LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - 1924 - 1934

20 October 1924

Albert Coates

Aldo Solito de Solis, piano

Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town)

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

Pick-Mangiagalli: Sortilegi

Franck: Symphony

3 November 1924

Albert Coates

Florence Austral, soprano

Tudor Davies, tenor

Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger

Wagner: Love Duet Act 2 from Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal

Wagner: Dawn, Duet of Siegfried and Brünnhilde, Siegfrieds Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Love Duet and Finale, Act 3 from Siegfried

24 November 1924

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Pablo Casals, cello

Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini

Brahms: Symphony No. 4

Lalo: Cello Concerto

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

8 December 1924

Bruno Walter

Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream

Mozart: Symphony No. 39

Brahms: Symphony No. 2

Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, Overture

12 January 1925

Vladimir Shavitch

Tina Lerner, piano

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 February 1925

Thomas Beecham

Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 2, ‘Antar’

Lalo: Symphonie espagnole

Mozart: Adagio from Divertimento No. 15 in E flat major

Delius:  Paris (The Song of a Great City)

Manuel Quiroga, cello

16 February 1925

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Weber: Overture to Oberon

Schumann: Symphony No. 4

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

9 March 1925

Felix Weingartner

Weber: Overture to Euryanthe

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

23 March 1925

Felix Weingartner

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingals Cave)

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Liszt: Mazeppa

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3

6 April 1925

Georg Schneevoigt

Lionel Tertis, viola

Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz

Haydn: Symphony No. 88, ‘Letter V’

York Bowen: Viola Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

11 May 1925

Serge Koussevitzky

José Iturbi, piano

Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 3, No. 11 (arr. Siloti)

Falla: Ballet Suite from El amor brujo

Frederic D’Erlanger: Concerto Symphonique

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

25 May 1925

Serge Koussevitzky

Hilda Blake, soprano

Margaret Balfour, contralto

Tudor Davies, tenor

Harold Williams, bass

The Philharmonic Choir

Mozart: Symphony No. 40

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

9 June 1925

Serge Koussevitzky

Sir Edward Elgar*

Wagner: Prelude 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

19 October 1925

Albert Coates

Alfred Cortot, piano

Gluck: Ballet Suite (arr. Felix Mottl)

Respighi: The Pines of Rome*

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

Tcherepnin: Sinfonietta for Orchestra

2 November 1925

Albert Coates

Florence Austral, soprano

Walter Widdop, tenor

Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser

Wagner: Duet and Finale, Act 1 from Die Walküre

Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal

Wagner: Dawn, Duet Siegfried and Brünnhilde, Siegfrieds Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Love Duet and Finale, Act 3 from Siegfried

23 November 1925

Bruno Walter

Pablo Casals, cello

Chopin: Funeral March in memoriam Queen Alexandra

Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

Schumann: Cello Concerto

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

7 December 1925

Pablo Casals

Gaspar Cassado, cello

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas

Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’

18 January 1926

Thomas Beecham

Arthur Catterall, violin

Mozart: Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor

Delius: In a Summer Garden

Brahms: Violin Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

1 February 1926

Thomas Beecham

Erica Morini, violin

Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride

Delius: Paris (The Song of a Great City)

Goldmark: Violin Concerto No. 1

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

8 March 1926

Felix Weingartner

Schumann: Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Holst: Mercury, Venus and Jupiter from The Planets

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

22 March 1926

Felix Weingartner

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

Weingartner: Symphony No. 5

Brahms: Symphony No. 2

12 April 1926

Vladimir Shavitch

Alexander Borovsky, piano

Tudor Davies, tenor

London Choral Society

Beethoven: Overture to Egmont

Franck: Le Chasseur maudit

Bach: Concerto for Piano and Strings in D minor

Liszt: A Faust Symphony

26 April 1926

Sir Edward Elgar

Muriel Brunskill, contralto

Elgar: In the South (Alassio)

Elgar: Sea Pictures

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Elgar: Symphony No. 1

18 October 1926

Albert Coates

Walter Gieseking, piano

Weber: Overture to Oberon

Albert Coates: Suite Ancienne d’après les vieux maître

Schumann: Piano Concerto

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

1 November 1926

Albert Coates

Florence Austral, soprano

Walter Widdop, tenor

Wagner: Overture to Der fliegende Holländer

Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 from Die Meistersinger

Wagner: Love Duet Act 2 from Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Love Duet and Finale, Act 3 from Siegfried

Wagner: Siegfrieds Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung

15 November 1926

Bruno Walter

Alma Moodie, violin

Haydn: Symphony No. 86

Brahms: Violin Concerto

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

6 December 1926

Pablo Casals

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’

17 January 1927

Felix Weingartner

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Wagner: Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger

31 January 1927

Felix Weingartner

Ignaz Friedman, piano

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

14 February 1927

Sir Edward Elgar

Gaspar Cassado, cello

Elgar: Froissart, concert overture

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro

Elgar: Prelude to The Kingdom

Elgar: Falstaff

Bach: Fugue in C minor (orch. Elgar)

28 February 1927

Hermann Abendroth

Franciszek Goldenberg, piano

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’

Brahms: Symphony No. 4

14 March 1927

Thomas Beecham

Arthur Catterall, violin

Mozart: Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’

Lord Gerald Berners: Fugue in C minor

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Schumann: Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’

28 March 1927

Hermann Abendroth

Elsie Suddaby, soprano

Muriel Brunskill, contralto

Parry Jones, tenor

Roy Henderson, bass

The Philharmonic Choir

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

11 April 1927

Thomas Beecham

Roy Henderson, baritone

Walter Hyde, tenor

The Philharmonic Choir

Mozart: Symphony No. 34

Delius:  Sea Drift

Berlioz: Te Deum

25 April 1927

Thomas Beecham

Lionel Tertis, viola

Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17

William H. Reed: Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

17 October 1927

Thomas Beecham

Mischa Levitzki, piano

Handel: Concerto Grosso in E minor, Op. 6 No. 3

Delius:  Eventyr

Schumann: Piano Concerto

Dvořák: Symphony No. 8

31 October 1927

Hugh Allen

Dorothy Silk, piano

Vasa Prihoda, violin

Herbert Barr, trumpet

Gordon Walker, flute

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4

Bach: Cantata No. 51, ‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!’

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2

Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’

14 November 1927

Leo Blech

Ernest Schelling*

Ernest Schelling, piano

Weber: Overture to Oberon

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2

Schelling: A Victory Ball, fantasy for orchestra*

Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

5 December 1927

Pablo Casals

Beethoven: Coriolan, overture

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

12 December 1927

John Barbirolli

Pablo Casals, cello

Haydn: Symphony No. 104, ‘London’

Haydn: Cello Concerto in D major

Elgar: Symphony No. 2

9 January 1928

Albert Coates

Göta Ljungberg, soprano

Walter Widdop, tenor

Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser

Wagner: Duet and Finale, Act 1 from Die Walküre

Wagner: Duet from Act 2 Scene 2 from Parsifal

Wagner: Siegfrieds Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Love Duet Act 2 from Tristan und Isolde

20 February 1928

Hermann Abendroth

Haydn: Symphony No. 96, ‘Miracle’

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 March 1928

Hermann Abendroth

Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz

Handel: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration

Wagner: Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger

2 April 1928

Felix Weingartner

Franciszek Goldenberg, piano

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

Mozart: Symphony No. 40

Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 2

16 April 1928

Felix Weingartner

Schubert: Overture and Two Entractes from Rosamunde

Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’

Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

15 October 1928

Thomas Beecham

Josef Szigeti, violin

Handel: Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 6 No. 1

Delius: North Country Sketches

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4

Mozart: Symphony No. 34

Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans

29 October 1928

Albert Coates

Florence Austral, soprano

Walter Widdop, tenor

Wagner: Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger

Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal

Wagner: Love Duet and Finale, Act 3 from Siegfried

Wagner: Dawn, Duet Siegfried and Brünnhilde, Siegfrieds Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Siegfrieds Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung

12 November 1928

Thomas Beecham

Isobel Baillie, soprano

Astra Desmond, contralto

Francis Russell, tenor

Robert Easton, bass

The Manchester Beecham Opera Choir

Mozart: Requiem Mass

Atterberg: Symphony No. 6*

Liszt: Psalm 13

26 November 1928

Emil Cooper

Myra Hess, piano

Haydn: Symphony No. 99

Bach: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross (organ solo arranged for orchestra)

Bach: Fugue in A minor for keyboard (orch. Josef Hellmesberger jnr)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24

Stravinsky: The Firebird, concert suite (1919)

Scriabin:  Le Poème de l’extase

10 December 1928

Pablo Casals

Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

21 January 1929

John Barbirolli

Cecilia Hansen, violin

Handel: Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op. 6 No. 7

Haydn: Symphony No. 97

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Franck: Symphony

11 February 1929

Hermann Abendroth

Weber: Overture to Oberon

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

11 March 1929

Hermann Abendroth

Haydn: Symphony No. 88, ‘Letter V’

Mozart: Symphony No. 40

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

25 March 1929

Felix Weingartner

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3

8 April 1929

Felix Weingartner

Mozart: Symphony No. 39

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

14 October 1929

Albert Coates

Shura Cherkassky, piano

Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, (orch. Goedicke)

Respighi: Feste Romane

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

28 October 1929

Willem Mengelberg

Johann Christian Bach: Sinfonia in B flat major, Op. 18/2

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

4 November 1929

Fritz Busch

Yehudi Menuhin, violin

Beethoven: Overture to Egmont

Brahms: Violin Concerto

Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’

Wagner: Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger

18 November 1929

Albert Coates

Sergei Rachmaninov, piano

Haydn: Symphony No. 86

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)

9 December 1929

John Barbirolli

Ania Dorfman, piano

Haydn: Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

Brahms: Symphony No. 2

20 January 1930

Hermann Abendroth

Fritz Kreisler, violin

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Braunfels: Phantastische Erscheinungen eines Themas von Berlioz

10 February 1930

Albert Coates

Florence Austral, soprano

Walter Widdop, tenor

Robert Gwynne, tenor

Wagner: Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger

Wagner: Dawn, Duet Siegfried and Brünnhilde, Siegfrieds Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal

Wagner: Love Duet Act 2 from Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Forging Scene Act 1 from Siegfried

Wagner: The Ascent of the Rock and Brünnhildes Greeting Act 3 from Siegfried

Wagner: Love Duet and Finale, Act 3 from Siegfried

10 March 1930

Hermann Abendroth

Alfred Cortot, piano

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

Grieg: Piano Concerto

Brahms: Symphony No. 4

24 March 1930

Felix Weingartner

Schubert: Overture and Two Entractes from Rosamunde

Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’

Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

7 April 1930

Felix Weingartner

Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’

Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

13 October 1930

Willem Mengelberg

Mischa Elman, violin

Cherubini: Overture to Anacréon

Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Ravel: Boléro

27 October 1930

Willem Mengelberg

Joseph Horowitz, piano

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

Cornelius Dopper: Ciaconna gotica

Liszt: Les Préludes

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

10 November 1930

Willem Mengelberg

John McCormack, tenor

Vivaldi: Concerto grosso for strings in A minor

Beethoven: “Jehova! Hear Oh Hear Me...Oh My Heart Is Sore Within Me” from Christ on the Mount of Olives

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Bernard Wagenaar: Sinfonietta for Orchestra**

Wolf: Neue Liebe, Schlafendes Jesuskind and Wo find ich Trost? from Mörike Lieder

Kodály: Concert suite from Háry János

1 December 1930

 Issay Dobrowen

Ania Dorfman, piano

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20

Scriabin:  The Poem of Ecstasy

8 December 1930

Adrian Boult

Vitya Vronsky, piano

Margaret Rees, soprano

Valetta Jacobi, contralto

Morgan Jones, tenor

Edgar Elmes, bass

Arnold Goldsbrough, organ

The Bach Choir

Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni

Mozart: Tantum ergo in B flat major

Mozart: Ave verum corpus

Mozart: Symphony No. 29

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Bach: Concerto for Piano and Strings in F minor

Bach: Magnificat in D major

26 January 1931

Willem Mengelberg

Bronislaw Hubermann, violin

Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

16 February 1931

Willem Mengelberg

Fritz Kreisler, violin

Johann Wagenaar: Cyrano de Bergerac, concert overture

Brahms: Violin Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

16 March 1931

Hans Edgar Weisbach

Moritz Rosenthal, piano

Schmitt: Ballet suite from La Tragedie de Salomé

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

30 March 1931

Thomas Beecham

Ferenc de Vecsey, violin

Haydn: Symphony No. 93

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1

Brahms: Symphony No. 2

13 April 1931

Felix Weingartner

Conchita Supervia, contralto

Beethoven: Overture to Egmont

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29, ‘Hammerklavier’(orch. by Weingartner)

Mozart: Voi chè sapete, aria from Le nozze di Figaro

Gluck:  Che faro senza Euridice, aria from Orfeo ed Euridice

Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’

12 October 1931

Thomas Beecham

Antoni Sala, cello

Anthony Collins, viola

Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

26 October 1931

Thomas Beecham

Katharine Goodson, piano

Boccherini: Symphony in C major, Op. 16

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

9 November 1931

Geoffrey Toye

Gualtiero Volterra, piano

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingals Cave), Overture

Delius:  North Country Sketches

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

23 November 1931

Thomas Beecham

Yehudi Menuhin, violin

Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte

Bax: The Garden of Fand

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

7 December 1931

Thomas Beecham

Clifford Curzon, piano

Weber: Overture from Der Freischütz

Delius:  In a Summer Garden

Richard Strauss: Suite from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Elgar: Symphony No. 1

11 January 1932

Hans Edgar Weisbach

Ania Dorfmann, piano

Reger: Symphonic Prologue to a Tragedy

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

25 January 1932

Thomas Beecham

Fritz Kreisler, violin

Haydn: Symphony No. 93

Bach: Concerto for Violin and Strings in D minor

Delius:  The Walk to the Paradise Garden

Haydn: Symphony No. 99

15 February 1932

Hamilton Harty

Ninon Vallin, soprano

Handel: Polonaise, Arietta and Passacaglia (arr. Hamilton Harty)

Mozart: Dove sono from Le nozze di Figaro

Mozart: ‘Vedrai Carino’, Zerlina’s Aria from Don Giovanni

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Bax: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy

Gluck:  O del mio dolce ardor, aria from Paride ed Elena

Gluck:  Cette nuit j’ai revu’, Aria from Iphigenie en Tauride

Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, Overture

29 February 1932

Hamilton Harty

Mozart: Symphony No. 40

Berlioz: Love Scene and Queen Mab Scherzo from Romeo and Juliet

Berlioz: Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict

Brahms: Symphony No. 4

14 March 1932

Felix Weingartner

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

Schumann: Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

3 October 1932

Hans Edgar Weisbach

Gordon Walker, flute

David Griffiths, cor anglais

Paul Draper, bassoon

Rudolf Dolmetsch, harpsichord

Elizabeth Goble, harpsichord

Harold Darke, organ

Bach: The Art of Fugue (orch. by Wolfgang Graeser)

24 October 1932

Hamilton Harty

Wagner: Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

Weinberger: Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper

Berlioz: Romeo alone and Capulets Ball from Romeo and Juliet

7 November 1932

Hamilton Harty

Ruggiero Ricci, violin

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto

Bax: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy

Violin solos by Ries, Bach and Sarasate

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

28 November 1932

Hamilton Harty

Jelly d'Aranyi, violin

Beatrice Harrison, cello

Handel: Polonaise, Arietta and Passacaglia (arr. Hamilton Harty)

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’

Brahms: Double Concerto

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

12 December 1932

Hamilton Harty

Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, (orch. Respighi)

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

30 January 1933

Felix Weingartner

Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, overture

Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

27 February 1933

Hans Edgar Weisbach

Vera de Villiers, contralto

Male Voice Choir from the Croydon Philharmonic Society

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Wagner: Prelude to Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Träume and Schmerzen from Wesendonk Lieder

Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

13 March 1933

Albert Coates

Ivar Andrésen, bass

Purcell: Suite from the dramatic music for Strings (arr. Albert Coates)

Wagner: Die beiden Grendiere, song

Prokofiev: Suite from The Love for Three Oranges

Tchaikovsky: Gremins Aria from Eugene Onegin

Scriabin:  Symphony No. 3, ‘Divine Poem’

20 March 1933

Hamilton Harty

Solomon, piano

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Schumann: Piano Concerto

Sibelius: Tapiola

Gershwin: Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra*

3 April 1933

Hamilton Harty

Handel: The Water Music suite (arr. Hamilton Harty)

Schumann: Symphony No. 4

Brahms: Symphony No. 4

9 October 1933

Hamilton Harty

Handel: Concerto for Orchestra in D major (trans. Hamilton Harty)

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Mozart: Allegro, Variations and Rondo from Divertimento No. 17

Berlioz: Le Corsaire, overture

Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden

Kodály: Concert suite from Háry János

23 October 1933

Hamilton Harty

Myra Hess, piano

Wagner: A Faust Overture

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

6 November 1933

Hamilton Harty

Respighi: Overture to Belfagor

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

William Henry Reed: A Symphony for Strings

Harty: With the Wild Geese

20 November 1933

Hamilton Harty

Albert Sammons, violin

George Stratton, violin

Bach: Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D minor

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3

Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No. 1

4 December 1933

Hamilton Harty

Haydn: Symphony No. 95

Berlioz: Romeo alone and Capulets Ball from Romeo and Juliet

Berlioz: Funeral March for the Last Scene of Hamlet

Berlioz: Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict

Elgar: Symphony No. 1

29 January 1934

Hans Edgar Weisbach

Rudolf Dolmetsch, harpsichord

Elizabeth Goble, harpsichord

Harold Darke, organ

Bach: The Art of Fugue (orch. by Wolfgang Graeser)

19 February 1934

Hamilton Harty

Arthur Rubinstein, piano

Balakirev: Russia

Holbrooke: The Raven

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

5 March 1934

Hamilton Harty

Gaspar Cassado, cello

Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’

Bax: Cello Concerto

Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 March 1934

In Memoriam Edward Elgar

Hamilton Harty

Berlioz: Funeral March for the Last Scene of Hamlet

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 April 1934

Adrian Boult

Eva Turner, soprano

Muriel Brunskill, contralto

Frank Titterton, tenor

Harold Williams, bass

The Croydon Philharmonic Choir

Beethoven: Coriolan, overture

Verdi: Messa da Requiem