Le chasseur maudit
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24
Delius:  North Country Sketches
Lalo: Symphony
Franck: Les Djinns
Ethel Smyth: Overture to The Wreckers


17 May 1915
Emil Mlynarski
Montague Phillips*
Carrie Tubb, soprano
Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte
Mozart: Temerari...Come scoglio from Così fan tutte
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Montague Phillips: Heroic Overture*
Beethoven: Ah! Perfido
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’


31 May 1915
Henri Verbrugghen
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’
Donald Tovey: Symphony in D major
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’


7 June 1915
Henri Verbrugghen
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7




25 October 1915
Thomas Beecham
Gabrielle Réjane, reciter
Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, overture
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Delius:  In a Summer Garden
Elgar: Carillon
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade


8 November 1915
Wassili Safonoff
Arthur Catterall, violin
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5


22 November 1915
Emil Mlynarski
Carrie Tubb, soprano
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Beethoven: Abscheulicher, wo eilst du hin from Fidelio
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Beethoven: Ah! Perfido
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


6 December 1915
Wassili Safonoff
Arthur de Greef, piano
William Reed, violin
D.S. Wood, flute
Walter Hinchliff, oboe
J. Solomon, trumpet
Haydn: Symphony No. 88, ‘Letter V’
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5


24 January 1916
Enrique Fernández Arbós
Fanny Davies, piano
Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Parry: Symphonic Variations
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Rootham: Pan
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’


7 February 1916
Emil Mlynarski
Albert Sammons, violin
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Handel: Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 5
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’


21 February 1916
Emil Mlynarski
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Arthur de Greef: Four Old Flemish Songs, for orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4




20 March 1916
Sir Thomas Beecham
Ethel Toms, contralto
Alfred Heather, tenor
Auguste Bouilliez, baritone
Bantock: Preludes Parts 1 and 2 of Omar Khayyám
Mussorgsky: Czar’s Chambers Scene from Act 2 of Boris Godunov
Borodin: Symphony No. 2
Dvořák: The Water Goblin
Bizet: Quand la flamme de lamour, aria from La Jolie fille de Perth
Ethel Smyth: Overture to The Wreckers


3 April 1916
Sir Thomas Beecham
Frank Mullings, tenor
Vladimir de Pachmann, piano
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town)
Grieg: Five Orchestral Songs, Op. 33
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Franck: Symphony


8 May 1916
Henry Wood
Miriam Licette, soprano
May Harrison, violin
Beatrice Harrison, cello
Gluck: Ballet Music from Alceste
Souard: Aria from Jeannot et Colin
Brahms: Double Concerto
McEwen: Grey Galloway
Debussy: Fantoches (arr as orchestral song)
Debussy: Mandolin (arr as orchestral song)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’


22 May 1916
Thomas Beecham
Arthur Fagge*
Doris Woodall, soprano
Frank Webster, tenor
Powell Edwards, bass
Hallé Choir
Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
Ethel Smyth: Sleepless Dreams and Hey Nonny No! *
Debussy: La Mer
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, dramatic symphony


29 May 1916
Sir Thomas Beecham
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Debussy: Prélude à laprès-midi dun faune
Mozart: Minuet from Divertimento No. 2
Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from The Golden Cockerel
Elgar: Symphony No. 1




23 October 1916
Wassili Safonoff
Benno Moiseiwitch, piano
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5


20 November 1916
Wassili Safonoff
Albert Sammons, violin
Borodin: Overture to Prince Igor
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4


4 December 1916
Wassili Safonoff
Edith Evans, soprano
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Weber: Ozean du Ungeheuer!, aria from Oberon
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


5 February 1917
Hamilton Harty
Irene Scharrer, piano
Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’


5 March 1917
Hamilton Harty
Carrie Tubb, soprano
Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Wagner: Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung
Glazunov: Symphony No. 6


19 March 1917
Hamilton Harty
Arthur de Greef, piano
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town)
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’
Arthur de Greef: Piano Concerto No. 1
Bantock: Hebridean Symphony




27 October 1919
Albert Coates
Felix Salmond, cello
Sir Edward Elgar*
Borodin: Symphony No. 2
Elgar: Cello Concerto*
Wagner: Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Scriabin:  Le Poème de L’extase


24 November 1919
Albert Coates
Vladimir Rosing, tenor
Ravel: Suite from Mother Goose
Liadov: In Olden Times
Liadov: Kikimora
Liadov: Baba Yaga
Rimsky-Korsakov: Song of the Indian Guest from Sadko
Rimsky-Korsakov: Vakulas Aria from Christmas Eve
Mussorgsky: The field-marshall from Songs and Dances of Death
Holbrooke:  Queen Mab
Stravinsky: The Firebird Concert Suite (1919)


15 December 1919
Albert Coates
John Coates, tenor
Unindentified male chorus
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Roger-Ducasse: Le jardin de Marguerite
Boito: Dai campi, dai prati, aria from Mefistofele
Berlioz: Nature immense (Invocation) from La Damnation de Faust
Liszt: A Faust Symphony


19 January 1920
Albert Coates
Rosina Buckman, soprano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Georges D’Orlay: Flamma artis
Wagner: Siegfrieds Rhine Journey, Funeral March and Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung


16 February 1920
Thomas Beecham
Albert Sammons, violin
Handel: Concerto Grosso in E minor, Op. 6 No. 3
Delius:  The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Leonardo Leo: A Little Symphony
Wagner: Prelude Act 1 to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg




8 March 1920
Albert Coates
Myra Hess, piano
Unidentified chorus
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Scriabin:  Prometheus, Le poème du feu



1 November 1920
Albert Coates
Alfred Cortot, piano
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Prokofiev:Scythian Suite



15 November 1920
Albert Coates
Alexander Siloti, piano
Glazunov: Song of the Volga boatmen
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Liszt: Totentanz
Holst: The Planets


29 November 1920
Albert Coates
Guilhermina Suggia, cello
Mozart: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro
Roger-Ducasse: Suite Française in D major
D’Albert: Cello Concerto
Cyril Jenkins: The Magic Cauldron
Sinigaglia: Humoresque for Cello and Orchestra
Scriabin:  Symphony No. 3, ‘Divine Poem’


6 December 1920
Albert Coates
Paul Kochanski, violin
Handel: Concerto Grosso in E minor
Magnard: Chant Funèbre
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony


17 January 1921
Albert Coates
Frederic Lamond, piano
Purcell: Suite for Strings (arranged by Albert Coates)
Holbrooke:  Overture to Dylan
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Frederic D’Erlanger: Prelude to Act 3 of Tess
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: Funeral Music from Götterdämmerung


24 January 1921
Albert Coates
Elsa Stralia, soprano
Olga Haley, contralto
John Coates, tenor
Norman Allin, bass
The Philharmonic Choir
Mozart: Requiem Mass
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun from The Snow Maiden
Glinka: Finale from A Life for the Tsar


14 March 1921
Albert Coates
Albert Sammons, violin
Felix Salmond, cello
William H. Reed: Elegy for Organ and Strings
Lawrence Collingwood: Symphonic Poem
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, A Musical Picture
Brahms: Double Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5




4 April 1921
Albert Coates
Elsa Stralia, soprano
Margaret Balfour, mezzo-soprano
John Coates, tenor
Norman Allin, bass
The Philharmonic Choir
Bach: Mass in B minor


18 April 1921
Albert Coates
Alexander Siloti, piano
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


9 May 1921
Albert Coates
Robert Radford, baritone
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Wagner: Wotans Farewell from Die Walküre
Scriabin:  Le Poème de l’extase
Holbrooke:  The Raven
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5


20 June 1921
Albert Coates
Myra Hess, piano
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town), Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Scriabin:  Prometheus, The Poem of Fire
Brahms: Symphony No. 4







24 October 1921
Albert Coates
Albert Sammons, violin
Wagner: Prelude Act 1 Die Meistersinger
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3, ‘The Song of the Night’
Brahms: Symphony No. 2


7 November 1921
Albert Coates
William H. Reed, violin
Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, (orch. Elgar)
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Holst: The Planets


21 November 1921
Albert Coates
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Clowns from The Snow Maiden
Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
Frederic D’Erlanger: Concerto Symphonique
Franck: Symphony


28 November 1921
Albert Coates
Lev Pouishnoff, piano
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Elgar: Falstaff
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Scriabin:  Symphony No. 3, ‘Divine Poem’


5 December 1921
Albert Coates
Dorothy Silk, soprano
Herbert Heyner, baritone
Norman Allin, bass
The Philharmonic Choir
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Wagner: Grail Scene from Act 1 of Parsifal


23 January 1922
Walter Damrosch
Guilhermina Suggia, cello
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Haydn: Cello Concerto in D major
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’


13 February 1922
Walter Damrosch
Ferruccio Busoni, piano
Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


20 March 1922
Albert Coates
Holbrooke:  Overture to Bronwen
Respighi: Ballad of the Gnomes
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5




24 April 1922
Albert Coates
Sergei Prokofiev, piano
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D minor
Roger-Ducasse: Orphée
Delius:  The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’


8 May 1922
Albert Coates
Dorothy Silk, soprano
Margaret Balfour, contralto
Sidney Pointer, tenor
Robert Radford, bass
The Philharmonic Choir
Beethoven: Missa solemnis






23 October 1922
Albert Coates
Albert Sammons, violin
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’


6 November 1922
Albert Coates
Harold Bauer, piano
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Szymanowski: Incidental Music from Mandragore
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra


20 November 1922
Albert Coates
Florence Austral, soprano
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Wagner: Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung


4 December 1922
Albert Coates
Katharine Goodson, piano
Sinigaglia: Two Characteristic Pieces
Bax: Symphony No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 4


22 January 1923
Eugene Goossens
Dorothy Silk, soprano
Margaret Balfour, contralto
Tudor Davies, tenor
Herbert Heyner, bass
The Bach Choir
Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Elgar)
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’


5 February 1923
Serge Koussevitzky
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Prokofiev: Marche and Scherzo from The Love for Three Oranges
Rachmaninov: Vocalise (arr. for orchestra)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)


19 February 1923
Eugene Goossens
Moritz Rosenthal, piano
Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Goossens: Sinfonietta
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Ravel: La Valse
Brahms: Symphony No. 1




5 March 1923
Serge Koussevitzky
Alexander Borovsky, piano
Vivaldi: Concerto grosso in D minor, Op. 3 No. 11 (orch. Siloti)
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Wagner: Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
Holbrooke:  Overture to Bronwen
Liszt: Totentanz
Scriabin:  Le Poème de l’extase


19 March 1923
Albert Coates
Mitya Nikisch, piano
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Gerrard Williams: Three Preludes
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Mozart: Symphony No. 39


23 April 1923
Albert Coates
Wagner: Prelude Act 1 to Die Meistersinger
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3
Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor




22 October 1923
Albert Coates
Alfred Cortot, piano
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Glazunov: Symphony No. 6


5 November 1923
Albert Coates
Florence Austral, soprano
Tudor Davies, tenor
Wagner: Funeral March from Götterdämmerung (In Memoriam Bonar Law)
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Love Duet Act 2 from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal
Wagner: Dawn, Duet of Siegfried and Brünnhilde and Siegfrieds Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Love Duet and Finale, Act 3 from Siegfried


26 November 1923
Felix Weingartner
Pablo Casals, cello
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


10 December 1923
Serge Koussevitzky
Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie, Suite No. 1
Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, overture
Debussy: Prélude à laprès-midi dun faune
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’


21 January 1924
Eugene Goossens
Joseph Holbrooke*
Serge Prokofiev, piano
Handel: Overture in D minor (arr. Elgar from Chandos Anthem No. 2)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Holbrooke: The Birds of Rhiannon*
Elgar: Symphony No. 1


4 February 1924
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Wagner: Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger


13 February 1924
Nikolai Sokolov
Robert Radford, baritone
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Wagner: Wotan’s Farewell from Die Walküre
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7




10 March 1924
Sergei Koussevitzky
Emil Telmanyi, violin
Boccherini: A Miniature Symphony
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 4


24 March 1924
Sergei Koussevitzky
Hilda Blake, soprano
Margaret Balfour, contralto
Tudor Davies, tenor
Norman Williams, bass
The Philharmonic Choir
Haydn: Symphony No. 88, ‘Letter V’
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’


7 April 1924
Sergei Koussevitzky
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Jean-Henri Rigel:Symphony in D major
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

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