Hallé Orchestra - Subscription Concerts 1934 - 1941

 Halle Orchestra
77th Season
1934 – 1935

18 October 1934 – 28 March 1935

 
CONDUCTORS

Sir Edward Bairstow
John Barbirolli
Sir Thomas Beecham
Robert Forbes
Nicolai Malko
Malcolm Sargent
Carl Schuricht
Georg Szell
Eugen Szenkar

SOLOISTS

piano
Alfred Barker
Edwin Fischer
Robert Forbes
Eileen Joyce
Egon Petri
Sergei Rachmaninov
Artur Schnabel
violin
Renée Chemet
Henry Holst
Albert Sammons
Emil Telmányi

viola
Lionel Tertis

vocalists
Isobel Baillie
Laelia Finneberg
Norah Sinclair
Sara Buckley
Vera de Villiers
Elsie Suddaby
Francis Russell
Steuart Wilson
Stuart Robertson
Keith Falkner
Norman Walker

The Hallé Chorus  
 
BACH    Mass in B minor    13    
    Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Respighi)    19    
BAX    Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra    14    
BEETHOVEN    Coriolan, Overture    19    
    Egmont, Overture    1    
    Leonore No. 3, Overture    20    
    Piano Concerto No. 3    5    
    Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’    2    
    Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’    6    
    Symphony No. 5    21    
    Symphony No. 7    12    
    Symphony No. 8    8    
BERLIOZ    The Corsaire, Overture    2    
BIZET    Suite from L’Arlésienne    21    
BORODIN    Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor    21    
BRAHMS    Symphony No. 1    1    
    Symphony No. 2    7    
    Symphony No. 4    18    
    Variations on a Theme by Haydn    9    
    Violin Concerto    18    
BUSONI    Piano Concerto    4    
COOKE    Concert Overture No. 1    4    
DEBUSSY    Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes    14    
    Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune    18    
DELIUS    Final Scene from Koanga    15    
    In a Summer Garden    6    
    Paris    15    
    Piano Concerto    8    
    The Walk to the Paradise Garden    17    
    Violin Concerto    3    
DOHNANYI    Variations on a Nursery Song    17    
DVORAK    Slavonic Dances Nos. 1 and 4    1    
    Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3    20    
    Three Legends, Nos. 2, 3 and 4    15    
ELGAR    Enigma Variations    11    
    Introduction and Allegro    2    
FRANCK    Symphony in D minor    4    
GLAZUNOV    Violin Concerto    12    
HANDEL    Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10    6    
    The Messiah    10    
HAYDN    Symphony No. 75    14    
    Symphony No. 88    3    
    Symphony No. 99    20    
HOLST    Mars and Jupiter from The Planets    14    
MENDELSSOHN     Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream     16    
MOZART    Piano Concerto No. 20    2    
    Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra    14    
    Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’    15    
    Symphony No. 39    16    
    Symphony No. 40    9    
    Symphony No. 40    21    
NICOLAI    Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor’    21    
RACHMANINOV    Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini    19    
RAVEL    Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2    11    
REGER    Variations on a Theme by Mozart    3    
RESPIGHI    Rossiniana    20    
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV    Capriccio Espagnol    12    
    Introduction and Wedding March from The Golden Cockerel    14    
    Scheherazade    9    
ROSSINI    William Tell, Overture    9    
SAINT-SAËNS    Violin Concerto No. 3    16    
SCHUBERT    Overture and Entr’acte in B flat major from Rosamunde    11    
    Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’    16    
SCHUMANN    Symphony No. 4    17    
SIBELIUS    Symphony No. 4    20    
SMETANA    From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields    6    
    The Bartered Bride, Overture    17    
SMYTH    Symphony, ‘The Prison’    7    
STRAUSS    Don Juan    5    
    Three Songs with Orchestra (Morgen, Ständchen & Cäcilie)    11    
    Till Eulenspiegel    11    
    Tod und Verklärung    1    
STRAVINSKY    The Firebird, Suite    3    
SUK    A Fairy Tale    17    
TCHAIKOVSKY    Romeo and Juliet    12    
    Symphony No. 3, ‘Polish’    8    
    Symphony No. 5    19    
    Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’    5    
WAGNER    Isolde’s Narration from Tristan and Isolde    11    
    Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser    15    
    The Flying Dutchman, Overture    18    
    The Mastersingers, Overture    1    
WEBER    Der Freischütz, Overture    12    
    Euryanthe, Overture    5    
    Oberon, Overture    15    

 

1934 – 1935

 
18 October 1934
Georg Szell
Beethoven: Egmont, Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Nos. 1 and 4
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Wagner: The Mastersingers, Overture

25 October 1934
John Barbirolli
Artur Schnabel, piano
Berlioz: The Corsaire, Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20

1 November 1934
Georg Szell
Albert Sammons, violin
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Stravinsky: The Firebird, Suite
Delius: Violin Concerto
Reger: Variations on a Theme by Mozart

8 November 1934
Robert Forbes
Egon Petri, piano, The Hallé Chorus
Arnold Cooke: Concert Overture No. 1
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Busoni: Piano Concerto

15 November 1934
Eugen Szenkar
Edwin Fischer, piano
Weber: Euryanthe, Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

 
22 November 1934
Sir Thomas Beecham
Handel: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10
Delius: In a Summer Garden
Smetana: From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

29 November 1934
Sir Thomas Beecham
Elsie Suddaby, soprano, Stuart Robertson, baritone, The Hallé Chorus
Ethel Smyth: Symphony, ‘The Prison’
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

6 December 1934
Sir Thomas Beecham
Robert Forbes, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Delius: Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, ‘Polish’

13 December 1934
Sir Thomas Beecham
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Rossini: William Tell, Overture

20 December 1934
Sir Edward Bairstow
Isobel Baillie, soprano, Vera de Villiers, contralto, Steuart Wilson, tenor, Keith Falkner, bass, The Hallé Chorus
Handel: The Messiah

 
10 January 1935
Carl Schuricht
Laelia Finneberg, soprano
Schubert: Overture and Entr’acte in B flat major from Rosamunde
Wagner: Isolde’s Narration from Tristan and Isolde
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Richard Strauss: Three Songs with Orchestra (Morgen, Ständchen & Cäcilie)
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

17 January 1935
Nicolai Malko
Henry Holst, violin
Weber: Der Freischütz, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol

24 January 1935
Malcolm Sargent
Norah Sinclair, soprano, Sara Buckley, contralto, Francis Russell, tenor, Norman Walker, bass, The Hallé Chorus
Bach: Mass in B minor

31 January 1935
Malcolm Sargent
Alfred Barker, violin, Lionel Tertis, viola
Rimsky-Korsakov: Introduction and Wedding March from The Golden Cockerel
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Debussy: Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes
Haydn: Symphony No. 75
Bax: Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra
Holst: Mars and Jupiter from The Planets

 
7 February 1935
Sir Thomas Beecham
Weber: Oberon, Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’
Delius: Paris
Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
Dvorak: Three Legends, Nos. 2, 3 and 4
Delius: Final Scene from Koanga

14 February 1935
Georg Szell
Renée Chemet, violin
Mendelssohn; Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

21 February 1935
Georg Szell
Eileen Joyce, piano
Smetana: The Bartered Bride, Overture
Suk: A Fairy Tale
Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Schumann: Symphony No. 4

28 February 1935
Nikolai Malko
Emil Telmányi, violin
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

7 March 1935
Nikolai Malko
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Respighi)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

 
14 March 1935
Sir Thomas Beecham
Dvorak: Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3
Haydn: Symphony No. 99
Respighi: Rossiniana
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture

 
28 March 1935
Sir Thomas Beecham
Nicolai: Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor’
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Bizet: Suite from L’Arlésienne
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5



 
Halle Orchestra
78th Season
1935 – 1936

24 October 1935 – 28 March 1936

 
CONDUCTORS

Ernest Ansermet
Sir Thomas Beecham
Vincenzo Bellezza
Robert Forbes
Nikolai Malko
Sir Landon Ronald
Malcolm Sargent

SOLOISTS

piano
Mark Hambourg
Vladimir Horowitz
Edward Kilenyi
Egon Petri
Friedrich Wührer

harpsichord
Katherine Goodson

violin
Cecilia Hansen
Henry Holst
Bronislaw Huberman

viola
Frank Park

cello
Emanuel Feuermann

oboe
Leon Goossens

vocalists
Joan Cross
Laelia Finneberg
Elena Gerhardt
Ina Souez
Astra Desmond
Mary Jarred
Edith Winston
Heddle Nash
Francis Russell
Walter Widdop
William Parsons
Keith Falkner
Stuart Robertson

The Hallé Chorus

 
 
1935 – 1936

24 October 1935
Sir Thomas Beecham
Edward Kilenyi, piano
Mozart: The Magic Flute, Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 6
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Balakirev: Tamar
Handel: Suite de Ballet (orch. Beecham)
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Overture

31 October 1935
Vincenzo Bellezza
Egon Petri, piano
Castaldi: Tarantella
Martucci: Notturno
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Liszt: Totentanz
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

7 November 1935
Vincenzo Bellezza
Elena Gerhardt, soprano
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Wagner: Three Wesendonck Lieder (Stehe Still! Träume and Schmerzen)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Pick-Mangiagalli: Notturno and Rondo Fantastico
Wolf: Five Lieder (Denk’ es o Seele, Auf ein Altes Bild, Anakreons Grab Gesang Weylas, Er Ist’s)
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 2

14 November 1935
Malcolm Sargent
Astra Desmond, contralto, Heddle Nash, tenor, Keith Falkner, bass, The Hallé Chorus
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

21 November 1935
Sir Thomas Beecham
Emanuel Feuermann, cello,  Frank Park, viola
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 4
Haydn: Cello Concerto in D major
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote
28 November 1935
Sir Thomas Beecham
Joan Cross, soprano Walter Widdop, tenor
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Wagner: Introduction to Act 3 and Duet from Lohengrin
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: The Forging Songs from Siegfried
Wagner: Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Wagner: The Mastersingers, Overture

5 December 1935
Malcolm Sargent
Friedrich Wührer, piano
Weber: Der Freischütz, Overture
Delius: Brigg Fair
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1

12 December 1935
Sir Thomas Beecham
Henry Holst, violin
Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
Elgar: Enigma Variations

19 December 1935
Malcolm Sargent
Laelia Finneberg, soprano, Mary Jarred, contralto, Francis Russell, tenor, William Parsons, bass, The Hallé Chorus
Handel: The Messiah

9 January 1936
Ernest Ansermet
Cecilia Hansen, violin
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Walton: Portsmouth Point, Overture
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Debussy: Iberia

16 January 1936
Sir Landon Ronald
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Elgar: Symphony No. 1

 
23 January 1936
Sir Landon Ronald
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Elgar: Symphony No. 2

30 January 1936
Nikolai Malko
Rossini: Semiramide, Overture
Arensky: Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
Handel: Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op. 3 No. 10
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Bach: Suite (arr. Malko)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

6 February 1936
Sir Thomas Beecham
Katherine Goodson, harpsichord
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Haydn: Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

13 February 1936
Nikolai Malko
Mark Hambourg, piano
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasia (orch. Liszt)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Liszt: Hungarian Fantasia
Tchaikovsky: Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3

 
20 February 1936
Sir Thomas Beecham
Leon Goossens, oboe
Rossini: The Thieving Magpie, Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’
Gordon Jacobs: Oboe Concerto
Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away
Sibelius: Incidental Music to The Tempest
Chabrier: España

27 February 1936
Malcolm Sargent
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Falla: Suite from The Three Cornered Hat
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

5 March 1936
Sir Thomas Beecham
Ina Souez, soprano, Edith Winston, contralto, Francis Russell, tenor, Stuart Robertson, bass, The Hallé Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

12 March 1936
Robert Forbes
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Bantock: The Pierrot of the Minute
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7

19 March 1936
Sir Thomas Beecham
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

28 March 1936
Sir Thomas Beecham
Weber: Overture, Der Freischütz
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Dvorak: Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3
Mozart: Minuet from Divertimento No. 2 for strings and horns
Delius: Serenade from Hassan
Debussy: Petite Suite
Berlioz: Overture, Le Carnaval romain
 

 

Halle Orchestra
79th Season
1936 – 1937

15 October 1936 – 18 March 1937

CONDUCTORS

John Barbirolli
Sir Thomas Beecham
Constant Lambert
Pierre Monteux
Sir Landon Ronald
Malcolm Sargent
Sir Henry Wood

SOLOISTS

piano
Walter Gieseking
Myra Hess
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Artur Rubinstein
Victor Schiöler
Artur Schnabel

violin
Albert Barker
Jelly D’Aranyi
Henry Holst
Bronislaw Huberman

cello
Emanuel Feuermann

flute
Vernon Harris

vocalists
Isobel Baillie
Webster Booth
Muriel Brunskill
Noël Eadie
Robert Easton
Roy Henderson
Harold Williams
Steuart Wilson
Hallé Choir
BACH    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5    4
    Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major    12
BAX    Symphony No. 4    14
BEETHOVEN    Egmont, Overture    17
    Leonore No. 3, Overture    17
    Piano Concerto No. 4    7
    Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’    16
    Symphony No. 5    17
    Symphony No. 7    19
    Violin Concerto    17
BERLIOZ    Le Carnaval Romain, Overture    15
    March of the Pilgrims and Serenade from Harold in Italy    2
    The Childhood of Christ    18
    Valse de Sylphes and Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust    21
BERNERS    The Triumph of Neptune    19
BIZET    Minuet from L’Arlésienne    21
BORODIN    Prince Igor, Overture    7
BRAHMS    Piano Concerto No. 1    11
    Piano Concerto No. 2    1
    Symphony No. 1    20
    Symphony No. 3    8
    Symphony No. 4    12
    Variations on a Theme by Haydn    2
DEBUSSY    Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune    1
DELIUS    Brigg Fair    19
    The Walk to the Paradise Garden    21
DOHNANYI    Symphonic Minutes    5
DUKAS    La Peri    1
    The Sorcerer’s Apprentice    3
DVORAK    Cello Concerto    16
ELGAR    Cockaigne, ‘In London Town’, Overture    8
    Enigma Variations    3
    Symphony No. 2    15
    Violin Concerto    6
FALLA    The Three Cornered Hat, Ballet Suite    2
FRANCK    Symphony in D minor    2
GLAZUNOV    Symphony No. 6    4
GLUCK    Alceste, Overture    12
HANDEL    Concerto Grosso No. 14 in E minor    20
    Messiah    10
    The King Shall Rejoice, coronation anthem    5
HAYDN    Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’    9
    Symphony No. 88    11
HUMPERDINCK    Hansel and Gretel, Overture    14
MENDELSSOHN    Ruy Blas, Overture    6
    Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream    21
    Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’    9
MOZART    Piano Concerto No. 19    11
    Piano Concerto No. 20    4
    Symphony No. 34    20
    Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’    18
    Symphony No. 40    21
    Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’    8
OFFENBACH    Bacarolle from Les Contes d’Hoffmann    21
RACHMANINOV    Piano Concerto No. 2    15
    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini    14
    Symphony No. 2    6
RICHARD STRAUSS    Till Eulenspiegel    13
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV    Capriccio Espagnol    14
    Introduction and Wedding March from The Golden Cockerel    12
SAINT-SAËNS    Le Rouet d’Omphale    20
SCHUBERT    Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’    13
SCHUMANN    Manfred, Overture    2
SIBELIUS    Symphony No. 1    9
    Symphony No. 2    7
    Symphony No. 3    13
STRAVINSKY    The Firebird, Suite    1
TCHAIKOVSKY    Romeo and Juliet    21
    Romeo and Juliet    7
    Symphony No. 5    3
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS    A Sea Symphony    5
    Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1    16
WAGNER    Lohengrin, Prelude    3
    Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser    21
    Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde    19
    Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine    15
    Song of the Rhine Maidens from Götterdämmerung    4
    The Flying Dutchman, Overture    1
WALTON    Façade, Suite    8
WEBER    Oberon, Overture    14
 
 
1936 – 1937

15 October 1936
Pierre Monteux
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Dukas: La Peri
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Stravinsky: The Firebird, Suite

22 October 1936
Pierre Monteux
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Schumann: Manfred, Overture
Berlioz: March of the Pilgrims and Serenade from Harold in Italy
Falla: The Three Cornered Hat, Ballet Suite

29 October 1936
Sir Landon Ronald
Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

5 November 1936
Sir Henry Wood
Myra Hess, piano, Vernon Harris, flute, Albert Barker, violin
Wagner: Song of the Rhine Maidens from Götterdämmerung
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Glazunov: Symphony No. 6

12 November 1936
Sir Henry Wood
Noël Eadie, soprano Roy Henderson, baritone, The Hallé Choir
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes
Handel: The King Shall Rejoice, coronation anthem

 
 
19 November 1936
Sir Landon Ronald
Henry Holst, violin
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Overture
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2

26 November 1936
Constant Lambert
Victor Schiöler, piano
Borodin: Prince Igor, Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

3 December 1936
Sir Thomas Beecham
Elgar: Cockaigne, ‘In London Town’, Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’
Walton: Façade, Suite

10 December 1936
Sir Thomas Beecham
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1

17 December 1936
Malcolm Sargent
Isobel Baillie, soprano, Muriel Brunskill, contralto, Webster Booth, tenor, Harold Williams, bass, The Hallé Choir
Handel: Messiah

7 January 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Artur Schnabel, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

 
14 January 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Jelly D’Aranyi, violin
Gluck: Alceste, Overture
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major
Rimsky-Korsakov: Introduction and Wedding March from The Golden Cockerel
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

 21 January 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

28 January 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Weber: Oberon, Overture
Bax: Symphony No. 4
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, Overture
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol

4 February 1937
John Barbirolli
Walter Gieseking, piano
Berlioz: Le Carnaval Romain, Overture
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Wagner: Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine
Elgar: Symphony No. 2

11 February 1937
Sir Thomas Beecham
Emanuel Feuermann, cello
Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

 
18 February 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Beethoven: Egmont, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture

25 February 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Isobel Baillie, soprano, Steuart Wilson, tenor, Roy Henderson, baritone, Robert Easton, bass, The Hallé Choir
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’
Berlioz: The Childhood of Christ

4 March 1937
Sir Thomas Beecham
Delius: Brigg Fair
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Berners: The Triumph of Neptune

11 March 1937
Sir Thomas Beecham
Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 14 in E minor
Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d’Omphale
Mozart: Symphony No. 34
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

18 March 1937
(Pension Fund Concert)
Sir Thomas Beecham
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
Bizet: Minuet from L’Arlésienne
Offenbach: Bacarolle from Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Berlioz: Valse de Sylphes and Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust


 

Halle Orchestra
80th Season
1937 – 1938


21 October 1937 – 28 March 1938

CONDUCTORS

Sir Thomas Beecham
Julius Harrison
Malcolm Sargent
Felix Weingartner
Sir Henry Wood

SOLOISTS

piano
Edwin Fischer
Egon Petri
Sergei Rachmaninov
Artur Schnabel

violin
Arthur Catterall
Henry Holst
Fritz Kreisler
Thomas Matthews

cello
Pablo Casals

vocalists
Isobel Baillie
Mary Jarred
Heddle Nash
Dennis Noble
Robert Easton

Hallé Choir

 
BACH    Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (orch. Respighi)    9
BEETHOVEN    Overture to the incidental music for Egmont, Op. 84    17
    Leonore, Overture No. 3    20
    Piano Concerto No. 1    18
    Piano Concerto No. 3    17
    Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’    7
    Symphony No. 1    15
    Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’    17
    Symphony No. 4    6
    Symphony No. 5    3
    Symphony No. 8    10
BERLIOZ    Le carnaval romain, overture    1
    Overture to Benvenuto Cellini    10
BIZET    Scènes Bohèmiennes from The Fair Maid of Perth    6
BRAHMS    Symphony No. 1    16
    Symphony No. 2    3
    Tragic Overture    19
    Variations on a Theme by Haydn    14
    Violin Concerto    15
BUSONI    Violin Concerto    9
DEBUSSY    Nocturnes    18
DELIUS    La Calinda    11
    Prelude to Irmelin    11
    Sea Drift    19
    Song of the High Hills    14
DVOŘÁK    Symphony No. 8    4
ELGAR    Cello Concerto    4
    Introduction and Allegro    12
    The Music Makers    14
    Serenade for strings    14
    Symphony No. 1    9
    Violin Concerto    10
FAURÉ    Pavane    14
HANDEL    Aria, Dank sei dir, Herr    14
    Fireworks Music (arr. Harty)    7
HAYDN    Symphony No. 97    8
    Symphony No. 102    13
    Symphony No. 103, ‘Drum Roll’    18
    Symphony No. 104, ‘London’    1
    The Creation    5
HOLST    The Planets, suite    2
IRELAND    Mai Dun    10
HARRISON    Cornish Holiday Sketches for strings    4
MENDELSSOHN    Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream    12
    Scherzo from Octet    20
    The Hebrides, overture    16
MOZART    Piano Concerto No. 21    7
    Symphony No. 29    8
MOZART    Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’    6
    Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’    19
    Symphony No. 39    1
NICOLAI    Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor    11
RACHMANINOV    Piano Concerto No. 3    2
    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini    18
    Symphony No. 3    8
RAVEL    Pavane pour une Infante défunte    10
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV    Antar, symphonic suite    1
    Scheherazade    20
ROSSINI    Suite from La Boutique fantasque (arr. Respighi)    11
SAINT-SAËNS    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso    15
SCHUBERT    Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’    13
SCHUMANN    Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’    19
SIBELIUS    Symphony No. 2    12
    Symphony No. 6    6
    Symphony No. 7    3
    Violin Concerto    11
STRAUSS, Richard    Don Juan, symphonic poem    2
    Ein Heldenleben    12
STRAVINSKY    The Firebird, Suite    11
TCHAIKOVSKY    Francesca da Rimini    7
    Romeo and Juliet    20
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis    9
WAGNER    A Faust Overture    15
    Die Meistersinger, overture    8
    Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde    20
    Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin    15
    Suite from Act 3 of Die Meistersinger    13
WALTON    Symphony No. 1    16
WEBER    Oberon, overture    4

 
 
 
1937 – 1938

21 October 1937
Sir Thomas Beecham
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, ‘London’
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar, symphonic suite
Berlioz: Le carnaval romain, overture

28 October 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Egon Petri, piano
Holst: The Planets, suite
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Richard Strauss: Don Juan, symphonic poem

4 November 1937
Sir Thomas Beecham
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

11 November 1937
Julius Harrison
Pablo Casals, cello
Weber: Oberon, overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Julius Harrison: Cornish Holiday Sketches for strings
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8

18 November 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Isobel Baillie, soprano, Heddle Nash, tenor, Robert Easton, bass
Hallé Choir
Haydn: The Creation

25 November 1937
Sir Thomas Beecham
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Bizet: Scènes Bohèmiennes from The Fair Maid of Perth

 
2 December 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Artur Schnabel, piano
Handel: Fireworks Music (arr. Harty)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

9 December 1937
Sir Thomas Beecham
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 29
Haydn: Symphony No. 97
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3

16 December 1937
Malcolm Sargent
Henry Holst, violin
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Busoni: Violin Concerto
Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Respighi)
Elgar: Symphony No. 1

13 January 1938
Malcolm Sargent
Thomas Matthews, violin
Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Ireland: Mai Dun
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini

20 January 1938
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Arthur Catterall, violin
Nicolai: Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Delius: Prelude to Irmelin
Delius: La Calinda
Stravinsky: The Firebird, Suite
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Rossini: Suite from La Boutique fantasque (arr. Respighi)

27 January 1938
Sir Thomas Beecham
Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
3 February 1938
Sir Thomas Beecham
Haydn: Symphony No. 102
Wagner: Suite from Act 3 of Die Meistersinger
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

10 February 1938
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Mary Jarred, soprano
Hallé Choir
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Fauré: Pavane
Handel: Aria, Dank sei dir, Herr
Delius: Song of the High Hills
Elgar: Serenade for strings
Elgar: The Music Makers

17 February 1938
Malcolm Sargent
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Wagner:Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin

24 February 1938
Malcolm Sargent
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, overture
Walton: Symphony No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

3 March 1938
Felix Weingartner
Edwin Fischer, piano
Beethoven: Egmont, overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

10 March 1938
Malcolm Sargent
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Ladies of the Hallé Choir
Haydn: Symphony No. 103, ‘Drum Roll’
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Debussy: Nocturnes
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

 
17 March 1938
Sir Thomas Beecham
Dennis Noble, baritone
Hallé Choir
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’
Delius: Sea Drift
Schumann: Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

28 March 1938
(Pension Concert)
Sir Henry Wood
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Octet
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
 

 
Halle Orchestra
81st Season
1938 – 1939


20 October 1938 – 28 March 1938
 

CONDUCTORS

Arthur Bliss
Basil Cameron
Eugene Goossens
Sir Thomas Beecham
Constant Lambert
Malcolm Sargent
Felix Weingartner
Sir Henry Wood

SOLOISTS

piano
Clifford Curzon
Edwin Fischer
Robert Forbes
Egon Petri
Sergei Rachmaninov
Artur Schnabel

Violin
Ida Haendel
Bronislaw Huberman
Emil Telmányi

Cello
Emmanuel Feuermann

Vocalists
Isobel Baillie
Lilian Stiles-Allen
Muriel Brunskill
Gladys Ripley
Webster Booth
Heddle Nash
Keith Falkner
Harold Williams

Hallé Choir

BACH    Mass in B minor    4
    Orchestral Suite No. 3    9
BALAKIREV    Symphony No. 1    7
BEETHOVEN    Coriolan, overture    16
    Piano Concerto No. 1    9
    Symphony No. 5    20
    Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’    3
    Symphony No. 7    8
BERLIOZ    Symphonie fantastique    2
BLISS    Ballet Suite from Checkmate*    7
BOCCHERINI    Symphony No. 3 in C major    3
BORODIN    Symphony No. 2    11
BRAHMS    Academic Festival Overture    14
    Piano Concerto No. 1    9
    Piano Concerto No. 2    3
    Symphony No. 1    14
    Symphony No. 3    14
    Symphony No. 4    19
    Violin Concerto    16
CLEMENTI    Symphony No. 1 in C major    12
DEBUSSY    Ibéria from Images    5
    La mer    2
    Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune    8
DELIUS    A Song Before Sunrise    13
    Appalachia    18
    Dance Rhapsody in A major    12
    La Calinda from Koanga    21
    Piano Concerto    20
    Prelude to Irmelin    21
DVOŘÁK    Cello Concerto    17
    Symphonic Variations    18
ELGAR    Cockaigne (In London Town) overture    8
    Falstaff    17
    Prelude to The Kingdom    7
    The Dream of Gerontius    15
FRANCK    Symphony    6
GOOSSENS    Pastoral from Nature Poems    2
HANDEL    Concerto grosso No. 12    6
    Messiah    10
HAYDN    Symphony No. 93    1
HOLST    Ballet, The Perfect Fool    11
LISZT    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2    21
    Piano Concerto No. 2    7
MÉHUL    Overture to Les Deux Aveugles de Tolède    6
MENDELSSOHN    Allegretto from The Hymn of Praise    19
    Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’    6
    The Hebrides, overture    5
    Violin Concerto    11
MOERAN    Symphony    16
MOZART    Piano Concerto No. 23    7
    Symphony No. 40    2
    Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’    18
RACHMANINOV    Piano Concerto No. 2    19
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV    Introduction and Cortège from The Golden Cockerel    21
    Suite from The Golden Cockerel    8
ROSSINI    Overture to Semiramide    19
SAINT-SAËNS    Havanaise for violin and orchestra    11
SCHUBERT    Symphony No. 4, ‘Tragic’    17
    Symphony No. 5    5
SIBELIUS    Scènes historiques    18
    Symphony No. 1    12
    Symphony No. 2    1
    Tapiola    20
    Violin Concerto    13
SMETANA    Overture to The Bartered Bride    21
TCHAIKOVSKY    Francesca da Rimini    1
    Piano Concerto No. 1    12
    Symphony No. 4    13
    Symphony No. 5    21
    Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’    5
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS    Overture to The Wasps    11
WAGNER    Good Friday Music from Parsifal    21
    Overture to Die Meistersinger    1
    Overture to Tannhäuser    20
    Overture to The Flying Dutchman    13
 
 
1938 – 1939

20 October 1938
Sir Thomas Beecham
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger
Haydn: Symphony No. 93
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

27 October 1938
Eugene Goossens
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Goossens: Pastoral from Nature Poems
Debussy: La mer
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

4 November 1938
Basil Cameron
Edwin Fischer, piano
Boccherini: Symphony No. 3 in C major
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’

11 November 1938
Sir Henry Wood
Lilian Stiles-Allen, soprano, Muriel Brunskill, contralto, Heddle Nash, tenor, Keith Falkner, bass-baritone, Hallé Choir
Bach: Mass in B minor

18 November 1938
Sir Thomas Beecham
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Debussy: Ibéria from Images
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

25 November 1938
Sir Thomas Beecham
Méhul: Overture to Les Deux Aveugles de Tolède
Handel: Concerto grosso No. 12
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
Franck: Symphony

 
1 December 1938
Constant Lambert
Arthur Bliss*
Egon Petri, piano
Elgar: Prelude to The Kingdom
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Bliss: Ballet Suite from Checkmate*
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2
Balakirev: Symphony No. 1

8 December 1938
Malcolm Sargent
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town) overture
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from The Golden Cockerel
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

15 December 1938
Malcolm Sargent
Artur Schnabel, piano
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

22 December 1938
Malcolm Sargent
Isobel Baillie, soprano, Muriel Brun skill, contralto, Webster Booth, tenor, Keith Falkner, bass-baritone, Hallé Choir
Handel: Messiah

12 January 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Ida Haendel, violin
Vaughan Williams: Overture to The Wasps
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Holst: Ballet, The Perfect Fool
Saint-Saëns: Havanaise for violin and orchestra
Borodin: Symphony No. 2

19 January 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Clifford Curzon, piano
Clementi: Symphony No. 1 in C major
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Delius: Dance Rhapsody in A major
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1

 
26 January 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Emil Telmányi, violin
Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Delius: A Song Before Sunrise
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

2 February 1939
Felix Weingartner
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 February 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Gladys Ripley, contralto, Heddle Nash, tenor, Harold Williams, baritone, Hallé Choir
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

16 February 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Beethoven: Coriolan, overture
Moeran: Symphony
Brahms: Violin Concerto

23 February 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Emmanuel Feuermann, cello
Schubert: Symphony No. 4, ‘Tragic’
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Elgar: Falstaff

2 March 1939
Sir Thomas Beecham
Hallé Choir
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’
Dvořák: Symphonic Variations
Sibelius: Scènes historiques
Delius: Appalachia

9 March 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Mendelssohn: Allegretto from The Hymn of Praise
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

 
16 March 1939
Sir Thomas Beecham
Robert Forbes, piano
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Sibelius: Tapiola
Delius: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

25 March 1939
(Pension Concert)
Sir Thomas Beecham
Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride
Delius: Prelude to Irmelin
Delius: La Calinda from Koanga
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Rimsky-Korsakov: Introduction and Cortège from The Golden Cockerel
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

 
 
Halle Orchestra
82nd Season
1939 – 1940


22 October 1939 – 31 March 1940
 

CONDUCTORS

Sir Thomas Beecham
Basil Cameron
Gordon Jacob
Malcolm Sargent
William Walton
Sir Henry Wood

SOLOISTS

piano
John Davies
Myra Hess
Edward Isaacs
Louis Kentner
Cyril Smith

violin
Henry Holst
Eda Kersey
Albert Sammons

viola
Lionel Tertis

vocalists
Florence Austral

 
BEETHOVEN    Leonore, Overture No. 3    19
    Piano Concerto No. 3    17
    Symphony No. 4    6
    Symphony No. 5    19
    Symphony No. 7    2
    Violin Concerto    19
BERLIOZ    Beatrice and Benedict, overture    20
    Le carnival romain, overture    6
BLISS    Music for Strings    14
BLOCH    Violin Concerto    9
BRAHMS    Academic Festival Overture    8
    Piano Concerto No. 1    12
    Symphony No. 1    4
    Symphony No. 2    3
    Symphony No. 4    16
    Variations on a Theme by Haydn    20
DEBUSSY    Prélude à ’après-midi d’un faune    21
DELIUS    A Song Before Sunrise    14
DELIUS    Brigg Fair    13
    Over the Hills and Far Away    7
DVORÁK    Carnival Overture    21
    Symphony No. 7    17
    Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’    13
ELGAR    Enigma Variations    9
    Introduction and Allegro    6
    Polonia    4
    Symphony No. 2    15
FALLA    Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat    12
FRANCK    Symphonic Variations    10
    Symphony    1
GLUCK    Ballet Suite (orch. Mottl)    18
GRAINGER    Clog Dance from Handel in the Strand    10
GRIEG    Piano Concerto    15
HANDEL    Overture in D minor (arr. Elgar)    17
HAYDN    Symphony No. 104    7
    Symphony No. 97    14
HOLST    St. Paul’s Suite    18
HONEGGER    Prelude to The Tempest    2
HUMPERDINCK    Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel    15
IRELAND    A London Overture    9
JACOB    Variations on an Original Theme*    13
LALO    Symphonie espagnole    14
MENDELSSOHN    Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream    12
MOZART    Eine kleine Nachtmusik    21
    Overture to The Magic Flute    1
    Overture to The Marriage of Figaro    13
    Piano Concerto No. 24    3
    Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’    3
    Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’    16
    Symphony No. 40    8
PROKOFIEV    Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’    9
R. STRAUSS    Don Juan    2
    Till Eulenspiegel    8
    Tod und Verklärung    16
RACHMANINOV    Piano Concerto No. 2    6
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV    Capriccio espagnol    10
    Scheherazade    7
ROSSINI    William Tell, overture    10
SCHUBERT    Overture to Rosamunde    12
    Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’    18
SIBELIUS    En Saga    5
    Finlandia    13
    Symphony No. 1    20
    Symphony No. 2    5
    Symphony No. 5    2
    Violin Concerto    5
SUPPÉ    Overture to Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna    7
TCHAIKOVSKY    Piano Concerto No. 1    21
    Romeo and Juliet    20
    Symphony No. 5    8
    Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’    10
    The Nutcracker, suite    14
    The Nutcracker, Suite    21
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis    17
    Serenade to Music (arr. For orchestra alone)    16
WAGNER    Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser    1
    Overture to Die Meistersinger    1
    Overture to The Flying Dutchman    11
    Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde    11
    Prelude to Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde    1
    Preludes to Acts 1 and 3 of Lohengrin    11
    Senta’s Ballad from The Flying Dutchman    11
    Siegfried Idyll    11
    Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Finale from Götterdämmerung    11
    Song of the Rheinmaidens from Götterdämmerung    4
    Tannhäuser, Overture    21
WALTON    Façade, Suite No. 2    4
    Viola Concerto    18
WEBER    Invitation to the Dance (arr. Weingartner)    4
        
        
        
        
        
        
 
 
1939 – 1940

22 October 1939
Sir Thomas Beecham
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Franck: Symphony
Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger

29 October 1939
Sir Henry Wood
Honegger: Prelude to The Tempest
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

5 November 1939
Sir Thomas Beecham
John Davies, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

12 November 1939
Sir Henry Wood
William Walton*
Elgar: Polonia
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Walton: Façade, Suite No. 2*
Weber: Invitation to the Dance (arr. Weingartner)
Wagner: Song of the Rheinmaidens from Götterdämmerung

19 November 1939
Sir Thomas Beecham
Henry Holst, violin
Sibelius: En Saga
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

26 November 1939
Basil Cameron
Cyril Smith, piano
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Berlioz: Le carnival romain, overture

 
3 December 1939
Sir Thomas Beecham
Haydn: Symphony No. 104
Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Suppé: Overture to Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna

10 December 1939
Malcolm Sargent
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

17 December 1939
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Ireland: A London Overture
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Bloch: Violin Concerto
Elgar: Enigma Variations

7 January 1940
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Davies, piano
Rossini: William Tell, overture
Franck: Symphonic Variations
Grainger: Clog Dance from Handel in the Strand
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

14 January 1940
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Florence Austral, soprano
Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: Senta’s Ballad from The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: Preludes to Acts 1 and 3 of Lohengrin
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Finale from Götterdämmerung

21 January 1940
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Louis Kentner, piano
Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mendelssohn: Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat

 
28 January 1940
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Gordon Jacob*
Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Delius: Brigg Fair
Jacob: Variations on an Original Theme*
Sibelius: Finlandia
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

4 February 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Eda Kersey, violin
Haydn: Symphony No. 97
Delius: A Song Before Sunrise
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Bliss: Music for Strings
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, suite

11 February 1940
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Myra Hess, piano
Humperdinck: Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Elgar: Symphony No. 2


18 February 1940
Sir Henry Wood
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music (arr. For orchestra alone)
R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

 
25 February 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Edward Isaacs, piano
Handel: Overture in D minor (arr. Elgar)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Dvorák: Symphony No. 7

3 March 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Lionel Tertis, viola
Gluck: Ballet Suite (orch. Mottl)
Holst: St. Paul’s Suite
Walton: Viola Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

10 March 1940
Sir Henry Wood
Albert Sammons, violin
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

17 March 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict, overture
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

31 March 1940
(Pension Fund Concert)
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Cyril Smith, piano
Dvorák: Carnival Overture
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Suite
Debussy: Prélude à ’après-midi d’un faune
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

 

 
Halle Orchestra
83rd Season
1940 – 1941


22 October 1940 – 31 March 1941
 

CONDUCTORS

Basil Cameron
Robert Forbes
Leslie Heward
Malcolm Sargent
Sir Henry Wood

SOLOISTS

piano
Robert Forbes
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Lucy Pierce
Lev Pouishnoff
Cyril Smith
Solomon

violin
Ida Haendel
Josef Hassid
Eda Kersey
Isolde Menges
Laurance Turner

 cello
Haydn Rogerson

 bassoon
Archie Camden

vocalists
Eva Turner
Florence Austral
Walter Widdop
Roy Henderson

speaker
 John Gielgud
 
BACH    Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Elgar)    2
BEETHOVEN    Ah! Perfido, scena and aria    1
    Egmont, overture    13
    Fidelio, overture    17
    Leonore, Overture No. 3    19
    Piano Concerto No. 4    13
    Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’    13
    Symphony No. 5    6
    Symphony No. 5    20
    Symphony No. 7    17
    Symphony No. 8    9
    Triple Concerto    7
    Violin Concerto    17
BERLIOZ    Overture to Benvenuto Cellini    20
    Symphonie fantastique    6
    Three Excerpts from the Damnation of Faust    8
BLISS    Morning Heroes    16
BORODIN    Polovtsian Dances    4
    Prince Igor, overture    10
BRAHMS    Academic Festival Overture    14
    Piano Concerto No. 1    19
    Piano Concerto No. 2    10
    Symphony No. 1    18
    Symphony No. 2    9
    Symphony No. 4    10
    Violin Concerto    14
BRUCH    Violin Concerto No. 1    11
CHOPIN    Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49 (piano solo)    10
DEBUSSY    Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune    11
    Two Nocturnes    4
DELIUS    Dance Rhapsody    20
    Sea Drift    16
DVORAK    Carnival, overture    3
    Carnival, overture    20
    Symphony No. 7    12
    Three Slavonic Dances    2
ELGAR    Cockaigne (In London Town), overture    19
    Enigma Variations    18
    Serenade for Strings    12
    The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 2    1
FOGG    Bassoon Concerto    18
FALLA    Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat    7
HANDEL    Suite from the Royal fireworks (arr. Harty)    16
    Water Music Suite (arr. Harty)    12
HAYDN    Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’    1
HUMPERDINCK    Prelude to Hansel and Gretel    2
MENDELSSOHN    The Hebrides, overture    18
    Violin Concerto    3
MOZART    Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’    6
    Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’    8
MUSSORGSKY    Prelude to Khovanshchina    7
RACHMANINOV    Piano Concerto No. 2    20
    Piano Concerto No. 3    2
    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini    8
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV    Capriccio Espagnol    1
ROSSINI    Overture to William Tell    12
RUBBRA    Symphony No. 3    9
SCHUBERT    Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’    4
    Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’    14
SIBELIUS    En Saga    4
    Symphony No. 2    11
    Symphony No. 3    19
SMETANA    Overture to The Bartered Bride    12
R. STRAUSS    Don Juan    2
TCHAIKOVSKY    Francesca da Rimini    3
    Piano Concerto No. 1    8
    Romeo and Juliet    15
    Symphony No. 5    7
    Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’    15
    The Nutcracker, Suite    15
    Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty    15
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS    A London Symphony    3
    Serenade to Music for chorus and orchestra    16
WAGNER    Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung    1
    Duet from Act 2 of Tristan und Isolde    5
    Elsa’s Dream from Lohengrin    5
    Entry of the Gods into Valhalla    5
    Forest Murmurs from Siegfried    5
    Forging Song from Act 1 of Siegfried    5
    Overture to Die Meistersinger    5
    Siegfried Idyll    5
    Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine    5
WALTON    Façade, Suite No. 1    4
WEBER    Der Freischütz, overture    11
    Euryanthe, overture    1
    Oberon, overture    4

 
 
1940 – 1941

21 October 1940
Sir Henry Wood
Eva Turner, soprano
Weber: Euryanthe, overture
Haydn: Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’
Wagner: Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, scena and aria
Elgar: The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 2

28 October 1940
Sir Henry Wood
Cyril Smith, piano
Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Elgar)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Humperdinck: Prelude to Hansel and Gretel
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Dvorák: Three Slavonic Dances

3 November 1940
Sir Henry Wood
Eda Kersey, violin
Dvorak: Carnival, overture
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

10 November 1940
Sir Henry Wood
Weber: Oberon, overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Debussy: Two Nocturnes
Sibelius: En Saga
Walton: Façade, Suite No. 1
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances

17 November 1940
Sir Henry Wood
Florence Austral, soprano, Walter Widdop, tenor
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: Elsa’s Dream from Lohengrin
Wagner: Duet from Act 2 of Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
Wagner: Forging Song from Act 1 of Siegfried
Wagner: Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Wagner: Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine

24 November 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Mozart: Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

 
1 December 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Laurance Turner, violin, Haydn Rogerson, cello, Lucy Pierce, piano
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Mussorgsky: Prelude to Khovanshchina
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

8 December 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Berlioz: Three Excerpts from the Damnation of Faust

15 December 1940
Malcolm Sargent
Rubbra: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

12 January 1941
Leslie Heward
Lev Pouishnoff, piano
Borodin: Prince Igor, overture
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Chopin: Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49 (piano solo)
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

19 January 1941
Leslie Heward
Josef Hassid, violin
Weber: Der Freischütz, overture
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

26 January 1941
Malcolm Sargent
Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Handel: Water Music Suite (arr. Harty)
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Dvorák: Symphony No. 7

2 February 1941
Basil Cameron
Robert Forbes, piano
Beethoven: Egmont, overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

 
9 February 1941
Malcolm Sargent
Isolde Menges, violin
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

16 February 1941
Malcolm Sargent
Tchaikovsky: Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Suite

23 February 1941
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Roy Henderson, baritone, John Gielgud, speaker, Hallé Choir
Handel: Suite from the Royal fireworks (arr. Harty)
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music for chorus and orchestra
Delius: Sea Drift
Bliss: Morning Heroes

 
2 March 1941
Robert Forbes
Ida Haendel, violin
Beethoven: Fidelio, overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

9 March 1941
Basil Cameron
Archie Camden, bassoon
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Eric Fogg: Bassoon Concerto
Elgar: Enigma Variations

16 March 1941
Malcolm Sargent
Solomon, piano
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town), overture

23 March 1941
(Pension Fund Concert)
Malcolm Sargent
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Delius: Dance Rhapsody
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvorak: Carnival, overture