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8 Sep 1956, Royal Albert Hall
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Sat 8 Sep 1956
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Programme
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville – overture
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Scenes from 'The Song of Hiawatha', Op 30
The Death of Minnehaha Proms premiere
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, Suite, Op 71a
Henry Litolff
Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D minor
No. 2 Scherzo: Presto
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor
Polovtsian Dances Act 2
interval
Performers
Dame Moura Lympany
piano
piano
Hervey Alan
bass-baritone
bass-baritone
Jacqueline Delman
soprano
soprano
Royal Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent
conductor
conductor
Composers
Gioachino Rossini
Claude Debussy
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Henry Litolff
Alexander Borodin
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Proms 1956
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Saint Saens: Africa and Piano Concerto No 2
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